Through companies that aren’t strictly retailers but sell goods or services online. Through companies that facilitate digital commerce via services such as food and grocery delivery. All of those businesses have valuable first-party data drawn from direct relationships with their customers, so they’re fertile ground for precise targeting in environments that are theoretically privacy compliant.
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| Feb 16, 2023
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| Feb 12, 2024
Latin America’s digital economy is proving resilient despite macroeconomic headwinds. In 2023, marketers and advertisers will focus on reaching consumers across retail media, livestreaming ecommerce, and ad-supported video streaming.
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| Jan 11, 2023
NBCUniversal and Roku experiment with shoppable ads to reach viewers in their homes, while Netflix courts customers in the real world. Here’s how each company is leaning into commerce to diversify revenue streams.
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| Jul 20, 2023
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| Feb 7, 2024
As consumers hunt for the best deals, generative AI will drive $194 billion in consumer spending by enabling brands to provide personalized customer service, marketing promotions, and commerce experiences, per Salesforce. Social media advertising will also have an outsized impact on purchase decisions versus traditional marketing efforts.
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| Aug 29, 2023
Over one-quarter of smart TV viewers actively shop online or via mobile while watching TV, while 28% look for products after seeing them appear on the small screen, per a survey conducted by Samsung Ads and Kerv Interactive.
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| Nov 7, 2023
US consumers spent $2.17 billion on social media apps in 2022, nearly half a billion more than the year before, according to data.ai. Worldwide, social app spend hit $7.28 billion last year, up from $6.32 billion in 2021.
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| Feb 21, 2023
Retailers lean on digital media, and creators in particular, to draw consumers in-store. “Retailers are going to stop competing as much with Amazon on the ecommerce front.
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| Jan 4, 2024
Smartphones will continue to gain ground as digital sales shift away from computers and tablets. In 2027, mcommerce (sales made on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices) will near the tipping point of half of ecommerce sales.
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| Aug 1, 2023
After its US launch in September, TikTok Shop faces its first holiday season, heating up competition in the social commerce space.
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| Nov 29, 2023
As QR codes come to play a larger role in how consumers shop, buy, and interact with brands, marketers can use them to drive conversion across physical and digital spaces. Here are three ways marketers can use QR codes to increase consumer engagement and encourage purchase behavior.
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| Mar 17, 2023
YouTube is slowly becoming a major player as well: It is, by many accounts, already the most-watched platform for livestreaming (commerce-related or otherwise) and has the largest upside for livestream ecommerce given its massive audience. Prediction. Livestreaming ecommerce will approach—but not reach—mainstream status in 2025.
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| Jan 9, 2025
And Kohl's, no matter what you might say, is not a fun experience to go into the store or go online. Sara Lebow (14:19):. On that note, putting you both on the spot here, any 32nd takeaways from this conversation? Zak Stambor (14:25):.
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| Jun 5, 2024
Zara bets on live shopping following China success: The fast-fashion retailer is expanding its live commerce capabilities to the US, UK, and Europe.
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| Jun 3, 2024
According to Digital Commerce and Forrester, much of this growth is in online marketplaces. In 2023, 60% of B2B buyers who purchase from online marketplaces do 26% or more of their buying on Amazon Business. Customer experience innovations are key to the Amazon Business growth strategy.
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| Aug 14, 2023
What trends will we be talking about this year? Consumer behaviors will be shaped by continued uncertainty and cultural trends spilling over into commerce.
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| Dec 29, 2023
The big takeaway: Brands that are serious about live commerce will have to invest in building communities before they can focus on driving sales. That means finding the right talent—creators who are capable of both getting shoppers to tune in, and of finding new ways to connect with them day after day.
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| May 15, 2024
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| Sep 1, 2023
Retail media is traditionally dominated by, well, retailers. But as access to customer insights becomes increasingly important for advertisers amid cookie deprecation and mounting privacy laws, other industries are hopping on retail media’s bandwagon.
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| May 20, 2024
Go further: Check out our TikTok Commerce report for more on whether TikTok Shop is worth the investment.
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| Jun 26, 2023
But there are signs the platform is now fully committed, perhaps because it senses an opportunity to gain market share as Meta backs away from direct commerce. After scrapping plans over the summer to launch livestream commerce in the US, TikTok quickly reversed course by partnering with TalkShopLive.
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| Nov 15, 2022
Livestream commerce hasn’t quite caught on with US consumers yet. But as it’s a major part of TikTok Shop’s ecommerce push in the US, the channel may start to gain adoption in the year ahead. Use this chart:. Identify where worldwide shoppers are finding products and where they are buying them across social and digital channels. More like this:. What’s happening with TikTok Shop?
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| Oct 17, 2023
A lack of trust is the top barrier to social commerce among all generations of users, according to our 2022 US Social Commerce and Digital Trust Survey. However, more trust won’t necessarily convert more buyers, as our survey results don’t show a causal relationship between trust and buying.
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| Jul 10, 2023
Over the past year, TikTok made its platform more shoppable by adding ad formats, rolling out its Shop feature to US merchants, and partnering with TalkShopLive for livestream commerce. The company is also planning to open fulfillment centers in a bid to establish itself as an end-to-end commerce platform.
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| Dec 23, 2022