Our interview outreach strategy for our reports is to target specific companies and roles within those companies in order to get a cross-section of businesses across sectors, size, and legacy. We also look to interview sources from diverse backgrounds in order to reflect a mix of experiences and perspectives that help strengthen our analysis.
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| Apr 12, 2024
Brands can use keywords to target users with relevant searches. TikTok rolled out Search Ads Toggle last year. That feature surfaces relevant ads alongside organic search results when advertisers opt into it. TikTok doesn’t offer keyword targeting, but brands can select negative keywords to avoid showing up in searches they’d like to avoid.
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| Feb 20, 2024
Our interview outreach strategy for our reports is to target specific companies and roles within those companies in order to get a cross-section of businesses across sectors, size, and legacy. We also look to interview sources from diverse backgrounds in order to reflect a mix of experiences and perspectives that help strengthen our analysis.
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| Apr 19, 2024
How to choose the right finfluencer: Setting defined goals will help FIs target the right creators. If an FI wants to reach a certain demographic, it would be important for it to ensure that a finfluencer’s following includes that target audience. Mitchell says finfluencers can provide demographic information about their followers, viewers, and subscribers.
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| Oct 11, 2024
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| Dec 12, 2024
Source: American Marketing Association (AMA); Lightricks
Though Amazon and search engines like Google are the No. 1 and No. 2 places consumers start their search for products online, per Jungle Scout’s Q2 2024 Consumer Trends report, they face competition from other retailers like Walmart and Target, as well as social platforms like TikTok and Pinterest. The catch: Visual search hasn’t hit mainstream adoption.
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| Oct 4, 2024
Target claims its Store Companion tool, a genAI-based chatbot available as an app on store team members’ handheld devices, has enhanced employees’ everyday work experience. The tool, which began rolling out in June 2024, has been used more than 50,000 times with an average chat time of less than 1 minute, Target’s COO and CFO Michael Fiddelke said during a recent earnings call.
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| Sep 26, 2024
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| Dec 14, 2023
Automakers will reimagine advertising strategies in the coming years as they capitalize on emerging digital channels and attempt to target consumers beyond popular linear broadcasts.
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| Oct 16, 2024
Amazon, Target, and Walmart are launching holiday promotions in early October. Even so, Cyber Monday and Black Friday will still be the two biggest online shopping days of the year. We expect Cyber Monday ecommerce sales will grow 7.8% YoY to $13.93 billion, and Black Friday ecommerce sales will increase 5.5% to $10.76 billion.
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| Oct 4, 2024
The campaign includes social clips of Cynthia Erivo who plays Elphaba shopping in Target. Also, there's over 100 new and exclusive Target and Wicked collaboration products and a Target website makeover featuring green and pink motifs and themed animations.
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| Oct 25, 2024
Target released a newly revamped program, Target Circle, to deliver an even easier, more personalized shopping and saving experience. Target Circle contributes to a sustainable bottom line through retention, higher spend, and enhanced data, with Target Circle members spending 5x more and driving nearly 5x more shopping trips than nonmembers in 2023, according to internal Target data.
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| Apr 17, 2024
For five years, retail’s outsize increases were driven by growth in digital ad spending as more shopping moved online, and retail media networks (RMNs) emerged to target consumers closer to the point of purchase. This year, we will see moderate retrenchment as retail digital ad spending grows at the slowest rate since we began tracking this metric in 2017.
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| Oct 16, 2024
Our interview outreach strategy for our reports is to target specific companies and roles within those companies in order to get a cross-section of businesses across sectors, size, and legacy. We also look to interview sources from diverse backgrounds in order to reflect a mix of experiences and perspectives that help strengthen our analysis.
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| Mar 22, 2024
AI medical documentation companies have become a hot target for investors. Abridge’s latest investment round comes just months after it hauled in $150 million in Series C funding. Competitor Suki snagged a $70 million funding round last week. Another company in the space, Augmedix, was recently acquired by health tech company Commure for $139 million.
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| Oct 15, 2024
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| Dec 11, 2024
Source: Merkle; B2B International
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| Dec 11, 2024
Source: Merkle; B2B International
While they remain a primary destination for cash-strapped consumers, stiff competition from the likes of Walmart and Target alongside the rise of ultra-cheap Chinese ecommerce marketplaces is eating away at their market share, while economic conditions are causing their core customers to pump the brakes on spending.
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| Sep 27, 2024
“Data-hungry advertisers will no doubt love to have more information about how many exposed consumers actually scan the code, the depth of engagement, first-party data about specific consumers that can be aggregated to inform future campaigns or incorporated into a CDP (customer data platform) to target and measure media in other channels,” said our analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf on a “Behind the Numbers”
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| Oct 24, 2024
46.6% of US internet users are also Amazon Prime members, nearly two times as many as Costco (25.1%), the No. 2 biggest retail membership , according to data from Comscore.
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| Nov 6, 2024
Legislation like the Digital Services Act and General Data Protection Regulation have led to investigations of several major ad platforms, and EU courts recently limited Meta’s ability to target ads with personal data in a major blow to existing practices. Data practices in the US have come under increased scrutiny, particularly since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
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| Oct 14, 2024
Commerce media, which extends beyond retail media networks into any network that can leverage first-party data to target ads, blossomed in 2024. “Over the past year, we've seen JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, and Citi all make moves to launch their own commerce media businesses. And it makes sense. Banks have a ton of first-party data they can leverage,” our analyst Maria Elm said in July.
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| Oct 22, 2024
Companies creating digital dupes of real people will need to ensure that their technology doesn’t fall into the hands of bad actors who could easily grab clips of targets online to create avatars.
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| Oct 14, 2024
Our interview outreach strategy for our reports is to target specific companies and roles within those companies in order to get a cross-section of businesses across sectors, size, and legacy. We also look to interview sources from diverse backgrounds in order to reflect a mix of experiences and perspectives that help strengthen our analysis.
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| Mar 26, 2024
Our interview outreach strategy for our reports is to target specific companies and roles within those companies in order to get a cross-section of businesses across sectors, size, and legacy. We also look to interview sources from diverse backgrounds in order to reflect a mix of experiences and perspectives that help strengthen our analysis.
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| Apr 11, 2024