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Why we care:
Shoppers are increasingly using digital channels to buy products, even when they visit physical stores. It’s no longer a question of if your customer is online, but how you can use specific touchpoints to help them on their journey. This transformation in experience brings retail chains, direct-to-consumer brands and even traditional consumer packaged goods in closer competition as they all strive to deliver the seamless purchase options their customers prefer.
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Feds finally file anti-monopoly suit over Google’s adtech
The suit seeks to force the tech giant to get rid of its ad businesses and engaging in allegedly anticompetitive practices.
Salesforce announces retail media network innovations
Salesforce for Retail and Commerce Cloud announce the twin aims of helping optimize the retail advertising business and improve the retail customer experience.
Pinterest announces clean room partnership with LiveRamp
The new clean room will be used to help activate Albertson’s retail media network.
Final 2022 holiday numbers break ecommerce records
Despite economic concerns, consumers responded to discounts in key categories like toys.
2023 Predictions: Retail media networks
As more advertisers flock to retail media networks, here’s how the networks will evolve.
Salesforce: The trends underlying a record-breaking Cyber Week
As the Salesforce World Tour hit the Javits Center in New York City, conversation turned to the retail roller coaster.
What is ecommerce and which trends are shaping its future?
Learn about ecommerce as well as key new trends like mobile and social commerce and how they are all shaping the future of marketing.
Online retail kicks off holiday season with record sales
Adobe and Salesforce have different Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales totals, but both show record increases from 2021.
November online spending up only 0.1% heading into Black Friday
Inflation is high and unemployment is low. So no one is really sure what consumers will do during the holiday shopping season.
Ad spend projected to grow 5.9% in 2023
B2B digital advertising will soar 20.8% YoY, leading high-growth categories, IAB forecasts.
Bizzabo introduces Klik Experiential for in-person events
Built on SmartBadge technology, the new platform streamlines attendees’ experience while providing near real-time visibility for organizers.
Why we care about B2C marketing: A guide for marketers
Here's what you need to know about B2C marketing, key B2C strategies, challenges facing B2C marketers and trends for 2023 and beyond.
Adobe releases data on early holiday shopping and prices
Good news for marketers and consumers: Spending increases while prices decline.
Digital out-of-home branches out with programmatic
The DPAA Global Summit showcased how DOOH plugs into the larger adtech world to connect omnichannel campaigns.
Lowe’s and Yahoo team up for retail media partnership
Yahoo’s DSP and ConnectID will support off-site media experiences through Lowe’s One Roof Media Network.
Marketing beyond boundaries at Opticon
Optimizely advocates for experimentation, collaboration and orchestration as it rethinks its DXP.
DoubleVerify announces measurement tools for retail media networks
Advertisers, will have access to pre-campaign activation, measure and post-bid filtering tools.
Walmart launches Roblox metaverse experiences
Walmart Land and Walmart’s Universe of Play target core Roblox users ages 17 to 24.
Marketers need to be ‘always-on’ for holiday shopping
Research from Gartner suggests consumers will not confine holiday shopping to the holiday season.
Financial concerns threaten the 2023 holiday shopping season
As COVID concerns decline, worries about the financial impact of a recession have soared.