A fragrance brand with no department store counter and no celebrity face is not a brand in trouble. For a Gen Z shopper, that gap can be the whole app...
View articleMost digital transformation budgets fund tools nobody ends up using. Benjamin Spiegel built his current strategy around that exact failure point, spen...
View articleGLP-1 medications have pulled an entirely new set of consumers into a category that used to sit inside a hospital formulary. Retailers want a share of...
View articleFurniture is not a keyword. It is fabric under a hand, a rug that has to match a room nobody else has seen, a sofa a guest will judge before they say ...
View articleMost retailers fighting for visibility in AI search are throwing bigger content teams at the problem. David Clough has spent 18 years doing the opposi...
View articleMost of a brand’s revenue now happens somewhere the marketing team can’t see. A pixel tracks a website. It has no view of a shelf on Amazo...
View articleThe brand-versus-performance debate has outlived its usefulness. Marketers keep sorting themselves into camps, brand or performance, as if the split r...
View articleRetailers spent a decade optimizing for speed: fewer clicks, faster checkout, shorter funnels. That assumption is broken. New global research presente...
View articleFor the last two years, retailers have heard one message about AI: move fast. Warby Parker’s fireside chat at eTail Boston made a narrower case....
View articleThe product detail page was supposed to be settled territory. It was the destination, the place where discovery ended and conversion began, and for mo...
View articleTL;DR VistaPrint’s ambassador program deliberately targets creators with 3,000 to 10,000 followers, finding they drive more engagement than bigg...
View articleTL;DR Evelyn & Bobbie named three brand pillars competitors can’t copy: consumer-generated content over influencers, six industrial patents ...
View articleGrocery retailers spent years worried that a partnership with Instacart meant handing over the customer relationship. That fear has largely faded. Rya...
View articleReddit spent two decades being described by what it was not: not a feed, not a social graph. The platform is now cited by every major large language m...
View articleMarvis built a following most oral care brands never manage: cult status in prestige beauty across the US, Asia and now Europe, in a category otherwis...
View articleEight years ago, retail media inside a DIY retailer had no template. Buying departments had no frame of reference for it. The wrong pitch could make i...
View articleProduct discovery has quietly stopped happening on the shelf, or even in the search bar. Shoppers no longer open with a keyword. They open with a visi...
View articleThree out of four brands fail when they try to take a proven concept into a new market. That is not a niche statistic. It is the backdrop against whic...
View articleCoterie’s Marissa Steinmetz and AS Beauty Group’s Maureen Massry, in conversation with Shopify’s Madeline Michaelson, said both comp...
View articleWhile most of CommerceNext debated how AI will reshape discovery, QVC Group’s Brian Beitler argued for something older. The company has built it...
View articleShoppers are handing more of the buying journey to AI, and brands from Balenciaga to e.l.f. Beauty are rebuilding around earned, third-party validatio...
View articleThe operators on this Commerce Next panel run very different businesses, from a 560-store western wear chain to an AI-driven styling service. All five...
View articleRTB House’s Jaysen Gillespie opened the talk with new research on how shoppers behave before they buy. Most don’t convert on the first vis...
View articleAI is often sold to small brands as the great equalizer. The pitch says a 12-person team can finally operate like a 1,200-person one. Katie Omstead, P...
View articleThe panel at CommerceNext Growth Show returned to an old idea, that listening to customers still comes first. What changed, the operators agreed, is t...
View articleBombas CEO Jason LaRose used his CommerceNext opening keynote to draw a line between two kinds of DTC expansion. Some brands go to wholesale because t...
View articleThe $300 billion skincare industry has a problem it rarely says out loud. Over-the-counter skincare cannot legally change your skin. The moment a topi...
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