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View articleEvery retailer talks about loyalty. Few want to talk about what it costs to earn it. At Shoptalk Fall’s Retail Stage, Jamil Ghani spent twenty m...
View articleEvery retailer heading into Christmas has access to the same review data, the same on-site search logs, and roughly the same handful of CRM and AI too...
View articleQ4 covers Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping weeks that follow, the busiest stretch of the year for retail advertisers. The U.S. Cens...
View articlePerformance marketing teams run the same ritual heading into peak: find the ad that’s proven itself, then pour the budget behind it. A winning a...
View articleA budget review runs the same way in a lot of retail marketing teams. The channel report comes back, and it favors whichever channel sits closest to t...
View articleReddit released its first small business holiday insights report today, aimed at helping SMB advertisers understand how gift research and purchase int...
View articleThe industry has spent 2026 rebuilding itself around outcomes. The IAB is standardising how they are measured. WPP has dissolved its holding company s...
View articleWhen AI sits between a brand and its shopper, does the sale get won by media placement or by what the brand says? At Retail Media Pioneers 2026, WPP M...
View articleRetail media’s newest disruption arrives wearing the shape of an AI agent. It can research a purchase, compare options and, before long, complet...
View articleRetail media used to mean one thing: a sponsored slot at checkout. That is no longer true. A shopper now gets inspired to cook something new on Pinter...
View articleSixty-three percent of people who show up on Bol’s marketplace aren’t there to buy. They’re still browsing. Many haven’t even ...
View articleA 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 articleRetail conferences have spent the past year treating AI as a settled revolution, with the customer assumed to be ready for it. David Cost pushes back ...
View articleThere’s a specific kind of budget line that exists to be technically true rather than actually useful. A brand wants to look like it’s tes...
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