Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement Model That Finance Actually Trusts
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement...

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Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built ...

Every influencer marketer has the same nightmare conversation. The CFO asks for the revenue number. The marketer opens a dashboard full of impressions...

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How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Into a Fashion Audience
eTail Palm Springs 2026

How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Into a Fashion Audience

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How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Int...

Most retailers chasing fashion credibility start by shrinking their audience. They curate harder, raise prices, and build mystique around scarcity. Th...

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How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channel Surfing
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How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channel Surfing

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How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channe...

Shopping used to require a destination. A planned trip to a mall, a catalog spread across a kitchen table, a deliberate channel flip to a home shoppin...

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Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the Time You Act on It
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the Time You Act on It

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Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the...

Every marketer who has stared at a dashboard has quietly wondered the same thing. Is this number real? Does it reflect what actually caused that sale,...

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Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking in Moments, Not Channels
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking in Moments, Not Channels

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Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking i...

The modern shopper does not follow a funnel. She watches a TikTok, compares prices on Amazon, checks her Sephora loyalty balance, and buys in store. S...

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Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journey Has Left the Funnel
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journey Has Left the Funnel

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Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journe...

The marketing funnel that e-commerce was built on is a decade-old agreement between brands and consumers. Brands pay for attention, consumers click th...

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How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without Losing Its Soul
eTail Palm Springs 2026

How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without Losing Its Soul

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How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without ...

Most retailers say they are customer-centric. Very few of them can tell you exactly what that costs. At REI, the price is quantifiable. It means holdi...

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Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is scaling smarter
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Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is scaling smarter

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Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is...

Agentic commerce and GEO are coming fast, but JD Sports argues the real advantage is operational: clean data and order management that keeps the custo...

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Unpacking Sustainability for Purpose-Driven Profit
Beauty Connect 2025

Unpacking Sustainability for Purpose-Driven Profit

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Unpacking Sustainability for Purpose-Driven Profit

At Beauty Connect LA, sustainability was framed as a marker of operational discipline. For founders of Nécessaire, PURE MAMA, and Nocturnal Skincare, ...

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How Beauty Brands Are Turning Buzz Into Real Commerce
Beauty Connect 2025

How Beauty Brands Are Turning Buzz Into Real Commerce

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How Beauty Brands Are Turning Buzz Into Real Comme...

At Beauty Connect LA 2025, Melissa Burdick and Riku Laitasalo from Pacvue, and Calvin Lammers from Nécessaire explored how cultural trends are evolvin...

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Why the Future of Retail Belongs to Human-Centered Brands
Beauty Connect 2025

Why the Future of Retail Belongs to Human-Centered Brands

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Why the Future of Retail Belongs to Human-Centered...

At Beauty Connect LA, Paula Floyd (Headkount Inc), Sheena Zadeh (Kosas), Kevin Wong (Target), and Brad Pearson (Route) explored how brands are rebuild...

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Secrets to Brand Resilience: How Purpose, Process, and People Keep Beauty Brands Standing Strong
Beauty Connect 2025

Secrets to Brand Resilience: How Purpose, Process, and People Keep Beauty B...

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Secrets to Brand Resilience: How Purpose, Process,...

Resilience has become beauty’s quiet competitive edge. At Beauty Connect LA, founders and executives from Quick Box Fulfillment, Ranavat, Glamlite Cos...

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Scaling with Soul: How Beauty Brands Are Preserving Identity While Accelerating Growth
Beauty Connect 2025

Scaling with Soul: How Beauty Brands Are Preserving Identity While Accelera...

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Scaling with Soul: How Beauty Brands Are Preservin...

In a crowded beauty market, growth often comes at the cost of what made a brand desirable in the first place. At Beauty Connect LA, executives from De...

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Longevity and Beauty in 2030: Personalization with Purpose
Beauty Connect 2025

Longevity and Beauty in 2030: Personalization with Purpose

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Longevity and Beauty in 2030: Personalization with...

At Beauty Connect LA, four leaders in the beauty and wellness industry took on one of the most complex questions facing modern brands: how do you pers...

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The New Era of Creator Chemistry: Why Brands Are Betting on Long-Term Partnerships
Beauty Connect 2025

The New Era of Creator Chemistry: Why Brands Are Betting on Long-Term Partn...

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The New Era of Creator Chemistry: Why Brands Are B...

The creator economy has matured, but brands are still learning what makes a partnership deliver meaningful results. At Beauty Connect LA, leaders from...

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Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are Resetting Growth for Profitability and Trust
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Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are Resetting Growth for Profi...

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Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are R...

At Savant Manchester 2025, retailers and marketers echoed a single tension: how to grow when every lever has a cost. eCommerce leaders talked about pr...

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