
Target launching invite-only online marketplace
Target’s looking to strike a balance between scale and quality in taking a new approach to its third-party marketplace. Why you should...

Walmart wants your ad business
Walmart says its ready to start monetizing its shopper data and become a go-to ad network for retail manufacturers — both online and...

Rethinking the marketing funnel with Consumer Decision Journeys
The traditional marketing funnel, starting wide at the top and narrowing down to purchase was appropriate in the past but has become...

‘Amazon Moments’ tool gives brands new way to build, deliver loyalty campaigns
Amazon Moment’s console rewards platform. Amazon has launched Amazon Moments, a cross-platform solution that allows marketers to create...

How does an omnichannel vision increase sales?
With the digitization of consumption patterns, being present on all channels is no longer enough to capture the attention of consumers....

Data: Walmart wins holiday store visits, Sears’ failure is likely JCPenney and Kohl’s ga
Over the holiday shopping period a surprisingly small number of retailers dominated store visits. According to Reveal Mobile, roughly one...

Amazon adds customer acquisition metrics for display, video, Sponsored Brands campaigns
Amazon has introduced new metrics that capture insights on new customers that converted from ad campaigns. The “new-to-brand” metrics are...

Holiday shoppers spent record-breaking $126 billion online in 2018
Holiday shoppers spent more money online than ever before in 2018, according to a 2018 holiday wrap-up out this week from Adobe...

Amazon enables dynamic bidding, bid adjustments for Sponsored Products ads
Amazon has added more bid management features for Sponsored Products ads in its advertising interface. The updates take a page from the...

Amazon’s latest ad test: Targeted Product Sampling
Amazon’s ad business is growing rapidly. With triple-digit growth reported in the last three straight reporting periods, Amazon’s annual...

It’s post-holiday return season: How marketers can make the best of it
The downside of a great retail holiday season? The aftermath of booming returns season. The United Parcel Service (UPS) expected to...

Retail in 2019: Store evolution, tech adoption and what it will take to win
Retail is increasingly a stark tale of winners and losers. Holiday 2018 saw the best retail sales (online and off) in six years,...

What Amazon Advertising’s big 2018 advancements will mean for 2019
It’s easy to over hype things, but 2018 will be remembered as a momentous year for Amazon’s advertising business. It is estimated to now...

Merkle launches bidding platform tailored for Amazon sponsored brand ads
Sponsored brand ads can appear at the top of Amazon search results in addition to several other spots on the platform. Performance agency...

Online shopping revenues will reach $126 billion by December 31, says Adobe
The Saturday before Christmas is known as either “Super Saturday” or “Panic Saturday,” depending on your perspective, and it should see...

Why one marketer thinks smart speakers have their work cut out for them
Voice technology and voice search have, arguably, been adopted faster than any other technology in history. Analyst estimates on smart...

3 ways customer data drives more impactful brand experiences
As marketers, we love to talk about consumers as if they are another species — unique, complicated, demanding and fickle creatures we...

5 techniques to make free shipping pay off in the holiday season and beyond
Perhaps nothing drives indecisive holiday shoppers over the purchase line than an offer for free shipping. Especially when paired with...

Why some marketers say Cyber Week is just too long
As Black Friday and Cyber Monday have begun to merge into a single blockbuster weekend to kick off the holiday shopping season, many...
























