
Shopify adds new Facebook, Snapchat ad buying options from the e-commerce platform
Shopify is giving Facebook and Snapchat advertisers new ways to purchase ads through its e-commerce platform. On Monday the company...

Amazon advertising growth slowed again in Q1: Does it matter?
Data source: Amazon For a few quarters there, Amazon was posting triple digit growth rates. Then growth slowed to 97% in the fourth...

Window shopping 2.0: How visual search is revolutionizing digital fashion retail
The future of fashion retail is e-commerce, but the future of e-commerce is unclear. On the one hand, e-commerce grew 15 percent in 2018,...

The retailers and brands delivering first-rate mobile AR experiences
Isabelle Hierholtz, the user strategy director for the AR/VR/XR advisor company Digi-Capital, believes mobile AR advertising offers...

Google Cloud goes after commerce market with Cloud for Retail solutions
Google announced the launch of Google Cloud for Retail Wednesday at Google Cloud Next, with a host of new solutions designed for the...

Lush UK bids farewell to social. Will other brands follow suit?
Lush UK, a cosmetics company known for its bathing products, dropped a major bomb on Tuesday when the company announced it was bidding...

How you can make the most of your YouTube video advertising
If you’re not already using YouTube videos as part of your marketing efforts, you should be. Researchers have found that a majority of...

Consumers largely unaware of fake reviews problem on Amazon
Multiple sources have concluded Amazon has a growing fake-reviews problem. Yet the majority of consumers appear to be unaware of it,...

Walmart doubles down on voice grocery shopping with Google Home
Yesterday Walmart announced a simplified way for customers to order groceries using voice commands on any device that features the Google...

Nearly 70 percent of online shoppers use Amazon to compare products found on a brand’s website
A new survey from Episerver discovered 24 percent of online shoppers always compare what they find on a brand or retail website to...

McDonald’s to buy Dynamic Yield to personalize drive-through, kiosk, mobile app experiences
In a bid to fast-track its digital transformation, fast food giant McDonald’s has agreed to acquire AI-powered martech company Dynamic...

Instagram debuts in-app checkout for e-commerce brands
Why you should care Instagram has been committed for some time now to making its platform more e-commerce friendly. With the launch of an...

Teikametrics adds hourly bidding optimization for Amazon advertising
Boston-based Teikametrics announced the addition of an hourly bidding solution for Amazon advertisers using Teikametrics Flywheel...

Amazon’s streamlines DSP usability as it continues ad biz ramp up
Amazon Advertising has improved the user interface and functionality of its Demand-Side Platform (DSP), in keeping with its ambition of...

WordPress plugin to win back cart abandoners leaves sites open to attack
A vulnerability in a WordPress plugin has left e-commerce sites vulnerable, according to a report Monday from Defiant, makers of a...

Making the leap from automatic….to intelligent marketing automation
Marketing automation has become the lynchpin of successful marketing campaign management, yet many brands struggle to fully maximize...

Retailers spent nearly 50% of mobile ad dollars in second half of 2018
Mobile ad spending share by advertising vertical in second-half of 2018, based on Smaato customer data. Retailers accounted for 49...

RichRelevance adds deep learning so new products can get recommended
Many recommendation engines rely on patterns of consumer behavior — which are not very useful for new products that have no browsing or...

Pinterest makes Shopping Ads self-serve, launches new Catalogs feature
Pinterest Catalogs dashboard for retailers. Pinterest announced a new way to showcase products with the launch of Catalogs Monday. The...
























