
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...

Personalizing customer experiences at scale
Personalization has become integral to the customer journey and is now a key driver of brand loyalty across all channels. Consumers are...

‘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....

Amazon’s ad business continues to soar, topped $3 billion for first time in Q4
Amazon reported $3.38 billion in advertising revenue for the fourth quarter of 2018 on Thursday, surpassing $3 billion in a quarter for...

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,...

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...

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...

Amazon ad spend up 3.5X Thanksgiving week compared to pre-holiday ad investments
Amazon reported Cyber Monday was its biggest shopping day in history, beating out this year’s Prime Day sales results and representing...

Move over, Prime Day; Amazon’s Cyber Monday takes the crown
Amazon’s inventory of superlatives may be running low. The online retail giant had its single biggest day of sales ever on Cyber Monday,...

165 million people shopped online and in stores over Black Friday weekend
Pre-Thanksgiving surveys indicated that more people intended to shop online this year than in the past. That sentiment did translate into...

8 best online reputation management tools for your brand
If your brand has an online presence at all, you can’t not worry about its reputation. Today, online reputation management (or ORM for...

Pinterest partnerships with name brands and Etsy focus on a personalized holiday strategy
Pinterest is giving a handful of brands special gift-finding tools to help with their holiday strategies on the platform. Macy’s, Lowe’s...
























