Alibaba Group Holding, the world’s largest e-commerce services provider, is poised to extend its lead in China’s fast-growing mobile advertising market with forecast revenue of US$14.6 billion this year, as total spending on digital campaigns in the mainland hits a new record high. Digital advertising expenditure in the mainland is predicted to rise 27 per […]
Two-thirds (66%) of marketing professionals no longer include mobile apps in their marketing campaigns, according to new research. The State of Digital Commerce report, launched by Episerver, examines the retail and e-commerce trends set to shape 2017. The report analyses the mobile presence of 100 top UK retail brands and draws on research with 1,200 […]
With the rise of smartphones, online customers have been buying more goods with their mobile devices instead of computers. Tech Crunch released numbers which reported a record $771 million in revenue from mobile customers over Thanksgiving. But while businesses scramble to make their businesses more mobile-friendly, they also have to figure out whether they will stick with […]
This Black Friday, Wal-Mart is going digital. The world’s largest retailer recently said that its website will kick off its online Black Friday sale three hours earlier than 2015, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Thanksgiving Day. That’s hours before its in-store doorbuster deals begin at 6 p.m. that evening. This is just the second year that Wal-Mart […]
The IAB has released the results of a study on digital commerce in the US and China, which found Chinese consumers engage in more shopping behaviours on smartphones and tablets than US consumers. According to the research, both the US and China have achieved “near-full adoption of digital commerce,” with 89% of Chinese consumers over […]
Instagram is testing new features that will enable brands to share posts that include more product information with the aim of getting more consumers to buy products they see on the image-sharing site. The test, only available to Apple mobile phone owners in the US at the moment, includes 20 brands such as Macy’s, Abercrombie […]
While high-end luxury brands are slowly starting to offer online sales in China, one area that remains especially uncharted territory for them is selling through WeChat. This may be about to change, however, as both Dior and Bulgari took the WeChat sales plunge for the recent Qixi Festival holiday. Both became some of the first […]
[KGVID]https://lovelymobile.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Consumer_Carling_Button_160511v4-1.mp4[/KGVID] Carling has launched the world’s first beer button – a one touch solution that revolutionises the online shopping experience and allows Carling drinkers to order beer directly from their fridge. The new digital innovation from Carling simplifies the shopper experience and is designed to increase brand loyalty amongst consumers. Molson Coors research showed that […]
Department store and retail brand Selfridges is strengthening its multi-channel offering with the launch of a social media-friendly shoppable app that aims to redefine the conventional mobile shopping journey. In an era where technology is becoming progressively more integrated with luxury retail, Selfridges is hoping to future-proof its retail channels with a new app, part […]
Fashion e-retailer Bluefly wants to live in its shopper’s pocket, says Carly Rosenberg, president at Bluefly. To do so, it needs to be on consumers’ smartphones, so the retailer, No. 223 Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide, recently launched an app that offers all of the retailer’s products. Until last week Bluefly had an outdated […]