Marin Software, a leading provider of digital marketing software for performance-driven advertisers and agencies, released research findings from its global Q2 2018 Digital Advertising Benchmark Report. As search spend continues to grow from increased clicks and CPCs, Marin Software’s report identifies eCommerce as another channel quickly gaining traction thanks to increased spend on Amazon. Marin Software […]
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can write 20,000 lines of advertising copy per second. Businesses advertising on Alibaba’s Tmall, Taobao, Mei.com and 1688.com eCommerce sites can insert a link on one of their product pages and click a “produce smart copy” button to see different advertising ideas. But even though the […]
Global beauty and cosmetics brand L’Occitane has adopted AI-powered personalisation on its mobile website, presenting changing products to users based on their behaviour in a social newsfeed-style experience, and resulting in a 159 per cent increase in conversion rates. The AI-powered platform was created by personalisation specialists Qubit, who used its Aura solution to bring the brand’s in-store […]
Personalisation is spending yet another year as one of the key retail and marketing trends driving success. Gartner cited it as key focus for 2018, calculating that 64 percent of marketing leaders are already using or planning to deploy personalisation technology across the buying journey. And with figures from McKinsey showing that well executed personalisation […]
Yieldify, the customer journey optimisation (CJO) company, announced a global partnership with dotmailer, a leading marketing automation platform with omnichannel capabilities, to enable highly-personalised email marketing campaigns for the companies’ shared eCommerce customer base. The Yieldify Conversion Platform seamlessly integrates with dotmailer, allowing eCommerce companies to increase on site email capture through Yieldify’s lead generation […]
Unsurprisingly, the talk of the town at London Tech Week (LTW) was artificial intelligence. The breakthroughs happening in AI just now are surely the most powerful in emerging tech, and it has the potential to not only change the way we work and live but also our concept of where tech ends, and humanity begins. […]
Just under a fifth of UK consumers (18%) find that going shopping makes them feel stressed, while more than 1 in 10 experience high stress levels while buying online. That’s according to a new Stress Shopping report from experience analytics firm Clicktale, which examines the role of emotions in shaping consumer experiences both online and […]
The 9th of May 2018 went down in history books as among the most significant days in the history of Malaysia. As the nation concluded the election period with the swearing-in of its seventh prime minister on 10th May, eCommerce platforms experienced a significant dip in online traffic as Malaysians were focused on the elections […]
From the looks of things, free two-hour shipping is but one of many, many Whole Foods perks Amazon is giving Prime members — something subscribers deserve, considering Prime’s 20 percent price increase. The e-commerce giant has just announced two new benefits for its subscribers: an additional 10 percent discount off sale items and deep discounts […]
Amazon is reportedly testing new ad tech tools that will see the eCommerce giant make its biggest move yet in its attempts to rival digital advertising firms like Google. The firm is trialling a new display offering that will enable merchants using its online marketplace to retarget consumers around the web. According to Bloomberg, which […]
