Faced with significant challenges in the UK retail sector, new research reveals that retailers are emphatic about the importance of data and customer insight when it comes to long-term success. The new findings from marketing data and services expert Acxiom, revealed that nearly three quarters (74%) of retail decision makers believe their businesses couldn’t operate […]
S4M announced the release of a brand-new ad format, the Pass-to-Store. The creative new ad format provides advertisers with a method to drive incremental in-store visits with smart proximity-based push notification retargeting. With this new ad experience, shoppers download a card with a promotion or invitation offered by an advertiser, which is then saved directly […]
Retail food chain Co-op has joined CoGo, an organisation that makes ethical living easier by connecting business with their consumers, to help businesses which want to solve ethical and sustainable issues. 286 Co-op supermarkets in London will feature on the CoGo app connecting with consumers about ethical issues they’re concerned about. CoGo links businesses to […]
Google has taken a leaf out of Instagram and Pinterest’s playbooks and begun trialling shoppable ads within image searches. The ad format enables brands and retailers to highlight products available for sale within an ad featured in Google image search results. The search giant is currently testing the format with select retailers on a ‘small […]
Global research suggests fashion retailers in the UK are the most successful at persuading online visitors to buy, both on mobile and desktop. But UK shoppers spend less on each order than the global average (around 27% less on orders placed via mobile and 32% less on desktop orders). This is despite their orders including […]
CHEP, the leading FMCG and retail end-to-end supply chain specialist, has introduced small Bluetooth sensors to its quarter pallets in the UK, which are used as promotional displays by manufacturers and retailers. It follows the success of the technology in Germany where manufacturers have experienced significant upturns in new customers and voucher conversion rates linked […]
Pinterest is introducing new tools and features to help Pinners find the best products and services for their unique tastes and preferences. Pinterest has built solutions to help advertisers put their products in front of people who are on a path to purchase across Pinterest. With Catalogs, businesses can automatically create Product Pins featuring up […]
S4M, a leading drive-to-store platform, announced the release of a pioneering global product feature, Uplift Trust, for its FUSIO by S4M platform. FUSIO by S4M is the first SaaS solution to optimise media investments in real-time for drive-to-store campaigns. The Uplift Trust feature is an industry first, allowing marketers to see if the in-store uplift […]
The latest eCommerce and Digital Marketing M&A Market Reports from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, Hampleton Partners, reveal that 2018 recorded a $20 billion increase in disclosed eCommerce M&A value compared to 2017, boosted by mega-deals such as Walmart’s ambitious $16 billion purchase of Flipkart and Adobe’s acquisition of Marketo for $4.75 billion. Private […]
Israeli start-up Mixed Place, which develops a technology for creating Mixed Reality, has completed projects with two of Europe’s largest retail chains – the pan-European supermarket chain Billa and the Belgian based global food chain Ahold-Delhaize. These chains used the company’s technology as part of a promotion campaign with the aim of increasing customer loyalty, […]