Recognizing the importance of sharing valuable resources with the CommerceNext community to help them understand the impact of COVID-19 on digital retail, we worked with WITHIN to make their COVID-19 Retail Pulse available. Leveraging first-party ecommerce data from its roster of 75 clients, WITHIN’s index tracks trends in ecommerce revenue, digital media ad spend, and conversion rate relative to the pre-COVID benchmark period.
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Attribution has been challenging the retail and ecommerce industry for some time. Advertising platforms like Facebook, Google and Criteo are all over reporting their direct contribution. Find out how you can get to a single source of truth.
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As Amazon continues to grow and dominate the ecommerce shopping experience, the need for brands to have a cohesive Amazon strategy is stronger than ever. Listen to Derek Laninga, (Retail Sales Director at Dometic) and Josh Owens (CEO at SupplyKick) talk about how Dometic was able to use Amazon as an engine for improving sales and long-term customer acquisition. At CN2019, Derek and Josh offered practical advice on how to navigate Amazon and some of the unique challenges and opportunities the platform presents.
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At CommerceNext 2019, Conor Ryan (Co-founder and CIO at StitcherAds) and Kevin St. John (Industry Manager at Facebook) outlined how retailers can adopt Facebook's retail-focused tools to reduce friction throughout the customer journey. They dove deep into the waters of innovative, automated digital media solutions retailers can use to amplify ad creative and drive omnichannel results, across online and stores.
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The CDP space is still evolving, and companies are still working out how to make the most of the new tech. Before you decide if a CDP is right for your company, it’s important to do some groundwork. You need to understand what sets a CDP apart from other martech solutions, how a CDP can create value and how long the implementation process can be.
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At CommerceNext 2019 in NYC, Matt Gehring—SVP of Growth Marketing of Rothy’s—and Philip Inghelbrecht—CEO of Tatari—busted the biggest myths about TV advertising and showed how they broke down barriers by applying a digital approach to TV.
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Valentine’s Shoppers broke records in 2019, spending more than $20.7 billion on the most popular gifts: candy, greeting cards, an evening out, flowers and jewelry. But why? What influenced consumers to spend billions of dollars on one romantic day? We used DemandJump’s Consumer Insights product to find out.
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It seems that these days, every marketing team’s goal is to create a unified view of their customer in order to help them market most effectively. At CommerceNext 2019, Chameleon Collective partner Sean Finnegan sat down with Karen Clark, VP of Marketing Communications and Partnerships at thredUP, Tom Montgomery, Co-Founder and Chief Digital Officer at Chubbies Shorts and Matt Gilbert, CEO of Pepperjam. On this panel, these industry insiders shared insights on what it means to balance brand with performance marketing, and how they gather valuable data from testing the waters. In the session, they discussed important decisions like allocation of funds and measuring data that go into managing a successful marketing operation.
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Patagonia puts their mission first and is a leading example of a purpose-driven company. Their dedication to environmental preservation is reflected in every facet of the company, from the causes they support to the products they sell. Corley Kenna, Director of Global Communications and Public Relations, and Lisa Pike Sheehy, Vice President of Environmental Activism at Patagonia sat down with CommerceNext Co-Founder Veronika Sonsev to talk about how they found their north star, the company’s dedication to its mission and their strategy in keeping these values present through every facet of the company.
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With Facebook and Google maintaining their seemingly permanent residency as the cornerstones of the digital marketers’ playbook, and Amazon a persistent and credible threat, the desperate search for scaled subsidies that enable revenue to grow faster than expenses and the operating leverage this dynamic yields has reached a palpable level of urgency. For some has become a matter of survival. So where are retail marketers finding the answers?
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