At Econsultancy Live: The Future of Ecommerce, Sophie Quy of Threads Styling and Cassandra Gowing of Radley London discussed the changing habits of luxury customers, and the importance of video and social in capturing new business.
The founder of the category-defining D2C sofa company discusses how the shift to ecommerce has forced companies to innovate, to find new ways to reach and interact with their customers.
Partnerships management platform Impact recently acquired unicorn status after raising $150m in a funding round that took its value to $1.5bn. Here we catch up with Ross Negus, Enterprise Account Executive at Impact, to find out what life is like as a unicorn, and why the partnership economy is a growing opportunity for brands today. […]
“Over 50% of the gross market value for the top six ecommerce players in the world is on marketplaces,” Colin Lewis, CMO of OpenJaw Technologies and author of Econsultancy’s Third-Party Marketplaces Best Practice Guide, told attendees at Econsultancy Live this week. Despite the continuing domination of big retailer.com sites, and the rising trend for direct-to-consumer […]
The real estate industry is transforming and there are a host of opportunities that brands in the sector can grasp to stay ahead of the competition.
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region boasts some of the most dynamic, innovative and fast-moving ecommerce markets: from the largest ecommerce market in the world, China; to markets with near-total internet connectivity, like South Korea, to markets with high ecommerce penetration and immense potential for growth, like Indonesia. How is ecommerce in Asia-Pacific changing in the wake […]
Customer expectations regarding response time, personalisation and purchasing options are rising, as B2C experiences increasingly become the norm in the B2B orbit. Given that bespoke engagement nurtures relationships, boosts loyalty and grows your brand, how do you deliver the digital experiences that your customers really want? To learn more, watch this session from the SAP […]
The increase in complexity of sales channels and the rise of consumer expectations represent a challenge for Consumer Products manufacturers to deliver meaningful consumer experiences that drive brand preference and sales. During this watch-on-demand session from the SAP Together Works Summit at Econsultancy Live, Javier Flores, CX Advisor at SAP, discusses the different B2B & […]
A foundational change in digital marketing will happen in early 2023 when Google eliminates the use of third party cookies and the conventional way of sending and tracking consumer messaging. Consumer Products companies have long relied on agency and media partners, without owning consumer data themselves. They must take swift and decisive action to build […]
Susan Vidler is the Global Chief Research Officer at consumer insight and market research company, Toluna. We recently spoke with Susan about the importance of brand voice and why, more than ever, brands must demonstrate their true meaning in order to appeal to consumers. Here’s what she had to say, along with her thoughts on […]
What does ‘commerce everywhere’ means for the relationship between commerce and marketing? How can reviewing commerce platforms along with martech reduce time-to-value? And how can brands knit together backend and frontend to drive lifetime value? To find out more, watch this session from the SAP Together Works Summit, part of Econsultancy Live, featuring SAP’s Payal […]
The online share of food shopping in the UK was 5.4% in February 2020 according to the ONS. By February 2021, this had risen to 14.7%. However, once restrictions were eased and vaccines were rolled out more widely, online growth was negative as grocery shopping habits shifted back to brick-and-mortar. This stats roundup includes figures […]
D2C models allow for product innovation and closer relationships with consumers. But CPG brands need to get their value propositions right and connect front- and back-end technology.
With a huge opportunity in the offing to target Chinese consumers when they are in a prime shopping mindset, and competition higher than ever, what have luxury brands been doing to stand out?
Emails and SMS are communication essentials, and are as vital to businesses as they are to individuals. While email has long been a key marketing channel, we’re probably more familiar with the humble text message as a functional tool – they let us know that our booking has been confirmed, or that our takeaway is […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a difficult time for fashion retailers as a whole – in 2020, UK clothes sales fell by a whopping 25%. However, even in a sector that already had a relatively high degree of ecommerce penetration, post-pandemic the shift to online has been notable. This roundup includes studies and financial results […]
Econsultancy Live: The Future of Ecommerce takes place November 22-24 and includes brand speakers from the likes of Aldo, Snug, Radley, Unilever, and the V&A.
The rapid and wholesale adoption of ecommerce has significantly altered the way that B2B buyers and sellers interact, bringing both challenge and opportunity.
“As a news business, we need to be able to react as situations evolve,” said Tom Hunter, Head of Audience Planning at Guardian News and Media, at last month’s Festival of Marketing. Before 2018, the publication was struggling to execute this reactive strategy in its customer engagement strategy. “We had a lot of siloed data […]
The acceleration of ecommerce throughout the globe over the course of 2020 was hard to ignore, as consumers shopped online often out of necessity, and brands were forced to rapidly change their strategies as a result.
Alex Gallagher is the chief strategy officer at UNiDAYS – an in-app marketplace that enables students around the globe to connect with over 800 brands. I recently spoke with Alex to find out more about his role, UNiDAYS’ growth, and the key to engaging Gen Z consumers. UNiDAYS has now expanded to 114 counties – […]
Understanding China’s internet and marketing landscape is no longer just the preserve of ‘China-watchers’ or entrepreneurs who want to start up a business in China.
With even more retailers now battling for space on the ‘digital shelf’ (i.e. the various places that we search, research, and buy products online) – being able to effectively capture the consumer’s attention is key. To increase the chances of this happening, retail brands must stay on top of multiple factors, such as ensuring product […]
This overview of personalisation in ecommerce is an excerpt from Econsultancy’s Ecommerce Best Practice Guide.
In March 2021, Google announced on its Ads & Commerce blog that it was “Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web”. The blog post was a re-affirmation of Google’s commitment, first revealed in January 2020, to remove support for third-party tracking cookies in Chrome from 2022, and contained further details about how it plans […]
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