What are FMCG brands doing to make sure online shoppers convert?
How FMCGs optimise their presentation and presence on the digital shelf; their online proposition and product offering; and their availability and fulfilment processes.
A collection of the most recent statistics and market data on online marketing, ecommerce, the internet and related digital media, drawn from Econsultancy’s Internet Statistics Database. Aimed at marketers looking for benchmarking stats, evidence for use cases or persuasive figures for procuring investment.
How FMCGs optimise their presentation and presence on the digital shelf; their online proposition and product offering; and their availability and fulfilment processes.
What is the digital shelf? What does it mean for FMCG brands and how can they win there, including making the most of evolving retail media networks?
From retail media to data partnerships and ‘clean rooms’, FMCG brands have many opportunities to take advantage of second-party data to better target customer or prove the effectiveness of their marketing.
November’s edition of Digital Transformation Monthly takes a close look at the trends redefining how consumers engage and shop with grocery and FMCG brands, including shelf-edge technology, retail media, digital loyalty schemes, and checkout-free shopping.
This special edition of Digital Transformation Monthly looks at the rise of retail media networks and the conditions that have led to their growing appeal, featuring key stories from individual retailers.
From order picking to last mile delivery, grocery retailers and FMCG brands are increasingly looking for ways to improve speed and efficiency in omnichannel fulfilment. With rising consumer expectations, the goal is to give customers what they want, exactly when they want it, even amid wider challenges in the supply chain. A large number of […]
The coronavirus pandemic has formed new consumer habits around buying fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG, also known as consumer-packaged goods or CPG). While the astronomical spike in online purchasing that was seen in the early days of the Covid-19 lockdowns (and again in late 2020 and early 2021) proved to not be permanent, many more consumers […]
The baby brand partnered with SEEN Connects for an innovative influencer marketing campaign, which reflected its empowerment brand values.
The coconut water drink brand partnered with Candyspace to transform its brand-first platform into an ecommerce site with an improved user experience.
Heffron partnered with Seznam Brand Studio to engage users with interactive, authentic stories of historic Czech heroism to support its brand story.
Partnering with Ogilvy, the consumer goods company changed consumer behaviour and increased market share by funding sustainability projects and creating content around countries eco-performance.
Despite issues like brand safety and ‘signal loss’ – a term used in the ad industry to refer to attribution difficulties in the wake of new privacy and anti-tracking measures – social media remains a priority for marketers who are eager to reach engaged consumers. Marketers are also using contextual advertising to do so, creating […]
This briefing is part of our Digital Transformation Monthly 2022 in Review, which looks back over the trends that defined the past year and considers how they might impact the year to come.
How TikTok is changing the linear purchase journey with a platform that is community-focused, creator-led and conversational.
Erika Ottela is the co-founder and COO of eBrands – an ecommerce aggregator. We asked Erika about her journey with eBrands, the importance of Amazon and other ecommerce marketplaces, and her advice for entrepreneurs in the industry. Tell me about eBrands – what was the motivation behind starting the company and how does it operate? […]
Kilgore discusses the value in the brand’s membership approach, its long-form content which is less suited to influencers, and the potential for bricks-and-mortar when it becomes ‘harder to find new customers by algorithm’.
Investment in q-commerce companies soared during the pandemic with consumers increasingly turning to rapid grocery services as an alternative to in-store shopping and with supermarket delivery slots often hard to come by. Companies including Jiffy, Gorillas, Getir, and Weezy emerged as competitors in the q-commerce space, each promising super-fast delivery and an app with a […]
Beauty Pie raised $100m in funding last September to help further its expansion plans, which it says will involve “more warehouses, pop-up shops and a new membership model (for devotees).” This round of funding follows on from the huge growth Beauty Pie generated during the pandemic, with the brand doubling its number of members and […]
PepsiCo Europe Director of Digital Product and Experience Mia Sorgi discusses her role, including experience design across digital touchpoints, innovation in digital ordering and trends such as retail media and Just Walk Out.
Social commerce is maturing. As Accenture states in its ‘Future of Shopping‘ report: “Rather than a handful of big retailers and brands selling to mass markets of millions, we’re now seeing millions of individuals and smaller businesses selling to one another within a vast social commerce ecosystem.” Consequently, social commerce is expected to grow three […]
Lyndsay Weir discusses how to build a data team with an external lens, one that is designed to serve the consumer and not exist merely as an internal business function or silo.
When you hear the brand name ‘Mars’, what is the first thing that springs to mind? Chances are, it’s probably sweets, since Mars is best known as the company that owns confectionery brands like Galaxy, M&Ms, Snickers, Twix and many more. Far less widely-known is the fact that Mars is one of the world’s largest […]
Dave Murray is Managing Director Europe of global influencer marketing platform, LTK. I recently spoke with Dave to hear more about his role, how the influencer industry is evolving, and LTK’s ambition to be the driver of ‘creator commerce’. Tell us about your role… how did you get into the industry? I joined LTK a […]
With shoppers now turning to ecommerce channels as part of their everyday purchase journey, FMCG manufacturers are suddenly having to re-evaluate how they create and convert demand for their products and re-consider how and where they invest in brand advertising and marketing. There is a growing need to divert more spend towards digital media to influence their target audiences closer to the online point of purchase.
The shift to ecommerce has been particularly noticeable within FMCG. In December 2020, 8.5 million UK households shopped for their groceries online – up from 5.7m households the year previously.
In response to this, and to capitalise on new consumer behaviour, many FMCG companies are re-assessing their product portfolios, and expanding into new categories and channels.
During the coronavirus pandemic, many FMCG brands have established new channels and relationships with consumers. How can they use these to gather first-party data and put it to effective use in their advertising and marketing campaigns?
For brands who primarily sold to or interacted with customers via a physical venue, the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown that it brought prompted an abrupt shift towards finding ways to interact with customers in the digital realm instead. This was particularly true for beverage company Diageo, which owns drinks brands like Guinness, Baileys, Smirnoff, […]
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) commerce surged during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, as new brands capitalised on the shift to online shopping, and mainstream brands – such as Nike and Levi’s – doubled down on direct sales channels. Two years on, with physical retail regaining traction, and wider issues such as inflation, online advertising prices […]
When you hear the brand name ‘Mars’, what is the first thing that springs to mind? Chances are, it’s probably sweets, since Mars is best known as the company that owns confectionery brands like Galaxy, M&Ms, Snickers, Twix and many more. Far less widely-known is the fact that Mars is one of the world’s largest […]
March 24th, 2022 | 2:00pm GMT | 10:00am EDT