Econsultancy’s Ecommerce Best Practice Guide lays out a comprehensive blueprint for businesses looking to update their existing ecommerce offering or develop a new proposition. The report gives in-depth guidance on strategy and operations, generating demand, converting demand and measurement in ecommerce.
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.
A best practice guide examining the challenges that will arise due to the technical and regulatory changes to the way marketers can measure digital marketing effectiveness, and looking at how marketers can overcome them.
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.
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 […]
The acceleration of ecommerce throughout the globe over the course of the pandemic has been hard to ignore, as consumers shopped online often out of necessity, and brands were forced to rapidly change their strategies as a result.
Growth in ecommerce in 2022 will be about more than selling in an increasing number of channels. Online retailers who are serious about success need to get comfortable with change – and with disrupting themselves.
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 declined as grocery shopping habits shifted back to brick-and-mortar. This stats roundup includes figures that […]
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is impacting every part of our lives, from the places we can go to the way we spend our time, to the priorities we have and the way we spend our money.
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 & […]
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 […]
Ratings and reviews are a hugely important tool for brands of all kinds.
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 […]
Technology has come to the forefront – what trends are shaping the industry?
The Internet Statistics Database contains global charts and statistics related to the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, for you to browse, save and export.
