Google Search dings big-name pubs’ affiliate-link-laden articles; Google’s new audience prospecting guesses user intent from less obvious keywords; and TikTok Shop’s success could finally make social commerce a thing in the US.
Social commerce is already huge in the Asia-Pacific market, and it’s poised to blow up worldwide. Here’s how the success of TikTok Shop forecasts the future development trends of ecommerce and social commerce in the US.
Chris Epple, JBL’s VP of marketing, on why TikTok is the brand’s new favorite jam – including to generate sales – and how JBL measures what he calls “quality social engagement.”
Conagra-owned brand Birds Eye brings a new approach to online video, social shopping and first-party data.
To better service clients – and help with its own bottom line – Havas Media Network is pushing into specialty services.
Researchers at Insider Intelligence estimate social commerce will become a $100 billion market by 2025, up from $67 billion this year. The question is how to win in this fast-moving landscape.
Samantha Bukowski, who leads GroupM Nexus Commerce as global head of commerce, talks social commerce, retail media, AI and how all media has become performance media.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Upfront At The Upfront NBCUniversal’s upfront was quite the affair. Executives had to enter Radio City Music Hall through a side door because the entrance was blocked by Writers Guild of America protesters. (Guess Netflix was onto something.) Once everyone was settled, the […]
2022 was a record-breaking year for US digital advertising revenues, which cracked the $200 billion mark for the first time, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Wednesday.
It’s not hard to understand why Meta is prioritizing ecommerce advertising with Advantage+ Shopping campaigns, Shops and Checkout on Facebook and Instagram. Meta must reignite its overall advertising business.
The digital commerce agency Blue Wheel and ecommerce marketplace agency Retail Bloom announced their merger on Tuesday. Founded in the metro Detroit area in 2011 and 2015, respectively, Blue Wheel and Retail Bloom will unite under the Blue Wheel banner going forward.
Everyone knows retail media is hot right now. But more and more retail ad dollars are also being sponged up by social media. Social networks like TikTok can drive incremental sales … when used correctly, said Jacques Hagopian, SVP of marketing for Procter & Gamble’s North American business, during a panel at the ANA Masters of Marketing summit this week in Orlando.
Now that on-demand delivery service Gopuff has an ad platform business, it’s become an unlikely springboard to help creators promote and distribute their brand ventures.
Roy Armale, VMLY&R’s global chief innovation officer, believes in tackling technology with human behavior in mind – and being careful not to let the convenience of technology alter our perception of what it means to be human.
Commerce and creator monetization are Pinterest’s two main priorities right now, said Jeremy King, the company’s SVP and head of engineering. King, who is also the former CTO of Walmart’s ecommerce business – he joined Pinterest in 2019 – said that the convergence of creator revenue potential with social media-based shopping and product discovery by consumers “will make Pinterest functional, versus purely inspirational.”
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Out Of The Blocs The European Parliament has voted decisively to sign two pieces of landmark legislation into law. The Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) both regulate online platform businesses much more aggressively. The DMA targets gatekeeper platforms (namely […]
“The best way for us to deal with this is not to complain, but to partner with the ecosystem,” says Alvin Bowles, Meta’s VP of business ecosystem partnerships. AdExchanger caught up with Bowles to talk about the metaverse, Facebook haters, the $10 billion in revenue set to evaporate due to Apple ATT and the rise of TikTok.
The first era of online shopping was independent merchants setting up their own sites. And the second era simply belonged to Amazon. But now we’re in a third era, which could be known as the social commerce age. Put differently: the age of Shopify. The ecommerce tech company announced an integration with TikTok on Tuesday, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Corbin de Rubertis, head of innovation at Meredith. The pandemic accelerated many consumer trends that were already in motion, including the collapse of the traditional funnel and the proliferation of ecommerce experiences in mobile apps, […]
Pinterest has three main priorities for 2021 and beyond: video, making its trend data actionable and shopping. On Wednesday, at Pinterest’s first-ever partner and advertiser summit event, hosted virtually, of course, it made announcements related to all three. “We had a big year in 2020, and we want our advertisers to know more about the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All About Antitrust Facebook and Google’s legal woes are expected to get worse as federal and state antitrust authorities prepare to file new lawsuits against the tech giants. The Wall Street Journal reports that authorities are readying as many as four more cases targeting […]
Kieley Taylor will speak about commerce and video opportunities on Instagram at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO Innovation Labs, taking place virtually May 18-21. Of all the trends accelerating due to COVID-19, the uptick in ecommerce is the one most likely to stick – and Instagram is well suited to benefit, says Kieley Taylor, global VP of social […]
Social commerce sounds good on paper, but turning likes into purchases has proven difficult in practice. Project September, a social shopping app from the founders of Gilt, aims to change that. Named for the start of the fashion year, the Project September app, which launched in April, has “tens of thousands of users” so far, […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Yuchun Lee, VP and general manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management. He was previously founder and CEO at Unica. Marketers preparing for Q4 are no doubt keenly aware of the importance of […]
