Retailers Shifting Digital Marketing Spend to Capitalize on Growing Mobile Traffic, Report Finds

To capture and capitalize on mobile traffic growth, retailers are eagerly looking for ways to optimize their digital marketing campaigns across various devices. As a result, top investment priorities include a few tried-and-true favorites: email and paid search. According to the Shop.org/Forrester Research study, The State Of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing & Merchandising, nearly nine in 10 (87 percent) online retailers surveyed either already have implemented or are planning to implement mobile email optimization in in 2013, and seven in 10 will optimize paid search for smartphones and tablets (71 percent and 73 percent, respectively).