Marketing

Deal-based marketing has often been associated with competing for customers based on the lowest possible price point. Traditionally brands that needed to sell products or tickets in a hurry partnered with deals sites to move these items at a large discount. However, this model doesn't maximize the potential value of deal-based marketing. During the past…

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Data will play an instrumental role for marketers this holiday season. With ongoing issues like excess inventory, supply chain bottlenecks, and the impact of rising prices on consumers, the 2022 holiday shopping season is requiring marketers to adjust to a challenging ecosystem to reach the right customers and make the most of every moment. Real-time…

Thanksgiving and the holiday season is just around the corner. In a chaotic and ever-changing world, fixed calendar events like these provide predictable and unifying anchor points. No wonder, then, that so many marketing plans are now seasonal. Retailers are once again preparing campaigns and promotional events against a new set of seasonal tentpole events.…

It may be fall but advertisers are already in a mad dash to reach consumers for the upcoming holiday season. Unfortunately, inflation and supply chain issues have thrown shopper behavior and budgets into unpredictable territory. Furthermore, advertisers face high costs and big shifts in the effectiveness of broadcast and digital advertising mediums. Out-of-home (OOH) advertising…

With unprecedented global economic challenges, retailers should dedicate their efforts and resources to what they can control during the upcoming holiday season. In the previous year, the retail sector achieved a 16 percent growth driven by various factors. For instance, the stabilizing job market and government stimuli boosted discretionary income, thus supporting consumers' purchasing potential.…

Retail loyalty programs of all types are seeing significant adoption and participation growth. Starbucks, for example, announced in its Q2 2022 report that members of its Starbucks Rewards program increased by 17 percent to 26.7 million active members. Those members represent over half the company’s revenues. In grocery, Albertsons Companies began 2022 with 30 million…

In the past few years, both brands and retailers have worked toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals by reallocating budget to support diverse-owned businesses on both the media publisher side and the media buyer side. Retail Media Has a Stake in the Game as Media Owners Retail media is the fastest-growing segment of digital…

A pullback on consumer spending, high inflation, and an uncertain holiday season. Toss in paid social’s cost and targeting effectiveness being in a state of perpetual fluctuation and retailers find themselves faced with a myriad of challenges in trying to increase sales and maximize return on investment. To maximize sales and profits, brands need to…

Recent research by HubSpot revealed that 39 percent of media planners who use NFTs say they have the best return on investment of any channel in their media mix. Yet, for many marketers, NFTs are still an undiscovered territory, with 16 percent surveyed saying they plan to use NFTs for the first time this year.…