Social Commerce

Back and Better Than Ever?
February 3, 2016 at 3:52 pm

You heard all about social commerce last year. Pinterestโ€™s โ€œBuyโ€ button, Facebook&

Unique Vintage's New Approach to Visual Commerce
January 11, 2016 at 10:38 am

Unique Vintage, a retailer of vintage-inspired fashions for women, is successfully using social and visual commerce technology to acquire, retain and reward customers. In episode 19 of Total Retail Talks, Courtney Lear Wallace, director of digital marketing and e-commerce at Unique Vintage, discusses the retailer's visual commerce strategy and why it's paying big dividends.

Pinterestโ€™s New Feature Helps Users Find Sales
December 21, 2015 at 11:17 am

Attention bargain hunters and people who hate paying full price (so, everyone): Pinterest is adding a game-changing feature to the buyable pins it launched earlier this year. The platform has made it possible to track the price of any buyable pins users have put on their boards, meaning Pinterest will alert you with an emailโ€ฆ

J.Crew, American Girl Embrace Social Commerce Ads for the Holidays
November 25, 2015 at 12:09 pm

Add J.Crew and American Girl to the list of retailers betting big with their holiday campaigns on ad units launched by Facebook and Instagram. J.Crew bought Instagram ads that include a "Shop Now" button, making its gift guide digital. And for the past week, J.Crew's Instagram page has been promoting an iPhone case that doubles asโ€ฆ

How eBay is Leveraging Pinterest to Stay Relevant
November 9, 2015 at 11:26 am

For eBay, it's all about the re-pins these days. The e-commerce company is realizing just how big of an opportunity social media represents for online retail, and as a result is ramping up its social game, especially on Pinterest. "We think social is a huge opportunity," Brad Matthews, senior director of social commerce and CRM atโ€ฆ

Making Social Shoppable and the Shop Social
November 6, 2015 at 11:23 am

Retailers everywhere are counting on one thing this holiday shopping season: the likes, swipes and tweets by their fans on social media will drive consumer behavior. Whether itโ€™s in their favorite app or store, retailers are leaning on social media more and more to drive the bottom line. This holiday season will be different though.โ€ฆ

Pinterest Launches Dedicated Shopping Section
November 5, 2015 at 11:11 am

Pinterest started adding a buy button to pins back in June, and today those buyable pins are becoming even easier to shop. First, buyable pins are rolling out to Android, so they're now available on both of Pinterest's mobile apps. But the bigger news is that Pinterest is also making buyable pins much simpler toโ€ฆ

The Rise of Social Commerce
November 2, 2015 at 12:22 pm

In episode 10 of Total Retail Talks, Total Retail's Executive Editor Joe Keenan interviews Rob Garf, vice president of industry insights and strategy at Demandware, an enterprise, cloud-based commerce platform provider, on the impact Twitter's "Buy" button will have on retailersโ€™ operations, as well as consumersโ€™ growing acceptance of social commerce.

Facebook Testing In-App Shopping
October 13, 2015 at 1:58 pm

As Facebook angles to become the one and only place you spend your digital life, its effort to transform your news feed into a storefront is once again ramping up. The tech giant said Monday that it will be testing a few new ways to shop in its app. Facebook says that in coming weeks it will test aโ€ฆ