Tag: ecommerce

October 18, 2022

From recent feature rollouts to off the chart viewership numbers, TikTok has eclipsed a number of social platforms in key engagement areas, such as retention rate and active collaboration features like duets and stitches. Best-in-class brands leverage TikTok’s native tools, […]

July 29, 2022

In a time of extreme uncertainty and post-pandemic craze, many industries, businesses and services are in need of ways to remain flexible and relevant for their consumers. Because of this, businesses and customers alike are finding comfort and preference in […]

July 18, 2022

As consumers emerge from the pandemic, their new online shopping behaviors are merging with their pre-pandemic traditional shopping habits.1 This more modernized approach combines digital and physical channels, forcing merchants to move to an omnichannel strategy or risk being left […]

July 18, 2022

Meta’s looking to give its eCommerce ambitions another push, with the launch of payments between users and businesses within Messenger chat, providing another way to facilitate transactions in its apps. As you can see in this example, the new process […]

July 13, 2022

Retail media has been the rising star in the adtech firmament for a while now. A recent report by BCG suggests that retail media — when retailers (or e-tailers) monetize their customer data by allowing advertisers access to their captive […]

July 7, 2022

Pinterest’s looking to advance its in-stream shopping tools, with the addition of several new commerce features, including Product Tagging for Pins, a Shop Tab on Business Profiles and a new ‘API for Shopping’ to facilitate greater connection and integration for […]

June 21, 2022

YouTube’s celebrating 15 years of activity in the Asia Pacific region, with a new overview of its key achievements and app milestones for APAC users. After first launching its localized version of YouTube in APAC in 2007, YouTube has launched […]

May 4, 2022

As I’ve been saying to anyone who’ll listen over the past two years, while TikTok is growing at an astronomical rate, and is on track to become the most popular social media platform overall (maybe not in overall users, but […]

May 2, 2022

Marking National Small Business Week, which is being held this week (May 1st to 7th) in the US, Google has today announced a new scholarship program to help businesses acquire advanced digital marketing knowledge, as well as a new certificate […]

April 20, 2022

Retail has been one of the most impacted sectors by the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside tourism and the events industry.  Before 2020, retailers were already grappling with the decline of brick-and-mortar stores, and the pandemic added to their woes by forcing […]

April 15, 2022

Last year I needed an extravagant sports jacket for an event I was attending. The jacket needed to be gold. At any rate I decided to do what any logical consumer would do — search for “gold sports jacket” on […]

April 7, 2022

Google’s looking to provide more ways to find exactly what you’re looking for in visual search queries, with a new ‘multisearch’ option that will enable users to combine visual and text parameters to expand their Search results. As you can […]

March 24, 2022

Instagram just unveiled a new feature that will enable users to tag products in their posts in a move that it hopes will drive its focus on eCommerce. The feature will only be available to users in the US for […]

March 22, 2022

As part of its continued focus on expanding its eCommerce listings, Instagram will now allow all users to tag products in their IG posts, starting with users in the US. Originally only available to approved creators, Instagram is now giving […]

January 6, 2022

For years title tags were the primary element of organic search optimization. They helped Google match search queries to web pages, and they were the most prominent part of result-page snippets, with the query in bold. Titles remain important for […]

December 21, 2021

Facebook is the king of social media for businesses. Billions of consumers learn of brands and products via the platform. Despite what many believe, Facebook is a thriving opportunity for ecommerce merchants — if you can capture an audience’s attention. […]

December 3, 2021

The pandemic created huge shifts in demand by both businesses and consumers, resulting in unprecedented supply chain disruption that hit technology manufacturers particularly hard. The sharp decline in demand experienced by the automotive industry, followed by a sooner-than expected recovery, […]

November 22, 2021

“The first thing is that very few people know about the carbon impact of the internet!” So says Nicolas Paries, founder of Hey Low, a design studio building low-carbon brands and websites. This is the constant, recurrent theme of digital. […]

November 12, 2021

Facebook is adding yet another element to its expanding eCommerce push, this time with the addition of a range of shopping and product discovery options in groups, in order to capitalize on niche targeting and community engagement. The biggest addition […]

October 29, 2021

It has become evident to the world that the e-commerce industry is growing exponentially. Companies, big and small, are closing down their stores and dedicating all their resources to online shopping. Some companies have decided to walk a different path […]