In this piece, Ed Bussey, CEO and founder, Quill, tells RetailTechNews about the rapid evolution of voice assistants and advises retailers on how to adapt their online content strategies for the new world of ‘conversational commerce’.  The hype around voice-driven home assistants has reached a new intensity in recent months – and understandably so, given both the appetite from consumers to purchase these devices (Amazon’s Echo Dot was the best-selling item on the marketplace’s site [...]

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RetailTechNews’ weekly Amazon Watch brings you some of the company’s biggest moves from the past seven days, analysing how the giant is revolutionising the retail space. In this week’s edition: Prime Membership Numbers Announced; USPS Could Make Amazon Suffer; and Smart Speaker Market Booming. Prime Membership Numbers Announced Amazon Prime’s membership tops more than 100 million accounts worldwide, the company said this afternoon, revealing the number of subscribers to its fast-shipping programme for the first time. With a [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Adblock Plus Victorious Again; Manifesto by the World Federation of Advertisers; Dataxu Announces New Programmatic TV Solution; Slow Growth of UK Marketing Budgets; and SpotX Cooperates with XITE Networks for Programmatic TV. Adblock Plus Victorious Again Another landmark ruling settles against German publishers: following a number of legal actions by German publishers such as ProSiebenSat1, Spiegel, and Süddeutsche, Berlin-based Axel Springer Verlag had brought [...]

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With Advertising Week Europe 2018 leaving a lot of talking points for the industry to think about, ExchangeWire took the opportunity to ask attendants Media iQ, Mindshare, Tug, and Impact for their take on themes and trends of AWE 2018. Among the key takeaways from the event were insights into programmatic, and how we need to tackle the diversity issue, combining creativity and data, GDPR and transparency. A Need for Agility “At this year’s AdWeek Europe, there were a [...]

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RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: Contactless Adoption High Despite Concerns; Brands Need Clarity Around Consumer Data; Smart Speaker Ownership Doubles in 6 Months. Contactless Adoption High Despite Concerns Almost half (46%) of UK shoppers are worried about security of card transactions, according to data released by Paymentsense. Despite this, 80% of Brits say card transactions, including contactless, were their favourite form of payment.

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Trust and transparency – two words that have kept the industry focused on developing a sustainable ecosystem that serves all players fairly. Stemming from brand-safety scandals, ad-fraud discoveries, and viewability concerns, ad tech has seen it all in the past few years. So, having passed the year milestone in his position at Integral Ad Science, Nick Morley (pictured below), EMEA MD, IAS, calls for increased efforts to foster transparent and accountable trading. ExchangeWire: 2017 opened up discussion on current hot topics [...]

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Whether it’s in-store, on their laptops, or through their mobiles, consumers expect an increasingly personalised shopping experience. In this Q&A with Jens Vang Lauridsen, vice president EMEA sales, Monetate, he explains why personalisation is a necessity, whether retailers are paying it enough attention, and how innovative technology, such as voice, will change the way personalisation works. RetailTechNews: Why is personalisation so important for retailers? Jens Vang Lauridsen: Personalisation is everything to retailers now because today’s consumers demand and [...]

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M&A is a massive part of today’s retail landscape; and in the UK this hasn’t got much bigger than Sainsbury’s 2016 takeover of Argos’ parent company Home Retail Group. RetailTechNews caught up with George Goley, CTO, Sainsbury’s-Argos recently at FUTR2020, to discuss how Argos is embracing retail technology, as well as some of the biggest trends in the space. RetailTechNews: How has retail technology helped Argos develop into a tech-driven company? George Goley: In 2012, Argos was [...]

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Blockchain’s foothold in the digital advertising space is getting stronger. In this Q&A, ExchangeWire talks to Charles Manning (pictured below), CEO of mobile ad analytics company Kochava, whose independent blockchain platform XCHNG seeks to tokenise the insertion order and cut out the middlemen of the digital advertising ecosystem, solving several industry problems in the process. ExchangeWire: Why is brand safety such a difficult issue to solve for? Charles Manning, CEO, Kochava Charles Manning: Back in November, video ad platform Teads surveyed 100 CMOs [...]

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