The retail industry has felt the impact of online shopping and, in 2017 alone, 5,855 high street retailers shuttered their doors. The first quarter of 2018 shows little hope for a storefront revival. In this piece, Kris McKenzie, SVP & general [...]

Experienced marketers and merchandisers understand that every few years there is a ‘-geddon’ or ‘-ocalypse’ that monopolises the industry’s attention – sparking fear, changing priorities and, in some cases, altering the landscape forever. In this piece, James Norwood (pictured below), EVP strategy [...]

By using 'legitimate interest', online publishers and vendors are playing Russian roulette with their users' data, writes Stuart Austin, digital consultant, ConsentEye. Now GDPR is in place, many publishers and tech vendors are banking on 'legitimate interest' to cover their use [...]

After months of speculation about how GDPR will change programmatic, the deadline for compliance has finally come (and gone). The Media and Marketing Privacy summit, which took place just before the deadline (22 May) made a few final predictions about [...]

RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: Retailers Know Too Much; CRM Battling for Budget; and Businesses Can’t Predict Individual Customers’ Needs. Retailers Know Too Much As many as half (52%) of [...]

Asia-Pacific is a diverse region with varying audiences, but advertisers can still push video content tailored to serve the different markets by tapping data such as weather, location, and time of day. Brands in the region increasingly are turning to [...]

This week, online consumers in Australia learn that they soon will no longer be able to shop on Amazon.com's international sites – a result of the e-commerce giant's move to sidestep the country's new GST rule. From 01 July 2018, [...]

Today, retailers operating physical stores are faced with a decision: innovate or close. In this Q&A with RetailTechNews, Adam Levene, CEO & founder, Hero, explains how his company is helping retailers innovate, adapting the DNA of the brick-and-mortar retail store as they [...]

Amazon has done it again — according to its latest earnings report, fourth quarter revenues exceeded estimates at USD$60.5bn (£45.5bn) and annual sales hit USD$178bn (£134bn), up 31% since 2016. Clearly, Amazon is getting things right. With an easily navigable [...]

RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: Search-Query Language & Purchase Intent; Overconfidence in Productivity Is Hampering Retail Firms’ Performance; and Mobile Ascending (still). Search-Query Language & Purchase Intent Searchers with high purchase [...]