This week, the spotlight is on Alibaba Group's plans to use blockchain to better monitor and manage supply chains, kicking off a pilot in Australia and New Zealand through its Food Trust Framework. The Chinese e-commerce giant said it was working [...]

Increasingly, consumers in Asia are becoming aware of their personal data being collected and traded and not all are pleased with such business practices. Marketers, hence, need to think about the ways they are collecting data, and how much they [...]

The change digital technology is driving in retail is there for all to see. However, while some retailers are diving in at the deep end, others are only dipping their toes in the water for now. In this Q&A with [...]

Ready or not, GDPR is (almost) here, bringing about many changes that will unfold immediately and will have an instant impact, on those both directly in the industry, as well as on those who are further removed. Writing exclusively for [...]

Augmented reality (AR) is a relatively new phenomenon in the retail world, but some brands already realise how important it is to harness what the technology offers. In this piece for RetailTechNews, digital branding and ad-tech writer Kayla Matthews explains how companies [...]

UK ad spend grew 4.6% to reach £22.2bn in 2017, the eighth consecutive year of growth, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report. The final three months of 2017 saw expenditure grow 6.2% in Q4 2017 over the same period [...]

With GDPR less than a month away, retailers are battening down the hatches in preparation for the regulations. In this piece, Judy Boniface (pictured below), CMO, Mailjet, tells RetailTechNews how businesses can be preparing themselves, as the deadline looms ever closer. If [...]

In-housing has long been a hot topic of debate in our industry. And last year’s WFA report threw the topic further into the spotlight, as it was revealed that a fifth of brands had decided to employ an in-house programmatic [...]

Even though more sales are taking place online, shoppers have as many questions to ask as when they went in-store. This Q&A with Marie Sagarzazu (pictured below), UK country manager, iAdvize, looks at how conversational marketing tools can fill this gap, and [...]

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: Amazon Taking More of Retailers’ Budgets; Walmart vs Amazon in [...]