Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement Model That Finance Actually Trusts
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement...

3d ClickZ

Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built ...

Every influencer marketer has the same nightmare conversation. The CFO asks for the revenue number. The marketer opens a dashboard full of impressions...

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How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Into a Fashion Audience
eTail Palm Springs 2026

How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Into a Fashion Audience

7d ClickZ

How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Int...

Most retailers chasing fashion credibility start by shrinking their audience. They curate harder, raise prices, and build mystique around scarcity. Th...

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How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channel Surfing
eTail Palm Springs 2026

How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channel Surfing

1w ClickZ

How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channe...

Shopping used to require a destination. A planned trip to a mall, a catalog spread across a kitchen table, a deliberate channel flip to a home shoppin...

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Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the Time You Act on It
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the Time You Act on It

1w ClickZ

Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the...

Every marketer who has stared at a dashboard has quietly wondered the same thing. Is this number real? Does it reflect what actually caused that sale,...

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Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking in Moments, Not Channels
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking in Moments, Not Channels

1w ClickZ

Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking i...

The modern shopper does not follow a funnel. She watches a TikTok, compares prices on Amazon, checks her Sephora loyalty balance, and buys in store. S...

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Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journey Has Left the Funnel
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journey Has Left the Funnel

1w Zihan Lyu

Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journe...

The marketing funnel that e-commerce was built on is a decade-old agreement between brands and consumers. Brands pay for attention, consumers click th...

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How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without Losing Its Soul
eTail Palm Springs 2026

How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without Losing Its Soul

1w Zihan Lyu

How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without ...

Most retailers say they are customer-centric. Very few of them can tell you exactly what that costs. At REI, the price is quantifiable. It means holdi...

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The Brands AI Agents Will Recommend Are Already Pulling Ahead
eCommerce Marketing

The Brands AI Agents Will Recommend Are Already Pulling Ahead

4w ClickZ

The Brands AI Agents Will Recommend Are Already Pu...

For two decades, marketing invested in being findable. But as shopping moves inside AI conversations, the question facing senior marketers has changed...

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Why Retail Marketing Teams Are Reorganizing Around Social Commerce and UGC
Influencer Marketing

Why Retail Marketing Teams Are Reorganizing Around Social Commerce and UGC

1m Zihan Lyu

Why Retail Marketing Teams Are Reorganizing Around...

Marketing teams are being reshaped by fluid shopping behavior, tighter budgets, and the collapse of the traditional funnel. In this conversation, Cour...

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A Recap of NRF2026: Click's Main Takeaways
AI

A Recap of NRF2026: Click's Main Takeaways

1m ClickZ

A Recap of NRF2026: Click's Main Takeaways

At NRF 2026, the signal was clear: AI is rewriting discovery, but the brands that win will be the ones that keep the customer promise, online, in-stor...

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Shoptalk Spring 2026: What ClickZ Is Looking Forward To
AI

Shoptalk Spring 2026: What ClickZ Is Looking Forward To

1m ClickZ

Shoptalk Spring 2026: What ClickZ Is Looking Forwa...

Shoptalk returns to Vegas March 24–26, and the early speaker lineup is a clear signal: retail media is maturing fast, discovery is shifting again, and...

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How Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury service without losing heritage
NRF 2026

How Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury service without losing heritag...

2m ClickZ

How Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury servi...

At NRF 2026, Ralph Lauren and Microsoft shared how "Ask Ralph" brings brand heritage into conversational commerce, and what it teaches marketers about...

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How Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie
NRF 2026

How Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie

2m ClickZ

How Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie

NRF 2026 Visionary award winner Fran Horowitz shares how humility, customer listening, and team autonomy powered Abercrombie’s turnaround and what com...

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REI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic Commerce
Customer Marketing

REI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic Commerce

2m ClickZ

REI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic...

As AI reshapes commerce, REI’s CEO - Mary Beth Laughton, argues that trust and human expertise, not technology, will define the next era of retail. Re...

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Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is scaling smarter
AI

Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is scaling smarter

2m ClickZ

Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is...

Agentic commerce and GEO are coming fast, but JD Sports argues the real advantage is operational: clean data and order management that keeps the custo...

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The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead for Retail
Marketing Technology

The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead for Retail

2m ClickZ

The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead fo...

At NRF'26, Google introduced UCP for agentic commerce while Walmart unveiled agent-led shopping in Gemini. Discover what Sundar Pichai (Google, CEO) a...

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Beyond the Grinch: Rethinking Seasonal Campaigns in 2025
Advertising & Promotion

Beyond the Grinch: Rethinking Seasonal Campaigns in 2025

3m ClickZ

Beyond the Grinch: Rethinking Seasonal Campaigns i...

Seasonal campaigns are under more scrutiny than ever. Using McDonald’s and Asda’s Grinch takeovers as live case studies, we dig into how leading brand...

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Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are Resetting Growth for Profitability and Trust
Event Insights

Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are Resetting Growth for Profi...

5m ClickZ

Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are R...

At Savant Manchester 2025, retailers and marketers echoed a single tension: how to grow when every lever has a cost. eCommerce leaders talked about pr...

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