Shoptalk Spring 2026
View MoreThe Internet Has a Credibility Crisis. Reddit Is the Proof.
The Internet Has a Credibility Crisis. Reddit Is t...
Steve Huffman’s Shoptalk keynote was not really about Reddit. It was about the end of trust in polished content, and what that means for every b...
View articleNobody at Shoptalk 2026 Could Tell You What's Coming Next and That Was the ...
Nobody at Shoptalk 2026 Could Tell You What's Comi...
A year ago at Shoptalk, speakers kept making the same joke. Something about not being able to give a presentation without mentioning AI, followed by a...
View articleAI Search Is Rewriting the Rules of Discovery. Most Brands Aren’t Ready
AI Search Is Rewriting the Rules of Discovery. Mos...
At Shoptalk Spring 2026, one of the most practical sessions did not focus on vision. It focused on survival. Iced Media’s CEO Leslie Hall, alongside l...
View articleSephora at Shoptalk Spring 2026: Building a Next-Generation Shopping Experi...
Sephora at Shoptalk Spring 2026: Building a Next-G...
Retail’s shift into an AI-first era is no longer theoretical. At Shoptalk Spring 2026, a packed keynote featuring Sephora and OpenAI made it clear tha...
View articleCulture Is a Lead Indicator of Revenue. Sarah Engel Has the Numbers to Prov...
Culture Is a Lead Indicator of Revenue. Sarah Enge...
Sarah Engel has spent more than two decades in marketing. As President of January Digital, she leads the marketing leadership company and media agency...
View articleWhat Shoptalk Spring 2026 Is Really About - Exclusive Interview with Shopta...
What Shoptalk Spring 2026 Is Really About - Exclus...
Retail executives arriving in Vegas this month are not debating whether AI will reshape their business. That debate is already over. The real question...
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View MoreFurniture.com's Alex Seaman on Building a Decision Layer, Not a Marketplace
Furniture.com's Alex Seaman on Building a Decision...
Buying furniture is one of the most emotionally loaded, logistically complicated purchases a person makes. It’s highly considered and the stakes...
View articleHow Bombas Keeps Its Mission Intact as It Moves into Mainstream Retail
How Bombas Keeps Its Mission Intact as It Moves in...
Most brands that talk about purpose treat it as a channel. A campaign lever. Something to activate when the quarterly numbers need a story. The result...
View articleThe TikTok Perfume Effect: What Moroccanoil's Measurement Gap Tells Every S...
The TikTok Perfume Effect: What Moroccanoil's Meas...
The most persuasive TikTok data point Moroccanoil collected in 2025 was not in any dashboard. Staff overheard it at a tennis tournament. In February o...
View articleWhy ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2026
Why ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2...
E-commerce teams are measuring their retail media performance with a number that can be engineered to look good. ROAS is clean, reportable, and easy t...
View articleWhy Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists as AI Gets Better
Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists ...
The shopping journey has always involved a kind of surrender. You surrender to a brand’s editorial curation when you browse a site. You surrende...
View articleAt Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out
At Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out
Most organizations right now are running some version of the same experiment: distribute access to AI tools, watch what happens, and try to figure out...
View articleWhy Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement...
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...
View articleWhy Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution Margin Per View
Why Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution...
Most apparel brands know their gross margins. Fewer know whether the traffic they are paying for actually generates profit after returns, fulfillment,...
View articleNRF 2026
View MoreA 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...
View articleHow Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury service without losing heritag...
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...
View articleHow Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie
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...
View articleREI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic Commerce
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...
View articleThe Great Scale-Up: Retailers Going All In on In-Store
The Great Scale-Up: Retailers Going All In on In-S...
In-store retail media is no longer a “does it work?” question. It’s a “can you operate it?” question. At NRF, leaders from CVS, Loblaw, and STRATACACH...
View articleWhat Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods reveal about the next era of retail...
What Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods reveal abo...
Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods are taking opposite paths, one digital, one physical, but their retail marketing strategy is built on the same idea...
View articleBuilding the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is scaling smarter
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...
View articleThe AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead for Retail
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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