Did Amazon acquire Whole Foods with Bitcoin?: ClickZ's most popular articles from July, August and September
Digital Transformation

Did Amazon acquire Whole Foods with Bitcoin?: ClickZ's most popular article...

6y Mike O'Brien

Did Amazon acquire Whole Foods with Bitcoin?: Clic...

We're reflecting on our 2017 and sharing the most-read articles from each month. This retail-focused summer, those top topics were augmented reality a...

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Empathy, transparency and the omni-channel customer: Q+A with Walmart CMO Tony Rogers
Leadership

Empathy, transparency and the omni-channel customer: Q+A with Walmart CMO T...

6y Jenna Sereni

Empathy, transparency and the omni-channel custome...

Amazon has become Walmart's biggest competitor over the past few years, though the world's largest retailer has come back in a big way by investing in...

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The three reasons CPG brands can't ignore ecommerce
CPG

The three reasons CPG brands can't ignore ecommerce

6y Al Roberts

The three reasons CPG brands can't ignore ecommerc...

The lucrative CPG space has historically been dominated by some of the world's most powerful brands, like Unilver and Procter & Gamble. But the ma...

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Technology empowers companies to remain agile against Amazon, whether they're David or Goliath
Leadership

Technology empowers companies to remain agile against Amazon, whether they'...

6y Mike O'Brien

Technology empowers companies to remain agile agai...

Amazon’s dominance has certainly hurt many retailers, but new technologies allow marketers to be agile and remain competitive, no matter their company...

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Six ways online retailers can minimize merchandise returns
Ecommerce

Six ways online retailers can minimize merchandise returns

6y Al Roberts

Six ways online retailers can minimize merchandise...

Returns are always challenging to retailers, but especially during the holidays, when everything is magnified. Fortunately for ecommerce brands, there...

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How democratizing data leads to better decisions
Analytics

How democratizing data leads to better decisions

6y Mike O'Brien

How democratizing data leads to better decisions

Data democratization is the process of putting analytics in everyone’s hands, empowering more people within an organization to extract the insights th...

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What’s your Amazon strategy?: Tapping into The Holy Grail of transactional data
Ecommerce

What’s your Amazon strategy?: Tapping into The Holy Grail of transactional ...

7y Mike O'Brien

What’s your Amazon strategy?: Tapping into The Hol...

Over the last 23 years, Amazon has evolved from an online bookseller to an “everything store” that’s becoming a bigger player in the digital marketing...

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The battle for retail (or why Amazon acquired Whole Foods)
Disruptive MarTech

The battle for retail (or why Amazon acquired Whole Foods)

7y Chris Camps

The battle for retail (or why Amazon acquired Whol...

Retail is at war. On one side sit historic brick-and-mortar stores, built from the ground up to become titans of industry. On the other, ecommerce ins...

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Optimizing images for mobile: right format, right size, right place, right device
Ecommerce

Optimizing images for mobile: right format, right size, right place, right ...

7y Andy Favell

Optimizing images for mobile: right format, right ...

As we have learned from the previous columns in this series, images are the major contributor to bloated, slow-loading mobile pages. Read More...

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Walmart buys Jet.com for $3 billion-plus in effort to catch up to Amazon
Ecommerce

Walmart buys Jet.com for $3 billion-plus in effort to catch up to Amazon

8y Al Roberts

Walmart buys Jet.com for $3 billion-plus in effort...

On Monday, Walmart announced that it is buying two year-old online retail upstart Jet.com in a cash and stock deal worth $3.3 billion. Jet.com, which ...

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Can Wal-Mart's ShippingPass compete with Amazon Prime?
Ecommerce

Can Wal-Mart's ShippingPass compete with Amazon Prime?

8y Al Roberts

Can Wal-Mart's ShippingPass compete with Amazon Pr...

Amazon Prime, the $99 per year service that offers subscribers free two-day shipping on eligible items, has become a formidable asset for online retai...

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Where do the biggest brands spend their marketing dollars?
Ad Industry Metrics

Where do the biggest brands spend their marketing dollars?

8y Mike O'Brien

Where do the biggest brands spend their marketing ...

Different retailers have different priorities when it comes to their marketing budgets, but the most valuable brands - Amazon and Apple - are banking ...

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Six ways to grow your app downloads and success
Mobile

Six ways to grow your app downloads and success

8y Michael Della Penna

Six ways to grow your app downloads and success

Media websites are in crisis. A rash of stories over the last few months covering budget cuts and layoffs across some of today’s largest outlets...

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Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness on its heart first marketing
Conference Coverage

Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness on its heart first marketing

8y Mike O'Brien

Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness on its heart first ma...

With ClickZ Live just three weeks away, we caught up with Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness to chat about heart-based marketing and how plain yogurt is the...

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How can brick-and-mortar retailers deal with showrooming?
Ecommerce

How can brick-and-mortar retailers deal with showrooming?

8y Mike O'Brien

How can brick-and-mortar retailers deal with showr...

Showrooming is a big obstacle retailers face as the world becomes more connected. How can they combat it, ensuring they're not left in digital's dust?...

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How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China
Asia

How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China

8y Sophie Loras

How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China

QR codes might seem old school in the fast-paced world of digital marketing, but in China, they have transformed communications app WeChat into a worl...

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Meet the newest kid on the block: the Peach app
Social Media

Meet the newest kid on the block: the Peach app

8y Mike O'Brien

Meet the newest kid on the block: the Peach app

Is Peach the next big thing or was it over before it even really started? It’s too early to tell, though GIFs could help it thrive in the crowded soci...

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The pros and cons of beacon-based marketing
Local

The pros and cons of beacon-based marketing

8y Mike O'Brien

The pros and cons of beacon-based marketing

Are you considering adding beacons to your mobile marketing mix? Here are some the technology's biggest pros and cons. Read More...

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What's the difference between UX and UI?
Insights

What's the difference between UX and UI?

8y Mike O'Brien

What's the difference between UX and UI?

User interface isn’t the same as the user experience, though it’s part of it. The two terms are often confused, in part because they bleed together so...

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The force is strong: The best of Star Wars marketing
Strategies

The force is strong: The best of Star Wars marketing

8y Mike O'Brien

The force is strong: The best of Star Wars marketi...

Brands have shown that you don't necessarily have to be involved or even relevant to the movie to cleverly insert yourself into the Star Wars buzz. Re...

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Being 'social' helped brands win on Cyber Monday
Ecommerce

Being 'social' helped brands win on Cyber Monday

8y Mike O'Brien

Being 'social' helped brands win on Cyber Monday

Social media isn't known for being the best driver of ROI, but it's still played a big role in the success of Cyber Monday - the biggest online shoppi...

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The 2015 holiday season is more omnichannel than ever
Ecommerce

The 2015 holiday season is more omnichannel than ever

8y Catherine Magoffin

The 2015 holiday season is more omnichannel than e...

Marketing trends from 2015's holiday shopping season as displayed by Target, Walmart, and other retailers indicate a shift towards an omnichannel appr...

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Brands strategize as Black Friday moves online
Ecommerce

Brands strategize as Black Friday moves online

8y Mike O'Brien

Brands strategize as Black Friday moves online

By denouncing the practice of opening on Thanksgiving, retailers are getting in the public's good graces and boosting their e-commerce efforts as holi...

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When should you start your holiday marketing?
Ecommerce

When should you start your holiday marketing?

8y Mike O'Brien

When should you start your holiday marketing?

Each year, holiday marketing seems to start earlier and earlier - but is it too early? Use this guide to determine when to start your email, social an...

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Ignorance: the cornerstone of the ad blocking issue
Display Advertising

Ignorance: the cornerstone of the ad blocking issue

9y Mike O'Brien

Ignorance: the cornerstone of the ad blocking issu...

Fighting ad blockers is not going to solve the expensive problem they pose to the industry. The key is to understanding why people use ad blockers and...

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Ads of the week: Halloween edition
Display Advertising

Ads of the week: Halloween edition

9y Mike O'Brien

Ads of the week: Halloween edition

ClickZ is celebrating Halloween early with ads created in the spirit of the holiday. Check out some of our favorites from Target, Snickers, and Chipot...

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Personalization helps Amazon prevail
Ecommerce

Personalization helps Amazon prevail

9y Mike O'Brien

Personalization helps Amazon prevail

It's no secret that Amazon is the retail sector's biggest disruptor. As to why that is, BloomReach research found top-notch personalization to be the ...

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