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‘FOMO’ messaging boosts conversion at Fabletics
Athletic apparel brand Fabletics adds call-to-action messages on product and search pages to spur shoppers to click buy. Sometimes all shoppers need to convert is a nudge of confidence that other consumers like the product and a bit of fear-of-missing out, said Ashley Kechter, brand president at Fabletics. Actress Kate Hudson co-founded the direct-to-consumer […]
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Ecommerce ads drive ad revenue growth for Meta
Meta said it will continue to invest billions of dollars on AI infrastructure, which will help propel its advertising revenue. Meta, parent company of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, reported a 22% increase in revenue for 2024, generating $164.50 billion. For Q4, revenue increased 21% year over year to $48.36 billion. Advertising generated roughly […]
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Coach goes after young shoppers with splashy marketing, experiential stores
Coach shares how its experiential stores, coffee shops, metaverse products and hot air balloons drive a younger shopper to its brand at NRF. Giovanni Zaccariello is the vice president of global visual experience at Coach. But most days he feels like a politician, Zaccariello said at the NRF ’25 conference in January. Zaccariello […]
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H.I.G. Capital to acquire Kantar Media for $1 billion
Investment firm H.I.G. Capital announced today it plans to acquire media measurement and analytics firm Kantar Media for $1 billion. The deal is expected to close later this year. Kantar Media operates in 60 markets and provides services, such as audience measurement insights, competitor ad spend, data analytics, media planning and validation. The acquisition will bring […]
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The top 3 things on Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald’s to-do list
At the NRF ’25 conference, Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald discusses how the brand manufacturer has doubled its sales twice in the past six years and how it plans to do it again. Lululemon is ahead of schedule for its target revenue goal of $12.5 billion in annual sales by 2026. And it plans to […]
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Online holiday sales surge 8.4% to $241.4 billion for 2024
Adobe released its 2024 online holiday shopping trends: Paid search drives the most retail sales this holiday season at nearly 30% of revenue. But influencers increase their share of holiday sales the most and convert shoppers nine-times higher than social media overall. U.S. online holiday sales increased 8.4% year over year, reaching a record of […]
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Super Saturday brings in big bucks for mass merchants, off-price retailers and Ulta
The last Saturday before Christmas, Dec. 21, drove many shoppers to the store, with foot traffic surging compared to a typical Saturday in the holiday season. Beauty stores surpassed their pre-pandemic foot traffic levels, while department store foot traffic decreased 25% compared with Super Saturday 2019. The Saturday before Christmas Day, Dec. 21, dubbed […]
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How AS Beauty can acquire customers profitability even during the holidays
AS Beauty, owner of cosmetic brands Bliss, Laura Geller Beauty and more, discusses the challenges of having an accurate picture of customer acquisition costs across all channels, in this interview with Multichannel Marketer’s sister publication AdExchanger. As long as AS Beauty is efficiently hitting the CAC targets it sets for its brands, it’s willing to […]
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The most-read retail marketing stories of 2024
Top reads include Q&As with executives from Home Depot, Balsam Brands and Nalgene. Multichannel Marketer launched in Q2 2024 and we’ve been fortunate to have grown a loyal reader base over the past few months. Thank you all for taking the time to get to know us. Below are the most-read stories since our launch. […]
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Ecommerce claims growing share of Black Friday sales
Analysis shows a ‘modest’ increase in Black Friday foot traffic and store sales, while online sales surge year over year, according to new data from the NRF, Mastercard SpendingPulse and Placer.ai. On Black Friday 2024, U.S. retail sales increased 3.4% year over year, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse. Broken out by channel, however, and the disparity […]
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