- Online Commerce Startup Raises $600 Million
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Friday, April 17, 2020
Despite the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, payments startup Stripe just raised an additional $600 million in new capital. Stripe now has more than $2 billion on its balance ...
- Online Retail To Be Worth GBP75bn By 2024
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, January 24, 2020
UK online retail will leap 30% to be worth GBP75bn by 2024, according to a report by GlobalData featured in "The Drum." ...
- Weyland Completes $25 Million Push Holdings Acquisition
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 9, 2020
Weyland expects Push will give it a beachhead in North America for its platform-as-a-service app tool for SMBs. ...
- JET8 Makes Data The Currency In Social Media
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 18, 2019
JET8 plans to enter the U.S. after building a following in emerging markets, with its white-label branded social platform that lets users earn money for sharing their content. The move ...
- Britons Are The Happiest Online Shoppers
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, September 16, 2019
it may come as a surprise, but Britons have been identified as the world's happiest online shoppers, "Mobile Marketing" reveals. Research from Google and Kantar reveals that an average of ...
- By 2022 A Quarter Of All Purchases Will Be Online
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, July 8, 2019
After discussing the impact of Brexit on the high street, eMarketer makes an interesting prediction that the proportion of online sales, compared to in-store purchases, will rise to nearly 28% ...
- Tech Giants Must Be Clearer On Ecommerce Competition
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, April 18, 2019
The tech giants will have be transparent with rivals over how, or even whether, they rank their products and allow them to advertise. A new EU law voted in yesterday ...
- Instagram Launches In-App Shopping
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Instagram has launched in-app shopping, allowing its users to purchase items without leaving the platform. "Marketing Land" reveals there are 23 brands on board for launch, including Adidas, Dior and ...
- Is Instagram Turning Influencers Into Affiliates?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, March 20, 2019
The moment you have an in-app buy button, influencers could be moved from branding to sales. ...
- Three Pillars Of Western Union's Data Strategy
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 18, 2019
Western Union's partnership with Safaricom enables cross-border money transfers for the company's mobile wallet users, who number approximately 28 million. More transactions mean more customer data. ...
- Brits Love To Shop While Watching TV
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Research from digital wallet company Neteller suggests the most popular setting where people shop online is while watching television, followed by In bed and at work, according to Netimperative. ...
- UK Fourth In Global Mobile Commerce League Table
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, January 10, 2019
The UK is fourth in the world for mobile commerce, according to research from Criteo. Netimperative reveals that the figures show mobile account for just over half of all goods ...
- Instagram Has Prompted One In Four Users To Make A Purchase
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, September 17, 2018
"Mobile Marketing" brings news that a quarter of Instagram users reveal they have bought an item after seeing it promoted on the site. ...
- 7-Eleven To Accept Apple Pay, Google Pay In All Stores
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, September 10, 2018
7-Eleven plans to accept Apple Pay and Google Pay at nearly all of its more than 10,000 locations across the United States. “While many 7-Eleven retail locations have already started ...
- Liquineq's Blockchain Bank Payment Protocol Coming To Advertising
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Liquineq has developed a bank funds transfer platform using blockchain technology to secure financial transfers that can grow to millions of transactions per second for commercial and consumer applications, including ...
- Voice Assistants Drive Conversational Commerce
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Monday, June 11, 2018
Conversational commerce, where consumers purchase products and service through voice assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple's Siri, is still relatively new but on its way to transforming ...
- Microsoft, Xero And Stripe Team Up To Offer Outlook Payment
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Xero is working with Microsoft and Stripe to offer digital invoice payment. ...
- Mobile Fuels Online Traffic, But Consumers Spend Much Less Time On Sites
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 4, 2018
An increase of 9% in traffic and 6% in the amount shoppers spend on retail and brand websites continues to drive revenue, but consumers are spending less time on websi ...
- More Digital Time Spent On Amazon Than Next Nine Retailers Combined
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, March 13, 2018
At a time when the marketing world is thinking increasingly about the value of consumer time spent with media, and the brands represented on it, new data released today by ...
- Mashable And eBay Partner For Mobile Commerce
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Mashable has teamed up with eBay to allow its users to click on items they like and buy them without having to leave the site, Netimperative is reporting. ...
- Shopping Apps Buck Downward Trend, Signal Healthy M-Commerce Holiday To Come
Mobile Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, October 12, 2017
Compared to the first half of 2016, downloads of shopping apps increased by 20% during the first half of 2017, according to fresh findings from App Annie. Among other implications, ...
- How To Get Abandoned Carts Converting
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, September 7, 2017
Barclays estimates it represents GBP3.5bn, and the key to conversion is likely clearer, flexible delivery terms. ...
- Are You Simple Enough To Ride The MCommerce Wave?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Some 60% of Brits will buy on a smartphone this year as mcommerce gears up to overtake ecommerce in 2021. Are you simple enough to thrive? ...
- As Online, Physical Retail Stores Merge, What Is The Future Of The Storefront?
Email Marketing Daily, Jess Nelson - Monday, June 19, 2017
Ecommerce has skyrocketed, yet "the brick-and-mortar store is still very much a part of the customer journey," says Michael Klein, head of retail, Adobe. Klein discussed how online and physical ...
- Millennials Love Email, But On Their Dual Inbox Terms
EuroMail, Sean Hargrave - Friday, June 16, 2017
One in two Millennials are making three purchases a quarter through branded emails that they keep safely stored in a second inbox. ...
- Wow -- Someone Just Turned The Inbox Into A Checkout
EuroMail, Sean Hargrave - Friday, June 9, 2017
In a mobile-first world, email must be interactive and intuitive, and so a start-up is letting recipients check out within a message. ...
- Email Must Get Interactive Or Forget About Gen Z
EuroMail, Sean Hargrave - Monday, May 22, 2017
Email marketing is rarely mentioned alongside the term Gen Z, and that should alarm. The industry needs to get interactive and useful. Plain text just won't cut it. ...
- Google Ads Targeted Offers To Android Pay
Around the Net in mCommerce, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, May 19, 2017
Google is rolling out new payments features, including targeted offers on Android Pay. Users can also expect “a new Google API that will enable fast checkouts in apps and online, [and] ...
- Identifying Mobile Shoppers A Top Priority For 70% Of Retailers
Mobile Insider, Chuck Martin - Thursday, May 18, 2017
Retailers are increasingly looking to personalize shopping experiences by tapping into mobile technology to help them identify their customers -- a top priority for 70% of retailers, according to a ...
- Mobile App Shopping Is DOA -- We'd Rather Chat And Post
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, May 17, 2017
It's not what digital marketers want to hear, but app-based mcommerce is just not happening en masse. We chat, we post, we watch -- but we don't shop in ...
