U.S. online holiday shoppers are expected to spend $240.8 billion in November and December this year, according to a forecast by Adobe. This represents a 8.4% increase over last year’s holiday season, significantly higher than last year’s 4.9% year-over-year growth. Why we care. This is good news for retailers with a solid digital marketing strategy….
Movable Ink, the multi-channel personalized engagement platform, has announced a new integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Da Vinci represents Movable Ink’s original dynamic email offering, curating content for individual recipients, including after the email has been sent. Journey Optimizer is Adobe’s application for orchestrating personalized customer journeys across channels and…
Today’s consumer journey is complex, chaotic and crowded. Consumers use multiple platforms to solve problems, jumping outside the traditional sales funnel. The once-standard linear path to purchase no longer reflects reality. Numerous brands fight for user attention across platforms to drive a click or conversion. It’s no wonder that the consumer experience suffers from misaligned…
Left to right: David Cohen, CEO IAB, Kaisy O’Reilly, SVP, CMO, Stuart Weitzman and Jacquelyn Baker, Global CEO Omnicom Commerce Group discuss RMNs at IAB’s Connected Commerce Summit: Retail Reimagined in New York. Photo: Chris Wood. Retail media networks (RMNs) are getting new in-store definitions and standards to help reach customers where they are, and…
This year, viewers are watching more CTV in longer sessions. Viewership now approaches pandemic-era levels after pulling back in recent years, according to a new study, “The CTV Trends Report 2024,” released by Wurl, an AppLovin company. Average daily hours of CTV viewing are up 5% year over year, according to the study, which draws…
As CMOs, we’re constantly trying to balance driving growth with the fact that marketing is often seen as a cost center. But what if we could change the narrative? What if marketing were viewed as a revenue driver instead of a budget drain? One of the most effective ways to shift this perception is by…
Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative…
According to the experience management company Qualtrics, 63% of customers believe companies need to get better at listening to their feedback. This aligns with my experience as both a customer and a marketer. As a customer, I’m regularly bombarded with requests to “rate my experience” or “provide my feedback.” But as a marketer, I see…
Yesterday, Salesforce launched Agentforce — generative AI bots the company says can be trusted to take action on their own. Agentforce is “the third wave of AI — advancing beyond copilots to a new era of highly accurate, low-hallucination intelligent agents that actively drive customer success,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during the press conference….
Brands are integrating AI into their marketing functions, and some are ready to test these tools in customer experience. Currently, analytics and market research are top AI use cases, with content, customer service and website development further down the list. Adopting AI for CX functions like building content and designing websites comes with an added…