2024 online holiday spending set for record year with $240 billion in sales

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….

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How to use micro-moments to capture customer intent in real-time

Attention spans are shrinking and customers now have instant access to information. Marketers must capture “micro-moments” — those brief times when people turn to their devices for quick answers or decisions. Whether they’re searching for a last-minute gift, checking restaurant reviews or looking up how to fix a leaky faucet, these moments offer key opportunities…

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Using mobile measurement partners to drive bookings: Best of the MarTechBot

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…

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Foursquare introduces Sales Impact attribution features

Today, geolocation technology company Foursquare introduced Sales Impact, a new offering in its campaign attribution suite. The tool combines location and purchase insights, allowing marketers to measure the impact of multichannel campaigns on sales. Previously, the Foursquare Attribution target used geolocation for logged-in customers to measure foot traffic to stores and other signals to estimate…

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