consumer behavior

New Data Models for Retailers Helps to Drive Long-Term Value and ROI PreciseTarget, the first data company exclusively focused on enhancing the marketing effectiveness of apparel retailers and brands to help them acquire their highest-value customers, announced the launch of Customer Insights Profiles. A new off-the-shelf data enrichment product, Customer Insights Profiles delivers a comprehensive view of shoppers’ likelihood to purchase a product or brand, helping sellers better personalize their offerings and serve their…

New report uncovers shifting consumer retail trends emerging from COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed consumer behavior, forcing retailers to navigate a new era of retail and e-commerce habits as an unprecedented holiday shopping season quickly approaches. Against this changing landscape, Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, is thrilled to release its in-depth 2020 State of Retail report. Marketing Technology News: Video on Demand (VoD)…

Hybrid shopping model emerges blending technology with physical store experiences A new survey* of 2,000 UK and US consumers, conducted on behalf of JRNI, the experiential relationship management (XRM) platform for scheduling and managing personalized experiences at scale, reveals consumers are taking a more considered approach toward Black Friday and Christmas holiday season spending and behavior this year. One fifth (20%) of US shoppers plan to spend more this Christmas indicating that there’s a desire by some to shake…

OpenX released a new study with leading market research company The Harris Poll examining the variety of ways that both consumer behavior and marketing tactics have changed in 2020. From an economic perspective, the report paints a promising picture, and in a year when 54 percent of consumers say they are spending less money, and 61 percent of marketers have cut budget, both groups expect a rebound and return to normal in Q4 and 2021. Despite the pandemic, 58 percent of consumers expect to spend the same amount or more…

Ruud (Rudiger) Wanck is Candid's new CEO as of 1 October 2020. Candid is the largest independent marketing and advertising platform in the Netherlands. Headed by Ruud Wanck, former Global CEO of GroupM Connect, a new organizational structure will be created to expand both nationally and internationally. CEO and founder Gérard Ghazarian will be leading the new board of directors. In his position as president, he will focus on Candid's merger and acquisition strategy (M&A). Marketing Technology News: Quartile Digital…

Exults offers insight on various recent reports detailing shifts in retail and eCommerce purchasing behavior. The emergence of a global health crisis back in March affected just about every aspect of human life, and consumer behavior serves as no exception. Purchasing data now shows that concerns surrounding the health crisis, along with restrictions put in place because of it, forced consumers to rethink the way they buy goods and services. A recent report from McKinsey declares that 75 percent of consumers…

Harte Hanks, a global, behavior-driven customer experience (CX) company, announced that it has named Drew Rayman to the newly created role of Managing Director, eCommerce. Rayman will launch, develop and oversee the new Harte Hanks DTC & eCommerce offering, a set of capabilities including eCommerce and the ability to launch direct-to-consumer brands -- inclusive of branding, data strategy, marketing, fulfillment, and customer service -- for companies large and small. "Drew is a passionate marketer whose ability to…

Epicenter Experience has announced that Paul Lindstrom, the former SVP of Nielsen Strategic Media Research, has joined its team in an advisory capacity to accelerate research innovation and evolve the Cinema and Digital Out of Home services he originally created. This move asserts the company's further investment and commitment to delivering ongoing audience measurement and reporting services as well as product innovation to the Cinema and Digital Out of Home markets. Earlier this month Nielsen announced that it is exiting…

Unicommerce, India‘s leading e-commerce focused SaaS platform, released an impact report on the e-commerce industry which throws light on the performance across verticals and key trends shaping the sector. The report extensively covers trends related to e-commerce growth, region-wise consumer demand, return orders, and D2C trends and how it affects the industry in the post-COVID-19 world. The report titled - ‘E-commerce Trends Report 2020’ focuses on the growth of e-commerce in India along with detailing out changing…

"We think the shift to mobile is here to stay. Brands who stay focused on being flexible with short-term plans and a longer-term differentiation strategy will succeed." Hi Jaron, please tell us about your role, your team and the technology at Rakuten Ready. I’m CEO at Rakuten Ready- that came about as part of having co-founded Curbside in 2013 along with former leaders of location innovation at Apple. In 2018 we joined the Rakuten family to accelerate our vision of predictive arrival technology on a global stage. In…

The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly altered consumers’ behaviors and attitudes, upending brands’ marketing strategies and plans. Now, roughly four months into the pandemic in the U.S., we are just beginning to gain a better understanding of the impact of these changes in the short and long terms, and how brands must adapt to the ‘new normal.’ A recent survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers conducted by Acxiom, the data and technology foundation for the world’s best marketers, shines a light on consumers’ attitudes and behaviors amid…

For 25 years, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and Marketing organizations, in general, have relied heavily on browser-based cookies to track consumer behavior online. That data has come in handy for targeting customers with digital ads and customized Web experiences that play to the products and services those customers care about. But the cookie is disappearing from the Marketing team’s toolbox. Apple got things underway last year with its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) software, and Firefox quickly…

New research finds 34% of shoppers working from home expect to do so indefinitely or are unsure of return date Acosta, a leading full-service sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods industry, today released its sixth research report providing insight into the continuing evolution of consumer behavior and outlook amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, which found working from home may continue for an extended period of time, also provides recommendations to help retailers prepare for post-COVID-19 shelf…

PowerReviews analysis of consumer activity across 1.5MM product pages reveals a two-month surge to a “new normal” as sales volumes stabilize throughout May PowerReviews reveals the staggering changes in consumer behavior and interaction with online ratings and reviews over the past three months in its research published today. Marketing Technology News: Doing What it Does Best “It Instills Confidence”: Salesforce Q1 Earning Update The June edition of the PowerReviews Market Trends Snapshot is based on analysis…

While every industry operates a bit differently, there is an inherent need to better understand consumers beyond traditional Sales data and shopping behavior. Both of these are still critical to your business, but coupling them with social data provides unique insights into consumer behavior that ultimately enable companies to better serve their customers and beat out the competition. Social posts aren’t just valuable for marketers or influencers trying to break into the big time of sponsored content. They hold a treasure…

COVID-19 has led to an increase in canned food sales, Zoom’s stock price and Walmart shirts (not pants) as people adjust to social distancing and working from home. The latest spike due to the pandemic? Mobile gaming in the US.  Mobile gaming and general mobile usage have experienced massive surges in daily users from consumers seeking stay-at-home entertainment to pass time, confirms data by digital advertiser, Jun Group. With millions of Americans working from home and more than 70% of American schools shutting down…

COVID-19 Dampens Media Spending and Promotions, Except Mobile Advertising Numerator, a data and tech company serving the market research space, has launched two new indices to provide needed visibility into the shifts of advertising and promotional activities as a result of COVID-19. The Numerator Advertising Index tracks media spend versus a year ago across media types and categories. The index provides visibility into how categories are changing their overall spend and shifting their advertising dollars across media…

To better understand the effects of Covid-19 on consumer behavior, leading tech driven cross-border marketing company, Westwin, has conducted new and extensive research on global search traffic data and consumers from US, UK, Australia, Japan and Russia. Taking an international perspective, the observable changes can be categorized into three main areas: what people are buying, what people are doing during quarantine and where people are looking for information. Hot Products - What are people buying? The changes in…

Kar's Nuts, a manufacturer of premium and better-for-you snacking products under the Kar's®, Second Nature® and Sanders Fine Chocolatiers® brands, today announced that Jennifer Bauer has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer. Ms. Bauer brings to Kar's Nuts more than 17 years of marketing experience with consumer-packaged goods companies, including the last seven years in the snacking category. She has joined Kar's from Campbell Soup Company, where she most recently served as Vice President of Marketing on the…

Tracking App Provides 360-Degree Behavioral Analysis Toluna, an ITWP company and leading consumer intelligence platform that delivers insights on demand, announced it has unveiled new, permission-based online data collection solution in China to analyze consumer behavior in real-time. The technology delivers deeper insights and cross-device behavioral data in response to increased demand by researchers and marketers in China, a previously opaque consumer sector. The technology also drives intelligent business…