Tag: Retail

The challenges facing brands and retailers also represent great opportunities to level-up their game with strategies that will make 2025 their best year yet. 

Agencies that address legacy system bottlenecks, embrace collaborative strategies, and leverage cutting-edge technologies will thrive in the future of marketing. It’s time to build a resilient, agile, and data-powered agency.

From our own experience and through exploration with our agency and brand partners, here’s our recommended approach to navigate these murky waters.

In order to compete in an increasingly competitive landscape, brands must craft media campaigns with timely, targeted and tailored ad messages that align with the topics, communities, and emotions that truly matter, building relationships that last longer than a Valentine’s Day crush.

2025 will be the year of in-store retail media, but this opportunity won’t just fall into retailers’ laps. Now is the time to be laying the foundation for retail media’s next biggest opportunity.

Retail media is a fast-moving environment that requires advertisers to adapt as the market evolves if they are to achieve hoped-for outcomes.

While media networks – whether RMNs or in an adjacent sector – are part of the puzzle for brands to figure out, they need to develop a more holistic approach to how they drive conversions across all channels.

Inevitably, 2025 will bring more developments in this space, but what can brands do to ensure their offerings place them ahead of competitors, and deliver ROI? And what emerging trends can we expect to see? Industry experts weigh in.

In this piece, Olaf van Gerwen gives us his picks on 10 UK Christmas ads that have stood out from the class of 2024.

The holiday shopping season has become somewhat of an endurance test with some seasonal offers starting even before the hallowe’en decorations have been dusted down.

Retail Media is hotter than ever as we enter the Fall. Ahead of that, we had the opportunity to sit down with Claude Spasevski, SVP of Data and Retail Media at Equativ, to discuss some of the many things that are on marketer’s minds this holiday season.

Hear from James Rothwell, Managing Director, Brand Marketing for MileagePlus and Kinective Media on the mission to create the world’s first and largest traveler media network, standing up a business in 9 months, examples of successes so far, and now scaling through innovation and partnerships.

Using technology and creativity to design human-directed experiences that respond to intent in delightful ways. This is the roadmap for Intelligent Experiences in retail —and the realization of the hidden value of intent.

Retail is always changing — shifting 2024 retail trends serve as an example of that. As consumer preferences shift and technology continues to advance, the key to staying ahead lies in rethinking and refreshing your approach to the in-store experience.

When used properly, AI can really help you improve efficiency and scalability of cross-channel marketing campaigns. If you’re not leveraging AI tools yet, get started testing and iterating so you can be firing on all cylinders for Q4 and the holiday season. 

Change and disruption is the new normal, but by focusing on creating opportunities on the Open Internet retail marketers can not only keep up, but stay ahead of the curve by creating unique personalised content to already engaged audiences and transform shopping moments into real outcomes.

Understanding consumer behavior and addressing key reasons for cancellations are vital for subscription-based businesses to thrive.