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The race to the $22B mobile ads market
February 8, 2017 By

If the mobile ad market is going to reach its full potential and fill the gap between consumers’ media attention and marketers’ media buying share, it will have to first address a unique set of challenges and obstacles.

Spotlight Africa: In conversation with Zakary Chanou, founder of concierge service UUU
February 7, 2017 By

A dialogue with a Paris-based entrepreneur tapping the emerging wealth in Sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the continent with the resulting desire from the ultra-affluent for the finer things of life.

App marketers need to rethink their mobile ad strategy
February 7, 2017 By

Consumers today are well informed and have specific preferences when it comes to advertising, especially when they are watching video content.


Building mobile audience segments via precise location data
February 6, 2017 By

As location-based targeting matures, sophisticated marketers know they must expand beyond simple geofencing campaigns.

Luxury market in crisis: Disruption, change and reinvention
February 3, 2017 By

We face a luxury industry in crisis. The first thing to do in any crisis is a critical assessment of the situation.

Moving beyond the mobile-friendly conversation
February 2, 2017 By

When Google announced in early 2016 that 85 percent of the search results returned on mobile devices were now mobile-friendly and dropped its mobile-friendly tag, it became apparent that marketing and Web professionals needed to stop telling marketers to go mobile.


Conversational commerce: What it is and how to use it
February 1, 2017 By

Although still relatively new to the scene, chatbots are bringing marketers and consumers closer together by bridging the communication gap between a brand and its customers.

Love brands: The luxury industry’s next frontier
January 31, 2017 By

Are luxury brands keeping up with the changing times and the evolution of other brand-consumer relationships? Here is how luxury marketers should follow the example of “love brands” such as Apple.

Will retailers finally catch up to customers in 2017?
January 31, 2017 By

If 2015 was the worst year for traditional retail since 2009, last year was confirmation that something is wrong.


Online or offline retail? 8 ways to decide which is best for business
January 30, 2017 By

The debate over which retail strategy to employ is as passionate as it is unending.

Retail this year: 4 technology trends to watch
January 30, 2017 By

To create new opportunities among consumers and generate greater profits from existing shoppers, retailers are increasingly turning to new platforms. But which technologies will move the needle?

Top 10 misconceptions about Indian luxury consumers
January 26, 2017 By

The global luxury market has now reached an era of single-digit growth. However, as the rest of the world stabilizes, the Indian growth story is hard to discount.


Translating luxury in mobile
January 25, 2017 By

Luxury brands are learning that pandering becomes more difficult in a digital world.

What mcommerce retailers can learn from a mobile shopping addict
January 24, 2017 By

What do a subway platform, doctor’s waiting room and a lame party have in common? They are all places you are likely to find me shopping on my smartphone.

The unfamiliar face of women in new luxury
January 23, 2017 By

There is one particular signal that unpacks the information that U.S. millennial women are unconsciously filtering during the luxury purchase cycle: the identity and portrayal of the female persona.


Out-of-home media in 2017: Embracing the seismic shift towards audience
January 20, 2017 By

There was a time when, if you wanted to buy OOH media in a city, you could select media owners who occupied specific places or venue types that you felt matched your desired audience: business people in office buildings or vehicle owners at gas stations, for example. Not anymore.

New faces of luxury: Jennifer Grove, founder/CEO of Repeat Roses
January 20, 2017 By

Repeat Roses is an eco-friendly company headquartered in New York that collects and repurposes florals from events and delivers them to nursing homes, hospitals, hospice care and pediatric cancer treatment facilities.

5 tips for managing complex mobile marketing assets
January 19, 2017 By

Gone are the days of linear mobile campaigns. Now, content, media and mobile marketing assets must be optimized and personalized with precision to generate the best engagement and results.


Year of the Rooster luxury items: Hit or miss with Chinese consumers?
January 19, 2017 By

Chinese customers do not like it when they feel designers misinterpret or misunderstand Chinese culture.

The expanded power of context: M.A.D.E.
January 18, 2017 By

By 2020, brands will be held to the same standards as people, and they will have the wherewithal and self-interested, aligned motivation to deliver.

7 tips for mcommerce email success
January 17, 2017 By

Recent research has shown us that many shoppers will mark email as spam if it does not work on their mobile devices, a move that potentially endangers deliverability across the board.