How brands are shortening the distance between data collection and purchase

Faced with ever-accelerating competition and an increasingly complex shopping journey, brands must convert consumers to purchase quickly if they want to capture their spend. 

Marketers must ensure that every customer’s experience and touchpoints are individualized. They also need relevant, precise, personalized messaging. However, genuine personalization requires the right technology, data, and tactics. 

This can be a challenge. Sixty-three percent of digital marketing execs need help providing personalized customer experiences. It’s an obstacle that slows progress: Taking more time to create authentic personalization means a longer path to customer conversion — and the potential loss of the crucial competitive advantage of speed. 

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Hey readers, welcome to the AdExchanger Commerce newsletter. This week, we examine the three big holiday shopping trends this year: markdowns, huge discounts and major sales deals. See what I did there? Seriously, though, many forces are driving down prices this holiday season, and this pricing pressure will have major consequences for ecommerce advertisers. Macro-gloom […]

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Setting Up Effective Incrementality Testing For TV and Radio Campaigns

TV and audio incrementality have traditionally been difficult to measure, but technological shifts have produced a strong playbook for testing incrementality across these mediums.  Incrementality testing helps attribute conversions to TV and audio ads by isolating two audiences – a treatment group that receives the brand’s ad and a control that doesn’t – and comparing […]

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