30-second summary: Market volatility and rapid shifts in consumer behavior will continue in 2021. The longer the COVID pandemic goes on the more ingrained digital behaviors become. Shoppers are buying more online and spending more when they do. Consumers are becoming more comfortable online experiences over with time. Taking in-store experiences and taking them digital is becoming more common. Search and market insights are becoming mission-critical for all marketers To say the last several months have been a roller coaster would be an understatement. This year has been one for the books as we’ve collectively experienced something no generation before us has: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a constantly connected, technology-empowered population. We’ve run the gamut of emotional states and economic impacts. As brands and consumers alike prepare for our most unusual holiday shopping season yet, it’s become clear that we’re in this for the long haul. While …

30-second summary: Lean on real-time data and insights to understand and engage consumers in meaningful ways. Elevate marketing and engagement strategies, acknowledging new consumer needs and shifts in behavior — increased e-commerce, social media usage and streaming TV. Deliver real value to consumers using localized approaches, messaging and incentives. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly changing consumers’ shopping habits, brand engagement and media consumption behaviors both now and in what will be our “new normal.” While much of life has changed due to social distancing, the temporary closure of businesses and apprehension even as restrictions are lifted, it’s important for brands and marketers to connect with customers in meaningful ways. Rather than pulling back on marketing or pausing engagement efforts, marketers have an opportunity to engage consumers in powerful ways by tailoring campaigns to new needs and priorities. During this unprecedented time, recent research from Valassis shows consumers value communication …

30-second summary: Consumers are becoming more conscious of how they shop, with an increased focus on small, minority-owned, women-owned, and Black-owned businesses. Shopping this year has more sentimental value as shoppers look for a morale boost. Nearly, half, (43%) of consumers used shopping as a means to cheer up family and friends. Mastercard predicted that 77% of Americans will choose to shop local while 75% of consumers intend to prefer shopping from businesses that share their personal values. Email and content marketing have stood as pillars for brands through 2020, these will be a make or break factor for businesses to succeed in 2021. Email marketing has an average ROI that is 4X higher than any other channel with APAC getting the highest open rates and EMEA winning the highest CTR. The top seven industries in terms of open rates and CTR revealed. Top priorities businesses must-have for email marketing …

30-second summary: Atlanta-based Cardlytics is an ad platform that operates within banks’ native digital channels. Cardlytics brings the worlds of ad tech and fintech together within a fraud-free and brand-safe environment, offering a high degree of trust. Cardlytics boasts an audience within the US of more than 125M monthly active users. Larger than Snap, Twitter, and Pinterest. The Cardlytics platform enables banks to send offers to their end customers and enrich the banking experience by getting cash back. Advertisers can show ads to potential customers to motivate online and in-store purchases, and they’re also able to give their customers cash back. Cardlytics sees 1 in 2 of all credit and debit card swipes in the US, which enables them to understand how a bank user engaged with an offer through the platform and then went on to make a purchase. Cardlytics has helped customers get back nearly half a billion …

30-second summary: In our recent Marketing Innovation Forum, ClickZ focused on ecommerce transformation and what retailers can learn from the challenges of 2020. The two-panel session looks at the impact that COVID has had on ecommerce and the current state of ecommerce transformation. Panelists discuss trends in ecommerce including the rapid shift consumers have made to purchasing all categories of goods online, the need for agility and speed in today’s ever-changing retail environment, and the importance of building community around your brand, among other things. We end with a list of key trends and recommendations from our luminaries. The entire event, Marketing Innovation Forum: Ecommerce Transformation, is available on demand from ClickZ. In our recent Marketing Innovation Forum , ClickZ focused on ecommerce transformation, an extremely topical subject given the rapid shift to online shopping in 2020. The two-panel session looks at COVID’s impact on ecommerce and the current state …

30-second summary: COVID-19 has accelerated consumers’ shift to online shopping around the world, making digital strategy critical to retailer success, both now and in the future Analyzing these behavior trends yields insights about elevated retention risk, the primacy of mobile, shifts in purchase motivation, and in what drives brand affinity The holiday season will see many consumers planning to spend less, and to support local small retailers, so digital marketers must adapt Best-practice marketing strategies are now mission critical: Focus on customer relevance through personalization, seamless cross-channel experiences, and empathetic messaging across the lifecycle, or consumers will move on As the summer winds down, many of us are holding our breath in anticipation of another wave of pandemic-related headlines, guidelines, and obstacles to business as usual. The only thing we seem to be able to count on is change. That’s certainly the case in the retail industry, which has experienced …

30-second summary: As holiday shopping season inches closer ecommerce prepares for the biggest opportunities in 2020. Trends and consumer behaviors that will give your business a strategic benefit. COVID-19 sure has crunched wallets and purses but brands still stand a better chance as 36.6% of consumers shop with more brands as compared to 2019. What will win more love during holiday shopping season? Digital platforms you should invest in and target your advertising on. Which regions should you target? How values and tasteful social media content makes 58% of consumers more inclined to make a purchase. Bon appetite, your weekly key insights are served! How businesses can buckle up for the early holiday shopping season The global pandemic and its domino effect will fail to dampen the 2020 holiday spirit. In fact, our previous key insights have pointed towards the holiday shopping season arriving sooner than before. To help you …

Driven by the desire to save money, nearly all US shoppers say they purchase private label or store brands. And, with close to half of Americans reporting that they are spending less money this year than they have in the past, it is no surprise that 9 in 10 consumers are spending at least the… Read More » The post Shoppers Continue to Spend on Private Label Products, but Some See A Return to Name Brands appeared first on Marketing Charts .

30-second summary: If digital marketing is a landscape, why not think of the phases in the modern customer journey as regions, paths and locations? The awareness phase imagines a wandering consumer, or top-level POV. Touchpoints change in the search and research areas of the landscape. Site design and UX increase in importance. Post-purchase consumers go back into the landscape. How can they advocate for the product, service, or experience? We often refer to the digital marketing industry as a landscape – an electronic place in which consumers spend their time engaging with content as well as buying goods and services. The analogy is useful. And trying to visualize it in order to understand it better makes sense. But often when this landscape is represented in a more visual way (adapted transit maps and periodic tables spring to mind) I question how practical these visualizations are. Source: Gartner My method of …

30-second summary: Marketers who craft messages that match customer expectations and build trust will be more successful at connecting with consumers in a COVID-19 world. Data is increasingly being employed by marketers. However, with so much data available it can be difficult to separate useful insights from noisy data points. It is imperative for marketers to be thoughtful when choosing who they market to and how they drive outreach, and to be available to consumers who are in-market looking for guidance. Consumers that feel a brand is putting them first during COVID-19 are more likely to trust that brand to keep them safe, recommend that brand to family or friends and favor it over others. The more trust you can build, the more success you will have in the long run. Leveraging the right data has never been more important for marketers. COVID-19 has created a shopping environment unlike anything …