paidContent: What Publishers Can Learn From Online Retailers
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 18:37
FT panel looks at what online retailers and online publishers can learn from each other. Social media still trumped by other referral sources; email personalisation is vital; testing small UI changes can have huge benefits for conversions …
Fortune Tech: Twitter’s new plan: Commerce?
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 11:07
"During a keynote interview at Fortune BrainstormTech in Aspen, [Twitter CEO Dick Costolo] was pressed about his company's business model. After discussing its various advertising options — including its plans to eventually offer self-serve …
Retail Week: Drapers editor joins Amazon UK to ramp up fashion offer
Sunday, 29 May 2011, 19:57
"Etail giant Amazon UK has appointed fashion trade magazine Drapers executive editor Jessica Brown as head of fashion for its fledgling clothing business. … Brown, who has worked at Drapers … for over 10 years …will report into Amazon direct…
WWD.com: E-commerce Luring Top Editorial Talent
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 16:39
More on trend of retailers becoming publishers: "A new kind of magazine has indeed arrived online and its bringing editors into the sales business. For the last year, fast-growing online retail companies like Gilt and Net-a-porter in the U.K. have…
FT.com: Websites blur line between telling and selling
Saturday, 30 April 2011, 13:05
David Gelles quotes Natalie Massenet of Net-a-Porter: “In the next five years, media companies are going to become retailers and retailers are going to become media companies,” said Ms Massenet, "It’s inevitable."
BBC News: Location-based services still have to win over business
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 09:56
Dutch fashion brand G-Star Raw using location-based mobile marketing, but "even experts in this field acknowledge a serious lack of hard data about the commercial power of location-based services."
Techcrunch: Tesco acquires majority of Blinkbox to take Internet-on-TV mainstream
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 17:14
"Tesco … has acquired an 80 percent stake in British video-on-demand startup Blinkbox from investors Eden Ventures and Nordic Venture Partners for an undisclosed sum."
Retail Week: Retail Bytes: Asos to make Amazon-style personal recommendation
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 08:51
"Asos.com has become the latest retailer to make personalised recommendations for customers. Instead of showing the same suggested products to every person, the fashion etailer will use a customer’s previous buying history, and the similar purch…
New Media Age: Publishers need to think more like brands
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 12:07
Gina Lovett: "In some verticals, like fashion and beauty, the content being produced by brands is proving a real competitive threat to online women’s magazines. … Pursuit of the seamless integration of content with ecommerce is expediting the …
FT.com: Digital downloads fail to counter CD decline
Thursday, 6 January 2011, 11:02
"Sales of music albums in the UK continued to fall in 2010, as a surge in digital album sales failed to offset the decline in CD sales. The data from the Official Charts Company highlights the continuing transformation of the music market, as cons…
Media Money: Retailers & national newspapers: Too big to fail?
Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 11:06
"The supermarkets have behaved like no other sector during the recession. Unlike everyone else, they continued to spend more and more on press advertising … Among the nationals, the supermarkets’ behaviour put a floor under the worst effects of recession, blunting its impact. In the end, the really important question for publishers is how much longer the big retail chains will be able to increase their expenditure at this rate."
Econsultancy: Facebook Like: an online retail case study
Monday, 14 June 2010, 11:56
In the case of Levi's, the Facebook Like buttons are not only problematic from a pure performance perspective, but from a general user experience perspective as well
SteveOuting.com: My grocer knows me better than my news provider
Thursday, 3 June 2010, 09:40
"While King Soopers has been sending my household product-discount coupons … for many years, this latest envelope got my attention. Of the dozen coupons in my envelope, every single one was for a grocery item and brand that I routinely buy. The company at last seems to have evolved its system to the point where I could use all those coupons. … [N]one of the news brands that I use regularly know me anywhere near as well."
Mediaweek: Web in ‘Fashion’ for Fall
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 14:21
"InStyle is planning to launch an online pop-up store to complement its product-packed September issue. The InStyle Boutique is powered by StyleFeeder, an online product recommendation service. … W … is planning to run snappable ads throughout its October issue that will let readers shop right from the page when they take a picture of a tag with a camera phone. … Marie Claire will let readers 'shop' from the advertising and edit pages alike by taking photos of items with a mobile phone."
