Many U.S. consumers intend to hold out on spending big online until later in the holiday season. A clear indication that shoppers plan to splurge on Black Friday/Cyber Monday and bide their time waiting for other last-minute deals.
Prime Day is a great laboratory for testing promotional strategies that can be used for any key season of the year, such as Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. One standout area on Prime Day was how some brands were able to coordinate their promotions and AMS campaigns for maximized results.
Phew! That was a wild 48 hours. Now that the dust has settled on Prime Day 2019, how do we at Profitero think it stacked up?
Here’s our review across 7 factors.
The online shift is happening — and fast — for the home improvement industry, as discussed in Part 1 of this series. Therefore, it’s imperative that Tools & Home Improvement brands follow suit and figure out how to accelerate sales online, and more specifically on Amazon. Easier said than done though, right? Nearly everything about…
Not more than a few years ago, industry pundits thought the tools & home improvement category would be immune to eCommerce. A few reasons why: Major brick & mortar incumbents (The Home Depot and Lowe’s in the U.S.; or Argos, B&Q and Homebase in the U.K.) were too powerful Shoppers would never be willing to…
The eCommerce solution landscape continues to evolve at a brisk pace. New solutions are coming on board on what seems like a daily basis. By popular demand, we’ve updated our Developing Your Digital Toolkit guide to capture almost 50 new eCommerce solution providers since we last published in October 2018 — bringing you a total…
At Profitero, we’ve written a lot about the online retailer price wars and how it’s driving massive price erosion for brands selling online. The good news is: there is a way to fight back. Enter the MAP policy. A Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy is a tool brands have at their disposal to help deal…
The five-day shopping event starting on Thanksgiving and ending on Cyber Monday has affectionately been dubbed “Cyber 5” weekend. It’s a time of year when we, as consumers, channel our primal hunter instincts and battle each other (often physically) to find the biggest and best deals. Using our proprietary sales & share estimation technology, Profitero…
New research from Profitero and Kantar Consulting reveals that 76% of brands are looking to accelerate their eCommerce investment in order to capitalize on the $3.5T digital opportunity in 2019 (source: eMarketer). Profitero and Kantar Consulting found that brands have already made huge investments in eCommerce, expanding their global eCommerce staffing and headcount by 83%,…
Scroll through any Amazon search results page and you’re bound to see products with the “Amazon’s Choice” and “Best Seller” badges. How do these badges influence shoppers and why should every brand seek to win them? Using Profitero’s new Amazon Traffic & Conversion Analytics, we cut to the heart of this mystery to determine just…
The rise of algorithmic-driven retail means eCommerce Data Analytics is no longer a nice to have, it’s a must-have. eCommerce Data Analytics is becoming a central commercial function, with brands using data-driven eCommerce insights to drive decision making. Here are 3 reasons why we think 2019 will be a breakout year for eCommerce Data Analytics:…
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