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The New York Times and Instacart walk into a kitchen. That’s not the start of a bad joke. It’s an actual partnership. On Tuesday, the two companies announced a deal to make New York Times Cooking recipes shoppable via Instacart, of course, and to embed its cooking videos within the Instacart app. The deal is […]

Three million shoppers have said “I Do” to becoming members of David’s Bridal Diamond loyalty program — just a few years after it launched in late 2020. Average sales and transactions by loyalty members are 30% higher than the company’s typical shoppers, Kelly Cook, president of brand, technology and finance told attendees at the Retail Innovation […]

Sporting goods and apparel brand Adidas recently sold a digital necklace in the online gaming platform Roblox for 2 million Robux, or roughly $20,000. This news highlights how brands connecting with young consumers in the metaverse with virtual fashion is here to stay, said Vanessa Mullin, director of games, metaverse and social at real-time engagement vendor […]

Target will lower the price on 5,000 of its frequently purchased items across its assortment within the next few months, the retail chain announced May 20. Target said it already reduced the prices on 1,500 items. The mass merchant lowered prices on products including milk, meat, bread, soda, fruit, vegetables, snacks, yogurt, peanut butter, coffee, […]

Retail chain behemoth Walmart reported its revenue increased 6% year over year for its fiscal first quarter 2025 ended April 30, and its U.S. ecommerce sales increased 22% year over year. Walmart also reported that its global advertising business grew 24%, which includes a 26% increase for its U.S. advertising segment called Walmart Connect. This […]

If you’re a brand that wants to in-house its programmatic media buying, the best thing you can do is to make friends with the IT guys. Because without buy-in and support from the internal tech team – whose job it’ll be to handle most of the technical development of any mar tech or data warehouse deployment […]

National hospitality houses at the Olympic Games were once landing points for athletes, support staff and families. But over the years, they’ve evolved into ecosystems for partnerships and engagement. At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer, national houses are expected to make a grand post-pandemic return—among them, Canada Olympic House, which is being produced […]

When the EU enacted the General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, it triggered a ripple effect of consumer privacy acts, like the California Consumer Privacy Act, that resulted in corporate event marketing clients adding data privacy amendments to agreements with their suppliers. But a new regulatory chapter is upon us as the EU considers the […]

TV programmers have long looked down their noses at YouTube. User-generated content isn’t as premium as their prestige programming, or so their argument goes. YouTube, for its part, has long attempted to pitch itself to advertisers as not only just as good as TV, but, in many cases, more effective. At its Brandcast presentation on […]

Retailers Best Buy, Target and Levi’s are receiving more scrutiny over their LGBTQ-themed marketing and public relations campaigns, according to a Wall Street Journal article. Conservative groups are increasingly asking company shareholders to reevaluate these campaigns. Historically, shareholders have proposed measures that advocate social issues, such as sustainability and racial justice. A vote on these […]