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Welcome to the latest event marketing industry news digest, featuring updates on new hires, promotions, acquisitions, and launches. Submit your news here. Trends American Express Global Business Travel, a software and services company for travel and expense, has launched integrated emissions-based carbon pricing. Customers can pick a carbon calculation methodology to apply a carbon fee to […]

Coach shares how its experiential stores, coffee shops, metaverse products and hot air balloons drive a younger shopper to its brand at NRF.   Giovanni Zaccariello is the vice president of global visual experience at Coach. But most days he feels like a politician, Zaccariello said at the NRF  ’25 conference in January.   Zaccariello […]

Investment firm H.I.G. Capital announced today it plans to acquire media measurement and analytics firm Kantar Media for $1 billion. The deal is expected to close later this year. Kantar Media operates in 60 markets and provides services, such as audience measurement insights, competitor ad spend, data analytics, media planning and validation. The acquisition will bring […]

At the NRF ’25 conference, Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald discusses how the brand manufacturer has doubled its sales twice in the past six years and how it plans to do it again.   Lululemon is ahead of schedule for its target revenue goal of $12.5 billion in annual sales by 2026. And it plans to […]

Adobe released its 2024 online holiday shopping trends: Paid search drives the most retail sales this holiday season at nearly 30% of revenue. But influencers increase their share of holiday sales the most and convert shoppers nine-times higher than social media overall.   U.S. online holiday sales increased 8.4% year over year, reaching a record of […]

The last Saturday before Christmas, Dec. 21, drove many shoppers to the store, with foot traffic surging compared to a typical Saturday in the holiday season. Beauty stores surpassed their pre-pandemic foot traffic levels, while department store foot traffic decreased 25% compared with Super Saturday 2019.   The Saturday before Christmas Day, Dec. 21, dubbed […]

AS Beauty, owner of cosmetic brands Bliss, Laura Geller Beauty and more, discusses the challenges of having an accurate picture of customer acquisition costs across all channels, in this interview with Multichannel Marketer’s sister publication AdExchanger. As long as AS Beauty is efficiently hitting the CAC targets it sets for its brands, it’s willing to […]

2024 was a year of hectic change for ad measurement. Third-party cookies may have been given a reprieve by Chrome, perhaps even an indefinite lifeline. But, still, user-level data is running dry, to the point that last-click and multitouch attribution have lost their edge entirely. In their place, data-driven advertisers have reverted to familiar stalwarts […]

Top reads include Q&As with executives from Home Depot, Balsam Brands and Nalgene. Multichannel Marketer launched in Q2 2024 and we’ve been fortunate to have grown a loyal reader base over the past few months. Thank you all for taking the time to get to know us. Below are the most-read stories since our launch. […]

Retail media standards: Still a thing we’re working on! The tagline needs work. But the demand for IAB-based retail media standards is still growing. A year ago, ad tech vendors led by the startup Kevel created an outside group to accelerate retail standardization, hoping it would happen in 2024. The group later merged its work […]