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Retail chief marketing officers report a marketing budget that is 7.1% of a company’s revenue, a decrease from last year and lower than the average across industries. Gartner’s annual CMO Spend Survey finds that marketers are continuing to operate with a reduced budget post-pandemic, with a mean budget of 7.7% of a company’s revenue in 2025. […]

There’s a new contextual curation platform in town, and it has the backing of some industry heavy hitters. The startup, called Classify, aims to evolve contextual and semantic targeting beyond keyword-based taxonomies. It offers buy-side deal curation tools, as well as a sell-side product for publishers to package their inventory into curated deals. Classify is […]

E.l.f. takes a casual tone to its Instagram announcement of its tariff-driven price increases, which start Aug. 1.   Cosmetic brand E.l.f. announced on its Instagram channel that it is raising its prices by $1 on all of its products starting Aug. 1 due to tariffs.   The brand made the announcement using a casual […]

A new study finds that shoppers report making fewer purchases recently, or have switched brands because of higher prices. While shoppers may be struggling to keep up with the on-and-off again tariff headlines, they are noticing the result: higher prices.   According to a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults in April conducted by ecommerce platform Vtex […]

For any newcomer grocery brand, taking the step from having a strong regional presence to gaining a national retail footprint is always a complicated move. Chocolate brand Tony’s Chocolonely hit that inflection point in the US roughly five years ago, which was when Aidaly Sosa Walker joined as VP of marketing for the US and […]

What’s it like managing user acquisition for a consumer-facing investment and financial planning app during an ongoing trade war? A little tricky. Markets are turbulent, trade policies are unpredictable, and retail investors are trying their best to navigate it all. But Betterment’s customers “have largely stayed the course,” says CMO Kim Rosenblum, who oversees the […]

The number of alternative IDs in the market is daunting. But OMD has a philosophy for determining which IDs will work best for brands’ needs. Emily Proctor, the ad agency’s executive director of data and technology solutions, shared that philosophy at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO in Las Vegas on Tuesday. It boils down to this: “Test, […]

Could Google’s embrace of attention metrics help the industry evolve past easily manipulated viewability measurement? Danny Zhu, director of digital and performance marketing at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) North America, thinks so. Google DV360 adding Adelaide’s Attention Unit (AU) metric as an optimization signal is “going to be a game changer for us,” Zhu told […]

Topdrawer’s top marketer talks tariffs, physical stores and the Wirecutter.   When marketers have to choose between driving conversion and building brand awareness, Topdrawer’s Poonam Chitnis says affiliates can hit both goals.   Chitnis is vice president of operations and marketing executive at Topdrawer, a manufacturer and seller of leather goods, accessories and other “creative tools.” Akira Ito […]

The marketing funnel is dead, said Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever’s Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at the POSSIBLE conference in Miami in April. Here’s a look at her “culture-to-cart” approach.