Online shoppers are moving towards apps and away from m-websites. A new study by app commerce company Poq [IRDX VPOQ] finds that online shoppers are spending 6% more money on apps and 5% less money on the mobile web every month. The amount of time users are spending on retailer apps is also on the up. According to the research, the amount of times shoppers are visiting desktop websites and apps is increasing by 2% and 7% month-on-month respectively. The monthly amount of times shoppers interact with mobile websites has remained static.
When the chief financial officer of French ad-tech company Criteo SA made a presentation to investors recently, he was quickly interrupted by skeptics who couldn’t wait for the end of his speech. They wanted to know what differentiated his firm from the many others claiming to make advertising more efficient and cheaper for marketers.
As consumers, we are deluged with marketing messages everywhere we go. Every day, our email inboxes are flooded with hundreds of new emails we’ll never open, because they contain information about products and services we’ll never buy. Yet, email remains one of the highest performing online media channels for marketers. The good news for consumers and brands alike is that the world of email is changing. Structural shifts have created space for a new breed of programmatic email providers, giving marketers the ability to reach consumers with relevant, personalized communications.
Mobile shopping is becoming an everyday activity for a significant number of consumers, new data shows, with 2.5m Brits - 5% of adults - saying they buy on mobile at least daily.
Paris is not only all about wines, cheeses, and museums. Now it’s about ad tech, too. O, là là. A few Parisian ad tech firms have seen big success in the U.S. and many more are looking to America for growth, inspiration and, of course, money, as the French ad tech hotbed gets even toastier: French online ad company Criteo’s revenue increased 55 percent year-over-year last quarter to €362 million (around $406.7 million).
Lately, the tech industry has been a bit of funk, at least with Wall Street. But there are some operators that seem to be immune, such as Criteo. The company, which develops software tools to improve the performance of online marketing campaigns, continues to grow at a rapid clip. During the latest quarter, revenues jumped by 36 percent to $401 million and there was also a hefty profit. So to this end, I recently had a chance to talk to James Smith, who is the EVP of Americas for Criteo.
Starting a company has its ups and downs, highs and lows. The same can be said for any job, and any leadership position—even in a large organization. But when starting a business, especially a tech one, things move quickly—often too quickly. Ultimately, running a company boils down to one thing: transparent and consistent communication.
Criteo announced the launch of Criteo Dynamic Mail on Thursday, a predictive email marketing solution that delivers product recommendations based on a customer's previous browsing behavior and purchase history. Criteo Dynamic Email adds a finite email targeting solution to the performance marketing company’s suite of advertising technology products for online retailers.
Criteo Southeast Asia managing director Yuko Saito explains that the firm helps ecommerce players boost sales by sending personalized and relevant messages to consumers.
Mobile has given a new lease of life to email marketing, and it's too good an opportunity to ignore with messages that are neither well targeted or personalized. That was a point sent home by Sylvain Piquet, VP of strategy for Email at Criteo when we chatted about today's release of its Dynamic Email service. It's essentially an upgrade to the retargeting email service the company already offers. This allows a brand to put their goods back in front of someone whom they didn't recognize, although they browsed without buying, or who looked for products they sell on another publisher's site who has permission to email them with a trusted partner's offer.
