Retail & Ecommerce

eMarketer senior analyst Bill Fisher hosts principal analyst Karin von Abrams, senior forecasting analyst Cindy Liu, and research analyst at Insider Intelligence Man-Chung Cheung to discuss cross-border ecommerce: What are the largest and fastest growing cross-border markets, which marketplaces are people buying from, and what are the main barriers to overcome when buying products from different countries?

Social commerce is at the nexus of media-commerce convergence, a much larger and more powerful trend. One outgrowth of the past decade’s shift from mass to addressable media is that brands can efficiently find and aggregate niche audiences while shortening their path to purchase. It makes sense that there would be efforts to explicitly commercialize media content by making it shoppable.

TikTok sets up Shop: The platform is testing in-app shopping in Indonesia, and at the pace its commerce tools have been advancing, the feature will likely go global soon—so marketers should start preparing now.

Reviews have always been a key aspect of a consumer’s shopping journey. But nowadays—particularly as more consumers lean on ecommerce—additional information in the form of user-generated visuals is becoming just as critical.