Retail & Ecommerce
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands such as Warby Parker, Casper and Everlane have shifted how brands interact with their customers. By cutting out the middleman and establishing online relationships with customers directly, guaranteeing swift delivery and painless buying experiences, as well as positioning themselves as a better alternative to the status quo, DTC brands are carving out a new retail experience.
eMarketer's "Do You Have a Second?" is a mini-podcast that offers a quick hit of the latest digital data. Today, we’re talking about cookies—who's baking and who's buying—millennials’ attitudes about kindness (and what that might mean for shopping), and wearable device growth.
Retailers often focus on customer acquisition—a costly prospect—at the expense of customer retention. Instant gratification can be a bigger incentive than building loyalty over time.
Due to the growing number of channels available and younger consumers reaching adulthood, expectations for customer service have been changing.
Despite the ubiquity of online shopping, consumers still rely on face-to-face interaction in the path to purchase, whether it be for getting product information, seeing in-person demos or tracking down items in other stores.
Every week on eMarketer’s “Behind the Numbers” podcast, we take a few minutes to discuss some of the most intriguing headlines of the past seven days. This week, we're chatting about high-profile hacks, the race for more impenetrable encryption, and media with aroma.
Gating content and offers can provide marketers with valuable data for lead generation. However, asking for too much information can turn users off from a brand.
Holiday retail sales will surpass $1 trillion in the US for the first time this year, with mobile celebrating its own milestone by driving nearly 25% of growth.
This year, there will be 82.5 million mobile phone P2P payment users in the US, according to eMarketer estimates.
Amazon already has a major stake in India's fast-growing ecommerce market. Here's how we know the country is one of its big targets for 2019.
Efforts to increase supply chain efficiency are nothing new, but as retail ecommerce sales continue to grow, retailers need to be more flexible.
Subscription commerce has captured retailers' attention with its built-in customer base and predictable sales patterns. It may seem like there is a box for everything—think special effects makeup or instant ramen—but not all categories have been embraced equally.
Social commerce has reinvented itself many times over but has yet to prove itself as a solid sales tactic. Next year, the version that has been evolving during 2018 could finally take hold.
According to data from liquidation platform B-Stock Solutions, roughly $90 billion to $95 billion in holiday gifts will be returned this year.
With store closures and bankruptcies—Toys 'R' Us, Sears and Brookstone, to name a few—showing no signs of letting up, it raises the question of what sets a successful retailer apart from the rest.
Direct-to-consumer brands like Everlane and Bonobos, fast casual grain bowl chain Sweetgreen and beauty salon Drybar are just a few businesses that have adopted a cashless model. But consumers aren't necessarily ready to do away with cash.
In this Analyst Webinar presentation, made possible by BigCommerce, eMarketer’s principal retail analyst Andrew Lipsman provides an exclusive breakdown of what retailers have experienced so far this year, and what that means for the holiday season as a whole.
While a gap in ecommerce adoption between retailers and brand manufacturers used to be quite prevalent, it’s now common practice for brands to sell online, a trend that will continue to increase in 2019.
This year, 134.0 million mobile users in the US will use a mobile coupon. That's an 8.0% increase from 2017, according to eMarketer estimates.