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Trends 2023: Shopify – Commerce Trends Report 2023
Change is a constant in the world of business. In the past year, we’ve seen millions of businesses show resilience and contribute to over $27 trillion in retail sales worldwide, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, 64% of global businesses are still feeling the negative effects of the pandemic. The economic instability…
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Southeast Asian Map of E-commerce Consumer Insights
This latest online retail overview from iPrice compares Southeast Asia’s major e-commerce players based on their average quarterly traffic, mobile application ranking and also looks at general market trends.
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Vietnam Ecommerce Rankings
The Map of E-Commerce from iPrice ranks Vietnam‘s top 50 e-commerce players based on their average quarterly traffic, mobile application ranking, social media followers and number of staff. Vietnam top 10 Ecommerce iPrice have just released their Q4 2019 Ecommerce Report in Vietnamese. You can find the live report in English here.
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Chinese Tourists Driving New Wave of Mobile Payment Adoption
In 2017, China became Singapore’s top market for both tourism receipts and visitor arrivals, contributing 3.2 million tourists. As one in a series of parallel moves seen worldwide, mobile payment provider Alipay also launched it’s payment platform to allow Chinese tourists to pay in the way they know best. Alipay is China’s largest mobile and…
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Inside China’s Mobile Payments War
In 2018, China is an almost entirely cashless consumer economy, where popular mobile payment apps such as WeChat Pay and Alipay have enabled consumers to go straight from cash, to smartphone payments, leapfrogging the use of credit cards and cheques. One of the world’s leading players in mobile or e-payment, China saw $15.4 trillion worth of mobile…
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Sales increase for 51% of online retailers in SEA and Taiwan over past year
Fashion is the biggest ecommerce category, while payment methods and delivery issues are the biggest concerns for online retailers and marketers in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, according to a new report from Econsultancy and Shopee exploring challenges and opportunities in ecommerce across the region. The results revealed that 51% of online retailers and 41% of marketers saw their…
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New Tech Heats Up APAC Ecommerce Market
Criteo launched two new solutions in APAC this week – Criteo Audience Match and Criteo Kinetic Design with Video – to help retailers and brands deliver seamless and relevant shopping experiences across all devices and channels. Using customer relationship management (CRM) or data management platform (DMP) data to accurately target audiences across web, mobile browser and apps, Criteo…
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5 Steps to Capture the Valentine’s Day Dollar
With Valentine’s Day hot on the heels of Chinese New Year – itself coming about a month after Christmas – there have been and will be great opportunities for retailers to capture the gift-giving market. Yet, it’s been well publicized that the retail industry is flagging, with data showing that the average vacancy rate of…
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Profiling the Anonymous Customer: Fully Understanding the Consumer Journey
Stephen McNulty, Managing Director Asia-Pacific and Japan at Progress, discusses the importance of gaining a comprehensive view of each customer’s journey and following a targeted approach based on the insights. There are many challenges facing today’s marketers: pressure for growth, ever-growing marketplace competition and ‘always-on’ expectations from both customers and employers. According to a Forrester…
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Asian Brands must be more Innovative than those in the West
According to a recent Razorfish digital marketing report, Asian Marketers must be more innovative and forward-thinking than their western counterparts, to meet the technology-driven expectations of consumers in our region. Asian consumers are not only reporting higher ownership and usage of technology, they also hold higher expectations of brands and technology overall. We talk to Joanna Kalenska, Managing Director…
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