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Global e-commerce consultancy, Wunderman Thompson Commerce releases the 4th edition of their Future Shopper report. The report seeks to identify trends in consumers’ digital buying behaviors, with the aim of helping to influence organizations’ strategies and to ensure that they are ready for the consumer and the channels of the future. Here are the key […]

Ayman Haydar, CEO of programmatic marketplace provider MMP World Wide, talks about how the tech giants are entering the world of e-commerce and the changes in sentiment towards digitization.  10 weeks. 70 days. 1,680 hours. Far too many Netflix binges to mention. Meaningless stats at any other time, but in the context of the coronavirus, […]

Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, TBWA\RAAD has been actively sharing insights, data, and tips to better address today’s and tomorrow’s new normal. Remie Abdo, Head of Strategy (left), and Jennifer Fischer, Chief Innovation Officer (right), explain how this strategy was developed and what it means to achieve. TBWA\RAAD is the Disruption agency. How […]

A report by Polar, a format management platform, unveils some interesting insights on where digital advertising expenditure is heading, which platforms are soon going to rise in popularity, and why the cookie is dying. Where is digital advertising spend going? Digital ad spend increases by 18% year on year and soon will account for 50% […]

Lutz Finger, director of data sciences and data engineering at LinkedIn, and San-Francisco based entrepreneur and co-founder of social and media monitoring platform Fisheye Analytics – which was acquired by WPP’s research unit, Kantar, in December 2013 – has earned a name for himself in the small big data circles; which is why his recently […]

  The decision of an established e-commerce player to drop COD (cash on delivery) services would garner little attention elsewhere in the world – and, in fact, would only be considered a natural progression of the business. But regional e-commerce platform JadoPado’s recent announcement that it would stop offering COD as a payment option got quite mixed reactions in a region where a […]

  LoopPay Inc., which provides the world’s first mobile payments solution accepted at the vast majority of retail point-of-sale terminals, announced that it has received an investment from global payments technology company Visa Inc. The investment is part of a larger strategic funding round for LoopPay, announced earlier this month, which includes Synchrony Financial (formerly GE Capital […]

After the native ad, here comes the buy button. On Wednesday, both Facebook and Twitter made critical moves in their efforts to transform their platforms into formidable spaces for online commerce. On the morning of 17th July, Facebook unveiled a new test click-to-purchase product. Members on desktop computers or mobile devices will be able to […]

Multi-currency and multi-lingual payment gateway for SMEs Telr  – founded and headed in the region by ex-Paypal MENA managing director Elias Ghanem –  has announced its merger with payment processing company Innovate Payments. Through this merger, Telr will strenghten its payment gateway, unified logistics and payments APIs offerings, alongside its cash management solutions. “Telr’s ambition to revolutionize the payments landscape […]