CDP Institute

With changing consumer and retail trends as well as more inclusive payment options, e-commerce spending is estimated to rise by 162% to reach US$179.8b by 2025.

Sales festivals, such as 11.11 and 12.12, create opportunities for consumers to make advanced holiday gift purchases, and retailers should note to make these moments count, and capture the attention of their shoppers in advance of year-end seasonal shopping moments. Out of all these sales festivals, which remains the most popular among Southeast Asian consumers?

Facing so many challenges during the pandemic, retail needs to have the following while welcoming 2022: e-commerce, empowering on-ground staff, use of data, reducing friction, and taking an omni-channel approach.

El Salvador’s Bitcoin (BTC) adoption has triggered a digital asset revolution in Latin America, and the region could benefit even more if people can exchange cryptocurrencies, fiat money and the upcoming central bank digital currencies (CBDC) on the same infrastructure. Venezuela and Colombia are the two most prominent crypto adopters in the region besides El Salvador. However, other nations are closing the gap rather quickly, with El Salvador acting as a catalyst.

WeAreContent, a leading company in multimedia content creation and effective content strategies with SEO techniques, presented last month through the virtual event with partners of the IAB Colombia, the results of the SEO Latin America 2021 digital study. One of the conclusions found that that there is a clear lack of knowledge in the marketing areas of organizations and also in their digital areas. Only 57% of the digital areas of organizations consider SEO to be fundamental and 43% do not see it as an essential tool surprise the community.

Microsoft has launched a 10-week immersive program to drive innovation in India and to help B2B and B2C startups from diverse industries that are leveraging AI. The initiative is supported by TiE Mumbai and launches in November.

Salsify, the Commerce Experience Management platform has acquired SKUvantage to help retailers, distributors, and manufacturers deliver engaging digital product content to buyers, with less time, cost, and effort.

The partnership sees Lacework data available in the Snowflake Data Cloud, enabling organisations to analyse and report on risk and threats across their cloud and container environments.

Housing Industry Association (HIA), the largest residential building organisation in Australia, has partnered with award-winning Platinum Sitecore Implementation Partner, Switch, to overhaul its suite of web-based content platforms and provide a connected digital experience to its 20,000+ member businesses across the country.

Malaysia’s Sunway Malls has unveiled its eCommerce platform, SunwayeMall.com, as part of its strategic digitalisation effort to complete its physical and digital mall presence after. The eCommerce platform is set to launch on 27 October and will complement its current combined 4.5 million square feet of physical retail space of seven malls.

Understanding that health and digitalization are the foundation of the society and economy, Grab, together with telco EMTEK and e-commerce Bukalapak, has recently launched an accelerator program called, ‘City of the Future’, aimed at targeting 10,000 MSMEs in small cities throughout Indonesia and help them on vaccination, adoption of digital platforms, and empowerment through training and mentoring for business development.

The leader in consumer and market intelligence and analytical and consulting services – today announced an expanded partnership with BrandTotal, the leading social competitive intelligence and brand analytics platform. This partnership offers a powerful new solution for Mexican companies: the availability of real-time market intelligence for paid social media advertising.