What is artificial intelligence? For many of us, it has scary connotations, largely influenced by apocalyptic films like those of the Terminator franchise. However, artificial intelligence is already with us - and, ultimately, has proven…
With mobile eCommerce - otherwise known as mCommerce - sales expected to make up 54% of eCommerce platforms' sales by 2021, it's tempting to think online shopping must be reaching its maximum potential on mobile…
In many ways, fulfilment – the process by which an item ordered from an online store is packed and dispatched to the customer – is the ‘dirty underbelly’ of eCommerce. By that, I mean it’s…
In the second quarter of 2019, the number of wearable devices shipped globally increased by 85.2%, reaching 67.7 million in shipments, research firm IDC has reported. Another researcher, Ovum, has forecast that the installed base…
When the mobile game Pokémon Go became a surprise hit upon its release back in July 2016, it opened people's eyes as to the potential of augmented reality (AR) – the clever technology that allowed…
The news that social media and eCommerce have borne a child perhaps shouldn’t be a great revelation to you; after all, they’ve been noticeably cosying up to each other and whispering sweet nothings into each…
Do you feel that your eCommerce store is continually playing catch-up to the Googles and Amazons of this world, when it comes to innovating to stay one step ahead of rivals and in the process,…
It might have seemed a crazy question to ask at one point, and indeed, you may still feel that it’s a slightly curious one. Recent reports like this one, for instance, indicating that brick-and-mortar stores…
The ‘sharing economy’ hasn’t always been clearly understood or concisely defined, so it’s perhaps not too surprising that the worlds of retail and eCommerce marketing haven’t been as profoundly affected so far by this concept…
Whether you see Generation Z – typically defined as those born between the mid-1990s and around 2010 – as merely a youngster subset of the Millennial generation or a distinct generation in its own right,…