Category: Tech & AI

After years of anticipation, Google announced it will not phase out third-party cookies after all.   Cookies track consumers across the web and help marketers serve relevant advertisements to target consumers. In 2020, the giant had announced that due to privacy concerns, it would phase out cookies on its Chrome browser. However, after pushback from […]

Amazon.com launched a generative AI chatbot to its app just in time for its annual Prime Day sales event.   The chatbot, called Rufus, is in the bottom right corner of the app, marked with an orange, teal and star icon. On a product page, a shopper can tap on the icon and ask the […]

Toy company Toys R Us debuted a brand video almost completely created with generative artificial intelligence.   The one-minute video portrays a boy in the 1930s dreaming of a toy store with a female voice telling the origin story of Toys R Us. The boy depicts Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus and how he came […]

EBay’s casual sellers need sophisticated tools. And generative artificial intelligence is the vehicle to get that job done.   That’s what the marketplace giant determined last year when it started doubling down on investing in the seller experience for its casual sellers, said Xiaodi Zhang, vice president of seller experience at eBay.   Most recently, eBay debuted […]

Skincare brand and facial bar Face Haus recently added an artificial intelligence skin analysis tool called Skin IQ into its service option at its facial bars.   The personal care brand is taking a different approach to growth and looking to “key partnerships” to expand its brand, instead of the typical growth path in opening dozens of […]

Social media platform TikTok debuted generative artificial intelligence avatars for advertisers in June. The avatars of real people will help brands develop creative content for the platform at scale, TikTok said in the press release announcement. Brands can use stock avatars or custom avatars. TikTok built stock avatars using paid actors that are licensed for […]

Retail giant Walmart announced it will roll out digital shelf tags to 2,300 stores by 2026 replacing the paper tags it uses now. The omnichannel technology upgrade will help increase efficiency in updating prices, replenishing inventory and picking ecommerce orders, according to Walmart in a press release announcement. Walmart piloted the electronic price tags at […]

Operating a retail media network is in the cards for craft retail chain Michaels, said Heather Bennett, executive vice president of marketing and ecommerce at the Retail Innovation Conference in June. The chain previously dabbled with operating a retail media network but did not move forward with the initiative — as many of the products […]

It was 2019 and the email marketing program at retail chain Aaron’s needed a reset. The list was dirty. The sends were batch and blast. And the content was dry, said Hody Crouch, vice president of data and analytics at the lease-to-own retail chain. “At the same time, the company was digitizing. We were moving […]

Digital payment platform PayPal is planning to build an ad business unit powered by the data from the hundreds of millions of shoppers that use the platform to pay for online purchases. This week, PayPal announced it hired Mark Grether as senior vice president, general manager, PayPal Ads. His role will be to build an […]