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Before even delving into playlist curation, one must understand the subtle nuances of a brand. First task? Develop an audio identity.

Shifts in the demographics and mindset of today’s luxury consumers have brought about profound changes in the way they shop and buy and how luxury fits into their lifestyle.

With Article 50 set for invocation March 29, everyone in the United Kingdom is understandably uncertain about what the commercial future holds.

How do you formulate and implement an effective strategy that remains within budget? How do you determine how much to budget – something between zero and a huge amount?

Ninety percent of Facebook’s active daily users access Facebook through mobile, making it an ideal platform to capture new app users.

Mobile POS solutions can prevent losing a sale by providing endless-aisle capability.

Advertisers are starting to invest more in finding quality users for their apps – those who will either make purchases or engage with the app long enough to consume ads.

There is a common misconception that millennials have abandoned traditional television in favor of video streaming, social media and other Web-based activities via mobile devices.

You do not offer an engagement ring on a first date, and you do not ask a potential customer for a commitment on the first interaction. And yes, an app is a commitment.

Criteo has analyzed billions of ecommerce transactions every quarter since 2014 to produce this semi-annual report. However, this is the first time to my knowledge that it has named it the State of Cross-Device Commerce. Earlier versions were called State of Mobile Commerce.

There is a common belief that the more data you have on an individual, the better the understanding, and therefore you will be better at serving and selling to them.

Creative remains the ultimate carrier of your message: it compels engagement, it fuels viral social success, and it determines how your brand will be remembered.

Experiences are the new common currency of shopping.

The customer who is willing to walk into your store to look, buy, try-on or just talk is the most dedicated customer you can have.

The future of loyalty is mobile and card free. The explosive growth of mobile applications has provided an obvious avenue for consumers to reduce the number of loyalty cards they carry.

Art and luxury have intersected time and time again in China as brands work to find new ways to engage aspiring collectors and art enthusiasts, especially those within the country’s budding market of Gen Y consumers.

In today’s world of notifications, pings and distractions, it is really quite silly to assume that people are going to log in to a platform that is not already built into their daily routine.

It is the little things that often are not so little but deeply telling of a brand’s true corporate culture.

For all the growth over the past year, it is entirely possible that 2017 will bring even greater change to the way that consumers use their mobile devices and the tactics that marketers employ to engage those consumers.

Google’s mobile-first index will be here in months, making Google prioritize mobile content for the first time in its history, and changing the indexing and ranking game for good. Will you be ready when it comes?

Promoting products using influencers should only be done if there is a clear and natural fit between that product and influencer.