As it turns out, savvy retailers and CPG brands aren’t just setting resolutions for the New Year. Instead, they’re picking one mantra to guide all of their strategic product development, positioning, marketing, and sales decisions for 2020, and they’ve decided that it’s going to be the year of the customer.
The holiday shopping season, a time in which consumers plan to out-spend every other spending event throughout the year, is fast approaching. In order to find out how, when, and where consumers plan to shop this holiday season, we polled over 29,000 Shopkick users.
While thousands of creative new products enter and compete for market share each year, a large majority (85%) of them fail.
Consumer video consumption has increased so dramatically year over year that, according to research from the IAB, 59% of marketers’ digital ad budgets are currently allocated to digital and mobile video, and marketers expect to increase that investment by 53% in the coming year.
While total projected fraud losses have gone down year over year, there is still anywhere from $6.5 billion to $16.4 billion globally — estimates vary widely — that will be lost to ad fraud in 2017. And that’s just fraud. Viewability represents further wasted ad dollars when real people may view a page that hosts …
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Dima Volovik is the EVP of Product and Engineering at Trax Retail — Shopkick.
Dima Volovik is the accomplished product and engineering leader who led teams to deliver innovative and commercially successful e-commerce products, marketplaces, and enterprise solutions for Amazon, Comcast, Fandango, and Universal Music. Before joining Trax, Dima was the Director at Amazon, where he led product development and Engineering for Amazon Appstore and Amazon Prime Video, CTO at Fandango, and Paciolan, head of technology at Golf Channel/Golf Now, and Global VP of Direct to Consumer Technology at Universal Music Group. Dima’s expertise includes developing consumer products, marketplaces, and enterprise solutions.
Dima grew up in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he received his MS in Electrical Engineering from Azerbaijan Oil Academy, and he currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with his family.
