Despite a spectacular fall in profits, CEO David Potts praised the supermarket group’s entrepreneurial spirit and online growth, which has been helped by its tie-up with Amazon, with speculation mounting around a possible takeover.
Amazon now tops the global ad spend charts, despite founder Jeff Bezos’s original scepticism towards advertising – not surprising, since it’s crucial for defending market share.
The 2020 crop of Christmas campaigns could be ushering in a new age of diversity in television ads.
Since its launch in Japan in 2000, Amazon has sought to slowly establish itself in some of Asia-Pacific’s biggest markets. However, the ride has not universally been a smooth one. Here’s how Amazon is faring in Asia-Pacific in the year 2020.
Amazon tops BrandZ’s ranking of the 100 most valuable global brands for the second year in a row, keeping Apple in second as Google slips to fourth.
From Glossier to Amazon, brands across the retail spectrum are adopting a ‘customer-backwards’ approach to developing new propositions which works back from the customer insight.
For all the talk of conscious consumerism, Amazon’s market dominance continues apace despite its low tax bill and its excessive packaging.
After brands’ more ‘real’, product-focused approach to Christmas last year they have switched back to emotional advertising; but there are as many winners as losers in the brand-building game.
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Maintaining relevance and responding rapidly to consumer demand has helped Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Disney retain their spot in Interbrand’s top 10 after 20 years.
There is a new leader in the BrandZ rankings of the top 100 global brands, with Amazon breaking the 12-year reign of Apple and Google.
Amazon is now TV’s third-biggest spender, with total TV ad revenue reaching £5.11bn in 2018 thanks to increased investment from online businesses.
The annual study from Kantar Millward Brown reveals consumers have responded better to simple Christmas stories than blockbuster ads this year.
TV sets, not mobile devices, are the future of video but if traditional broadcasters want to survive they must stop wasting time on their own smart TV apps and combine on a single platform.
Amazon is renaming its ad business Amazon Advertising as it looks to simplify its offering and take a bigger slice of the global digital ad market.