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Amazon Brings Live Shopping to Streaming TV

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon is expanding the reach of its Amazon Live shopping content with the debut of a new interactive shoppable channel on the Prime Video and Freevee streaming TV services. Now, the new Amazon Live FAST channel aims to blend the experience of a shoppable social feed with streaming TV via 24/7 programming.

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Ideal Shopping Direct blasts through bullish forecasts

Retail Technology Review

Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD), the UK multi-channel home shopping retailer and owner of the Create and Craft and Ideal World TV channel, reports that it has achieved a significant turnaround in the past 12 months; £6.5m profit, 30% ahead of the £5m it predicted earlier in the year.

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How Direct-To-Consumer Is Driving The Need For Real-Time In Retail

RTP blog

Well, you don’t need to care, but Charles Darwin would argue you should: “It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, it’s the one that most adapts to change.” Technology is changing the way we live, the way consumers shop and the way retailers need to operate.

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‘Reclaiming’ lost loyalty for high-street brands via the Metaverse

365 Retail

After all, the convenience of at-home shopping is only going to be heightened as metaverse capabilities become more sophisticated. The metaverse is the congruence of identity and omni presentation channels, so that rather than detract from the physical world it will instead compliment it. . James Browne, Director, 4 Roads.

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Shift happens: 7 factors that defined a decade of retail disruption

Steve Dennis

Certainly the past 50 or 60 years brought some big changes: the rise of the suburban regional shopping center, the emergence of discount mass merchants and category killers, the advent of home shopping and warehouse clubs and so on. When it comes to retail, most folks point to online shopping as the most disruptive force.

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What is Live Shopping: A Guide for Ecommerce Professionals

Ecommerce Platforms

As mentioned, some people call it live shopping; yet, we've also heard other phrases like live stream shopping, social shopping, and streamable shopping. Essentially, we're seeing a combination of old ecommerce sales strategies and new technologies.

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3 Ways Livestreaming is Shaking Up the Retail Marketing Playbook

Retail TouchPoints

Many experts point to true livestreaming as a digital adaptation of the “home shopping” models pioneered by QVC and HSN. Traditional ecommerce site experiences fail to replicate the highly personalized nature of the store experience, unless retailers invest in the appropriate technology — something smaller retailers can’t always do.