The Jason & Scot Show - E-Commerce And Retail News

EP022 - Facebook F8, Channel Advisor Catalyst, Magento Imagine, and Echo Dot review Facebook F8 : Announced the messenger bot platform, included several early e-commerce examples.  Most reviews of the early shopping bot experiences were poor, but Jason remains optimistic about the platform.   Danny Sullivan sends Mark Zuckerberg flowers via Chatbot . Open-source 360 VR camera VR selfie-stick socia...

EP021 - Local SEO, Amazon Shareholder Letter and eBay Seller Release   ChannelAdvisor March Same Store Sales Data : It was another good month for Google with Google Shopping/Product Listing Ads showing strong growth at 41.8%, which seems to have come at the expense of eBay which was flat. Scot has noticed very aggressive placement of PLAs and a number of experiments with new ad units, such as a ne...

EP020 - Guest Kevin Ertell, SVP Sur La Table News: Amazon Dash buttons get an update Next Generation Apple Store opens in Memphis, TN Lululemon new pants wall Facebook Messenger Getting a Wallet Upcoming Events F8 - Facebook Developer Conference  April 12+13 Google I/O Developer Conference  May 18-20 Guest Kevin Ertell, SVP Digital Sur La Table @kevinertell Cart Talk - a great example of social pr...

Adobe Summit: Jason attended the Adobe summit. Adobe announced a Cross Device Attribution “Device Co-op”  From the retail supersession, Sucherita Mulpuru shared the Forrester mobile forecast,$35B in mobile sales, $977B mobile influenced sales.  So for every dollar purchased on a mobile device, another $28 are influenced. Adobe demoed an entirely unrealistic retail use case " REI Shopping Bag " bas...

EP018 - Target "Goldfish", Instacart, and Amazon Peeves Amazon News: This week is the 10th anniversary of AWS.  Stratechery has a great piece about how Amazon leverages AWS with it's novel strategy for scale  Journalists touring Amazon Fulfillment centers, noticed that Amazon uses video shaming to discourage theft .  You can take your own tour of an Amazon FC by signing up here .  Dropbox announce...

EP017 - JCP, Gap, CostCo, URBN News, February Same Store Sales, Search & Category Page Usability, and Upcoming Events JCP does not plan to close stores Marvin Ellison, JCP CEO: “What’s more, Penney has noticed that when it closes a store, online sales in the surrounding area also fall because awareness of the J.C. Penney brand falters” “Ellison last month told investors that shoppers coming in to...

EP016 - Mobile World Congress, Target Earnings, Sports Authority Chapter 11, and Book Recommendations Mobile World Congress recap: Mobile Connect - http://www.gsma.com/personaldata/personal-data-programme Echoss - http://www.12cm.co.kr/en/12cm Viewport fragmentation Q4 results continue to come in : Target Comp sales up 1.9 vs Walmart 0.6% Signature Categories up 6% Traffic up 5 consecutive quarter...

EP015 - eBags co-founder Peter Cobb, Google SERPs and Amazon Peter Cobb, co-founder of eBags and e-commerce pioneer shares his insight and learnings from 17 years of growing a profitable pure-play e-commerce site Our discussion includes, the founding of ebags, shop.org, the future of pure-plays e-commerce sites, brands going direct, private label and the evolution of mobile. Google has made change...

EP0014 - Walmart E-Com, NYC Retail, Amazon Apparel, and Amazon Flex Walmart Earnings Nordstorm Earnings - Rack cannibalizing Mainline stores? New Neiman Marcus Long Island Flagship New Barney's NYC Flagship SnapChat Commerce Shopify Chat Commerce - Shopify Shopkey Amazon Apparel / Amazon Diapers - Mama Bear Amazon Flex - An uber killer? Microsoft Hololens Ted Demo Metavision.com Ted Demo http://re...

EP013 - SuperBowl, VR, Future of Malls, and why responsive design is a bad idea Recap of Superbowl Ads. Including ads from Amazon, Paypal, and Dollar Shave Club. Digital Calls to action in ads. And mobile engagement with those ads. Are stale fashion trends curtailing woman's apparel sales, or is it another example of Amazon eating the world? Google, Apple, and Alibaba all make new investments in V...

EP012 - Amazon Retail Stores, Google Earnings, Subscriptions, and Marketplaces. http://retailgeek.com/podcast Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

Episode 11 covers a recap of numerous Q4 earnings calls including E-Bay, Facebook, Alibaba, Amazon, Starbucks and Microsoft. Also Uber, Macy's, Walmart news. The Jason & Scot Show. Podcast about e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. http://retailgeek.com/podcast Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of C...

EP010 - NRF Big Show Recap, Amazon Updates, and new Google PLA format Robots! Smartshelfs What's the future for beacons? AR/VR Electronic Shelf Labels and Dynamic Pricing NRF Whispers - Was this a tough holiday season for Brick & Mortar? Are shipping rates going up (even though gas prices are at historic lows)? Amazon assortment is growing dramatically. Amazon is the top brand in the US (per YouGo...

EP009 - recap of  CES, a preview of NRF, L2 #RIPPurePlay event, Amazon fulfillment and tax news, and Holiday wrap-up . / / http://retailgeek.com/podcast / / Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marke...

EP008 - Chat Commerce, Gen Z, New Retail, and Walmart Payments. Scots top 5 predictions for 2016: 2016 will be the year of Chat Commerce Amazon will make some big moves in logistics Jet will prove the naysayers wrong, and get acquired Google will make a bold move this year in e-commerce that surprises everyone Alibaba’s attempts to bring Singles day to the US will fail Jason top 5 predictions for...

Episode 7 covers an update on brick and mortar holiday sales. The top 5 online shopping days. Shipping woes for UPS, Fedex, and Jet. Is e-commerce at a tipping point in-terms of overtaking brick and mortar sales? And a discussion about how large Amazon really is. http://retailgeek.com/podcast   oin your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder...

Episode 6 covers Commerce in Korea, a Holiday Update including the shape of holiday peaks and the risk for holiday shipments, Gilts potential sale and the overall state of Daily Deal Sites, Nordstrom E-commerce investment strategy, Hoverboard fire problems, and a few Amazon and Alibaba tidbits.. http://retailgeek.com/podcast Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Ra...

EP05 - Chat Commerce, Gen Z, New Retail, and Walmart Payments.  Episode 5 covers Chat Commerce including consumer behaviors in Eastern & Western markets, a discussion about Generation Z, new retail concepts including Birch Box store, Target Wonderland Popup, and B8ta store, and the announcement of Walmart's new mobile payments system. http://retailgeek.com/podcast Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek...

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. EP004 - Post holiday recap, mobile, top products, Amazon news Complete show notes are available at http://retailgeek.com/podcast

Episode 3 - The Holiday Edition covers: Comscore State of the U.S. Online Retail Economy Q3 w/ Holiday Forecast Channel Advisor Same Store Sales, 3rd week of November results Adobe Holiday Forecast Other Holiday Benchmarks IBM, Google, Deloitte, Forrester, Custora, Demandware, Monetate Amazon NY times article sales the long game is working, as retail turns profitable Will Amazon becoming a shippin...

Episode 2 covers the Merrill Lynch Bank of America Internet/E-commerce 10th Annual Holiday Pricing Survey, a discussion about the future of retail, and how robots are improving the retail experience. Links: http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2015-11-16/retail-earnings-slowing-internet-sales-aren-t-helping http://www.with.me/retail/shopwithme-store http://www.lowesinnovationlabs.com/innovatio...

Episode 1 covers singles day, the personalization paradox, Channel Advisor same store sales report (SSS), holiday promotions trends, and digital wallet news.   Links: 11.11 Day  http://www.alizila.com/alibabas-shopping-festival-rakes-in-14-3-billion/ Forrester digital business forum  https://www.forrester.com/DIGITAL+BUSINESS+2015/-/E-EVE6702 Channel Advisor SSS - http://www.channeladvisor.com/blo...