2020 has seen e-commerce accelerate with more consumers and brands turning to online shopping during lockdown. With high-street, closed people who previously hadn’t shopped online are now more comfortable making […]

Throughout 2020 publishers and brands have had to adjust to continually shifting consumer behaviours as the world moved in and out of lockdown. Brands looked to make up for lost […]

Rakuten Advertising Cyber Week data reveals that retailers’ online campaigns to lengthen Black Friday peak have been successful. With eMarketer’s forecast for global e-commerce growth revised to 14% (down from […]

Singles’ Day kicked off the 2020 peak shopping season, with many watching nervously to see if the challenges presented throughout of the year would impact performance. In positive news, Alibaba […]

Last week the UK entered its second national lockdown, creating a new set of challenges for retailers to overcome during the busiest retail period of the year. And while lockdown […]

Covid-19 has caused a shift among advertisers towards short term planning, publishers note New findings in the ‘Road to Recovery’ from Rakuten Advertising highlight that almost half (49%) of affiliate […]

Gen Z consumers are shaping the future of shopping, whether it be in-store or online. A generation of digital natives who rarely remember a world before mobile phones or life […]

This week, Rakuten Advertising released its latest consumer insights report, The Road to Recovery: 2020 e-Commerce in Asia-Pacific. This year, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region alone will account for 63% of […]

Rakuten Advertising recently launched a new innovative way to manage affiliate marketing programs – through our Accelerate service. We understand that our clients are being asked to do more with […]

In early September, children and university students throughout the UK will return to school. For many students, they will head into the classroom for the first time since the government […]