Rakuten Advertising Blog

Founded in 2004, Hotel Chocolat is a British chocolatier and a unique type of chocolate company that connects luxury chocolate making and retailing with cocoa growing – it is one of the world’s few chocolate makers to grow their own cocoa.

Consumers believe they are missing out on video-on-demand content due to lack of availability and price, according to new research from Rakuten Advertising, the global provider of advertising technology and consumer insights.

In its most basic form, affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing channel whereby brands partner with publishers and pay them an agreed commission rate based on actual performance.

Marisol Rossi Gonzalez, Rakuten Advertising’s Senior Manager of Search, discusses how retailers can develop an online strategy to support the reopening of stores. Also known as O2O (Online to Offline).

The majority of consumers would watch targeted adverts to be able to access video content for free, according to new research from Rakuten Advertising, the global provider of advertising technology and consumer insights. 

This week we launch our Industry Profiles, showcasing the talent across Rakuten Advertising. First up, we speak our UK Senior Manager of Search, Marisol Rossi González.

Over the course of the past week, there has been a string of good news stories from around the world.

At every level across the Rakuten organisation we are learning about what it means to be a sustainable business, and to see how we can support our clients and partners in their own efforts too.

It was anticipated that in 2019 shoppers in the UK would spend £1.6 billion on their Mum’s during the Mother’s Day shopping period. Last year saw Mother’s Day moved from early March to the end of the month, a move that saw brands begin promoting the holiday later than usual and many questioned whether this would impact sales or not.

Rakuten Advertising is honoured to announce that we have been shortlisted for eight awards at PerformanceIn's Performance Marketing Awards.

Rakuten Marketing has long established itself as one of the most innovative companies in ad tech and digital commerce, evolving and advancing over the past 24 years to meet the needs of our growing client base.