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In Focus

Prime Day Is in the Rearview Mirror—and We Learned Even More in 2019

By Rob Mixer on Jul 19, 2019 2:58:23 PM

Prime Day 2019 has come and gone.

The early returns are, as you’d expect, even bigger and eye-popping than they were a year ago. While the financials aren’t yet official, Amazon said it shattered previous Prime Day records this year; more than 175 million products were sold (via Yahoo! Finance) and sales surpassed Cyber Monday and Black Friday...combined.

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Back-to-School: the Keys to a Memorable Campaign

By Liz Samuelson on Jul 17, 2019 3:23:07 PM

An email dings your inbox. The ask? Your boss wants you to lead the charge on a new back-to-school campaign. It needs to be “fresh and poppy,” have Gen Z appeal, and increase sales by 5%. It also must produce enough video and photography content for seamless marketing across dozens of channels, all while keeping customers engaged and your boss beaming.

You? Overwhelmed. How will you accomplish this Herculean task? What creative approach should your agency take—and how will you direct it?

 

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Back-to-school, Retailers...You’ve Been Prime’d. Here’s What to Do

By Rob Mixer on Jul 12, 2019 11:05:58 AM

Remember when we all went back-to-school shopping?

It was, at best, a bittersweet endeavor. 

On one hand, it basically meant that summer was over. Once the calendar hit August, we groaned as we embarked on the slow march toward the first day of school—which would be briefly interrupted by a little slice of retail euphoria. Get in the car, kids, we’re getting everything you need for the new school year and we’re going to do it in like, four hours. Our parents truly loved us, didn’t they?

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