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Join hosts Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and 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.
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Jul 30, 2017

EP095- Listener Questions and Amazon Earnings

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Amazon Q2 2017 Earnings Summary (PDF from Amazon)

  • Amazon reported a beat on revenue but a miss on earnings
  • Revenue came in at $37.96 billion, beating street estimates of $37.18 billion.
  • EPS was only 40 cents per share, missing street estimates of $1.42 per share.

Listener Questions

  • Kiri Masters:

    I'd love to hear Jason and Scot talk about their global e-commerce outlook. Amazon in particular seems keen to expand aggressively in international markets. Does the growth opportunities match the regulatory / operational complexity for brands? Interested to get your take.

  • Josh Tarasoff:

    Hi Jason and Scot--What is your take on Amazon's strategy behind buying products at full retail price from marketplace sellers? Here is an article: http://www.cnbc.com/.../amazon-new-fba-program-buys....

    Thank you. I love the show.

  • Anup Gosavi

    Hey guys... love your show. Would love to see your take on when/ if brands will be active on messaging platforms like Messenger, Kik. etc.

    Is it actually a better channel than email? Is there a signal in all that noise? Opportunities/ risks etc. Thanks!

  • Lauren Quaile Tonkin:

    I'd love your thoughts on autoreplenishment. Why have other retailers not adopted this tactic broadly (beyond Amazon and Target)? Do autoreplenishment models differ globally? What non-intuitive products/categories do you think can benefit from an autoreplenishment strategy? Thank you! Keep up the great work.
  • Ben Kates:
    off-price retail offline and online

  • Gareth Hanes (in uk):
    Hi Jason & Scott, enjoying your podcasts from "the other side of the pond" in the UK.

    I would be interested in your take on the recent (in the UK anyway) growth of products sold on Amazon by Chinese 3P merchants (presumably manufacturers) using FBA.
    I have noticed transformational changes in some product groups where new SKUs and brands have gained strong traction very quickly (propelled forward by a combination of agressive pricing, AMS & FBA).

    There's been a lot of talk on your podcasts about Amazon "own label", but this "manufacturer to consumer" model would appear to be a much more of a imminent threat to incumbent domestic brand owners.

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Episode 95 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 27, 2017.

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, 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.

Jul 23, 2017

EP094 - News http://jasonandscot.com

Amazon News

Alibaba

Other

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Episode 94 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday July 19, 2017.

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, 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.

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. Episode 94 is a recap of the weeks news.

Jul 13, 2017

EP093 - Amazon Prime Day Hot Take

Amazon Prime Day was July 11, 2017.  In this episode we give our hot take on this Amazon created sales holiday.

  • Goals for Prime Day
  • History of the Holiday
  • Results for 2017 Prime Day
  • Jason & Scot's conclusions from this years event
  • Interview with Jamie Dooley Head of e-commerce at Dorel Juvenile Group to discuss their Prime Day experience

Amazon Prime Day Recap press release

Amazon Deep Dive EP24 Podcast

Full interview wth Dorel Juvenille Group, Jamie Dooley - EP86

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, 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.

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. 

http://jasonandscot.com 

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Episode 93 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Jul 12, 2017

EP092 - Artificial Intelligence Deep Dive

 

"We're in the middle of an obvious disruption right now: machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is a renaissance, it is a golden age. We are solving problems that were in the realm of science fiction for the last several decades." - Jeff Bezos

This episode is a deep dive into all the use-cases for Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in retail.

Insight Generation

  • Analytics - Google Automated Insights
  • Multi-Variable Regression Testing (Correlation) 
  • Targeting - Best Audience / Next Best $
  • Social Listening / Sentiment
  • Campaign Attribution / ROI

Business Acceleration

  • Inventory Management/Forecasting
  • Merchandise Compliance
  • Checkout - such as Amazon Go
  • Product Design - such as Stichfix
  • Tagging/Unstructured Data
  • Fraud
  • Price/Promotion Optimization
  • Logistic Optimization
  • Drone Delivery

Customer Engagement

  • Natural Language Assistants
  • Virtual Agents
  • Guided Selling
  • Visual Search
  • Search
  • Recommendations 
  • Fitment/Return Avoidance
  • Personalization
  • Loyalty/Retention

AI Vendors Discussed

General:

    1. IBM Bluemix Watson 
    2. Google Cloud Platform 
    3. Microsoft Azure
    4. Amazon AWS  -  including DSSTNE (pronounced “destiny”), the Amazon recommendation engine

Retail Specific Vendors:

  1. Twiggle - Search
  2. Sentient.ai - Visual Search/ Personalization/ Recommendations
  3. Clarifai.com - Visual Search / Video
  4. Simbe Robotics - “tally” Robot / Shelf Audit / Inventory
  5. Focal Systems - Computer Vision / Inventory
  6. Luminoso -  Analytics

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Episode 92 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday July 10, 2017.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, 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.

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