Digital Commerce 360 Insights
Summary: Brought to you by the editors of Internet Retailer, B2B E-Commerce World and Internet Health Management, the Digital Commerce 360 Insights podcast covers news and stories of how the internet is revolutionizing commerce. It combines data insights with analysis listeners can apply to their own businesses, and includes interviews with industry executives and trendsetters.
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Podcasts:
Digital healthcare is a transformative market opportunity--and retailers and technology providers want their piece of it. In this episode, Internet Health Management editor Mark Brohan shares what he's learned from two months of research and interviews with top executives eagerly pushing into the digital healthcare market, such as the healthcare go-to-market strategies of Salesforce.com and Akamai, and online retailers including online pharmacy PillPack and Orthotic Shop.
In this episode, Marie Tillman, founder and CEO of Mac & Mia, a startup that sells kids' clothing, shares her story. Marie founded Mac & Mia in 2014 while on maternity leave from her day job as president of the Pat Tillman Foundation, a non-profit organization named after her first husband that awards academic scholarships to military veterans and their spouses. Here, Marie tells us about the inspiration behind Mac & Mia and the parallels she sees in leading a startup and a nonprofit foundation.
Amazon.com Inc. officially closed its deal to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion dollars this week, effectively making its first really substantial entry into bricks-and-mortar retailing. In closing the deal, Amazon confirmed theories that industry watchers had been batting around since Amazon announced its plans to by Whole Foods back in June. In this episode, Katie Evans, Internet Retailer’s technology editor, talks about the moves Amazon is beginning to make in grocery and what it means for retailing.
Investment in e-commerce by venture capitalists slowed in 2016. In this episode, James Melton, Internet Retailer research analyst and author of the "Top Investors in E-commerce Report," explains why investors backed off, whether their caution is temporary and points to the markets and business models that continue to draw attention from investors. He also discusses the e-retail companies that garnered significant investment, including Boxed.com, Memebox, and the Wish shopping app.
Online marketplaces are digital versions of shopping malls: Lots of merchants and lots of products in one place. In this segment, Internet Retailer senior research analyst Fareeha Ali shares details on the biggest online marketplaces in the U.S. (Amazon, eBay and the growing Walmart.com), and online marketplaces' global leader, China's Alibaba.
The U.S. healthcare system is a $3.2 trillion industry, and Amazon.com Inc. is positioning itself to take a share of it. In this segment, Internet Health Management editor Mark Brohan explains how e-retailing's leader is getting into the healthcare space more significantly--Amazon's AWS unit powers Healthcare.gov, for example--and the waves it is creating for other healthcare players. IHM is Digital Commerce 360's news site that explores how the internet and e-commerce technology are changing healthcare.
The Global 1000 Report from Internet Retailer's research team ranks and analyzes the 1000 largest online retailers in the world based on their sales. In this episode, the report's author, Don Davis, describes the biggest global trends he uncovered, including the growing value of online marketplaces and market leaders including Alibaba, Amazon and Walmart.
Internet Retailer digital editor Tracy Maple answers questions about the back-to-school shopping season, including spending projections and the digital marketing techniques being deployed by retailers.
