2. B2C eCommerce sales in 2019
1.92B
Online Shopper
13.7%
of total retail is
online
$3.453B
eCommerce
sales Worldwide
Source: https://bit.ly/2jmJ7PG
3. Top Acquisitions of 2018
➔ Adobe acquired Marketo for $4.75 B and
Magento for $1.68 B.
➔ PayPal acquired Swedish fintech firm iZettle
for $2.2 B.
➔ Amazon bought smart doorbell company
Ring for more than $1 B
4. Most Impactful eCommerce Trends for the Next 5
years
➔ Alexa and Other voice interfaces
➔ Big Data
➔ Augmented Reality
➔ Personalization.
➔ Chatbots (conversational commerce)
➔ Business Intelligence
➔ Automated Pricing Optimization
5. AI will help retailers and merchants create more
and better product content
AI-based copywriting tool, which can produce 20,000 lines of copy
a second.
AI-based real-time product recommendations engine available to
merchants who use the AWS console. https://amzn.to/2TWY1RM
6. Social Media Gets Transactional
Consumers will be able to “BUY”, directly on social platforms
7. Google Express
Google Express, though not a social platform, consolidates
merchants into a single cart for consumers, centralizing the
purchasing experience
11. Gamitee
A solution for facilitating collective online purchasing (of a physical
product, a vacation or a service) with our dear ones through online
meetings with groups of friends and family on the website.
12. Aspectiva
Natural Language Processing
(NLP) technology automatically
analyzes massive amounts of
user-generated content and
opinions, producing decision-
making insights and buying
recommendations to help
shoppers find the best products
for their needs and buy with
confidence
13. Bllush
Detecting Your Shoppers’ Trends, Creating Relevant High-Quality Content and Drive Them
Straight to Your Product Pages
Demo: https://modli.co/inspiration?type=discovery
14. How it works
Detect Trends
Index all products on
website and identify
“trends”
Match with Visuals
Locate images and videos
of the trends on social
media
Create Content
Customize the look & feel of
the content published
17. Fit and Shop
Fit and Shop main mission is to solve the main crucial problem that
faces anyone who shops clothes online which is finding the item that
perfectly fits his/her size.
21. What have they bought online in the past 12 months?
43%
Clothes and
accessories
27%
Travel &
Tickets
23%
Hotel
Reservation
24%
Electronics
16%
Food
23%
Health and beauty
products
Source: https://bit.ly/2OlGY64