WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

Today, low barriers to entry have encouraged an explosion of DNBs, flooding the market with the fruits of creative entrepreneurship. However, DNBs that break through with outsize investor returns are rare. Over the past two decades, fewer than 0.5 percent of DNBs have reached $100 million in revenues. In fact, more than 90 percent of businesses that originated through e-commerce earn less than $1 million in annual revenues (Exhibit 1).4 Investors face the challenge of sifting through concepts to determine which are worthy of the capital required to scale a business or buy into an existing company at high multiples.

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The 2022 edition of the Marketplace 100 ranks the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and analyzes the trends behind the next generation of marketplace giants.

Recent trends show that consumers now demand much more than value and convenience--and tolerate fewer shortfalls.

Secondhand, or recommerce, will grow at 11x the rate of regular retail. If that doesn’t smell like opportunity, I don’t know what does. We at Alpaca wanted to investigate the white space in the…

E-commerce companies worldwide hit records in funding, deals, exits, and more in 2021. 

In our State of E-Commerce 2021 Report, we dig into global investment trends to spotlight takeaways like:

• The data behind the record year in e-commerce funding, which surpassed $50B for the first time
• Which sectors led to a doubling in average deal size in 2021
• The region that raised nearly $4 of every $10 of e-commerce funding during the year
• The investors choosing the most advanced technologies with the most potential, according to CB Insights’ Mosaic scores
• Which digital shopping tech companies hit valuations of $1B, spurring a 40% increase in unicorn births
• And much more

TrackStreet is a MAP, UPP, Authorized Dealer, and Resale Policy platform, which enables you to clean your sales channels and drive growth online and off.
TrackStreet leverages artificial intelligence and automation technologies to relentlessly monitor and reduce brand, MAP, and resale pricing violations, enabling explosive multi-channel growth for many of the most recognizable and respected brands across a wide gamut of industries.

Age-gating, subtitles, chapters, and recommendations - find out how YouTube's use of AI shapes users' experience and creator's success. In this article, we’ll be taking a closer look at how exactly YouTube harnesses AI, and how this influences the user experience of both viewers and content creators. 

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Read the report and learn:

1. What consumers bought in 2021: The global consumer behavior report
2. Product-to-consumer strategies replacing outdated B2C and D2C models
3. Retailers switching to low-carbon products in a move toward net-zero targets
4. The challenges for brands as customers demand better shopping experiences

An agile approach to overhauling data architecture improves speed, flexibility, and innovation.

Few organizations take full advantage of data generated outside their walls. A well-structured plan for using external data can provide a competitive edge.

Download Shopify’s Future of Commerce report for sound predictions from commerce leaders and business forecasts that will impact 2022 and beyond.

Leading organizations are increasing revenue and improving customer experience by becoming more collaborative, unified and digital-optimized across all of their customer interactions. Application leaders must make strategic technology investments that transform digital selling functions. This report highlights emerging and continuing trends for 2022 including customer's insistence on self-serve and assisted experiences, continued focus on unified commerce especially in terms of customer experience, and the uptick in b2b brands embracing digital.  

La popularité des services payants de visionnement en ligne a dépassé pour une première fois celle des services de télévision par câble ou fibre optique dans les foyers québécois. L’enquête intitulée Portrait numérique des foyers québécois révèle en effet que 71 % des adultes québécois sont abonnés à au moins un service payant de visionnement en ligne tel Netflix, Amazon Prime ou Disney+ alors que 66 % sont abonnés à un service de télévision par câble ou fibre optique. L’enquête rapporte que le taux d’abonnement à un service de télévision par câble ou fibre optique a diminué de 6 points de pourcentage au cours de la dernière année et de 13 points de pourcentage depuis 2018.

The leading edge for successful B2B sales growth is digital. Here’s why.

Could Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software be the secret to bridging the gap between your customers’ escalating expectations and your current sales experience? Our definitive guide covers everything you need to know about CPQ. From core capabilities and benefits, to finding the right solution and implementing it.
- What CPQ is and how it’s evolved
- Common reasons for implementing CPQ
- Core CPQ capabilities
- Finding a future-proof CPQ solution
- CPQ benefits – for sales and the rest of your business
- Getting your CPQ implementation right.

With the table thus set for the continued importance of online shopping, it’s an ideal time to start planning your annual eCommerce strategy. Our recommendation is that whether you experienced success in 2021 or need to go back to the drawing board, the road to improvement lies in effectively using the experiences and data of the previous year.

Looking at different ecommerce metrics is like gazing into the night sky: there are so many data points you can (and should) track that the information available feels...infinite. Connecting and integrating data across different channels and platforms can be a full-time job, and as a result, teams are constantly playing catch-up with all of the numbers and data points they’re tracking across spreadsheets and dashboards. Enter an ecommerce dashboard.

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The IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework to compare ecommerce vendors on their product offerings and strategies. The 2020 report evaluated 19 digital commerce platforms on their B2C capabilities.

Read the report to learn the critical advice IDC has for technology buyers and why VTEX is a Leader.

APM continues to be critical for modern, multicloud observability. Read the report where Gartner defines the market as "software that enables the observation of application behaviour and its infrastructure dependencies, users, and business key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout the application’s life cycle," and see why we’re positioned highest and furthest in both Completeness of Vision & Ability to Execute.

Shipping challenges reached a peak in 2021 – and we’re here to tell you that things aren’t looking better for 2022. But that doesn’t mean your operations need to suffer. You have more control over supply chain disruptions than you realize. Download our report today to find out what else we discovered and how it impacts your business.