Sam Blumenthal

Brand-owned livestreams: A regular campaign used to garner users, increase loyalty, marketing and promotion, and answer questions from audiences in real-time. Self-running livestream is a long-term day-to-day operational strategy for brands to educate their potential consumers and activate existing customers.

“Shopping is a sport in China,” said Coresight CEO Deborah Weinswig. “And this is a consumer who prides themselves on research before they buy something.”

In a time when shoppers are wary of being in physical shopping centers due to the pandemic, retailers, brands and social media apps have all jumped on the shoppable live content playing field in some way. In recent months, Nordstrom announced over 50 interactive livestream events, Facebook partnered with Anne Klein to debut its live in-app shopping... See more