Sam Blumenthal

The reality is,  all marketing spend, from PR to Facebook direct response ads, create a context that acquires a consumer.

In eCommerce, there is no such thing as 'direct response'. A user may interact or click on an ad, but more times than not, the transaction happens later. There is also no such thing as organic traffic or revenue.  Somewhere

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Not all ad dollars are equal. While an Amazon seller’s advertising success will obviously vary based on the product they sell and their ad budget, some ads and ad strategies do reveal higher return on ad spend: sponsored brands, close and loose match ad targeting, pricing within the $21-30 range, and implementing a fixed bidding strategy (depending... See more

For many industries, the means of production will essentially follow the call-response of  “Engineer X in the Design of Y”.

Depending on the context of the desired objective, there will be a line of best fit that optimally coordinates the two variables and denotes product-market-fit. Solving this function, i.e. being able to determine the optimal

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The total scale of the country's livestreaming e-commerce industry reached 433.8 billion yuan (about 65.69 billion U.S. dollars) in 2019 and is expected to double by the end of 2020, a report by global accounting firm KPMG and AliResearch showed.

“Influencers, they understand their community,” Bogliari said, which makes the viewing experience feel more personalized, and could then lead to higher conversion rates. He added that influencers make livestream shopping “more relatable and appear less commercial.”