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JAN 14, 2021
Similarly, adidas and Puma both posted surges in D2C sales across Europe in 2020. For most traditional brands, a shift to direct sales is just one aspect of more ambitious omnichannel plans. For example, Armani is developing an advanced D2C offering as part of its Next Era project.
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APR 9, 2021
Here’s how publishers are developing and expanding their ecommerce monetization strategies, and how brands and retailers can partner with them to drive purchases in the affiliate channel.
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FEB 3, 2021
Prominent brands like adidas have also produced short films to mark the holiday. Family togetherness and traditional values, with a twist of modern societal dilemmas, have been popular themes, with subtle branding messages only to be revealed at the very end of the film.
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JUL 27, 2020
He has also had sponsorships with brands like Red Bull, Samsung, Uber Eats and adidas. Ninja’s appeal is based on his personality, not his skills as a gamer. In fact, last year, he didn’t even qualify for the Fortnite World Cup, the game’s premier tournament.
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DEC 18, 2020
Levi Strauss and adidas both reported D2C sales reaching approximately 40% of their revenues during the most recent quarter. As brands pull more sales through their digital storefronts, they benefit from additional first-party data, stronger customer relationships, and margin expansion.
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JUL 13, 2020
Brands that have paused spending, such as Starbucks, Verizon, Ben & Jerry’s, Ford and adidas, have done so to varying degrees. Some have pulled their ads for the month of July on Facebook (and Instagram) only, while others have taken it several steps further. Unilever, for instance, has pledged to stop US spending on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter through the end of 2020.
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SEP 19, 2019
DAZN’s soccer focus put it in a good position to sell adidas Canada on an advertising sponsorship to coincide with the launch of the 2019 EPL season. The deal enabled adidas to advertise across all DAZN’s EPL live content, in addition to its Sporting News website. adidas is the first brand to run ads on the DAZN platform in Canada.
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NOV 27, 2018
For a recent shoe launch, adidas partnered with rapper Curtis Roach and director Colin Tilley for a music video that was only available for 24 hours on the Instagram account of Pigeons and Planes, a niche music discovery site. In the video, Roach wore the adidas shoes.
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NOV 2, 2018
Many companies feel good about the progress they’ve made in digital transformation, but is that confidence stalling them from achieving true results? In this presentation, we pair qualitative insights with survey data to help marketers get a pulse check on their progress.
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MAY 28, 2020
By the week of March 26, nearly all of H&M's stores were back in business, with sales down 23%. adidas, whose Q1 2020 net sales worldwide declined 19% year over year, noted a rebound at its retail stores in China during March. The sports apparel giant also cited that its ecommerce business in China outperformed its global growth of 55% during the same month.
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DEC 19, 2019
The day before, adidas executive Eric Liedtke—instrumental to the company’s innovative brand and partnership initiatives, and once thought to be an eventual successor to the CEO role—had announced his impending departure after 25 years at the company. While the timing of these leadership transitions was perhaps merely a coincidence, together they tell a bigger story of retail at a crossroads.
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MAY 20, 2019
Nike generally targets a younger audience and is likely to benefit from its adoption of AR, which is also used by competitors like adidas—a company beloved by millennials. According to an April 2019 survey from eMarketer conducted by Bizrate Insights, 42% of US digital shoppers are at least somewhat interested in using AR/VR while shopping. And that figure climbs to 52% among 18- to 34-year-olds.
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JAN 9, 2019
Similarly, Amazon reported that apparel—specifically athleisure—was a “holiday gifting favorite” and cited adidas, Columbia and Nike as some of the most-selected fashion brands added to Amazon Wish Lists. That comes as no surprise—apparel continues to benefit from strength in the activewear sector, where companies including Nike, adidas and Under Armour increasingly compete outside their core market.
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JUN 5, 2019
In its most ambitious push into ecommerce so far, the company launched “Checkout on Instagram” in March 2019, with retail partners that included adidas, H&M, Nike, Prada and Warby Parker. The new capability, which helps brands streamline checkout directly within the app for products seen on Instagram, is part of a larger move into commerce-adjacent services like messaging and payments.
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MAY 23, 2019
Marketers like groups, too: In a session at f8, Emily Maxey, vice president of global marketing at Adidas, described how the company used Facebook Groups, such as Adidas Runners, to facilitate real-life connections between members, find influencers and product advocates and learn more about what products and features athletes might want in the future.
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JUN 5, 2019
Shoemaker adidas owns two Instagram accounts with massive followings—@adidas with more than 23 million followers and @adidasOriginals with more than 33 million. During the company’s Q1 2019 earnings call, CEO Kasper Rorsted touted the partnership with Instagram and credited the beta test on Checkout with helping to propel adidas to 40% year-over-year online sales growth.