fans that fosters supportive, IRL connections as opposed to ones that revolve around self-promotion and branding. Social Shopping Xiaohongshu In China, social apps are completely transforming the e-commerce landscape. Rising...

the first pure-play cross-border retailers in China to develop a Mini Program. WeChat WeChat’s social commerce model is not entirely unique to China; over the past two years, Instagram has...

2018. The courses are designed to help brands and influencers leverage social media effectively, to boost sales. Snapchat is throwing its hat into the social-commerce ring, debuting new shoppable augmented...

...“Digital commerce is poised to explode,” with mobile expected to comprise as much as 15 percent of e-commerce sales this year. About half the daily traffic that Gilt sees comes...

...their phones to record seemingly everything, a countertrend—determination to better live in the moment—is building, observes The New York Times. -More people are turning to social clubs to find the...

according to The New York Times . – McKinsey Quarterly surveys China’s social media landscape. -MIT’s Technology Review spotlights how fast-growing mobile social networks in Africa are challenging Facebook. –GigaOM’s...

...consumers interacting with a brand via natural language, a growing trend that was dubbed “conversational commerce” in a Medium piece earlier this year by Chris Messina, a user interface expert...

–Bloomberg explores Instagram’s master classes that teach fashion and beauty executives about social commerce and how they can bridge the gap between retail and Instagram. –i-D describes how menswear is...

–Sustainable e-commerce is snowballing: Wallpaper introduces Goodee, a new luxury homewares digital marketplace, and luxury e-retailer Net-A-Porter is launching Net Sustain, a new product vertical selling exclusively sustainable pieces, reports...

...has previously been called “WeWork for retail” and “the physical embodiment of a lifestyle blog.” Decisions about what to display are driven by social media trends and popular blogs. For...