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Cashrewards acquires Little Birdie

Cashrewards has announced the acquisition of Little Birdie, a shopping companion platform powered by advanced technology. This move is part of Cashrewards’ mission to become the ultimate shopping companion for Australian consumers.

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Impulse buying surge: 80% of Aussies make in-store impromptu purchases

A recent survey initiated by international tech company ShopFully has revealed that 80% of Australian adults have made an impulse purchase in-store since the beginning of 2024, with 36% doing so in the past week. The survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,044 Australians aged 18 years and older in early July 2024.

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Market TV perceptions wayward: Ex-Seven CMO Mel Hopkins still backs TV, aligns with Nine CMO Liana Dubois warning marketers of ‘dangerous swing’ to platforms and dashboards over ROI

Six weeks ago Mel Hopkins was rolled out of Seven amid a clinical round of cuts that added further fuel to the narrative that TV is in trouble as audiences bleed and revenue follows suit. But Hopkins, who as Optus CMO dumped the lion’s share of her media budget into Meta and Google, remains convinced TV is undervalued and undersold, says BVOD metrics and reporting are as good as anything the platforms can provide, and that the global streamers are likewise racing to “manage out cost”. Revenue challenges should therefore not be conflated with audiences, which Hopkins and Nine CMO Liana Dubois insist remain healthy – Dubois said TV reached 24.2m Australians last month. While media buyers last year said 2022 had marked “the biggest audience decline in the history of TV” and correctly forecast a 10 per cent revenue hit for linear TV as a result, Dubois said industry needs to get its terminology straight – literally – because TV delivered over the internet can still be linear TV. However it is delivered and consumed, “television today is reaching the same amount of people that it did 10 years ago,” per Dubois – and those numbers “are holding”. She warns marketers pulling out of TV for digital platforms and their dashboards are “dangerously” risking marketing effectiveness and should instead look beyond the shallow metrics – and narrative – they are being fed.

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