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Peter serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He focuses on eCommerce technologies and solutions, including B2C and B2B eCommerce platforms, mobile commerce solutions, digital in-store technologies, and digital commerce. Peter has specific expertise helping eBusiness leaders understand the integration challenges between eCommerce and back-office technologies across channels and touchpoints. His interests focus on mobile and tablet commerce trends, digital in-store experiences, multichannel retail, social commerce, and digital media.
Peter has extensive experience working with an ecosystem of eCommerce technologies, including eCommerce platforms, mobile commerce solutions, content management, web analytics, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), digital asset management, payment systems, and social media, to name a few. Peter has more than 13 years of experience in eCommerce and web technologies. Most recently, Peter held both product management and product marketing positions at Elastic Path, a leading eCommerce platform vendor. He also worked as a senior business analyst at JP Morgan and Ford Motor Company, where he started his career in eCommerce developing a direct online channel for new vehicle sales in the UK. Peter's experience spans both business and technology, including business analysis, product management, product marketing, solution architecture, user experience, and online marketing.
Peter holds a BEng in manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
B2B marketers are beginning to introduce new digital tools like social media, mobile, and online video into their marketing mix. Nonetheless, many B2Bs lack a clear process for prioritizing and...
B2B Marketers Need To Expand Their Online Advertising Horizons
Display marketing is part of most B2B interactive marketers' plans for 2011, but few are prepared to unlock its full potential. Rather than miss opportunities by simply porting over print media...
China Dominates A Rapidly Growing Yet Cautious Market
By 2017, marketers advertising with online display and search media in India, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and China will grow their investments at a 23% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to...
Display media, email, and search are still the most well-adopted interactive tactics. But this year's interactive marketing channel adoption study finds interactive marketers more willing than last...
Many online marketers are paralyzed by the murky unknown of the online display market. In a recent survey, we found that 51% say they are likely to simply continue buying the online media that they...
Executive Overview: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Digital media buying is undergoing seismic change. Where there were once legions of junior staff managing relationship-based buys, there are now sophisticated real-time technologies. Participants...

Insights For Publishers On The Evolution Of The Media Buyer
Agency display media buyers are rapidly investing in both new ad products like audience targeting and custom creative while adopting new buying methods like real-time bidding. Major publishers lag...
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Social media forecast (US): Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, and technology spending. Agency fees spending is broken out by...
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Online advertising spend for the Asia Pacific countries of China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. Includes online display advertising and search marketing spending by country. Includes data...
Leverage Professional Crowdsourcing Networks To Create New Video Content
The demand for video advertising and content — whether for television, online, or cinema — is outpacing the rate at which marketers can supply it. Specialized crowdsourcing networks are...
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Online display avertising forecast: Online and offline advertising spending by marketers. Segments online display spending by pricing scheme, media format, and share of spending through ad networks....
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Interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's IM spending is further broken into the various components of IM: display, paid search, SEO, email, and mobile advertising.

See Through The Myths, And Tap Games As A Medium For Marketing
Are you looking to deliver interactive, integrated marketing messages and advertising to reach an attractive, broad base of users in a medium where emotional response is predictable and guaranteed?...

Caution continues to dominate business-to-business (B2B) financial services interactive marketing strategies as budget squeezes, regulatory concerns, and a lack of digital experience impede...
Effective content marketing is now critical to B2B marketers' success because useful content accelerates potential buyers along their journey. That usefulness is predicated on the content being...
Maximize Display Effectiveness By Optimizing Your Approach
New upstarts like Dotomi and FetchBack have recently invigorated interest in the value of remarketing, but it's a tried-and-true display tactic that's been around for years. Marketers can...

Major Online Publishers Must Embrace Audience Selling
Content-based media buys are still the primary source of revenue for most major online publishers, but improved targeting technology and evolving media buyer expectations mean digital publishers must...
The explosive growth of smartphones has created an opportunity for mobile display that marketers are beginning to realize. But confusion in the vendor landscape has led marketers to go straight to...
Behavioral Marketers Should Prepare To Self-Regulate Data Practices
Concern over consumer privacy has marketers, associations, government officials, and even technology vendors hustling to find ways to manage online data so that it is comfortable to consumers and...
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Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Includes social spending directed...
The 2010 Viral Video WebTrack And Consumer Survey
More people are watching online video than ever before, and most share their favorite videos with their friends — but that doesn't mean creating a successful viral video is getting any easier....
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Online Display Advertising Forecast: Offline and online advertising spending by marketers. Segments online display spending by media format, pricing scheme, and share of spending through ad networks....
Offline And Online Paid Media Placements Will Drive Earned Media Success
Earned media is exploding. Born from traditional public relations (PR), its rapid adoption by marketers is being driven by new opportunities to drive word of mouth through social media. But earned...

The terms "owned media," "paid media," and "earned media" have become very popular in the marketing space today. Marketers need to understand the benefits of each medium and how to identify the role...
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Online and offline advertising spending by marketers. Segments online display spending by pricing scheme, media format, and share of spending through ad networks. Includes historical data going back...