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The holiday season brings unique opportunities and challenges for businesses. Read our insights to end the year on a high note.

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Top 10 Ways To Avoid Earning Coal In Your Stocking (For Commerce Search And Product Discovery)

Emily Pfeiffer 18 hours ago
Make sure you’re adding convenience and joy to your customers’ lives — not more holiday shopping stress. Read our advice for avoiding the e-commerce faux pas that can quickly sour customers’ experience on your site.
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Creator Strategy Is A Core Strategy This Season

Kelsey Chickering 5 days ago
Social media’s influence is stronger than ever. Brands that want to resonate with younger audiences must put creator strategy front and center.
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Black Friday And Cyber Monday: Spending Breaks Records And Exceeds Expectations

Sucharita Kodali December 3, 2025
Tap into the insights from Forrester’s annual review of 116 brands during 2025’s record-breaking Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.
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Tidings Of Comfort And Trust: Holiday-Season Security That Bolsters Your Brand

Jess Burn December 2, 2025
Make safe, reliable digital experiences as part of the value you deliver — and help keep customers coming back yearround.
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From Prompts To Presents: The Marketer’s Guide To Answer Engine Optimization

Nikhil Lai November 24, 2025
Answer engines such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode will deliver convenience to holiday shoppers. Brands: Provide resonant, technically sound, fresh content to improve your chances of persuading shoppers throughout their journeys on answer engines’ results pages.
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Site Search’s Seasonal Shift: The Toolkit To Adapt To Customer Holiday Behaviors And Needs

Emily Pfeiffer November 4, 2025
What shoppers need from their favorite retailers changes during the holiday season. Learn how to optimize your site search accordingly.
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Retailers: Holiday 2025 Is Here!

Fiona Swerdlow October 24, 2025
Retailers: Jump into the 2025 holiday season with Forrester’s holiday planning insights and key takeaways in this blog.
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Retail’s Holiday 2025: More Sales, Profits, And AI-Driven Commerce

Brendan Witcher October 21, 2025
Time to pull out the holiday decorations and start building that gift list — Q4 2025 is upon us! For retail and other business leaders, this means daily meetings to raise, review, revise, and rip apart their inventory, promotion, commerce, and marketing strategies.
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Fall-ing For Prime Big Deal Days: How Retailers Competed With Amazon’s October Sale Event

Sucharita Kodali October 15, 2025
Get key insights for how retailers competed with Amazon’s October sales event before the holiday season.
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A Holiday Season Gift-Wrapped In Agentic Commerce

Chuck Gahun October 15, 2025
Introducing The OpenAI Product Feed Spec Four weeks before answer engines freeze training data for Black Friday sales, OpenAI has released its Product Feed Specification — the structured data model for merchants who want to sell products directly in ChatGPT with Instant Checkout. This is part of the larger infrastructure — Agentic Commerce Protocol — […]
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2025 US Holiday Retail Sales Will Outperform The Previous Two Years

Jitender Miglani October 9, 2025
Forrester forecasts 4.4% year-over-year growth in US holiday retail sales for 2025, with strong in-store and online performance despite tariff-related uncertainty.
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Black Friday And Cyber Monday 2024: Offers Galore Spur Spending

Fiona Swerdlow December 4, 2024
Retailers and brands in the US presented many offers to customers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2024.
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Protect Your Customers And Your Brand From Holiday-Fueled Phishing

Jess Burn December 2, 2024
As you increase your marketing message volume this holiday shopping season, so do the bad actors using generative AI tools to mimic your logo, language, and landing pages. Learn two things you can do to help reduce your exposure in this post.
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Influencers Are This Holiday Season’s “Gift Guides”

Kelsey Chickering November 25, 2024
Creator gift guides will fuel shoppers this holiday season, helping to solidify social media as a critical commerce channel for marketers.
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Zero-Party Data: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Stephanie Liu November 21, 2024
As data deprecation makes customer data harder to acquire, zero-party data provides a valuable means for brands to learn more about shoppers, deliver relevant experiences, and convert them from first-time customers into regular shoppers. Learn how to use this data to improve experiences.
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How Embedded Finance Adds Fuel To Black Friday

Oliwia Berdak November 20, 2024
This holiday shopping season, shoppers will increasingly turn to “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) in a sign of triumph for embedded finance.
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Coca-Cola’s AI-Generated Holiday Ads Approach A Creative Tipping Point

Jay Pattisall November 19, 2024
The Coca-Cola Company released three new AI-generated holiday ads inspired by the beverage giant’s classic 1995 “The Holidays Are Coming” commercial. Produced entirely with AI video models such as Runway and Luma Dream Machine, this represents a step forward in photorealism for AI-generated video. Predictably, the commercials have sparked some controversy among creators, who criticize […]
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Forrester’s US End-Of-Year Holiday Season Forecast

Jitender Miglani November 15, 2024
What can retailers and brands expect this holiday season? Find out in this preview of our newly released holiday season forecast.
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Retailers: Boost User Confidence This Holiday Season

Senem Guler Biyikli November 5, 2024
This holiday season, increase your customers’ confidence in your digital experiences with four best practices.
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This Holiday Season, Gift Consumers Compelling Creative

Nikhil Lai November 4, 2024
Advertising spend is big during the holiday season, but the key ingredient of persuasive advertising — compelling creative — is scarce.
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