Amazon reverses its Google Shopping retreat, making life harder for performance buyers

The sunny days are turning colder, the kids are headed back to school, and Amazon appears to have concluded its market-quaking pause on Google search spending. Summer’s over, it seems, for performance marketers.

Back in July, Amazon cut its investment in Google Shopping ads down to almost nothing in every market it operated globally. The abrupt move raised alarm bells among search practitioners, who rushed to speculate about the e-commerce giant’s motivations and what its retreat might mean for their clients — namely dollar, pound and Euro savings.

This week Amazon plunged back in. 

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‘Consumers are dying to get out of their houses’: How Cinemark’s CMO is getting people back to the movies

This story was originally published by sister site, Modern Retail.

Wanda Gierhart Fearing, Cinemark’s chief marketing and content officer, has a unique lens through which to view the film industry — as a longtime retail executive.

Fearing, who previously wore the hat of CMO at Neiman Marcus and Limited Brands, joined Cinemark in 2018 and navigated the company’s marketing through several years of difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which brought filmmaking to a standstill and challenged theater chains.

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