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Preparing for the Future with Voice Search

We live in the Digital Age, and new technologies surround us all the time and help us with everyday activities. One of the emerging solutions is voice search. It’s successfully gaining popularity, mainly in the most developed countries, and experts predict that this phenomenon will continue to grow. Voice search is when a person speaks to the device instead of typing. It’s also seen as a digital assistant. Nowadays…

DATA, AI, MOBILE: DIGITAL COMMERCE & MARKETING TRENDS 2018 – what’s hot, and what’s not

The value of the German e-commerce increased by 10% in 2017. The year 2018 brought another 10% rise. This business is now worth about 63 Mill. Euro (85 Mill. according to another source). Digital has revolutionized trade in a way, that it’s no longer a question of will, but a question of survival. Not only is it necessary in the retail industry, but other businesses also have to communicate with…

Understanding Data Science: the basis of a successful AI and Machine Learning strategy

Photo credits to news-medical.net Two words create lots of puzzles right now, and they are no other than Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). These two buzzwords always come to mind whenever topics such as Data Science, Big Data and other broader technological terms that are making a wave globally, come up. Even though artificial intelligence and machine learning are creating a scene in our world today, it does…

Black Friday 2018: key takeaways from the shopping fever

One of the busiest and most long-awaited days of the year has just passed. And it is all about… Brands and shops, both online and offline, started their Black Friday campaigns in October (or even earlier) to inform their customers about all of the special offers they have prepared. Did Black Friday 2018 break the online shopping records regarding the amount of money that shoppers spent? Did it open the…

Nominate your company for the E-commerce Germany Awards 2019!

The E-commerce Germany Awards are officially accepting submissions as of 1 November, 2018. Companies within the e-commerce sector are able to apply to one of the ten categories. The annual awards are given out for the second time in 2019. E-commerce service providers are able to submit their company to one of the 10 categories in order to win the prestigious E-commerce Germany Award, presented by the E-commerce Berlin Expo.…

CALL FOR PAPERS WINNERS – CFP Speakers for the E-commerce Berlin Expo 2019 set!

The Call For Papers Contest 2019 has officially come to its end and 8 lucky winners have gained their spot in the E-commerce Berlin Expo 2019 agenda! The winners will be presenting on stage on 20 February 2019 at the fourth edition of Berlin’s biggest e-commerce event! More than 270 submissions have been made to the Call For Papers Contest of the EBE19. Speakers were able to submit a presentation…

Awesome speakers are waiting for your votes [LAST DAYS]

The Call For Papers contest of the E-commerce Berlin Expo 2019 attracted more than 250 great submissions. Now there are 15+ presentations taking the lead, but open public voting lasts until 21 October 2018, so your vote can really change the game in those last days! More than 250 speakers have been submitted presentations in 8 different categories: website conversion rate, marketing in e-commerce, e-logistics, international expansion, e-payments, online store…

CALL FOR PAPERS – Vote for the best speakers!

More than 250 speakers submitted their presentation proposals in August and September to the Call For Papers contest of the E-commerce Berlin Expo 2019. Now it’s time to vote for the winners and determine who will be on stage on 20 February 2019 at STATION, Berlin. The expo is returning for the fourth time to Germany’s capital. This time with 150 exhibitors, 40 speakers and more than 5000 visitors.…

Shopsys hits the road to share their technology and know-how in 4 countries

Six cities, four countries, one purpose to share their know-how on creating large ecommerce solutions. Shopsys‘ best developers, project managers, and agile development experts are coming to you to give you their best tips and tricks and to show you how it’s all done at Shopsys. They will also introduce their platform, Shopsys Framework. “Over the course of 15 years, we’ve learned how to create and further develop leading B2B…

E-commerce Folks: Meet Robin von Hein

Time for Robin von Hein from simplesurance GmbH in our “E-commerce Folks” series! In “E-commerce Folks” we introduce e-commerce professionals to our readers through a short questionnaire with all the same 15 short sentences to finish. Short & sweet: no facts and figures, no case studies, no company’s strategies. Just them and their quick insights about e-commerce. My adventure with e-commerce started when… we founded simplesurance in 2012. …But…

Ranking of Top 100 online retailers in Germany in 2018

Ranking: Top 100 online retailers in Germany in 2018

German e-commerce sales grow year after year. In 2017, top German 100 e-commerce retailers generated sales worth €30.5 billion. Compared to the previous year with sales at the level of € 27.4 billion, this represents an increase by 11.3 percent. These figures have been revealed the study “E-Commerce Market Germany 2018” conducted by the EHI Retail Institute. The study features a ranking of German online retailers based on their annual…

DMEXCO 2018 was great. Literally

DMEXCO 2018 was drawing even more attention than usual due to the main organizer parting ways with the event’s co-founders at the end of 2017. The digital industry was concerned over the impact of this change on the conference, wondering if the new team manages to maintain the best of what DMEXCO has had to offer since its conception in 2009. As it turned out, the concerns were unnecessary. Until 2017,…