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Last month Econsultancy surveyed 1,000 consumers in the UK and 2,000 in the US to investigate attitudes to multichannel shopping and service. The Multichannel Retail Survey, which accompanies our How the Internet can Save the High Street report, was a repeat of a study we ran last year and underlines the fact that attitudes to shopping are changing.

swarovski has several executions to promote their brand.  first is the DNA helix installation that can tweet their holiday messages - live feed on twitter.  each friday they feature 3 tweets and they win swarovski jewelry. AR app allows people to hold their phone up to storefront windows and displays on street and see limited edition products 

Hybris North America President Steven Kramer said: While social media channels can be valuable awareness-generating vehicles for retailers, they are not currently preferred options for consumers when it comes to purchasing, with consumers visiting retailers' social media sites to gather information that they will then oftentimes use to complete a purchase via another channel. Consumers continue to want information when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it, but when it comes to actually making a purchase, social media is not a preferred or trusted choice. This demonstrates the importance of retailers having a cohesive, cross-channel marketing and commerce strategy, with social media just a piece of the overall multichannel puzzle.

"Zeebox does not sell any advertising itself; instead, its network partners work with agencies and advertisers to sell second-screen ads and Zeebox takes a cut. For now, the Zeebox app works only with live TV -- not DVR content. The app identifies live TV programming using a combination of video fingerprinting, audio content recognition and closed-captioning information."

Nice multichannel online video/Xbox/gaming experience from Toyota

daily 8.23 will offer downloads of the first two seasons on Amazon, Xbox Live, Playstation 3, iTunes and Sonic/CinemaNow because fans were so upset that they took the episodes off of Starz On Demand and Netflix 30 days after its cancellation

Good infographic on holiday

another virtual shopping store with qr codes