Ecommerce, CPG and consumer Insights for the Online Grocery Community
The Online Impulse Buy: Reaching Health-Minded Consumers with Recipe Media
We’ve always been firm believers that recipes are where people start their food shopping journeys. And we still are. But recently we’ve realized that browsing recipes goes beyond looking for something to make for dinner tomorrow night—it’s a manifestation of one’s personal aspirations.
Grocery Shop Announcement: Avocados From Mexico and Chicory Partnership
The number one selling avocado brand now delivers avocado recipe ingredients straight to your doorstep by integrating Chicory's innovative ecommerce capabilities into its recipe center
How to Shop for Avocados Online
What happens when the number one selling avocado brand in the U.S. partners with Chicory? You guessed it — hundreds of recipes from a fresh produce brand become shoppable. And that brand is Avocados From Mexico.
Chicory Announces Partnership Making 3,000+ Campbell’s Kitchen Recipes Instantly Shoppable
Launching today, consumers can now order all the ingredients needed to cook any recipe on Campbell’s Kitchen with just a few clicks, thanks to an integration with Chicory. The partnership transforms Campbell’s into a one-stop platform for readers to learn more about Campbell’s products, look for recipe inspiration, and then purchase all the ingredients they need to make the recipes via our Recipe Activation ecommerce technology.
Chicory CEO Yuni Sameshima to Speak at Groceryshop
Yuni Sameshima, Co-Founder and CEO of Chicory, has announced this week that he will be joining the speaker lineup at Groceryshop, a new conference from the team at Shoptalk. Sameshima will speak as part of the “Next Generation Shopping Experiences: New Technologies and Business Models” track and will cover how Chicory is delivering new customer experiences. The talk will include a major announcement about Chicory and is set to take place on Monday, October 29th at approximately 8:30AM, PT.
Food Blog Traffic Trends
Today I have a bunch of charts to share that I hope transform your blogging game. Or, at the very least, I hope you find them interesting. As Marketing Manager here at Chicory, I'm constantly checking on our blogger network to see how we're performing. I break our traffic down on an hourly basis to identify opportunities for optimizing Chicory performance across the 400+ publications where we appear.
Chicory Recipe Network Analysis: Tex Mex Trends
Tex Mex flavors are one of our few, evergreen recipe topics here at Chicory. While many ingredients or “recipe categories” trend depending on the season (think cookies at Christmastime or chicken wings during football season), Tex Mex always comes up as popular regardless of holidays or events.
Summer 2018 Recipe and Food Trends by Chicory
As we've learned with each passing year, when the weather warms up, recipe traffic patterns take a sharp left turn. It's always fascinating for us to observe the tried-and-true recipes (people loooooove lasagna, chicken and crockpot cooking, you guys) that are well-trafficked year-round suddenly shift. You could almost mark the day when the weather on the East Coast warms up by taking a look at our network traffic patterns to see when shrimp and corn on the cob start trending over the usual cheesy pasta bake.
Trending Tropical Cocktails
These trending cocktails are perfect for imagining yourself lounging on vacation!
Chicory Announces AmazonFresh and Instacart Integration, Making Recipes Shoppable to Millions More American Households
Chicory announced today that they are integrating with AmazonFresh and Instacart, beginning April 1, to provide recipe ordering solutions to more than 80M shoppers across 3M recipes and 1,000+ sites. Through these new integrations, Chicory will be able to double the retailer capabilities on their shoppable recipes, now reaching 40% of US zip codes and truly expanding the way their technology turns recipes into reality.
Chicory Announces New LinkedIn Interview Series: “Table Talk”
We’re excited to announce our new LinkedIn Blog Series, Table Talk! In weekly installments published directly to LinkedIn, our Co-Founder and CEO Yuni Sameshima will interview industry professionals to extract lessons, and exciting new concepts affecting the grocery retail industry.
A Guide to Snackable, Stackable Content
Marketers nowadays need to be thinking bit-sized. While one big Superbowl commercial could be a worthwhile spend twenty or thirty years ago, today advertisers know that there are innumerable places to be influencing customers (thanks to the internet's infinite inventory and social media streams that update constantly) and a big, one-time spend simply won't cut it.
Thanksgiving Recipe Trends
Just when you're all probably sick of the endless Thanksgiving leftovers (That's a thing, right? Or are all leftovers good leftovers?), we've got our roundup of Thanksgiving food trends!
Why Digital Advertising is Different for Food Brands
Having started Chicory, I have had the unique opportunity to brainstorm and talk with leaders from a variety of different companies. I get to work with publishers, retailers, advertisers and ad-technology companies. It has helped us to fully understand this landscape, get a sense of how it has changed over the past few years and, most importantly, understand how Chicory fits at the center of a few industries.
Tracking Your Blog Traffic with Custom URL Parameters
If you ask most marketers, they'll agree that a key component of successful marketing is "fishing where the fish are." If you're trying to catch a fish, wake up early and go out to the river. If you're trying to sell diapers, go after young moms. It's not rocket science, and yet nailing down exactly where your traffic and leads come from can be tricky business.
Announcing Chicory's Click-to-Cart Technology
Chicory, the premier technology company that uses artificial intelligence to create digital grocery shopping experiences, today announced the launch of their Click-to-Cart technology, making their full suite of advertising solutions, shoppable. This new technology differs from similar technologies in that Chicory’s offering sends promoted products directly to the consumer’s cart at a selected retailer, reducing touch points along the path-to-purchase.
Chicory Announces New Collaboration with The Trade Desk
Deterministic Grocery Shopper and Purchase Intent Data Will Become Directly Integrated into The Trade Desk Dashboard
The Best Photography Resources for Food Bloggers
Photography isn't something you become good at overnight (not even close) and it's not a skill that you're necessarily born with. But it IS something that helps blogs, particularly food blogs, stand out. In order for your site to grow, you've got to get those pictures circulating around the internet (thank you Pinterest). So, whether you consider yourself a beginner at photography or just want a brush up, these resources will get you reinvigorated and keep you productive during that dreaded summer traffic slump!
Blue Apron's IPO & Its Lasting Effects
Ok, so it’s the second day of trading for Blue Apron and my Twitter feed is exploding with people calling the IPO a failure. As of the time of writing, Blue Apron is trading 5% below it’s opening price of $10. It’s certainly it’s a rocky start to public life for the meal kit company, but they are by no means “failing.”
Amazon Acquires Whole Foods: Our CEO's Thoughts
Amazon is set to acquire Whole Foods for a whopping $13.7B. Here are my two cents on how this news will effect the grocery industry.