Chicory and Wakefern Launch Shoppable Recipe Partnership

Chicory and Wakefern Food Corp. today announced their shoppable recipe partnership initiative. The partnership between Wakefern, the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the U.S. and the merchandising and distribution arm for ShopRite stores, and technology company Chicory will make it easier for shoppers to send recipe ingredients directly into online shopping baskets on ShopRite’s ecommerce ordering site, shoprite.com.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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