New data from SLICE Digital, the New Zealand affiliate marketing network, has today shown that Kiwis are online shopping more than ever before. The ongoing restrictions on movements and shopping activity in Auckland and across the country have seen more and more New Zealanders turn to the internet for their shopping essentials and occasional treats.
SLICE Digital partners with over 150 online retailers in New Zealand and have been monitoring online sales to the likes of Countdown, Healthpost, Kathmandu, OnceIt and TheMarket through their online tracking technology. Since the increase in alert levels on August 17th, online traffic and sales through the SLICE Digital platform has increased hugely. Traffic was up by 78% in the second half of August versus the first half. Accordingly, the online sales for SLICE Digital clients have increased by 162% across the same period, with hundreds more sales taking place every week.
Moving into September, the data continues to show the increase in traffic and sales, even with only Auckland now at Level 4. For the comparable period, August 1st to 16th versus September 1st to 16th the platform has seen traffic increase by 67% and sales increase by 129%.
With Auckland moving to Level 3 today and the rest of the country remaining at Level 2, more items become available for online shopping and contactless delivery. It will be interesting to see if there is an extra surge in online speeding over the coming days with consumers able to buy more items and treat themselves to some non-essentials.
Asked to comment on the trends, SLICE Digital CEO Gavin Male said, “It is no surprise that Kiwis have increased their level of online shopping, we saw the same trend in previous lockdowns but the levels of adoption just keep going up. The first lockdown back in March 2020 saw a huge number of Kiwis transition to online shopping for the first time, and whilst the volume dropped back for some when we came out of lockdown, a significant change had occurred with more people than ever now confident to shop online.”
Commenting further, Male added, “Online retailers with affiliate marketing programs have seen even greater success than those reliant on some of the more established marketing channels, like Facebook and Google. As the demand for online traffic increases and more companies bid on search terms through Google and for audiences via Facebook, the price of online marketing through these channels increases, making a positive return on investment much harder to achieve. With affiliate marketing, advertisers only pay for results. The channel operates on a pure ‘pay for performance’ basis and there is no cost for clicks or traffic that reaches an advertiser’s website unless it converts to actual sales.”
Online shopping will continue to grow and forecasts show more Kiwis adopting online shopping than ever before. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just a couple of months away there has never been a better time to integrate and launch an affiliate program. With an affiliate program from SLICE Digital you get access to New Zealand’s largest pool of affiliate publishers. We work with thousands of websites and social media influencers on a pay for performance basis, these include FlyBuys, Air New Zealand AirPoints Mall, Stuff Coupons, NZ Compare and KiwiWallet.co.nz. Great publishers are ready to promote your brand and offer to their audience.
Queens Birthday Long Weekend October 23-25
Singles Day - November 11
Black Friday / Cyber Monday - November 26-29
Boxing Day - December 26
New Year Sale - Jan 1
updated 2 years ago
