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Top 45 Retail Tech Publications to Pitch in 2024

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Retail-tech has advanced rapidly over the past few years as e-commerce grows in popularity and consumers demand more digital experiences. From the online shopping experience to physical in-store browsing, retailers are constantly integrating new innovations to advance the consumer’s shopping journey. With this surge in retail-tech implementation, there has also been an increase in media coverage around the industry.

Below is a list of the top 45 retail tech publications to follow:

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Top 45 Retail Tech Publications to Pitch in 2024

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  1. WWD
    Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) brings readers breaking news about the fashion, retail, and beauty industries. As the global go-to for exclusive stories, trend reporting, and iconic imagery, WWD’s platforms give its readers of retailers, designers, marketers, and more the power to propel the industry forward. 
  2. Vogue Business
    Offering a global perspective on the fashion industry, and exploring how cultural trends and global patterns will impact fashion businesses by harnessing insights from technologies, Vogue Business is the leading source of information on how new technologies will shape the way products are improved, marketed, and purchased. A perfect place to publish tech retail news for anyone looking to be featured in a fashion-oriented space.  
  3. The Business of Fashion
    The Business of Fashion is recognized around the world for its authoritative, analytical point of view on the $2.5 trillion global fashion industry. BoF combines independent, agenda-setting journalism with practical business advice, online learning, career-building tools, and immersive events and experiences, powering positive change in fashion and the wider world.
  4. Glossy
    With a specialization in the fashion and beauty industries, Glossy is a go-to destination for fashion-savvy consumers, marketers, designers, fashion enthusiasts, beauty insiders, and retail industry leaders. Through their events, Glossy provides opportunities for networking and education, while keeping readers up-to-date with the latest technology developments impacting consumers on day-to-day basis.
  5. Modern Retail
    Covering the ins and outs of the reinvention of the retail industry, Modern Retail explains the changes transforming the retail business with honesty, depth, and authority. The outlet covers the industry’s nuances through a digital lens, andreaches its audience through daily editorial, and newsletters as well as in-person gatherings. 
  6. Chain Store Age
    Chain Store Age is the nation’s leading provider of retail news and analysis for retail executives across all sectors of the industry. CSA reports on and analyzes trends and strategies in all areas of store operations and store development, including technology, marketing, human resources, finance, store design & construction, facilities management and real estate.
  7. Retail Brew
    Retail Brew aims to inform, educate, and empower the leaders and decision makers of today and tomorrow on the business world, and the retail industry. Retail Brew treats its newsletters with curiosity, accountability, challenger mentality, and clarity of purpose. 
  8. Retail Dive
    Retail Dive is a leading retail publication operated by Industry Dive. The outlet provides in-depth journalism and insight into the most impactful news and trends shaping retail. The newsletters and website cover topics such as brick-and-mortar, retail technology, e-commerce, marketing, payment technology, store operations, omnichannel, and more.
  9. Digital Commerce 360
    Digital Commerce 360 is a trusted source of ecommerce intelligence, dedicated to helping all businesses navigate the latest technologies, trends, and strategies to succeed online. Originally founded as Internet Retailer, the publication rebranded to reflect their full-circle approach to ecommerce journalism and research in the retail and B2B industries.
  10. RIS News
    Retail Info System News is an essential source of information for retail executives and a place for the retail business and technology community to connect and engage on the latest retail technology trends, topics and insights. RIS issues a bi-weekly newsletter and organizes the EnsembleIQ speaking event. 
  11. Retail Customer Experience
    Retail Customer Experience is a niche publication focused specifically on customer experience in the retail industry. The publication looks for real life deployment stories, success stories, trend stories, and challenges facing consumer experience efforts. 
  12. Retail TouchPoints
    Retail TouchPoints is an online publishing network for retail executives, offering content focused on optimizing the customer experience across all channels. The network provides an array of editorial opportunities and content designed to guide retail companies in their quest for long-term success. This publication shares industry insights and announcements through articles, newsletters, and audio podcasts. 
  13. Sourcing Journal
    Sourcing Journal is a leader in B2B trade media. Its award-winning content attracts a monthly audience of more than 180 million and empowers more than 1 million global CEOs and business thought-leaders in markets that impact the world. Their dynamic events, data analysis, and rich content entertain and educate today’s fashion, retail, beauty, entertainment, and lifestyle sectors.  
  14. Econsultancy
    Founded in 1999, Econsultancy has grown to become a leading resource for professionals in digital marketing and the e-commerce industry, offering a wealth of articles, reports, webinars, events, and training courses. The publication provides valuable insights and data-driven analysis, while covering areas like social media marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing, user experience and more. 
  15. E-Commerce Times
    E-Commerce Times is one of the most popular e-business and technology news publishers in the United States. Their network attracts a targeted audience of purchasing decision-makers who need timely business and tech industry news and reliable analysis.
  16. Total Retail
    For executives, retailers, and customers looking for the latest news and analysis on the retail industry, Total Retail publishes various forms of content and community-based events. Total Retail’s mission is to provide readers with how-to information, case studies, and advice from experts on search, web design, email marketing, retail integration, print catalogs, production, management strategies, technologies, and more. 
  17. Multichannel Merchant
    Multichannel Merchant is a one-stop online resource, with original research, executive summaries, and tech insights on market trends that help leaders manage their businesses. The publication reaches key decision makers responsible for ecommerce, management, marketing, and operating at companies that sell merchandise through multiple channels. 
  18. Practical Ecommerce
    Practical Ecommerce (PE) helps merchants improve their online businesses through articles, commentary, guides, webinars, and podcasts. Practical Ecommerce carefully edits and fact-checks all pieces for accuracy, brevity, and readability to make sure that online merchants get the content with the highest quality. Now entirely digital, PE serves millions of readers in over 200 countries. 
  19. Retail Technology Innovation Hub
    Retail Technology Innovation Hub is a leading newswire and information hub for the global retail technology community that goes beyond the press releases and marketing hype. By regularly talking to retailers, tech suppliers, trade associations, analysts and consultants, this publication tackles all the omnichannel retail topics that matter. 
  20. Internet Retailing
    This UK-based publication focused on the latest developments in mobile retailing, e-commerce, and multichannel retail, features news in forms of articles, reports, case studies, and interviews.
  21. Retail Tech Insights
    Retail Tech Insights (RTI) is a trusted source in the retail industry covering new trends in retail technology, new retail solutions, and challenges being faced by retail executives. RTI is dedicated to reporting on real-life experiences, challenges, and advice from innovative leaders and how they use technology in their organizations. 
  22. Retail IT Insights
    RetailITInsights is a premier business strategy resource for innovative, yet pragmatic technology solutions in the retail industry. Its goal is to help retail executives make informed decisions about technology and operations solutions for every sales channel. RetailITInsights provides insights on how retailers can achieve critical business objectives by integrating leading-edge solutions across the entire retail enterprise
  23. Retail Leader
    Retail Leader serves the unique needs of high-level retail and brand executives with insights, business intelligence and inspiration to drive innovation across all retail sectors. Retail Leader fosters a community of elite executives and delivers fresh perspectives from a diverse mix of voices, quick-hitting news and curated trend analysis to inform strategic decisions.
  24. Whole Sale Central
    Wholesale Central is a product of Sumner Communication, Inc., the leading publisher of content for the wholesale merchandise industry. The site produces industry-leading insights which serve the everyday business needs of retailers, wholesalers, distributors, and closeout buyers.
  25. Retail Minded
    An internationally-recognized industry blog and publication that is committed to delivering quality news, Retail Minded introduces retailers to leading industry resources, merchant specific news and timely education to help independent business flourish. In addition to ongoing retail research, the publication also provides content services to companies looking to communicate to retail audiences. 
  26. Charged Retail
    Charged Retail focuses exclusively on retail technology and innovation. Apart from covering the impact of technology on the retail industry, this publication provides a unique perspective on e-commerce, digital marketing, supply chain management, and customer experience. Their website attracts a niche, targeted audience of industry professionals. 
  27. Retail Gazette
    This UK-based publisher focuses on independently-sourced news stories, interviews, comment and analysis related to the UK’s diverse retail industry and international retailers trading in the UK. Their news has a particular emphasis on consumer-facing retailers and is catered for senior professionals. 
  28. Retail Technology Review
    Retail Technology Review is a feature-rich website dedicated to the product and solution needs of end users within the retail sector. The site’s content includes everything from Mobile Computing, RFID, Printing & Labeling, EPoS systems, Kiosk technology and Surveillance & Security through to current news, informed opinion articles and key events on the retail calendar.
  29. RetailWire
    Retail Wire is retailing’s premier online discussion forum, serving the industry as a free resource for over 20 years with compelling content that goes beyond conventional headline reporting. Each morning, editors post timely topics worthy of commentary, and the results yield round tables of industry opinion and advice covering the most dynamic trends and issues impacting the retail industry.  
  30. Retail News
    This retail exclusive publication has a team of experienced journalists and analysts who are well-versed in the latest trends and developments in retail technology. Retail News also features regular interviews, video content, and podcasts with industry leaders and experts.
  31. Mass Market Retailers
    Mass Market Retailers is the industry’s only business-to-business trade publication serving the needs of a highly engaged and loyal readership comprised of top level decision makers located in trade channels. The publication is committed to building brands, growing influence, and strengthening the important dynamic of the supplier-retailer relationship. 
  32. Women In Retail
    This exclusive community of women executives at leading retailers and brands fosters leadership development for its members by providing an unparalleled mix of events, content, and elite connections. 

Business Outlets 

  1. Bloomberg
    Bloomberg is a leading media outlet with a dedicated technology section regularly covering tech news from a variety of industries, including retail.
  2. Business Insider
    Business Insider, a large, well-established media outlet features the latest news, trends, and industry insights on both retail and technology. Its dedicated “Retail” section makes it a perfect platform for businesses to reach a large audience and get the word out about their innovations in the retail space. 
  3. Cheddar News
    Cheddar news is a digital-first news network whose readership includes a younger demographic, with strong emphasis on millennials and Gen Z viewers. Known for its dynamic and engaging presentation style, and a focus on an easily digestible news format, Cheddar News covers a wide range of topics related to retail technology, including e-commerce, mobile payments, and artificial intelligence. 
  4. Fast Company
    Known for high-quality journalism and engaging storytelling, Fast Company is an award winning publication that has been recognized for its innovative approach to covering business and technology. Among covered topics are innovation, AI, sustainability, design, entrepreneurship, and more. The publication also hosts the Fast Company Innovation Festival and a variety of other events and conferences. 
  5. Forbes
    Forbes’s Retail section is famous for its rankings and lists of top retailers and industry leaders, such as the Forbes Global 2000 list, Highest-paid Retail CEOs list, and The Most Innovative Companies in Retail list. This specialized section covers news and analysis related to the retail industry, and represents a valuable resource to retailers, investors, and consumers. 
  6. Fortune
    Providing commentary, news, and analysis on a wide range of business topics, Fortune has grown to become a well respected and influential publication that appeals to innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders. A host to a variety of events, Fortune organizes the annual Fortune Global Forum, which brings together industry leaders, and policymakers from around the world. 
  7. Fox Business
    Mainly known as a cable news broadcaster, Fox News doesn’t fall short of the latest news on their website. Comprehensive coverage, expert analysis, experienced journalists, timely reporting, and an accessible format make Fox Business a perfect source for retail tech news. 
  8. Inc. Magazine
    Inc. Magazine is a leading entrepreneurship publication helping entrepreneurs start, grow, and manage their businesses. Focused on practical advice and real-world examples, Inc. Magazine is a trusted source for small business owners who are looking for guidance, startups, as well as readers interested in retail, technology, leadership, business, and more. 
  9. NBC News
    NBC Digital News is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse, and engaging stories on multiple platforms. It covers breaking news, live video coverage, lifestyle features, commentary, and local updates in a variety of industries, including retail.
  10. Reuters
    Unmatched coverage in over 16 languages and the reach of billions of people makes Reuters a trusted source that powers humans to make smart decisions. Reuters remains true to its Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom of bias, working relentlessly to bring news from the main source to every corner of the world. 
  11. The New York Times
    Pulitzer award-winning, The New York Times is one of the most relevant and trustworthy newspapers. It provides in-depth coverage of national and international news and has a reputation for high-quality journalism. The New York Times has a dedicated business and technology section that covers news and trends in the retail technology industry.  
  12. VentureBeat
    Venture Beat’s mission is to help business leaders make smart decisions and stay on top of breaking news. This publication promises new connections, perspectives, influences, and connections whether you come from attending their events, following their newsletter or reading their articles. 
  13. The Wall Street Journal
    The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is a global source of news through the lens of business, finance, and economics that covers the global forces that shape the world. WSJ is committed to providing facts, data and information. Its retail section pursues unique, exclusive stories in the retail industry by their diverse set of voices that strives to speak to as wide an audience as possible. 

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