{"id":16957,"date":"2012-12-21T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content26.com\/?p=16957"},"modified":"2017-02-21T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T23:11:18","slug":"rakuten-buy-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been following <strong>Rakuten Buy.com<\/strong> this year, as the company&#8217;s &#8220;merchant-centric&#8221; approach offers an interesting counterpoint to other large online retailers.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer predicts that 2013 will bring with it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A rise in curated commerce<\/li>\n<li>A growing interest in specialist retailers<\/li>\n<li>More mobile payment options and increased mobile integration<\/li>\n<li>Increased video use on e-commerce sites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of those seem like pretty safe bets. We&#8217;ll be most interested to see if Rakuten&#8217;s &#8220;shopping mall&#8221; vision for e-commerce catches on in 2013.\u00a0If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about the company, be sure to check out our recent series, which includes <a title=\"Buy.com: A merchant-centric approach to e-commerce\" href=\"http:\/\/content26.com\/blog\/buy-com-a-merchant-centric-approach-to-e-commerce\/\" target=\"_blank\">a company overview<\/a> and an interview with <a title=\"Buy.com's Bernard Luthi: We empower merchants\" href=\"http:\/\/content26.com\/blog\/buy-coms-bernard-luthi-we-empower-merchants\/\" target=\"_blank\">COO\/CMO Bernard Luthi<\/a>.\u00a0Below, you&#8217;ll find Rakuten&#8217;s holiday infographic.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16958 aligncenter\" title=\"Rakuten Holiday Infographic 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png 556w, https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-163x300.png 163w, https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-239x440.png 239w, https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-391x720.png 391w, https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-217x400.png 217w, https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-271x500.png 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been following Rakuten Buy.com this year, as the company&#8217;s &#8220;merchant-centric&#8221; approach offers an interesting counterpoint to other large online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[789],"tags":[984,713,983],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013 | content26\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"content26\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-12-21T17:00:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-02-21T23:11:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Trinity Hartman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#organization\",\"name\":\"content26\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/content26-logo-274px.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/content26-logo-274px.png\",\"width\":274,\"height\":63,\"caption\":\"content26\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/\",\"name\":\"content26\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/\",\"name\":\"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013 | content26\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-21T17:00:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-21T23:11:18+00:00\",\"description\":\"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#webpage\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#\/schema\/person\/e3e78ec28eaf532b3b286ed9d3bac584\"},\"headline\":\"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-21T17:00:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-21T23:11:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#webpage\"},\"wordCount\":121,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Buy.com\",\"Infographic\",\"Rakuten\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#\/schema\/person\/e3e78ec28eaf532b3b286ed9d3bac584\",\"name\":\"Trinity Hartman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aac4925b5b0ac9dcf7b4e2c943bef9ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aac4925b5b0ac9dcf7b4e2c943bef9ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Trinity Hartman\"},\"description\":\"A former cheesehead, Trinity\u2019s writing career has taken her from the Northwest to Europe and back again. She joined content26 in 2011.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/author\/trinity\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"description":"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013 | content26","og_description":"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013","og_url":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/","og_site_name":"content26","article_published_time":"2012-12-21T17:00:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-02-21T23:11:18+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png"}],"twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Trinity Hartman","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#organization","name":"content26","url":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/","sameAs":[],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#logo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/content26-logo-274px.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/content26-logo-274px.png","width":274,"height":63,"caption":"content26"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#logo"}},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#website","url":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/","name":"content26","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/","name":"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013 | content26","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2012-12-21T17:00:14+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-21T23:11:18+00:00","description":"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013"}]},{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#webpage"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#\/schema\/person\/e3e78ec28eaf532b3b286ed9d3bac584"},"headline":"Rakuten Buy.com Looks Ahead to 2013","datePublished":"2012-12-21T17:00:14+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-21T23:11:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#webpage"},"wordCount":121,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/content26.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rakuten-Holiday-Infographic-2012-556x1024.png","keywords":["Buy.com","Infographic","Rakuten"],"articleSection":["Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/rakuten-buy-com\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#\/schema\/person\/e3e78ec28eaf532b3b286ed9d3bac584","name":"Trinity Hartman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aac4925b5b0ac9dcf7b4e2c943bef9ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aac4925b5b0ac9dcf7b4e2c943bef9ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Trinity Hartman"},"description":"A former cheesehead, Trinity\u2019s writing career has taken her from the Northwest to Europe and back again. She joined content26 in 2011.","url":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/author\/trinity\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16957"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29594,"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957\/revisions\/29594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}