Author: Claire McBride

Advanced AMC Usage: AMC Audiences

Article in Research

April 30, 2024 While general adoption of AMC has more than doubled in the past year, less than one in ten brands self-report using the tool in an advanced way. This means brands and agencies that can employ sophisticated AMC strategies will have a competitive advantage in terms of reaching customers more efficiently. Amazon continues […]

Do Your Own Incremental Growth Analysis

Article in Briefings

April 24, 2024 1 minute read Digital penetration is a measure brands often employ to share how they’re doing from an eCommerce perspective. The thinking goes, the higher the better, usually. We’ve written multiple times about the limits of digital penetration, including it divides rather than unifies, doesn’t indicate much about the strategy, and doesn’t […]

How to Properly Benchmark Amazon’s Performance

Article in Briefings

April 22, 2024 1 minute read A common mistake made in benchmarking Amazon’s performance is what to compare it to. The FTC, most analysts, and often retail leaders like to compare Amazon to the eCommerce channel. They limit the comparison of Amazon’s growth rate to just the digital portion of omnichannel retailers’ growth rate. At […]

Temu’s Threat Extends Beyond Amazon

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Mass Retailers Outpacing the Market by ~2x

Article in Forecasts

March 25, 2024 4 minute read The following analysis compares recent performance across Amazon, Walmart, and Target, which together make up Stratably’s Mass Index. Given their size, strategic importance to brands, and outperformance in the market, the performance analysis reveals who’s winning and losing and illuminates what’s driving success in retail today and what we […]

Takeaways from our Live Session on Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) Program

Article in Research

March 21, 2024 The Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) program (also known as Strategic Account Services or SAS) provides your brand with a dedicated contact inside Amazon (called a customer success manager or CSM) to solve day-to-day issues and support a variety of operational initiatives, from getting started with a new supply chain programs to catalog […]

Benchmarking Data on Walmart Connect Performance and Investment Levels

Article in Benchmarks

March 20, 2024 3 minute read Our recent retail media benchmark shows brands are allocating 15.5% of their total marketing budgets to retail media. While that figure is steadily increasing, digital leaders still view their retail media budgets (and broader resources) as limited, especially relative to the number of retail media networks (RMNs) knocking on […]