Author: Russ Dieringer

Fostering Creator-Driven Demand on Amazon

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You Do Not Have a Silo Problem

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Walmart Calendar 2Q26 Results: Key Takeaways for Consumer Brands

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TL;DR: Walmart delivered sales at the top of its guidance and raised its full-year outlook, with eCommerce once again driving all of its U.S. growth while stores declined for a third consecutive quarter. The headline for brands: $2.9 billion of tariff refunds went into more than 11,000 rollbacks to ease a fuel-pressured consumer. 8 minute […]

Target Raises Guidance Again: Full 2Q26 Analysis and Brand Action Items

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TL;DR: Target raised its outlook again after a strong 2Q (3.8% comp, margins up 70 bps), driven by store traffic and fast-moving category resets. Digital is the lone question mark: it’s growing slower than rivals and contributing far less to total growth. Our action items: raise forecasts if you’re in priority categories, engage on culturally […]

Amazon 2Q26 Follow-Up: Prime Day Math, Margins in Context, and Grocery’s 180

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Amazon 2Q26 Results: Key Takeaways for Consumer Brands

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TL;DR: Amazon’s 2Q26 results beat the top of its own guidance, with estimated GMV growing +14.4%, but Prime Day’s move into June did most of the heavy lifting. Stripping out the event, we estimate GMV grew +8.7% and ads grew +20.3%, both faster than the respective markets, but decelerations from 1Q. We have lowered our […]

Take Control of Your Amazon Sponsored Ads | Webinar Recap

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TL;DR: Sponsored Products remain the core of Amazon advertising budgets, and most accounts leak spend through a lack of control. Jake Merrill and Sam Jennings of Odyssey eCommerce shared ten tactics for finding and fixing wasted spend across campaign setup, targeting, and optimization, each with a specific place to check in the ad console and […]

Winning Multi-Dimensional Amazon Product Launches in the AI Era | Webinar Recap

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TL;DR: Successfully launching a product means winning across inter-linked elements at once: keywords, personalized results, Alexa and Sparky, off-retailer agents, and paid media. Amanda Wolff of ProductWind shared the importance of understanding where a product fits in its category, writing for shoppers and AI simultaneously, using creators in efficient ways, and timing advertising onsite and […]