Category: Benchmarks

3Q24 Retail Media Quarterly Business Review

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September 30, 2024 1 minute read Log in to download the full report linked at the bottom Stratably benchmarking suggests increasing marketing spend is the #1 company-wide growth driver in 2H, with retail media an increasingly important part of the overall marketing strategy. A net 70% of brands are expanding their retail media budgets as […]

Where Brands Stand Today with Retail Media Measurement

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September 16, 2024 TL;DR: Retail media measurement is in its infancy, characterized by fragmentation and lack of performance metric standardization. Brands struggle with integrating retail media data with other marketing channels, making performance comparisons difficult. To improve, brands need cleaner data, standardized metrics, and better strategic and analytic integration across channels. 4 minute read 74% […]

3Q24 Amazon Quarterly Business Review

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September 9, 2024 1 minute read Log in to download the full report linked at the bottom Our 3Q24 Amazon quarterly business review includes All-Signal insights digital leaders need to forecast the business, make critical investment decisions, and compete effectively on the platform. Driven by Stratably’s proprietary benchmarking and extensive qualitative research, it’s designed to […]

Prime Big Deal Days: Insights to Drive Profitable Growth

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August 26, 2024 TL;DR: Benchmarking suggests the promotional and advertising environments for Amazon’s upcoming Prime Big Deal Days will be more aggressive this year versus last. Aligning marketing strategies towards high-margin customers and products, driving off-site traffic to your deal pages, and developing a post-event retention plan are all under-utilized strategies to drive growth while […]

Retail Media is Getting All the Love

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August 12, 2024 1 minute read Yesterday, I read 17 emails on new developments in retail media, and 0 on product detail page content. This isn’t a one off either. The digital ecosystem is obsessed with retail media. This is a Gated Article Just for Premium Members Join the Stratably community Access independent research on […]

Deep Dive: Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) Program

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August 5, 2024 2 minute read Log in to download the full report linked at the bottom The Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) program (also known as Strategic Account Services or SAS) provides your brand with dedicated headcount inside Amazon called a customer success manager (CSM) to solve day-to-day issues and support a variety of operational […]

Retail Media Team Size and Hiring Plans Inside Brands

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July 22, 2024 3 minute read Brands want to get more sophisticated when it comes to retail media. But will they be able to? The answer largely depends on the growth of their retail media team. Anecdotally, eCommerce and marketing leaders commonly cite retail media capacity constraints as the primary reason why they can’t implement […]

Vendor Benchmark on the Amazon 1P/3P Hybrid Model

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July 18, 2024 6 minute read Around every AVN season, there’s a corner of the 1P vendor community buzzing with curiosity about 3P selling – either switching completely or, more commonly and realistically, deploying a hybrid selling strategy that leverages both Vendor and Seller Central. It’s understandable: AVNs were at least somewhat challenging for 72% […]