Category: Benchmarks

Deep Dive: Launching Products on Amazon

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June 17, 2024 2 minute read Log in to download the full report linked at the bottom Consumer brands built around brick & mortar (B&M) have found launching products on Amazon to be very challenging because: Amazon orders small initial qualities Amazon does not take responsibility for driving traffic to new items Brands must jumpstart […]

Latest Intel on Walmartโ€™s Sponsored Search Offerings

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June 10, 2024 3 minute read We shared benchmarking earlier this year suggesting paid search (and specifically, Sponsored Products) accounts for the majority of brandsโ€™ retail media spend. For instance, the growth in Amazonโ€™s advertising business is driven primarily by Sponsored Products, despite it being the most mature ad type. Newer developments like Streaming TV […]

Brands Canโ€™t Optimize Retail Media Budgets Fast Enough

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June 6, 2024 3 minute read Itโ€™s easy to put more money into retail media. Brands are doing it hand over fist. As a percentage of their sales, our benchmarking suggests: 74% of brands are increasing their retail media budgets this year1 Amazon budgets are growing 50-100 basis points annually 33% are increasing their Walmart […]

2Q24 Walmart Omnichannel Quarterly Business Review

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May 28, 2024 This Walmart Omnichannel Quarterly Business Review includes All-Signal insights digital leaders need to forecast the business, make critical investment decisions, and compete effectively on the platform. Insights that help answer key questions like: Where is Walmartโ€™s growth coming from? How much should I spend on Walmart Connect? Am I missing out on […]

2Q24 Amazon Quarterly Business Review

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May 13, 2024 Our 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. Itโ€™s driven by Stratablyโ€™s proprietary benchmarking and qualitative research with leading brands and the top solution providers in the digital space. Itโ€™s designed to cut through industry […]

7 Things We Learned About Prime Day Last Week

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May 6, 2024 5 minute read Itโ€™s time to gear up for this yearโ€™s summer Prime Day, expected to take place in early- to mid-July. For many brands, the event is critical to hitting its full-year growth goals, and success is reliant on several factors: Will we strike the right mix of promotional breadth and […]

Advanced Amazon Marketing Cloud Usage Remains a Rarity

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April 1, 2024 2 minute read The purpose of writing โ€œAmazon Marketing Cloud (everything Iโ€™ve learned so far)โ€ in April 2022 was to alert brands and agencies that Amazon Marketing Cloud was a new, under-adopted, powerful tool that they could use as a competitive edge against their competition. Few had heard of it and even […]