Category: Benchmarks

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 […]

Amazon Monthly Pulse Benchmark: March 2024

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March 27, 2024 2 minute read We consistently benchmark the brand community to understand how their Amazon business is performing relative to expectations. The latest results include insights into sales and advertising performance, along with promotional intensity. This is a gated article just for members Join the Stratably community Access independent research on the omnichannel […]

Benchmarking Data on Walmart Connect Performance and Investment Levels

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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 […]

The Role of Product Detail Pages in Retail Media Budget Decisions

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March 18, 2024 Retail media is having a moment, and itโ€™s an exciting time for digital leaders. As retail media networks (RMNs) continue to proliferate, this means more levers to access shoppers and drive sales. But excitement meets overwhelm when the resources and budgets to support retail media are still limited. Are we investing in […]

AVN Success Helped by Prep Time and Senior Leader Buy-In

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March 14, 2024 4 minute read Amazon annual vendor negotiations (AVNs) are tough. Thatโ€™s why weโ€™ve had hundreds of brands leverage our webinar, whitepaper, and 5-step framework this year, which provide quantitative data and expert advice to support this critical aspect of their Amazon business. These brands also weighed in on why AVNs are so […]