Category: Benchmarks

Why and How Brands Should Move Early on Amazon’s Streaming TV Advertising

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October 16, 2024 TL;DR: Amazon’s streaming TV advertising is a competitive edge opportunity for brands, although adoption is expected to rapidly increase over the next year. We recommend brands test-and-learn sooner than later which requires cross-functional alignment and in-house and/or external analytics support that understands how to leverage Amazon’s unique targeting and reporting capabilities. 4 […]

Benchmarks and Insights on Amazon Ads vs. Retail Media Peers

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October 14, 2024 TL;DR: Brands and agencies are growing Amazon’s share of their retail media budgets despite its existing 87% market share of the retail media market. This is due to its superiority in terms of scale and strategic importance, competitive intensity, performance, analytics capabilities, ad activations, and PDP quality. 5 minute read (Scroll to […]

The Superior Metric to Digital Penetration

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October 9, 2024 TL;DR: Brands rely on Digital Penetration to set investment levels, but Digital Share of Growth reveals a much larger impact from eCommerce. 2 minute read Most brands incorporate Digital Penetration into their strategic investment plans, while ignoring ‘Digital Share of Growth’ (DSG).  Here’s the difference: Digital Penetration: Digital sales divided by total […]

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 members Join the Stratably community Access independent research on the […]