Category: Research

Where eTailers Rank vs. the Market

Article in Forecasts

April 15, 2024 3 minute read Stratably’s eTailer Index comprises 13 of the largest eCommerce platforms in the U.S. market that account for $820 billion in annual global gross merchandise value (GMV). Analyzing the Index sheds light on a subset of eCommerce, and it illuminates performance differences for pure eCommerce models compared to their omnichannel […]

Walmart Margin, Connect, and Luminate Asks are Challenging Brands’ P&Ls

Article in Briefings

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Advanced Amazon Marketing Cloud Usage Remains a Rarity

Article in Benchmarks

April 1, 2024 2 minute read The purpose of writing “Amazon Marketing Cloud (everything I’ve learned so far)” 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

Article in Benchmarks

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 […]

Mass Retailers Outpacing the Market by ~2x

Article in Forecasts

March 25, 2024 4 minute read The following analysis compares recent performance across Amazon, Walmart, and Target, which together make up Stratably’s Mass Index. Given their size, strategic importance to brands, and outperformance in the market, the performance analysis reveals who’s winning and losing and illuminates what’s driving success in retail today and what we […]

Takeaways from our Live Session on Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) Program

Article in Research

March 21, 2024 The Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) program (also known as Strategic Account Services or SAS) provides your brand with a dedicated contact inside Amazon (called a customer success manager or CSM) to solve day-to-day issues and support a variety of operational initiatives, from getting started with a new supply chain programs to catalog […]

Benchmarking Data on Walmart Connect Performance and Investment Levels

Article in Benchmarks

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 […]