Tag: Amazon

Benchmarking Data on 2025 Promotional Plans, Investments, Tactics, and Strategies

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TL;DR: Stratably’s latest research shows 2025 will be even more promotional than 2024, primarily via general price discounts and tentpole events. 7 minute read We’re in the thick of holiday and Q4, and you don’t have to go far to notice the highly promotional environment. A net 33% of brands report a more aggressive promotional […]

Navigating Increasing Promotional Intensity in the U.S. Retail Market

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TL;DR: Brands should expect the value-focused consumer to persist through 2025, driving heightened promotional activity across retailers. 3 minute read Stratably hosted Mark Stamps and Jackie Lewis from Harvest Group to discuss the increasing promotional environment in the U.S. retail market. This is a gated article just for members Join the Stratably community Access independent […]

Benchmarking Data on Walmart Connect Performance and 2025 Investment Levels

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TL;DR: Stratably’s latest research shows Walmart’s scale and strategic importance to brands are driving share gains in the retail media market. Brands are allocating investment towards paid search primarily (including newer units like Sponsored Brands and Video) and display secondarily, with limited interest in in-store retail media to date. 5 minute read Brands can expect […]

Takeaways from Amazon’s 3Q24 Results

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October 31, 2024 TL;DR: Amazon’s 3Q retail growth was roughly in line with 2Q, driven primarily by an accelerating 1P business and continued growth in Ads. Its retail outperformance and dominance as a full-funnel advertising platform continues to drive focus and investment among consumer brands looking for growth. 4 minute read Amazon released its third […]

What Brands Need to Know About Amazon’s Asks for Low ASP Assortment

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October 28, 2024 TL;DR: Amazon is focused on expanding low ASP assortment to drive trial, sales growth, and share gains in the grocery market. Brands are on the fence given mixed results and meaningful margin implications. 3 minute read Amazon is increasingly asking food and CPG brands for more of their low-ASP assortment – the […]

Key Themes and Announcements from Amazon unBoxed 2024

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October 23, 2024 TL;DR: Amazon unBoxed unveiled several new ad features and tools that allow advertisers to enhance product discovery, drive better media performance, and unlock full-funnel visibility across the customer journey. 4 minute read Last week, we wrote why Amazon continues to soak up so much retail media market share despite (or perhaps because […]

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 […]