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May 15, 2023 Pinterest recently announced a partnership with Amazon Advertising whereby Amazon will be able to offer ads from its vast advertiser pool directly on Pinterest. CEO Bill Ready explained the rationale – “Pinterest was really solving digital window shopping but the actionability was low. So, it’s sort of like Pinterest digital […]
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May 9, 2023 Stratably reviews a sampling of consumer brands each quarter to understand how demand is trending, what management teams are most focused on, what we can expect moving forward, and any counter-intuitive findings. Over the last two weeks we reviewed results from 13 companies including P&G, Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark, 3M, Pepsi, Newell, […]
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May 2, 2023 Long time Stratably readers know we see developing sophisticated measurement capabilities as key to having a competitive edge on Amazon, and retail media more broadly (see here / here / here / here / here / here /here). Pinterest has a clean room offering powered by LiveRamp and it made […]
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May 1, 2023 Amazon and its digital ad platform peers Google, Meta, Pinterest, Snap and Roku all reported earnings last week, providing data and color on the ad landscape. Here’s what we found most interesting for retail leaders. On average, Amazon’s peers grew their ad business by 1.7% compared to Amazon’s 21% […]
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February 27, 2023 The annual CAGNY conference took place last week in Florida providing participating leadership teams across the largest CPG companies the opportunity to talk about their corporate strategy, changes underway in their organizations, and long-term growth and profitability goals. We reviewed the presentations and commentary to uncover common themes across organizations. Read on for our key […]
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February 16, 2023 Shopify will power more than $200B in gross merchandise volume on its site this year, making it the largest and most direct read we have on the health of the direct-to-consumer market.We analyzed its 4Q22 results from last night to see what we could learn about…eCommerce healthConsumer demand and outlookShopify’s response to Buy […]
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February 15, 2023 Stratably hosted Kiri Masters and Ross Walker from Acadia to explain the importance of Amazon’s New-to-Brand (NTB) metric. Watch the session hereThe purpose of New-to-BrandNTB illustrates the degree to which your sales are being bought by consumers that haven’t purchased from a brand in the last 12 months. It’s designed to illustrate how well you’re […]
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February 9, 2023 Stratably hosted Mark Stamps from Harvest Group to explain the programmatic opportunity via Walmart Connect and Target Roundel, and how that flows through to the P&L and joint business planning. Watch the session hereWe’re in the early innings on adoption58% of webinar registrants report they are currently activating programmatic via Walmart and Target today. […]