April 24, 2024 1 minute read Digital penetration is a measure brands often employ to share how they’re doing from an eCommerce perspective. The thinking goes, the higher the better, usually. We’ve written multiple times about the limits of digital penetration, including it divides rather than unifies, doesn’t indicate much about the strategy, and doesn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
March 11, 2024 Is eCommerce front and center when consumer brands present their strategy? We were able to test that hypothesis when thirty brands presented at the CAGNY conference, a long-running industry event primarily designed for investors to assess the short- and long-term strategies of some the largest companies in the industry. The event is […]
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February 9, 2024 Annual Vendor Negotiations (AVNs) are a critical part of the Amazon business for 1P consumer brands, as they have important financial implications and set the stage for the year ahead. One component of Stratably’s 5-Step Framework for Navigating AVNs is to understand your business metrics and performance, ideally in the broader context […]
Stratably went live today to delve deep into Amazon’s 4th Quarter 2023 earnings report, helping retail leaders understand the implications for Amazon, the broader retail market, and the eCommerce industry as a whole. This session complemented our written recap (linked below) published yesterday evening after Amazon reported its results. Key topics from the session: How […]
January 10, 2024 Stratably’s Amazon Competitive Edge Diagram maps out a variety of levers, program, and options brands have to grow their business on Amazon. By breaking these levers down by adoption (x axis) and impact (y axis), you can see which ones are: Table stakes, like Sponsored Products (top-right quadrant, high […]