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TL;DR: Stratably and The Digital Shelf Institute reveal the top insights and action items from their benchmark study on how brands do retail media. 2 minute read Retail media is rapidly transforming how consumer brands engage with consumers and retailers, with nearly half of brands reporting retail media is a top priority within their overall marketing […]
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TL;DR: Gigi’s and Stackline’s new partnership highlights the potential of joining first-party datasets with Amazon’s rich data via Amazon Marketing Cloud. 3 minute read First-party data collaboration, streaming TV advertising, multi-retailer measurement, and Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) are just a few of the areas where brands are exploring opportunities to outpace their peers. Yet, for […]
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TL;DR: Criteo is well-positioned for a diversified retail media future, but it’s less clear Amazon, Walmart and other retail media giants will give up much ground. 3 minute read We tuned in to Criteo’s retail media investor meeting this morning to see how an ad tech platform representing hundreds of retailers characterizes the state of […]
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TL;DR: The increasing prevalence of personalized experiences on Amazon and the multi-step consumer path to purchase render Share of Voice and ROAS metrics less useable. Market share and incrementality measurements are becoming more possible, particularly as Amazon provides more data directly to brands via vendor central, seller central, and Amazon Marketing Cloud. 2 minute read […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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% […]