Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2024

Social media is now the world’s largest channel for advertising investment, with Western platforms growing the fastest driven by Chinese brands targeting US and European audiences. WARC Media said that social media has overtaken paid search in advertising investment and is forecasted to reach $247.3 billion this year, up 14.3

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APRIL 9, 2024

Advertisers already have a healthy appetite for games advertising: IAB’s latest study on games advertising found that 40% of advertisers plan to boost spending in this area over the coming year, making it the third-most popular channel for increased investment, after social media ( 47% ) and digital video ( 40% ).

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2024

However, the rising cost of customer acquisition via digital advertising – up 50% over the past two years – is forcing brands to explore new strategies. A recent study found that over 60% of ecommerce brands were not investing in Google Ads, a sign that the digital advertising landscape is changing. In the U.S.,

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Retail Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

A new advertising firm called Gigi aims to capitalize on Amazon's expanding streaming services for its business growth.

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Tokinomo

JUNE 27, 2024

Programmatic advertising has revolutionized the media buying landscape, offering unprecedented efficiency and precision. In this beginner's guide, we delve into its impact on media buying and its significance in retail media.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2024

Members who opt in will see display ads on the cart page that dynamically refresh after each new product scan, giving advertisers a new way to reach Sam’s Club members at the point of conversion and giving members new opportunities for product discovery. To learn more about retail media, check out our full guide here.

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Retail Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Snapchat has introduced a range of new augmented reality (AR) and machine learning (ML) tools created to assist brands and advertisers in engaging with users on the social platform through interactivity.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2024

The offering brings together a variety of connected TV (CTV) ad serving and measurement solutions, along with Albertsons Media Collective’s shopper data and insights, into a single platform from which advertisers can execute a wide range of CTV initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

With gains in total revenue, ecommerce sales, membership rolls and the Walmart Connect advertising business, the retailer has raised its guidance for Q3 and full-year outlook. Walmart’s retail media network Walmart Connect also posted massive gains with advertising sales growing 30% in the U.S., billion for the quarter reflects a 4.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Many brands and retailers are capitalizing on the rise of ad-supported streaming by testing and investing more strategically in connected TV (CTV) advertising. In fact, research conducted by Retail TouchPoints and MNTN reveals that 59% of brands spend between 11% and 50% of their marketing and advertising budgets on CTV.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As consumer spending dips, retailers and ecommerce businesses are facing a perfect storm that is impacting their digital advertising ROI. Trusted by major brands like Disney, Tab Corp and HelloFresh, TrafficGuard, accessible on Google Cloud Marketplace, upholds transparency and security in digital advertising, setting industry benchmarks.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Best Buy has built a 70,000 -square-foot studio to develop bespoke content for its own channels and those of its partners, including advertisers on its Best Buy Ads retail media network.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Restarants cannot deceive customers about the source of the seafood items on the menu.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Pentaleap Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with Orange Apron Media, The Home Depot’s retail media division.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2024

Every retailer’s nightmare is a shelf stocked with products that just won’t budge — yet it’s a reality facing many retailers. Even with research tools and ad tactics galore, new products still fail to resonate with consumers at an alarming rate. In fact, more than 90% of new products fail to significantly impact sales.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Popeyes is set for a variety of spends in the coming years in a bid to increase sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Now, as new marketing and advertising formats venture further into the store, store teams must work more thoughtfully to ensure these touch points are intentionally integrated into their designs. Krans is even thinking about how Macys can go beyond digital tech to create contextual and engaging advertising moments.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2024

Yahoo Advertising and Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) — the retail media business of Kroger , powered by 84.51° — are teaming up to bring Kroger’s first-party, purchase-based audiences to the Yahoo Demand-Side Platform (DSP). “Advertisers on average see 6.5X

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The new advertising solution builds on TikTok’s previously released Search Ads Toggle offering, but it gives brands more control and advanced targeting capabilities. Search Ads campaigns support both traffic and web conversion objectives, allowing advertisers to optimize their campaigns for both scale and performance.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It’s hard to find a topic that all marketers agree on, but if there is one, it’s likely that programmatic ad buying continues to be a dominant channel for advertisers looking to scale. digital advertising spend in 2024, according to eMarketer. In fact, it will make up the vast majority — over 91% — of the current U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

In this way, retailers will act more like media houses and thus engender the trust of CPG advertisers. However, reading around the subject can lull some retailers into the view that they need to do no more than create an internal agency and then leave all the work to third-party advertisers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With social media expected to drive a large portion of shopping research and conversion this holiday season, Meta has unveiled a slate of new advertising tools to help brands connect with consumers on its platforms. Now advertisers will be able to drive those users to their mobile app to make purchases and connect with them more frequently.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Now, brand and advertising partners — even those not sold by Ulta Beauty — will be able to deliver relevant offers and messages to customers at the bottom of the marketing funnel. Key non-endemic advertising partners include DoorDash , Hulu and PayPal.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

The new network aims to connect advertisers to Planet Fitness’ more than 18.5 We are thrilled to evolve our advertising solutions to provide agency teams, media buyers and brands the opportunity to reach our more than 18 million Planet Fitness members,” said Sherrill Kaplan, Chief Digital Officer at Planet Fitness in a statement. “Our

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Google wants a bigger piece of the traffic driven by retail media advertising. Offsite retail media allows brands to engage with a retailer’s audience in third-party channels not owned by the retailer (like Google Search) and then connect those advertising campaigns back to product sales at the retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The new interactive ad formats include: Shoppable ads: CPG advertisers can create a direct path to purchase from their Roku ad creative via text messaging or QR code, with Instacart as the landing destination. The partnership also offers CPG brands enhanced targeting capabilities and closed-loop measurement.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

With eMarketer projecting that advertising revenues within video games will surpass $8.5 We’ll break down the gaming sector in detail, outline the various advertising and commerce opportunities and share success stories from brands including Walmart, the NFL and Mattel. billion in the U.S. alone this year and reach $11.5

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

As 2024 advances, the importance and reach of paid social media advertising will only continue to grow. Recent data shows that online retailers are increasingly relying on social media advertising platforms to reach and engage with their target customers, while search-based channels such as Google Shopping and Bing are becoming less popular.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2024

The use of LLMs (large language models) to enable the optimization and maximization of ROAS for programmatic advertising predates generative AI by many years. The use of LLMs for bidding in programmatic advertising is perhaps the key sticking point that could have broader industrywide ramifications over time.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Building Flexibility in Forecasting for Variable Advertising Costs TV advertising is still the most common form of advertising in the U.S., Advertising was already likely to be up 5.6% this year (excluding political advertising) to $360 billion – and those high prices could spell disaster. The list continues.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Instacart is scaling the reach of its retail media technology, Carrot Ads , to give advertisers access to the multibillion-dollar foodservice industry through a new partnership with the B2B ecommerce ordering platform Cut+Dry. Meanwhile, foodservice distributors have been left out of the rapidly growing digital advertising space.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The partnership includes an integration with Walmart’s Connect retail media platform, which will provide advertisers with more in-depth campaign reporting. Through the new media experience, viewers will be able to shop exclusive holiday deals and more from brands sold at Walmart through an on-screen QR code. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2024

Now, SPO sellers can boost their visibility and sales with personalized, curated advertisements to the millions of online shoppers that visit the SPO marketplace each year. Mirakl Ads is designed to offer a seamless advertising solution to both operators and sellers using the Mirakl marketplace platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2024

Walgreens Advertising Group (WAG) is making good use of one of its most valuable assets: a treasure trove of first-party data from the broader organization. It was this organization-wide alignment and learning that helped WAG unlock a new opportunity: Connected TV (CTV) advertising and shoppable TV.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Federal Court has ruled that Harvey Norman, along with Latitude Finance Australia, made false and misleading financial claims in a national advertising campaign. The court found the advertisements’ statement of the payment method was presented as a complete statement when it was far from complete.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

MNTN has fully integrated with Rockerbox , allowing marketers to more accurately measure the influence of their connected TV (CTV) advertising on conversions and revenue alongside other marketing channels directly within the Rockerbox platform. This type of CTV measurement can provide reliable data as cookies begin to be deprecated.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2024

That typically includes the ‘Super Bowl of advertising’: the actual Super Bowl. In fact, Sensor Tower claims Temu and Shein were Meta’s (owner of Facebook) second and fourth-largest advertisers in Q4 last year. Amazon long made this leap to advertise its retail platform, cloud computing offering and Prime Video.

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