Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

The digitalisation of media has seen advertising budgets diverted towards social media campaigns and search engine marketing in Australia, 70 per cent of digital advertising spend goes to Meta and Google. However, the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in advertising could have a negative effect.

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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

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 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

MAY 9, 2024

Disney Advertising and Walmart ’s retail media division Walmart Connect are teaming up to bring retail media insights to Disney’s streaming TV platforms, including Hulu and Disney+ , for programmatic advertising campaigns and measurement. Approximately 145 million customers shop with us online and in stores weekly.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2025

Our community is at the heart of everything we do. IR : What role does user-generated content play in your advertising strategy, and how is the community incentivised to create and share it? From improving existing products to designing gear that didnt previously exist, their feedback is at the core of our development process.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

AD Retail Media , the retail media arm of East Coast grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA , is enhancing the way shoppers engage with products at the point of purchase through a range of new in-store advertising solutions. Ahold retail banners include Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food, The Giant Company and Stop & Shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

PayPal is entering the media business with plans for a new advertising platform that will draw on its relationships with millions of consumers and merchants to help the latter “sell more products and services effectively,” according to a company statement. I’m thrilled to have Mark join our team and lead this important work.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At its annual advertiser summit this week, Pinterest presented a pin-worthy pitch to marketers — that the platform has grown its audience and improved advertising performance without sacrificing its feel-good vibe. Economies thrive on competition, and right now our industry needs more challengers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2025

Each new media network comes to the table with a ready-made slate of advertising customers in the form of the companies they already serve through their core business, but each is also challenged to make the case for what differentiates them from the growing commerce media crowd brands only have so many ad dollars to go around, after all.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Best Buy Ads , the retail media network operated by the electronics retailer, has unveiled a new solution for social advertising partners. Currently, Social+ is available exclusively through Best Buy Ads and will include Meta s Facebook and Instagram at launch. The RMN plans to expand to other platforms in the future.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

WHSmith North America (WHSNA) has partnered with commerce media solution SMG to launch a travel-focused in-store retail media network (RMN) that will connect brands with shoppers at the retailers more than 347 airport, rail station and resort-based locations across the U.S. We have a unique position in the market versus other retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2024

(From left to right) Palmar Haasch of Business Insider moderates a session with Webtoon Entertainment’s Alessandra Ferreri, Chris Mathieu and Megan Weales at Advertising Week NY. At AWNY, Webtoon executives shared tips for brands looking to create meaningful connections with young, passionate consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2024

Ebay is working to better support its sellers with a revamped advertising experience as well as a new Business Cash Advance offering that gives sellers quick access to revenue-based loans. New Ebay Advertising Experience Leverages AI to Help Sellers Boost Sales The new Ebay advertising hub.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2025

According to a report by iResearch, the market size of micro-dramas in China last year reached US$6.85 Theyre easy, snackable content, Olivia Plotnick, founder at Wai Social, told Inside Retail. The product might only be mentioned subtly or not at all. billion and is expected to grow beyond $14.12 The formula? With more than 9.6

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Ringing in a Changing Digital Landscape D2C brands have historically relied heavily on search and social media, which have devoured a significant chunk of their marketing budgets. Nearly 70% of marketing spend has gone to these channels. Search engine marketing Search is still a critical tool driving traffic to online stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

While marketers can breathe easy now, the industry still has every reason to limit their reliance on third-party cookies and prioritize efforts to adapt to new ways of tracking and measuring user behavior. After years of teasing out the impending deprecation of third-party cookies, it turns out Google is keeping cookies after all.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Out-of-home (OOH) advertising has played an integral role in the media mix for decades due to its influence and impact. adults have noticed an OOH ad within a one-month period and 78% of these consumers took some sort of action after, according to research from Morning Consult and the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA).

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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., For example, let’s look at NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the top-ranked show in primetime for 13 years straight. Advertising was already likely to be up 5.6% The list continues.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2024

Meta has introduced a series of new generative AI tools to help advertisers automate and scale the “diversification of their creative,” which company executives said is key to seeing success from advertising campaigns on its platforms, including Instagram and Facebook.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We’re seeing vision AI support across all parts of the retail business, including back of house, in-store advertising and media, store checkout and curbside pickup. What’s Catching a Shoppers Eye In-store advertisements and displays are a prime example of how vision AI can be used in stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Streaming TV platform Roku has launched a new service called Roku Exchange to connect streaming TV ad inventory with advertiser demand. By combining Roku’s TV advertising supply with identity data and AI-driven optimization capabilities, the process of buying Roku Media and TV streaming ad placements will be accessible to more buyers.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2025

According to Elina Vilk, Chief Business Officer of Davids Bridal, the retailer has effectively 90% of the entire market of brides , she shared in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. But coming in, the thing that I saw right away which as a media person had me salivating at the mouth was the audience that they have.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Heavy online marketing spending by Temu and Shein is making it more costly for other retailers and brands to reach shoppers on Black Friday, marketing and industry experts say, with both platforms bidding heavily on search keywords used by competitors.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The holidays at NBCUniversal are one of the most highly anticipated times of year for fans and brands with iconic programming that engages viewers of all ages,” said Karen Kovacs, President of Advertising and Partnership at NBCUniversal in a statement.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Among all its markets, Malaysia had the highest sales growth of 8.2 per cent, followed by the UK at 7.6 In October, the Federal Court ruled that Harvey Norman, along with Latitude Finance Australia, made false and misleading financial claims in a national advertising campaign. Slovenia and Croatia rose 4.4

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Beauty , which has made a name for itself not just with its accessible beauty products but also its savvy marketing , decided that Super Bowl LVII was the moment for a big play. Chief Digital Officer Ekta Chopra at a recent event. turned to one of advertising’s most powerful new channels — connected TV (CTV).

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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 TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With retail sales bouncing around as the UK economy chugs along, marketers in the sector are seeking the best way to keep their customers happy and prevent them from spending their money in another store. Cutting-edge content, influencer campaigns and even online advertising are popular ways to catch the eye.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Bell Media is always looking for new and innovative ways to strengthen connections and create an interactive viewing experience for our large and loyal audience, said Stewart Johnston, SVP of Content and Sales at Bell Media in a statement. The partnership also will help Bell Media diversify its advertising offerings.

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Retail TouchPoints

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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Webjet is facing legal proceedings for allegedly misrepresenting the minimum price of airfares on its app, email marketing, and social media posts. This happened in 382 bookings between November 1, 2018 and June 25, 2024, resulting in passengers being forced to pay more or facing cancelled bookings at a potential loss.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Supermarket retailer Giant Eagle will leverage the end-to-end platform from Grocery TV to scale up its Leap retail media network (RMN), activating rich, relevant content on in-store TVs at nearly 200 stores across Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This lengthened proposal and wedding planning lifecycle has brides spending more time researching, planning and curating their dream day, creating a prime audience for advertisers that Davids Bridal is now uniquely positioned to serve.

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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. At the same time, the UK Office for National Statistics notes that approximately two-thirds of adults in Great Britain are spending less on non-essentials because of the rising cost of living.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

“Capitalizing on the growing demand for CTV and video advertising, we are committed to prioritizing partnerships that unlock more streamlined and effective ways to reach Albertsons shoppers through high impact media channels,” said Evan Hovorka, VP of Product and Innovation for Alberstons Media Collective at the CTV Ad Days Summit.

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