AdExchanger Commerce

Sales are way up; ROAS is through the roof across search, social and ecommerce. At least, that’s what the ad platforms say.

This week, the AdExchanger Commerce newsletter caught up with Mark Heitke, Best Buy Ads vet and new VP of strategy at Symbiosys, a retail media tech biz with a new take on search advertising.

This week, the AdExchanger Commerce Newsletter catches up with Shopify, which, in the past couple of years, quietly became one of the most important players in online advertising, despite rarely being thought of in the category.

Ibotta’s evolution since it was founded 13 years ago – it went public last week – is emblematic of the industry’s overall transition from third-party data marketplaces to first-party and retail media data.

American consumers are buying more and more online products directly from Chinese manufacturers. It’s an important change, though many online shoppers are unaware.

This week, we’re looking at retail media but from a different point of view: the Wall Street perspective.

Don’t get me wrong – Walmart is going to sell a lot of Vizio TVs. But its bigger interest in Vizio stems from data and advertising.

This week, I’m examining how the era of standalone walled gardens and content fortresses has given way to new forms of ad platform partnerships.

This week, the AdExchanger Commerce newsletter examined a microcosm of the affiliate marketing and ecommerce business in the form of CNN Underscored, the news company’s product-selling site and content marketing unit.

Advertising and product pricing are opposite sides of the same coin, which begs the question: To reach a new customer, are you better off spending another dollar on advertising or dropping your price by $1?