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RE/MAX gets into the retail media game; Meta loses a class-action lawsuit over how it handled period-tracking data; and the IAB Tech Lab unveils its ad delivery playbook for live events.

The IAB gave us new retail media standards for Christmas. But will the industry actually adopt them? Plus: how AI will be used in advertising in 2025.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Best Buy’s Best Bet Sales at Best Buy were down more than 6% from last year in Q2, as consumers cut back on discretionary purchases, especially electronics and home appliances. Best Buy’s shares jumped more than 10% on the news. Wait, what? Although sales […]

Fixating on ROAS makes it harder to figure out how certain parts of a campaign perform, especially now that retail media buys often include other, less performance-focused channels like display and CTV as audience extension.

On Tuesday, Meta released new products in its Advantage+ suite of automated ad products that focus on AI and video and campaigns for retail media networks.

Planet Fitness is hiring an in-house ad sales team to win agency and advertiser budgets for its omnichannel media netw … Wait, what? That’s right. The gym chain has an RMN now.

Agencies will keep testing cookie alternatives, devising first-party data strategies and exploring commerce media in 2024.

Last month, Cars.com – a 25-year-old Chicago-based automotive company that started out in the digital newspaper ads business – launched an RMN for auto advertisers.

As third-party cookies disappear, advertisers can rely on retail data to target consumers, said The Trade Desk’s Ben Sylvan at Night Market’s eCommFronts event in New York City last week.

With its RMN, Rippl, Cardlytics-owned Bridg aims to reduce fragmentation in the RMN space by consolidating listings by retailers that might otherwise be tempted to set up their own RMNs.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]

Kroger Precision Marketing, the grocery chain’s retail media arm, announced plans to bring its self-serve retail media ad tech fully in-house and shared an update on how the project is going.

Some consumer insights are obvious: People who buy hot dog buns are more likely to buy hot dogs, for example. But Instacart has also observed some far less intuitive online shopping behavior on its platform.

Albertsons Media Collective, the retail media network (RMN) operated by food and drug retailer Albertsons, released a working draft of a retail media standardization framework on Thursday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Drizl Before The Storm New retail media players raise difficult questions about particular use cases.  The latest platform, for instance, is Drizly Ads, launched by the Uber-owned alcohol delivery company. On the one hand, booze brands need to find online customers. Targeting […]

Smartify Media launched in 2020 as a digital out-of-home platform to allow small businesses in Boston to share real-time updates with customers during the pandemic. Now, the company is trying to create a retail media network with small businesses nationwide, like bodegas and other mom-and-pop shops, through its Small Business Revenue+ program.

The grocery chain Albertsons in-housed its advertising services and tech business in February, and is still making big changes to the group. “It’s really about owning the tech stack and the product vision,” said Evan Hovorka, head of retail media products.

Shopify seller turned ad tech CEO and entrepreneur Regina Ye founded her startup, Topsort, last year to help retailers launch auction-based ads on their sites through an API. Performance advertising shouldn’t be so hard for smaller brands, Ye says, on this week’s episode.

Sam’s Club, the membership-based retailer owned by Walmart, recently rebranded its advertising business as the Member Access Platform (MAP) as it charts its own course alongside other emerging retail media platforms. The notion of “member access” is what sets Sam’s Club apart from other retailers that are focused entirely on advertising as a way to monetize customers, said Lex Josephs, a VP at Sam’s Club and GM of the MAP business.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retail Media Mania  Feels like everyone and their Marriott – I mean, their mother – is or has a media network now. At its Digital Media Summit last week, LUMA Partners projected that retail media alone will be a $60 billion market by 2024, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shape Up Or Shop Out Parallel news items reinforce the massive relative advantage for Amazon and its ad business compared with Facebook and Shopify in the wake of Apple’s data privacy overhaul. For years, rumors flew that Facebook was angling to acquire Shopify, The […]

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In a post-cookie world, retail media networks have the potential to be an important channel in a brand’s comprehensive advertising strategy, writes Michael Ellgass, EVP for retail marketing solutions at IRI.

Inmar Intelligence is adding mobile to its cart. On Thursday, the retailer-focused tech and data platform reached an agreement to acquire mobile ad platform Aki Technologies to take advantage of the high-growth retail media category. Aaron Kechley, Inmar’s GM of media and SVP of strategy, declined to share a deal price. But he did elaborate […]

The CPMs better be $1. On Thursday, Dollar Tree became the latest retailer to launch its own retail media network for its subsidiary, Family Dollar. The network, called Chesapeake Media Group, (Dollar Tree’s headquarters are located in Chesapeake, Virginia) joins the ranks of Walgreens, Walmart, CVS Pharmacy, Target/Roundel, Kroger, Best Buy and The Home Depot, […]