Retail Media Networks

As seemingly every industry embraces retail media, grocery chains stand out with unique shopper data and insight into the real purchase behaviors of consumers.

2024’s most popular guest columns offer a snapshot of an industry in flux – and one that’s grown cynical due to repeated promises of unrealized change.

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Is advertising to kids on social media as bad as advertising cigarettes to kids? Plus, DuckDuckGo doesn’t want Google’s scale to go away.

Have we finally reached peak retail media, or is the recent explosion of RMNs the sign of a healthy and thriving marketplace? “It’s the right question to be asking, especially at this time,” says Gopuff’s SVP of business, Daniel Folkman, who helped spearhead the company’s advertising business.

Many brand operators feel like they need good general guidelines for attribution. Plus, what’s stepping retail media standardization?

Once consumers are ready to travel, they’re often ready to spend on almost everything, from beauty and booze to electronics and streaming services. And that creates a unique opportunity for advertisers to reach a new audience with high intent, says Christine Maguire, global VP of commercial business at TripAdvisor.

Amazon is the king of retail media, but others are growing into worthy contenders. Plus: Movies aren’t making many upfront deals.

It’s been almost one year since MediaMath went out of business. Two months later, Infillion acquired the assets out of bankruptcy. Now it’s time for the next phase, says Infillion CRO and CMO Laurel Rossi.

United Airlines really wanted everyone who traveled to Cannes this year for the Lions festival to know it has a media network now. Before takeoff on the 7:50 p.m. overnight Saturday flight from Newark Airport to Nice, France, an ad for Kinective Media, which is the name for United’s new media network, played on every […]