Likes and followers are not without merit, but engagement is not directly causal of sales rates. What should marketers consider instead?
The number of young people using TikTok as a search tool – almost 40% – created a perfect opportunity for TikTok and its competitors to introduce search ads.
Macy’s, the largest department store chain in the US, announced a partnership with The Trade Desk for self-serve advertising powered by Macy’s data.
Freddie Liversidge, HP’s global head of media, explains the benefits and challenges of building an in-house digital media agency from the ground up.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stores Of Value From regional chains to the largest department and grocery stores, seemingly every retailer is in the retail media network business. Retail ad spend forecasts have leapt to $25 billion and more. Except those numbers mostly track Amazon’s growth, plus a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can’t Spell “Brain Drain” Without AIs Silicon Valley giants bet the house on machine learning software to automate their businesses, and bringing that same automation to advertisers. Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft execs used the word “AI” more than 200 times in investor calls […]
Hey readers! This is James Hercher, with the latest AdExchanger Commerce dispatch. This week, we’ll highlight a few recent CPG earnings reports, during which legacy food and beverage brands appear more optimistic about their staying power than their startup competitors.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black And Blue Twitter has removed blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts as promised, as in accounts that don’t subscribe to the new $8-per-month Twitter Blue program. The rollout has, of course, been a botched job. Some celeb accounts, including Lebron James, Stephen […]
One-third of Publicis Group’s revenue comes from its data and tech business, which includes Epsilon and Publicis Sapient. Maintaining a differentiated revenue mix is one reason why Publicis is growing faster than the global economy, particularly since the pandemic, chairman and CEO Arthur Sadoun told investors on Thursday.
Retail media, meet streaming. Kroger Precision Marketing is sharing first-party behavioral data with Disney Advertising for targeting streaming audiences and measuring the results.
Mail Metro Media partnered with Firework to integrate a new vertical video player across dmg’s sites that features interstitial ads and TikTok-esque clickable overlays.
Melanie Babcock has been at The Home Depot for almost 10 years, starting in marketing. But, recently, she was made VP of Retail Media+ and monetization in February, with her responsibilities shifting to focus entirely on the revenue-generating ad business.
American retailers now see themselves as media companies. But in their publisher guise, retailers are in a strange and giddy situation.
Retail media networks have been adding ad tech audience extensions for the open web and CTV. Now, new startup Symbiosys wants to take retail ad platforms a step further into search and social.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Palm Readers Panera is an early adopter of a palm-scanning biometric data collection product created by Amazon that allows customers to “sign in” with their palms. Doing so links their purchases to Panera’s loyalty program so they can collect rewards. Privacy advocates have […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. After A Fashion Criteo inked an exclusive deal with British online clothing retailer ASOS to be the ad tech pipes for its advertising business. “The ASOS vision is to become the go-to global destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings and we want to take brands […]
On Tuesday, Criteo acquired Brandcrush, a small Australian ad startup that manages physical retail campaigns, including in-store signage, coupon circulars, free sampling and miscellaneous inventory that surrounds a grocery store.
DoubleVerify reaped the benefits of a cautious Q4 for ad spending – and it will continue to benefit as measuring performance remains a priority for advertisers. The measurement company reported a 27% growth rate in Q4.
The retail media boom isn’t just for Amazon and brick-and-mortar chains. Online marketplaces are also investing heavily in ad platform businesses, albeit for different reasons. Etsy and eBay, two of the most prominent non-Amazon online marketplaces, both reported 2022 year-end earnings on Wednesday – and both framed advertising as a fast-growing revenue pillar with important implications […]
Walmart had a mixed day with investors following its earnings call. But the Walmart Connect advertising business was a bright spot, with growth of 30% YoY to $.7 billion in 2022.
Three years after launching a retail media network, specialty food retailer The Fresh Market has a print magazine and a new live-stream shopping program.
Retail media may still be a nascent industry, but it is quickly becoming integral to retailers’ advertising strategies. And, as traditional advertisers like Sainsbury’s or Tesco join the retail media space, there are issues and questions the market must urgently address.
Arete Research’s Richard Kramer and Rocco Strauss predicted a reckoning in the year ahead for companies that depend on digital ad revenue, which they expect to decline by 5% to as much as 10% in 2023, thanks to “demand destruction.”
Microsoft Advertising is getting more serious about retail media. On Tuesday, Microsoft Advertising launched an off-site audience extension product and kicked off a testing phase for in-store activations.
Goodway Group has chosen Jay Friedman as CEO. Friedman assumes the chief executive position after more than 16 years at the company, most recently as president. Former CEO David Wolk moves into the role of executive chairman.
In the face of persistent economic uncertainty, marketers are simultaneously hustling to satisfy quickly changing consumer appetites and striving to squeeze the value out of every last marketing dollar. Not to mention needing to adopt full-funnel marketing approaches and allocate spend to channels as flexibly as possible.
In 2022, retail media grew to include practically any business with a first-party identity graph, purchase data and a claim to ears or eyeballs. Despite the buzz, however, retail media has a long way to go before the category is mature.
The slow dismantling of cookie-based tech had its fingerprints all over our coverage in 2022 (if you’ll excuse the mixed metaphor). Data privacy supplied the drumbeat, from stories about clean rooms to new privacy-forward ad tech products to the rise of retail media (a data safe haven).
When online grocery subscription service Misfits Market was founded in 2018, it took a page right out of the DTC advertiser’s playbook, says Holly Eagleson, VP of marketing. But since the release of Apple’s ATT, Misfits has been embracing new channels.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mind The Store More brick-and-mortar retailers, especially department stores with real acreage, are carving out square footage in their stores for hybrid ecommerce fulfillment. The idea isn’t new. Best Buy, Nordstrom and others have used stores as online shipping hubs for years. But the […]
