12 Tips For Optimizing Retail Media Investments
Here are 12 essential tips to help advertisers optimize their retail media investments and thrive in this fierce new arena, based on insights from the ANA’s Retail Media Networks Fair.
Here are 12 essential tips to help advertisers optimize their retail media investments and thrive in this fierce new arena, based on insights from the ANA’s Retail Media Networks Fair.
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It’s lawn season – and you know what that means. Scott’s Miracle-Gro commercials, of course. Except this time, spots for Scott’s will be brought to you by The Home Depot’s retail media network.
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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.
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.
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.
Have we reached peak retail media yet? Seems like everyone’s got one! A comic styling by guest artist Michela Buttignol.
Kroger Precision Marketing, the grocer’s advertising and data business, announced an expansion into CTV and video inventory channels. “It’s critical to … move into these channels that are increasing with respect to where advertisers are investing their dollars,” Kroger SVP Cara Pratt told AdExchanger.
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.
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.
Retail media is the hottest thing in online advertising and one of the most important categories for the future of programmatic growth. And the most important thing about retail media 2.0, a catchall for retailers using first-party data to target and monetize their audiences, is that the real value doesn’t come from the inventory or even who’s making the buy. It’s all about the data.