Fragmentation: The big challenge for retail media in 2024
The space is increasingly crowded with competitors and with few unifying standards to join them together.
The space is increasingly crowded with competitors and with few unifying standards to join them together.
It’s still early days for in-store retail media. What will it mean for brand strategies and what is the potential for dynamic content and personalisation?
The retail media market has come a long way since Amazon first launched its network in 2012. Since those early days, a broad range of retailers and other businesses have established their own retail media networks, from Walmart to Kroger, Tesco, Best Buy, Instacart and even Marriott. This has catalysed growth which is set to […]
Retail media is evolving into a solution that can address the whole funnel – not just the bottom bit where a sale is made. What might this look like in 2024, and what are the implications for privacy?
Google has begun testing another feature from its Privacy Sandbox, IP Protection, which takes aim at the use of IP addresses as ad targeting identifiers. We spoke to some experts about how it works, and what it means for advertisers.
The latest trends, developments and statistics in social media. Stories this quarter include TikTok’s potential US ban, new AI assistant features from Meta and Snap, and the ways in which the platforms are supporting their influential users, in what has been termed ‘the creator era’.
This webinar takes a deep dive into retail media. It looks at the key networks and players before providing guidance on developing and executing a retail media strategy.
Retail media can help brands reach in-market customers near the point of sale. This guide looks in-depth at the retail media opportunity, with best practice advice on strategy, campaign execution and measurement.
Part of Econsultancy’s Paid Search Best Practice Bundle, this report looks at the growth and opportunities of video and audio advertising, including practical advice on ad formats and targeting options.
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Reports of television’s demise as a mass-marketing platform may have been greatly exaggerated by some of online advertising’s proponents in the past decade, but the numbers show the inevitable impact of media competition and fragmentation on broadcasters.
In one section of his presentation from February of this year, The New Gatekeepers, Benedict Evans looks at the impact on broadcast viewing as media has fragmented. A notable slide includes a chart showing Nielsen ratings for the top-rated US TV show, which was viewed by over 60% of TV households back in the early 1950s, but by barely 10% of households in 2020, a time of streaming and creator content.
So, what does connected TV (CTV) look like in 2023?
The car manufacturer partnered with Seznam Brand Studio to build positive brand associations via a podcast featuring family-centred fairy tales, expressly linked to the Austral model. Renault|Seznam Brand Studio
Artisanal business Janek Chocolate partnered with Seznam Brand Studio to create a content series celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and highlighting the brand’s links to the historic Czech chocolate trade. Janek Chocolate|Seznam Brand Studio
The drinks brand partnered with Dawning Digital to build brand awareness and increase audience engagement in new markets with paid and organic social tactics. CANDY CAN|Dawning Digital
Working with BODEN Agency, the scholarship programme promoted its partnership with Echazarreta across paid media channels and earned PR coverage, aiming to inspire Hispanic high school students in the US to pursue further education. McDonald’s HACER® National Scholarship | Boden Agency
The Easter weekend can be deadly on New Zealand’s roads. With traditional messaging failing to make a difference, New Zealand Police and FCB Aotearoa used 60–80 BPM playlists to reduce driver speed and reduce crashes. New Zealand Police | FCB Aotearoa
The online fashion retailer worked with Bring Digital to prioritise high-margin, own-brand products while optimising its social and advertising platforms to maximise revenue and control costs. In The Style | Bring Digital
The UK electrical wholesaler partnered with Imaginaire to optimise its Google Ads account and establish an SEO strategy to drive growth. Alert Electrical|Imaginaire
Dassault Systèmes and OST worked to segment industry types and build awareness before generating leads that exceeded their target by 400%. Dassault Systèmes|OST
The UK DTC florist partnered with Outbloom to engage a new Gen Z customer base with targeted offers-based advertising, using a blended CPA approach for new and returning customers. Arena Flowers|Outbloom
What exactly do we mean when we talk about contextual advertising? Why is this particular type of advertising – once the predominant method of online ad targeting, which later took a back seat to behavioural targeting – experiencing a resurgence in popularity? And how can brands employ it to best effect?
Advertisers are on a quest for incrementality in retail media. David Pollet, CEO at Incremental, talks to Econsultancy about measuring the return on this fast-growing form of ad targeting, including the limitations of legacy approaches and complexity at big brands.
The EMEA VP of display, video, audio at the supply side platform tells us about her favourite ads, and describes the deprecation of third-party cookies as “as close to [a comprehensive reset] as we’ve seen in programmatic… since the introduction of header bidding.”
Online formats such as search, display (including social media) and BVOD drove ad spend growth in 2023, with out-of-home the only other medium to see increased expenditure.
Katrina Smart is Commerce Media Director, Europe, at The Mars Agency, and has a decade of experience in retail strategy and media planning. We caught up with Smart to get an insider’s view on just how much commerce media has changed in the last two years. Smart also gives us the lowdown on what advertisers […]
A roundup of research that paints a picture of the growth, but also the context for the growth, in retail media.
Interviewees in last year’s Econsultancy Retail Media Best Practice Guide highlighted the increasing number of brand-side cross-functional teams.
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