Social is the new TV for CPG brand awareness. After in-store ads, social is the top media format driving discovery for Gen Zers and millennials. For Gen Xers and baby boomers, TV ads are the top driver. Even though both social and TV drive awareness while consumers aren’t actively shopping for groceries, they’re still significant drivers of discovery.
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| Aug 24, 2023
Retailers and commerce intermediaries are most likely to have access to granular, SKU-level data, which can unlock precise targeting capabilities—and attract the budgets of consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands that make up a significant share of digital ad spend.
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| Dec 18, 2024
Amazon will begin selling its ad tech to third-party retailers: The new Amazon Retail Ad Service will give companies access to the retailer’s advanced targeting and sizable advertiser network.
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| Jan 9, 2025
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| Jul 2, 2024
Advertisers may begin to retreat from retail media’s torso and tail. Consumer packaged goods brands will continue to pour money into the RMNs run by retailers that sell their products. But they—and the rest of the advertising ecosystem—will hold off on spending more with non-endemic partners. 屹پ’ hunt for incrementality will influence how RMNs evolve.
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| Nov 20, 2024
Spend from current retail media network (RMN) advertisers is showing signs of cooling, forcing RMNs to look to non-endemic advertisers outside their existing ad networks for new ad dollars.
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| Sep 23, 2024
Most consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands sell through third parties like big box retailers or grocery stores, limiting access to customer data. But loyalty programs create a direct line to first-party data, which 40% of US advertisers cite as their primary strategy to maintain targeting effectiveness in 2025, according to November 2024 data from Proximic.
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| Mar 28, 2025
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| Jan 27, 2025
These include retail, consumer electronics, automotive, and consumer packaged goods sectors. Click here to view our full forecast for US total media ad spending, by tariff scenario. Projected Impact on 2025 Digital Ad Spending. We expect digital ad spending to grow 8.0% to 11.8% this year under the moderate and limited tariff scenarios.
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| May 12, 2025
It also plans to double the length of Prime Day, which will give consumers more opportunities to find deals as well as generate more ad revenues. It’s squeezing as much revenue as it can from its ad business. Ad revenues grew 18% in Q1, driven by strong demand for sponsored ads on its marketplace as well as growing interest in Prime Video ads.
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| May 1, 2025
In-store retail media investments will continue into 2025 as advertisers experiment with ways to extend their digital campaigns into physical stores. The Interactive Advertising Bureau has released the finalized "In-Store Retail Media: Definitions and Measurement Standards" to help advertisers and networks track, report, and analyze campaign performance across various in-store formats.
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| Dec 13, 2024
Our primary research on US online beauty buyers shares insights into how consumers discover and purchase new beauty brands and products across channels.
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| Jan 11, 2024
The top 13 retail media networks used by brands (identified in a survey by the Association of National Advertisers) sell groceries and/or consumer packaged goods. According that survey, Dollar General is used by 38% of US marketers, making it the sixth most popular retail media network. This was originally featured in the Retail Daily newsletter.
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| Mar 20, 2023
Chernofsky predicts retail media networks will become "a significant piece of the advertising marketing pie" because they align with the recognition of stores as valuable touchpoints. Other emerging opportunities include:. Adjacent innovations: Grocery stores adding prepared foods, meal kits, and wellness products.
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| May 12, 2025
Instacart’s Carrot Ads solution will enable brands to run sponsored product and display ads on Thrive Market’s website and app. Self-service tools help brands set up and manage their campaigns, with optimized bidding options to drive specific business goals. Meanwhile, Faire, an online wholesale marketplace, introduced its first ad solution, sponsored search ads.
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| Sep 16, 2024
Navigating consumer behavior: The challenge for Kimberly-Clark, as for other CPGs, is how to manage tariff costs without alienating consumers who are already highly price-conscious—and without being able to pull many of the levers that they used during the past few years of high inflation, such as introducing smaller package sizes.
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| Apr 22, 2025
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The FTC’s suit argues that Pepsi violated the RPA by giving Walmart advantages, such as “promotional payments” and advertising, which it did not offer to rival retailers. Pepsi “strongly disputes” the allegations and plans to “vigorously present” its case in court, the company said in a statement. What happens next?
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| Jan 21, 2025
US consumer packaged goods manufacturers are looking for quality performance measurement, new ad formats and innovations, and placements that have performed well in the past, according to Skai and the Path to Purchase Institute. For brands investing in retail media, incremental lift is the goal.
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| Feb 26, 2024
Sixty-two percent consider the lack of measurement standards to be a major obstacle to advertising on RMNs. And our recent CPG Retail Media Networks Benchmark found a significant opportunity gap between RMNs’ reporting abilities and buyers’ expectations.
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| Sep 13, 2023
Teads partners with LG for global smart TV ad expansion: exclusive native placements set to transform viewer experiences and advertiser reach.
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| Apr 1, 2024
The access that creators and top brands can have to each other at the festival is unparalleled, even as creators have started to see more opportunities to go direct to advertisers in 2025.
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| Mar 28, 2025
Demonstrate the prevalence of retail in ad buying and selling. More like this:. US retail digital ad spend growth will outpace overall digital ad spend growth in 2024. Measuring performance is critical to CPG brands’ retail media investments. Three quarters of US advertisers incorporate on-site ads in their retail media strategy.
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| Mar 20, 2024
It also shows how tough it is for issuers to stay competitive in this segment, especially without higher-tiered cards or other consumer products or fees to offset losses. This article is part of ĢAV’s client-only subscription Briefings—daily newsletters authored by industry analysts who are experts in marketing, advertising, media, and tech trends.
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| Jan 23, 2025