Retail media will make up one-fifth of worldwide digital ad spend this year. 5 recent charts forecasting how ad spend is changing, from retail media to programmatic. Antitrust Explainer (ĢAV subscription required).
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| Mar 18, 2024
9/7 - Influential social spend. 9/6 - Retail media closes the deal. 9/5 - Beauty researchers bypass department store. 9/1 - Gen Z’s big grocery search. Note: Respondents were asked, "How do you most prefer to contact a company to ask a product or service-related question?". Methodology: Data was from the August 2023 Verint "2023 State of Digital Customer Experience Report."
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| Sep 8, 2023
9/7 - Influential social spend. 9/6 - Retail media closes the deal. Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of data from other research firms and government agencies, historical trends, reported and estimated revenues of major online retailers, consumer online buying trends, and macro-level economic conditions.
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| Sep 12, 2023
A 90-day pause in tariffs added over $800 billion to the Magnificent Seven’s market cap, revealing just how damaging trade tensions had been for investor confidence.
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| May 13, 2025
9/7 - Influential social spend. 9/6 - Retail media closes the deal. 9/5 - Beauty researchers bypass department store. Methodology: Data is from an August 2023 CivicScience study as cited in company blog. 3,451 responses from US adults ages 18+ were obtained from online surveys conducted during July 27-31, 2023; 1,505 responses were obtained during September 17-24, 2019.
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| Sep 11, 2023
Ad spend continues to grow faster than the GDP, fueled in no small part by connected TV (CTV), retail media, social media, and search.
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| Sep 11, 2024
Retail media dealmaking (and Prime Video’s introduction of ads) has reshaped our CTV expectations. Methodology: Data is from the October 2023 ViewNexa report "How to Follow the Audience." 1,000 US consumers ages 18+ were surveyed online during August 2023 by Sapio Research.
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| Dec 5, 2023
Which networks should brands be paying attention to as they refine their retail media strategy? From the king of them all to the ones that are just catching up, here are five retail media networks to keep an eye on this year.
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| Mar 17, 2023
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| Apr 2, 2024
Despite this, healthcare and pharma underindexes on digital media ad spending compared with other industries. Marketers will spend 27.8% of total media advertising budgets on conventional channels this year, per our forecast.
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| Oct 25, 2024
But for advertisers late to the retail media game, a high-inflation environment could make the barrier to entry greater. New entrants to retail media might struggle to see immediate results, as it typically takes time to optimize campaigns.
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| Nov 6, 2024
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| Sep 18, 2024
Source: Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW); Online-Vermarkterkreis (OVK)
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| Jan 10, 2024
Programmatic digital display ad spend will grow three times as fast as nonprogrammatic in 2024. 5 recent charts forecasting how ad spend is changing, from retail media to programmatic. Cookie deprecation won’t change advertisers’ preferred transaction methods. CTV ad dollars are going to waste—advertisers need to know where their money is going.
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| May 31, 2024
Will December’s strong ad spend hold into 2025? Economic uncertainties could cause a cooldown, but regulatory shifts offer some relief.
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| Jan 27, 2025
Retail media accounts for an increasing share of search ad spend in the US. That said, Google just announced it’s getting into retail media. TikTok also poses a rival to Google when it comes to search ads. A recent HerCampus study found that 74% of Gen Z internet users use TikTok for search and 51% favor it over Google, primarily due to its short-form video format.
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| Mar 19, 2024
Commerce media is knit together by the use of first-party commerce data to power targeted advertising. But beyond that foundation, the strengths, use cases, and challenges can vary depending on the vertical.
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| Aug 11, 2024
Google’s diminishing share isn’t happening due to generative AI but from retail media, which will account for 27.2% of total US search ad spend this year. Still, Google is facing new threats, and that’s causing anxiety for advertisers who don’t know what the next era of search could look like. This was originally featured in the ĢAV Daily newsletter.
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| Jun 27, 2024
Further, many significant digital options aren’t overly concerned with consumer time spent, like retail media (Amazon) or search (Google). The billions of ad dollars those platforms draw help explain why digital ad spending’s share of the total advertising pie far exceeds digital media’s share of the total media pie.
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| Aug 13, 2025
Evaluate retail partnerships with social networks. More like this:. What marketers should know about why Gen Z shops. Meta amplifies Reels with new advertising features. Can TikTok Shop crack the US ecommerce market? TikTok Commerce 2023 (Insider Intelligence subscription required).
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| Jun 26, 2023
Programmatic direct owes its dominance to retail media, CTV, and social networks—hence Canada’s skew toward the transaction method. Most real-time bidding transactions take place in private marketplaces (PMPs). PMPs are especially prevalent outside of the six major markets, where social media and CTV usage are particularly widespread.
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| Mar 14, 2025
Our take: T-Mobile’s push into advertising aligns with the trend of industries like retail and grocery plunging into the sector. The company sees an opportunity in DOOH’s growth as more billboards transition to screen-based advertising.
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| Jan 13, 2025
As retail ecommerce activity continues to accelerate, the ranks of those consumers are growing. While there is a near-term chance that this leads to more affiliate budgets moving into bottom-funnel channels (such as coupons), the big-picture trend augurs well for the channel. Amazon is getting choosier. RIP, OSP.
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| Oct 25, 2023
US ad spend on financial media networks (FMNs) will more than double in 2025 and again in 2026. But with just $710 million projected in US ad spend in 2025, per June 2024 ĢAV forecast, FMN ad spend will be 18 times smaller than retail media network (RMN) ad spend.
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| Nov 18, 2024
48% of US retail business decision-makers say video ads drive the biggest return on ad spend (ROAS) on Amazon, according to March 2024 data by Zogby Analytics and Feedvisor.
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| Sep 6, 2024