The Numbers that Moved the Market: Explore our 2026 Mid-Year Commerce Media & Summer Sales Benchmark Report.

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Pacvue

Pacvue is the only fully integrated Commerce Operating System that seamlessly unifies retail media, commerce management and advanced measurement to power growth across 100+ global marketplaces, including Amazon, Walmart, Target and Instacart. Fueled by industry-leading AI technology, real-time data and actionable insights, Pacvue’s first-to-market platform enables over 70,000 brands and agencies to maximize advertising performance, increase profitability, drive incrementality, capture market share and expand their reach throughout the commerce universe - all from a single mission control. As of 2025, Pacvue powers 12% of total retail media ad spend worldwide. Leveraging the combined strengths of Pacvue’s enterprise suite and Helium 10’s SMB solutions, Pacvue delivers the industry’s most comprehensive platform for businesses of all sizes.

AI & Agentic Commerce
Discovery Commerce
Strategy & Trends
Read time 10 minutes
July 22, 2026

What is Agentic Commerce? How AI is Redefining the Shopper Journey

From the dawn of ecommerce, product discovery started with the search bar. That's not the case today. Today's AI shopping agents across retailers and even LLMs help us search for, compare, and in some cases, buy products. This is the new age of commerce. 

2026 EU Mid-Year Commerce Media & Summer Sales Benchmark Report
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
July 15, 2026

2026 EU Mid-Year Commerce Media & Summer Sales Benchmark Report

Discover how every ad dollar performed across Amazon EU and Bol in Q2 2026 – including promotional events like Prime Day – so you can benchmark and optimize your own campaigns for H2 and beyond.

ChatGPT Ads in 2026: Best Practices and Results | Pacvue
AI & Agentic Commerce
Data & Insights
Discovery Commerce
Read time 8 minutes
July 15, 2026

ChatGPT Ads in 2026: Early Results, Best Practices, and How to Get Started 

OpenAI launched ads in ChatGPT earlier this year, and the early campaigns are already teaching us things that don't match what we expected. This guide covers what ChatGPT Ads are, how they work, what the first wave of results is showing, and how to get started, with learnings from a webinar Pacvue hosted with OpenAI and Kepler. 

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
July 15, 2026

2026 Mid-Year Commerce Media & Summer Sales Benchmark Report

Discover how every ad dollar performed across Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and Target in Q2 2026—including promotional events like Prime Day—so you can benchmark and optimize your own campaigns for H2 and beyond.

Pacvue and Ace Hardware Announce Partnership to Bring RedVest Media Into Pacvue’s Commerce Operating System
Press Release
Retailer News

Pacvue and Ace Hardware Announce Partnership to Bring RedVest Media Into Pacvue’s Commerce Operating System

Pacvue, the leading Commerce Media Operating System, and Ace Hardware, the world’s largest hardware retail cooperative, have announced a new partnership that brings Ace Hardware’s retail media network, RedVest Media, into Pacvue’s unified commerce ecosystem. 

Amazon Business Ads: Building your B2B Retail Media Strategy
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends

Amazon Business Ads: Building your B2B Retail Media Strategy

Join Pacvue for an in-depth look at how teams are capturing sales from 8MM+ verified business customers. In this session, hear directly from leaders at the front lines of brand demand on what's working, what surprised them, and what it means for your strategy. 

What is connected TV Advertising and why it matters.
Data & Insights
Discovery Commerce
Read time 7 minutes
July 1, 2026

What Is Connected TV Advertising? (And Why It Matters for Retail Media)

Connected TV is reshaping how brands reach shoppers before they search. This guide explains what CTV is, how it works, and why it's becoming essential for retail media strategies.

Maintaining momentum post summer sales events
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 7 minutes
June 29, 2026

Maintaining Momentum Post Summer Sales Events

Most marketing teams close the tentpole sales window with a sigh of relief. Prime Day, Walmart Deals, Target Circle Deal Days, and Black Friday compound to create some of the biggest new-to-brand opportunities and busiest weeks in the retail media calendar. But when brands treat event days as the finish line, they shut up shop […]

Prime Day in Real Time: Why Hourly Optimization Beats Daily Reporting
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 11 minutes
June 26, 2026

Prime Day in Real Time: Why Hourly Optimization Beats Daily Reporting

Preliminary data from the first days of Prime Day 2026 points to a more competitive summer sales season, with conversion rates under pressure, ad costs climbing, and impressions down. Here's what's driving it and how to optimize your strategy for the final push.

How to compare retail media performance across retailers in europe
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 7 minutes
June 25, 2026

How to Compare Retail Media Performance Across Retailers in Europe

Retail media ad spend in Europe is set to reach €31bn by 20281 The opportunity is growing fast, but so is the cost of getting it wrong. As brands expand across more retail media networks, comparing performance is becoming harder. When clarity slips, budget decisions slow down and revenue opportunities are missed.

AI for Advertising: How Modern Advertisers Can Leverage AI to Drive Growth
AI & Agentic Commerce
Data & Insights
Read time 7 minutes
June 25, 2026

AI for Advertising: How Modern Advertisers Can Leverage AI to Drive Growth

If you’re thinking about how to use AI in marketing, the gap between advertisers who use AI and those who don't is widening. AI-powered advertising teams are making better decisions, moving faster, and getting more out of ad budgets. This guide explains what they’re doing differently.

CPG
Holding Companies

Fiskars and VML Turn Amazon Complexity into a Competitive Advantage with Pacvue Commerce

Founded in 1649, Fiskars is one of the world's longest-standing lifestyle brands, selling garden, cooking, and craft products in more than 60 countries. Across Europe, Fiskars manages a vast Amazon presence spanning multiple Vendor Central accounts, thousands of ASINs, and high-velocity seasonal sales cycles that demand always-on visibility. To manage this complexity at the speed the market demands, VML, the global commerce and brand experience agency within WPP, partnered with Pacvue to give its team and Fiskars a unified, intelligence-driven operating environment across their European Amazon business.

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