2026 Q1 Retail Media Benchmark Report: Benchmark your retail media performance with the latest quarterly data across Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and Target.

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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.

OpenAI
Retailer News

Pacvue Becomes a Technology Partner for the Ads in ChatGPT Pilot, Announces Kepler as its Inaugural Agency Partner

Integration extends Pacvue’s AI-Powered Commerce Media OS into conversational AI advertising with Kepler as part of OpenAI’s pilot of ads in ChatGPT, giving brands unified cross channel management and closed-loop attribution across the fastest-growing platform in history. 

Health & Household
Q1 Trends 2026
Strategy & Trends
Read time 8 minutes
May 4, 2026

Q1 Household & Health Industry Trends & Takeaways: Efficiency, Pricing, and Retail Media Shifts

In 2026, Health & Household brands face a familiar set of challenges: enduring price sensitivity, mounting competition, and strong, abiding pressure to prove retail media profitability.  While demand for Health & Household continues to grow—brand average daily sales increased 21.4% YoY—it’s not being captured equally. Brands that prioritize efficiency, precision, and full-funnel alignment are outperforming those that rely on blunt visibility tactics alone.    And that divide is only widening.  […]

Pacvue Agent
Strategy & Trends
Tentpoles
Read time 15 minutes
April 30, 2026

AI in Action: Real-Time Retail Signals and Smarter Campaign Performance for Peak Shopping Moments

Peak shopping events don’t reward preparation alone. They reward the ability to act on what’s happening right now. The brands that win aren’t necessarily the ones with the biggest budgets. They’re the ones whose AI layer sees a Buy Box shift, an inventory drain, or a conversion window opening, and responds before the opportunity closes or the damage accumulates. Intelligence, automation, and governed action working as one system: that’s what separates peak performance from peak spend. 

Press Release
Product Updates
Retailer News

Unlocking Smarter Commerce Media with Walmart Scintilla Data 

Pacvue is among the first technology partners to integrate with Scintilla Media Data Feed, helping teams act on their Walmart data more effectively, manage and scale sophisticated Walmart media programs more easily, and connect media decisions more closely to growth outcomes. 

Data & Insights
Home & Kitchen
Strategy & Trends
Read time 10 minutes
April 28, 2026

Q1 Home & Kitchen Industry Trends & Takeaways: Seasonality, Pricing, and Retail Media Shifts

The Home & Kitchen category has always been shaped by seasonal demand and shifting consumer needs. In Q1 2026, those patterns became more pronounced and more difficult to navigate. 

Press Release
Product Updates

Pacvue and The Trade Desk Expand Partnership with Universal Integration

Pacvue and The Trade Desk today announced an expanded integration that will enable advertisers to manage and optimize The Trade Desk campaigns directly within Pacvue’s Commerce Operating System. Brands will be able to execute programmatic campaigns across advertising, campaign, ad group, audience, item set, and creative levels. 

Press Release
Product Updates
Retailer News

Pacvue Announces Activation of Walmart DSP

Pacvue is excited to expand our long-standing partnership with Walmart Connect, which will integrate Walmart’s demand-side platform (DSP) into the Pacvue AI-Powered Commerce Media OS. The integration, slated to launch this spring, will allow advertisers to build, automate, and optimize Walmart DSP campaigns alongside onsite placements via Pacvue Advertising.  Walmart DSP enables brands to extend the impact of Walmart’s first-party shopper data beyond onsite placements, offering advertisers access to an estimated 150 million customers served in Walmart stores and online per week (Source: Walmart annual report papers, March 14, 2025), including more […]

Amazon AMC
Strategy & Trends
Read time 11 minutes
April 22, 2026

Amazon DSP Plus: Advanced DSP Strategies using Amazon Performance+ and Brand+

Learn how to win with Amazon DSP Plus. Explore Performance+ & Brand+ tips, full-funnel strategies, and Pacvue’s real-world results to boost ROAS.

Beauty & Personal Care
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 10 minutes
April 21, 2026

Q1 Beauty Industry Trends & Takeaways: Ecommerce, Competition, and Retail Media Shifts

As more brands enter the Beauty space and consumer demand evolves, success hinges on differentiation, strategic media investment, and full-funnel execution—capturing and nurturing demand from inspiration to conversion.  

Data & Insights
Discovery Commerce
Strategy & Trends
Read time 12 minutes
April 20, 2026

How TikTok Changes Retail Media Planning

To meet shoppers on this new path of discovery, brands need to move beyond traditional funnel thinking and rethink how they plan across social media, retail media, and ecommerce.  

Data & Insights
Discovery Commerce
Strategy & Trends
Read time 14 minutes
April 20, 2026

What Search, Content and Retail Media Signals Reveal About Discovery-Led Shopping

By the time a shopper searches for a product, much of the decision has already been shaped by content, often on platforms like TikTok or Reddit. The challenge for marketing teams is no longer just capturing intent but understanding how discovery influences behavior across the entire journey.

EMEA
Guides
Strategy & Trends
April 20, 2026

2026 Guide to Commerce Media in the UK

Pacvue’s 2026 Guide to Commerce Media in the UK breaks down the key trends, channels, and planning frameworks that you need to stay competitive, optimise spend, and drive incremental growth in 2026 and beyond.

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