Q3 2026 Commerce Media Benchmark Report: Learn how top brands' & agencies' ad spend performed in Q3, and unlock strategies to win in Q4.

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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.

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
October 13, 2026

Q3 EU & UK 2026 Commerce Media Benchmark Report

Learn how Amazon EU and Bol advertising campaigns performed during Q3, so you can benchmark your own campaigns and better optimize for the upcoming holiday season.

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
October 13, 2026

Q3 2026 Commerce Media Benchmark Report

Pacvue's Q3 2026 Commerce Media Benchmark Report delivers a detailed review of performance trends across major retail media networks, covering key metrics like CPC, ROAS, CVR, spend, and more. Learn how advertisers manage different ad formats, placements, and platforms to drive commerce outcomes at scale and speed. 

AI & Agentic Commerce
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends

Entering the Post-Funnel Era: How Brands Are Getting Ahead of the New Shopper Journey

As AI-assisted discovery reshapes search, and social platforms increasingly function as commerce environments, brands need to rethink how they show up, connect data and measure influence across the entire journey.

The 12 Prompts for Winning Holiday Retail Media with Pacvue Agent
AI & Agentic Commerce
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 16 minutes
October 8, 2026

The 12 Prompts for Winning Holiday Retail Media with Pacvue Agent

Pacvue Agent isn't just a chatbot that summarizes your data. It's built to connect real-time signals from your retailers (inventory, margins, competitor moves, customer behavior) and turn them into actions your team can trust and approve. For teams managing campaigns across 100+ retailers, it means faster decisions without losing visibility into margin, stock, or competitive risk. 

Sleigh the Season: How to Build a Winning Holiday Ecommerce Strategy
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 10 minutes
October 8, 2026

Sleigh the Season: How to Build a Winning Holiday Ecommerce Strategy

Cyber 5 is no longer a five-day sprint. Last year it was a $44.2 billion online event, and it rewards the brands that show up everywhere, not just those that spend the most. Shoppers increasingly research and buy across multiple retailers – Amazon, Walmart, Target, Instacart, and a fast-growing set of emerging platforms. But these […]

When a Competitor Runs Out of Stock, Three Partners Were Ready
Retailer News
Strategy & Trends
Read time 3 minutes
October 7, 2026

How Three Partners Turned a Competitor’s Stockout into an Opportunity for Uncrustables

A competitor’s product goes out of stock on Walmart.com at 2am. By the time a media team checks a dashboard the next morning, the moment is gone. Shoppers who would have bought a substitute have already moved on.   That’s what happens when bid management runs on human hours instead of shelf conditions, and it’s exactly […]

Strategy & Trends
Read time 6 minutes
October 1, 2026

Inside Amazon’s Media Planning APIs and What They Mean for Advertisers 

Discover how Amazon Ads' forecasting and deduplication APIs are transforming media planning from manual, post-campaign work to proactive, data-driven decisions.

Strategy & Trends
Read time 8 minutes
September 29, 2026

What Amazon’s AMC SQL Generator Unlocks, and What Pacvue is Doing With It

Amazon has spent the past year building tools that let AI agents work directly inside its advertising systems. This week at unBoxed, that turned into something concrete: a new way for AI tools to plug into Amazon’s advertising data, and a specific new capability – already live in Pacvue Agent – that changes how fast […]

Retailer News
Strategy & Trends
Read time 9 minutes
September 29, 2026

Amazon unBoxed 2026: What Amazon’s Push Into Agentic Commerce Means for Advertisers 

Everything advertisers need to know about Amazon unBoxed 2026, from Ads Agent and Full Funnel Campaigns to Amazon's push into agentic commerce.

Horizon Commerce and Pacvue Expand Strategic Partnership to Connect Retail Media Planning, Activation and Measurement
Press Release

Horizon Commerce and Pacvue Expand Strategic Partnership to Connect Retail Media Planning, Activation and Measurement

Expanded partnership brings together Horizon Commerce’s strategy and activation expertise with Pacvue’s Commerce Media Operating System to help marketers move from insight to outcomes faster

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
September 23, 2026

Amazon DSP 2026 Quick Guide

*Based on DSP spend and performance data Pacvue tracked across Q1 and Q2 2026.

How Social Commerce is Reshaping Commerce Media in 2026
Discovery Commerce
Strategy & Trends
Read time 9 minutes
September 21, 2026

How Social Commerce is Reshaping Commerce Media in 2026

The age of social commerce is here, pushing brands and agencies to rewrite the rules of media strategy, execution, and measurement. This guide breaks down how to build a social commerce strategy that works alongside your retail media strategy: how to activate it across channels and audiences, and how to measure it with the same rigor you'd apply to Amazon, Walmart, or Target.

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