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The Brand & Agency Guide to Navigating Amazon’s Retail Media Inventory in 2026
Retail media continues to evolve at a rapid pace. What began as a channel defined by isolated consoles and walled gardens is maturing into a more connected, more standardized, and more audience-centric growth engine. Amazon’s recent partnerships, most notably with Netflix and Macy’s, signal a new phase where premium inventory and retail supply live inside a unified ecosystem that advertisers can plan, buy, and measure with greater consistency.
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The New Performance Standard: Incrementality, iROAS & Precision Optimization in Retail Media
Incrementality is becoming the key performance standard in retail media. Traditional metrics only show correlation, but incrementality quantifies the sales that advertising actually causes. As budgets tighten, teams need proof of causal impact and a clear way to separate real lift from recycled demand. Incrementality and iROAS provide a clearer view of true contribution by helping teams separate real lift from shoppers who would have purchased anyway.
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The Next Era of Retail Media Optimization: How AI Turns Retail Media into a Growth Engine
Retail media has reached an inflection point. What began as a way to control ad budgets has become one of the largest profit drivers in digital commerce. Yet many brands still treat retail media as a cost center rather than a growth engine. The truth is that efficiency alone no longer delivers competitive advantage. A […]
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The Ultimate Guide to Leveraging Connected TV and DSP for Full-Funnel Retail Media Success
Video has become a primary engine of discovery in retail media. But without a way to connect exposure to downstream actions, it remains disconnected from revenue. This is where demand-side platforms (DSPs) play a critical role.
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What Women in Commerce Are Teaching Us About Leadership Right Now
To close out Women’s History Month, we asked women across commerce media a set of questions about risk, leadership, AI, and what’s changing in the industry.
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The 2026 Commerce Outlook: How AI, DSP, and Commerce Platforms Drive Performance
Retailers are building full-funnel, AI-powered ecosystems designed to connect media, commerce, and measurement. The brands that win will not be the ones optimizing the fastest inside ad platforms. They will be the ones aligning media performance to business outcomes.
10 minutes
Discovery Commerce in Retail Media: How Search & Discovery Are Changing in 2026
This shift known as discovery commerce is reshaping retail media in 2026. It changes how products gain visibility, how demand forms, and how performance should be measured. For retail media teams, understanding this shift is foundational to modern planning and execution.
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The New Performance Standard: Incrementality, iROAS & Precision Optimization in Retail Media
Incrementality is becoming the key performance standard in retail media. Traditional metrics only show correlation, but incrementality quantifies the sales that advertising actually causes. As budgets tighten, teams need proof of causal impact and a clear way to separate real lift from recycled demand. Incrementality and iROAS provide a clearer view of true contribution by helping teams separate real lift from shoppers who would have purchased anyway.
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Scaling the Future of Retail Media: Pacvue’s 2025 Year in Review
2025 was the year commerce complexity became impossible to ignore. Retail media budgets surged, new ad formats expanded, marketplaces multiplied, and data poured in from every direction with no signs of slowing. Brands and agencies told us the same story again and again: too many tools, too many open tabs, and too many teams stitching together decisions with only half the […]
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The Brand & Agency Guide to Navigating Amazon’s Retail Media Inventory in 2026
Retail media continues to evolve at a rapid pace. What began as a channel defined by isolated consoles and walled gardens is maturing into a more connected, more standardized, and more audience-centric growth engine. Amazon’s recent partnerships, most notably with Netflix and Macy’s, signal a new phase where premium inventory and retail supply live inside a unified ecosystem that advertisers can plan, buy, and measure with greater consistency.
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How to Turn Cyber 5 Wins into Q1 Growth Momentum
Winning in Q4 takes more than a strong Cyber 5 performance. The brands that lead in the new year are the ones who turn short-term spikes into sustained Q1 growth. Once the surge slows, visibility often drops, and data pours in from marketplaces, media channels, and retail partners. Without structure, that data becomes overwhelming and difficult to act on.
9 minutes
The Next Era of Retail Media Optimization: How AI Turns Retail Media into a Growth Engine
Retail media has reached an inflection point. What began as a way to control ad budgets has become one of the largest profit drivers in digital commerce. Yet many brands still treat retail media as a cost center rather than a growth engine. The truth is that efficiency alone no longer delivers competitive advantage. A […]
10 minutes
What It Takes to Win the Beauty Digital Shelf in 2025
Beauty retail is evolving at record speed. TikTok Shop is now the top eCommerce beauty marketplace in China and the second largest in the United States [1], signaling a major shift in how consumers discover, evaluate, and buy products. Each week, AI assistants like ChatGPT handle more than one billion searches, and beauty-related topics account […]
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Pacvue Strengthens EMEA Presence Through Strategic Retail Media Partnership with Tesco Media and Insights Platform
Pacvue now supports the UK’s #1 grocer through an integration with Epsilon Retail Media, enabling brands to manage campaigns within one platform. Pacvue, the industry’s first AI-powered Commerce Operating System, announced today a new partnership with Tesco Media, to enhance retail media activation. Through an integration with Epsilon Retail Media, brands can now activate, optimize […]
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Amazon unBoxed 2025: What Amazon’s AI-Powered Future Means for Advertisers
Amazon’s annual unBoxed 2025 is bringing together thousands of advertisers, brands, and agencies to explore the future of retail media, innovation, and customer connection. The event is underscoring a clear message: commerce is evolving faster than ever, with data, measurement, and AI-driven optimization leading the way. From new agents to reports, this year’s announcements showcased […]
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