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Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 10 minutes
June 5, 2026

Prime Day 2026 Forecasting: Using SOV, WOC & Retail Signals to Plan Winning Campaigns

For the first time in five years, Amazon Prime Day is moving to June from July. That shift compresses every planning timeline by roughly four weeks, and brands that have planned for a July Prime Day are already behind. 

How to win the summer sales events across Walmart & Target
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 7 minutes
May 29, 2026

How To Win the Summer Sales Events Across Walmart & Target

While everyone focuses on Prime Day, Walmart Deal Days and Target Circle Week run alongside it. Here's how to win both without losing ground.

From Data Complexity to Clarity: How Commerce Intelligence Unlocks Growth
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 7 minutes
May 22, 2026

From Data Complexity to Clarity: How Commerce Intelligence Unlocks Growth

Most retail media teams are sitting on more data than they can use. The problem isn’t access. It’s that the data lives in separate walled-garden dashboards, each with its own metrics, attribution models, and reporting formats, making it nearly impossible to see the full picture.  Commerce intelligence changes that. It unifies ad performance, retail operations, and real-time shopper signals into one […]

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. 

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.

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 11 minutes
April 13, 2026

Q1 2026 Grocery Industry Trends & Takeaways: Ecommerce, Pricing, and Retail Media Shifts 

In Q1 2026, Grocery & Gourmet brands continued to invest and capture steady demand. Conversion strengthened, costs remained relatively stable, and returns held steady.  Beneath those gains, however, the operating environment became more complex.  Performance was less consistent across the quarter and more sensitive to changes in competition, visibility, and timing.  This reflects a broader change in shopper behavior. Demand for Grocery remains strong, […]

Data & Insights
Shoptalk
Strategy & Trends
Read time 4 minutes
April 3, 2026

Shoptalk 2026: 5 Key Takeaways for Brands and Agencies

Across the visionary keynotes, actionable sessions, and intimate networking events at Shoptalk Spring 2026, a clear set of themes emerged. And if your brand operates or invests in retail media, you simply can’t afford to ignore them. 

The 2026 Commerce Outlook: How AI, DSP, and Commerce Platforms Drive Performance
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 15 minutes
March 17, 2026

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. 

The New Performance Standard: Incrementality, iROAS & Precision Optimization in Retail Media
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 9 minutes
January 6, 2026

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.

Cyber 5
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 7 minutes
November 26, 2025

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. 

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