Insights shaping the future of commerce
Explore trends, benchmarks, and perspectives shaping retail media and commerce.
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.
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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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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.
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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.
14 minutes
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.
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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, […]
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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.
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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.
18 minutes
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.
15 minutes
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.
9 minutes
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.
9 minutes
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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