Tag: Strategy & Trends
2025 Q4 Retail Media Benchmark Report
Explore trends from the most competitive shopping season of the year, with full-quarter advertising benchmarks across Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and Target as well as spotlights on the biggest takeaways from seasonal tentpoles.
Q4 2025 EU and UK Retail Media Benchmark Report
Explore trends from the most competitive shopping season of the year, with full-quarter advertising benchmarks across Amazon Sponsored Ads and DSP, including a spotlight on the biggest takeaways from seasonal tentpoles.
2026 Q1 EU Retail Media Benchmark Report
As brands enter 2026 with higher expectations around efficiency, incrementality, and profitability, Q1 has become a critical proving ground for retail media strategy across Europe and the UK. With budgets recalibrated and performance under closer scrutiny, advertisers are re-evaluating how and where they invest across Amazon and other leading retail media networks in the region.
2026 Q1 Retail Media Benchmark Report
As brands enter 2026 with sharper expectations around efficiency, incrementality, and profitability, Q1 will become a critical proving ground for retail media strategy. With budgets recalibrated and performance under closer scrutiny, advertisers adjusted how and where they invested across Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other leading retail media networks.
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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.
2025 Cyber 5 Retail Media Benchmark Report
As Cyber 5 accelerated seasonal demand, brands adjusted their full funnel strategies across Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and Target to capture shopper intent during the highest pressure period of the year. Pacvue’s Cyber 5 2025 U.S. Retail Media Benchmark Report provides a detailed view of how advertisers performed during this critical stretch, revealing where budgets shifted, which tactics drove the strongest returns, and how competition intensified across key categories.
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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.
Winning the Beauty Category in Europe: Market Intelligence and Insights that Drive Growth
Europe’s beauty market is evolving fast, and retail media now sits at the heart of how leading brands gain visibility, influence shoppers, and drive measurable growth across Amazon and other major marketplaces. Pacvue’s latest European Beauty Category Deep Dive reveals the trends, benchmarks, and market intelligence shaping Beauty & Personal Care performance across key markets in Europe.
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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.
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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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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 […]
Winning the Beauty Category: Market Intelligence and Insights that Drive Growth
The beauty and personal care industry continues to thrive, blending discovery-driven shopping with precision performance marketing. As consumer preferences shift toward clean beauty, wellness, and functionality, competition across marketplaces like Amazon and Walmart has never been higher.
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