2025 Q4 Retail Media Benchmark Report: How brands invested, performed, and adapted across major U.S. retailers during the peak holiday season

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Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
January 14, 2026

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.

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
January 14, 2026

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.

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
January 13, 2026

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
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
January 7, 2026

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.

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.

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
December 9, 2025

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.

Winning the Beauty Category in Europe: Retail Media Insights that Drive Category Growth
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
December 5, 2025

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.

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. 

What It Takes to Win the Beauty Digital Shelf in 2025
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 10 minutes
November 20, 2025

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
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
November 20, 2025

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.

Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 4 minutes
November 13, 2025

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 […]

Beyond Amazon: Omnichannel Strategies for Winning Cyber 5 Across Retail Media Networks
Cyber 5
Data & Insights
Strategy & Trends
Read time 13 minutes
November 6, 2025

Beyond Amazon: Omnichannel Strategies for Winning Cyber 5 Across Retail Media Networks

Retail media is now a multi-billion-dollar market and it’s growing faster than any other digital channel. With more investment comes higher expectations for measurable ROI. And with Cyber 5 right around the corner, brands face more pressure than ever to maximize performance across every Retail Media Network (RMN).

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