Why ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2026
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Why ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2026

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Why ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2...

E-commerce teams are measuring their retail media performance with a number that can be engineered to look good. ROAS is clean, reportable, and easy t...

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What Shoptalk Spring 2026 Is Really About - Exclusive Interview with Shoptalk President Zia Daniell Wigder
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What Shoptalk Spring 2026 Is Really About - Exclusive Interview with Shopta...

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What Shoptalk Spring 2026 Is Really About - Exclus...

Retail executives arriving in Vegas this month are not debating whether AI will reshape their business. That debate is already over. The real question...

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Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists as AI Gets Better
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Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists as AI Gets Better

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Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists ...

The shopping journey has always involved a kind of surrender. You surrender to a brand’s editorial curation when you browse a site. You surrende...

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At Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out
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At Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out

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At Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out

Most organizations right now are running some version of the same experiment: distribute access to AI tools, watch what happens, and try to figure out...

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Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement Model That Finance Actually Trusts
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Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement...

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Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built ...

Every influencer marketer has the same nightmare conversation. The CFO asks for the revenue number. The marketer opens a dashboard full of impressions...

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Why Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution Margin Per View
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Why Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution Margin Per View

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Why Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution...

Most apparel brands know their gross margins. Fewer know whether the traffic they are paying for actually generates profit after returns, fulfillment,...

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How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Into a Fashion Audience
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How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Into a Fashion Audience

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How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Int...

Most retailers chasing fashion credibility start by shrinking their audience. They curate harder, raise prices, and build mystique around scarcity. Th...

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How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channel Surfing
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How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channel Surfing

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How QVC Turned Thumb-Scrolling Into the New Channe...

Shopping used to require a destination. A planned trip to a mall, a catalog spread across a kitchen table, a deliberate channel flip to a home shoppin...

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Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the Time You Act on It
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Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the Time You Act on It

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Why Your Attribution Stack Is Already Wrong by the...

Every marketer who has stared at a dashboard has quietly wondered the same thing. Is this number real? Does it reflect what actually caused that sale,...

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Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking in Moments, Not Channels
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Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking in Moments, Not Channels

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Why the Smartest Omnichannel Brands Are Thinking i...

The modern shopper does not follow a funnel. She watches a TikTok, compares prices on Amazon, checks her Sephora loyalty balance, and buys in store. S...

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Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journey Has Left the Funnel
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Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journey Has Left the Funnel

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Where Did All the Eyeballs Go? The Customer Journe...

The marketing funnel that e-commerce was built on is a decade-old agreement between brands and consumers. Brands pay for attention, consumers click th...

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How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without Losing Its Soul
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How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without Losing Its Soul

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How REI Is Rebuilding Around the Customer Without ...

Most retailers say they are customer-centric. Very few of them can tell you exactly what that costs. At REI, the price is quantifiable. It means holdi...

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CES 2026: What Marketers Should Take Away So Far From the Conference
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CES 2026: What Marketers Should Take Away So Far From the Conference

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CES 2026: What Marketers Should Take Away So Far F...

CES 2026 is less about “AI everywhere” and more about AI that actually works in real workflows. Here’s what marketers should take from the show so far...

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Ezra Firestone’s $250 Million Blueprint for Building Brands That Actually Scale
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Ezra Firestone’s $250 Million Blueprint for Building Brands That Actually S...

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Ezra Firestone’s $250 Million Blueprint for Buildi...

Ezra Firestone has built and sold multiple eight-figure eCommerce brands and helped thousands of entrepreneurs do the same. When he walked on stage at...

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Inside SHEIN’s Wild Growth Story That Redefined Retail
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Inside SHEIN’s Wild Growth Story That Redefined Retail

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Inside SHEIN’s Wild Growth Story That Redefined Re...

When George Chang, General Manager at SHEIN, talks about growth, he speaks from experience. The company sells in more than 160 countries, employs 16,0...

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When Growth Turns Against You: Lessons from a Seller Who Watched His Amazon Business Collapse
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When Growth Turns Against You: Lessons from a Seller Who Watched His Amazon...

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When Growth Turns Against You: Lessons from a Sell...

At the Innovate Seller Summit, a veteran eCommerce entrepreneur offered something the audience didn’t expect – a story of failure. After more th...

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Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are Resetting Growth for Profitability and Trust
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Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are Resetting Growth for Profi...

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Inside Savant Manchester 2025: How Retailers Are R...

At Savant Manchester 2025, retailers and marketers echoed a single tension: how to grow when every lever has a cost. eCommerce leaders talked about pr...

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