One winning ad is no longer enough to win peak
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One winning ad is no longer enough to win peak

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One winning ad is no longer enough to win peak

Performance marketing teams run the same ritual heading into peak: find the ad that’s proven itself, then pour the budget behind it. A winning a...

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Why your best last-click channel might not be your best channel
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Why your best last-click channel might not be your best channel

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Why your best last-click channel might not be your...

A budget review runs the same way in a lot of retail marketing teams. The channel report comes back, and it favors whichever channel sits closest to t...

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Reddit Launches First Holiday Insights Report Targeting Small Business Advertisers
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Reddit Launches First Holiday Insights Report Targeting Small Business Adve...

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Reddit Launches First Holiday Insights Report Targ...

Reddit released its first small business holiday insights report today, aimed at helping SMB advertisers understand how gift research and purchase int...

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Confident and Wrong
Marketing Measurement

Confident and Wrong

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Confident and Wrong

The industry has spent 2026 rebuilding itself around outcomes. The IAB is standardising how they are measured. WPP has dissolved its holding company s...

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WPP Media's Oxford-Style Debate on Creative Versus Paid Media
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WPP Media's Oxford-Style Debate on Creative Versus Paid Media

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WPP Media's Oxford-Style Debate on Creative Versus...

When AI sits between a brand and its shopper, does the sale get won by media placement or by what the brand says? At Retail Media Pioneers 2026, WPP M...

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Retail Media's 2028 Bet Is on Integration, Not AI
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Retail Media's 2028 Bet Is on Integration, Not AI

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Retail Media's 2028 Bet Is on Integration, Not AI

Retail media’s newest disruption arrives wearing the shape of an AI agent. It can research a purchase, compare options and, before long, complet...

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Pinterest and Wolt on Proving Retail Media Works, From Discovery to Delivery
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Pinterest and Wolt on Proving Retail Media Works, From Discovery to Deliver...

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Pinterest and Wolt on Proving Retail Media Works, ...

Retail media used to mean one thing: a sponsored slot at checkout. That is no longer true. A shopper now gets inspired to cook something new on Pinter...

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Retail Media Pioneers Day 1: Growth Math Beat the AI Pitch
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Retail Media Pioneers Day 1: Growth Math Beat the AI Pitch

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Retail Media Pioneers Day 1: Growth Math Beat the ...

Sixty-three percent of people who show up on Bol’s marketplace aren’t there to buy. They’re still browsing. Many haven’t even ...

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For Gen Z, Trust Beats Scale in Fragrance and Fashion
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For Gen Z, Trust Beats Scale in Fragrance and Fashion

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For Gen Z, Trust Beats Scale in Fragrance and Fash...

A fragrance brand with no department store counter and no celebrity face is not a brand in trouble. For a Gen Z shopper, that gap can be the whole app...

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Adoption Is the Only AI Metric That Matters Now — A Conversation With POLYWOOD’s Chief Digital Officer
eTail Boston 2026

Adoption Is the Only AI Metric That Matters Now — A Conversation With POLYW...

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Adoption Is the Only AI Metric That Matters Now — ...

Most digital transformation budgets fund tools nobody ends up using. Benjamin Spiegel built his current strategy around that exact failure point, spen...

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Kate Farms' CMO Treats Credibility As the Growth Strategy
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Kate Farms' CMO Treats Credibility As the Growth Strategy

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Kate Farms' CMO Treats Credibility As the Growth S...

GLP-1 medications have pulled an entirely new set of consumers into a category that used to sit inside a hospital formulary. Retailers want a share of...

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Furniture.com's VP of Search and Discovery on the Taste AI Can't Replace
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Furniture.com's VP of Search and Discovery on the Taste AI Can't Replace

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Furniture.com's VP of Search and Discovery on the ...

Furniture is not a keyword. It is fabric under a hand, a rug that has to match a room nobody else has seen, a sofa a guest will judge before they say ...

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Why eVacuumStore Is Winning AI Search With Human Service
eTail Boston 2026

Why eVacuumStore Is Winning AI Search With Human Service

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Why eVacuumStore Is Winning AI Search With Human S...

Most retailers fighting for visibility in AI search are throwing bigger content teams at the problem. David Clough has spent 18 years doing the opposi...

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The Ordinary Found 62% of Its Revenue Hiding in Plain Sight
eTail Boston 2026

The Ordinary Found 62% of Its Revenue Hiding in Plain Sight

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The Ordinary Found 62% of Its Revenue Hiding in Pl...

Most of a brand’s revenue now happens somewhere the marketing team can’t see. A pixel tracks a website. It has no view of a shelf on Amazo...

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Brand and Performance Were Never Rivals
eTail Boston 2026

Brand and Performance Were Never Rivals

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Brand and Performance Were Never Rivals

The brand-versus-performance debate has outlived its usefulness. Marketers keep sorting themselves into camps, brand or performance, as if the split r...

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AI Is Not Making Shoppers Faster. It's Making Them Choosier
eTail Boston 2026

AI Is Not Making Shoppers Faster. It's Making Them Choosier

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AI Is Not Making Shoppers Faster. It's Making Them...

Retailers spent a decade optimizing for speed: fewer clicks, faster checkout, shorter funnels. That assumption is broken. New global research presente...

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Warby Parker Chose to Build, Not Buy, Its Doctor Tools
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Warby Parker Chose to Build, Not Buy, Its Doctor Tools

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Warby Parker Chose to Build, Not Buy, Its Doctor T...

For the last two years, retailers have heard one message about AI: move fast. Warby Parker’s fireside chat at eTail Boston made a narrower case....

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What Target Learned Building AI Into Ecommerce
eTail Boston 2026

What Target Learned Building AI Into Ecommerce

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What Target Learned Building AI Into Ecommerce

The product detail page was supposed to be settled territory. It was the destination, the place where discovery ended and conversion began, and for mo...

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A Following of 10,000 Beats a Following of a Million
eTail Boston 2026

A Following of 10,000 Beats a Following of a Million

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A Following of 10,000 Beats a Following of a Milli...

TL;DR VistaPrint’s ambassador program deliberately targets creators with 3,000 to 10,000 followers, finding they drive more engagement than bigg...

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Brand Pillars Are Starting to Beat the Trend Cycle
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Brand Pillars Are Starting to Beat the Trend Cycle

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Brand Pillars Are Starting to Beat the Trend Cycle

TL;DR Evelyn & Bobbie named three brand pillars competitors can’t copy: consumer-generated content over influencers, six industrial patents ...

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Rainbow CDO David Cost on Judging AI by Real Retail Results
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Rainbow CDO David Cost on Judging AI by Real Retail Results

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Rainbow CDO David Cost on Judging AI by Real Retai...

Retail conferences have spent the past year treating AI as a settled revolution, with the customer assumed to be ready for it. David Cost pushes back ...

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Why your Demand Gen budget is too small to matter
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Why your Demand Gen budget is too small to matter

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Why your Demand Gen budget is too small to matter

There’s a specific kind of budget line that exists to be technically true rather than actually useful. A brand wants to look like it’s tes...

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The Google ceiling you can't optimize your way out of
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The Google ceiling you can't optimize your way out of

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The Google ceiling you can't optimize your way out...

Every paid search lead has sat with this account. Performance Max and Brand Search are running clean. ROAS is respectable. The team has pulled every l...

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How to Tell If Marketing Caused The Sale
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How to Tell If Marketing Caused The Sale

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How to Tell If Marketing Caused The Sale

Most marketing reports still measure timing and call it proof. A campaign often gets credit for a sale that was already going to happen, simply becaus...

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Why your CFO's revenue number never matches marketing's
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Why your CFO's revenue number never matches marketing's

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Why your CFO's revenue number never matches market...

You’ve sat in that meeting. The marketing slide says the campaign drove 500,000 dollars. The finance slide, for the same quarter, says something...

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Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketplace to Enterprise Partner
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Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketplace to Enterprise Partner

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Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketpla...

Grocery retailers spent years worried that a partnership with Instacart meant handing over the customer relationship. That fear has largely faded. Rya...

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Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is Gone
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Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is Gone

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Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is ...

Reddit spent two decades being described by what it was not: not a feed, not a social graph. The platform is now cited by every major large language m...

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