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Retail Media Breakfast Club — 299 episodes

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Here’s where Amazon is spending its own advertising budget

2

The Revenge Of The Catalog Team (Amazon Sponsored Prompts, Part 2)

3

This Agency Abandoned MTA, Here's Why

4

Billed For The Ad Before The Ad Exists: Amazon Sponsored Prompts

5

The 'Effort Heuristic' In Retail Media

6

I Downloaded The Data Amazon Has On Me. It’s Not Just Shopping.

7

Will Agentic Media Buying Be The End Of Us All?

8

What If You Ordered Lunch Like You Bought Retail Media

9

'Nobody Wakes Up Wanting To Chat With A Retailer'

10

AI Agents in Retail Media: Why Media Buyers Aren’t Ready for the Agentic Revolution

11

AI Slop Is Flooding Retail Media — Why Human Judgment Matters More Than Ever

12

Retail Media Fact vs Fiction: AI, Marketplaces & the Biggest Growth Opportunities Ahead

13

11% of Consumers Think They've Already Shopped with AI — Here's Why That Changes Everything

14

How AI Will Reshape Retail Media (And Why Great Retailers Will Still Win)

15

Why Dick's Sporting Goods Is Rejecting the Retail Media Playbook | Dave Young's Bold Strategy

16

I'm Completely Out Of The Loop (Lessons From My Summer Break)

17

Mirakl Ads at Cannes: Commerce Media Skips Its Own Lion

18

Same Words, Different Forks: Recap of eMarketer & Sensor Tower Commerce Media Executive Briefing at Cannes Lions

19

When Sam's Club "Connects" With Walmart, What Actually Connects?

20

Cannes Lions 2026 Dispatch: Agentic Media Buying, Retail Media Shakeups, and the Future of Creator Commerce

21

PayPal Ads’ Big Retail Media Bet: Why Shoppable Ads Could Finally Work (And The Future of Commerce in an AI World)

22

Retail Media at Cannes, 278 Episodes In & What’s Next for Retail Media Breakfast Club (Break Announcement + New Projects)

23

Chewy Ads vs. Retail Media’s Data Hoarders: Why Transparency Wins in Retail Media

24

The Shortcut Demon: The AI Data Problem Nobody In Agentic Commerce Wants to Fix (Demons Series Part 3 of 3)

25

Creator-Led Retail Media Explained: The Truth About Influencer Marketing, Retail Media Networks & Shopper Data

26

Retail Media Flywheel Explained: How Marketplaces Become Ad Revenue Engines (Lowe’s Case Study + Future of Commerce)

27

The Retail Media Reckoning: 6 Survival Strategies for Commerce Media Networks Before It’s Too Late

28

The Silo Demon: Why Retail Media Networks Are Becoming the Most Powerful Team in Retail (Demons Series Part 2 of 3)

29

Retail Media’s Biggest Identity Crisis: Why Brands Are Asking the Wrong Question

30

AI Shopping Is Rewriting Consumer Behavior: The Hidden Signals Brands Can't Afford to Ignore

31

Retail Media Is Mid? The Brutal Truth About Amazon, Walmart & the Future of Retail Media

32

The Growth Demon Inside Retail Media: Why Profitability Will Define the Next Era (Demons Series Part 1 of 3)

33

AI Retail Media Buying: Are We Handing the Keys to the Bots Too Soon?

34

Retail Media PR Secrets: What Actually Gets Coverage in 2026 (Please, Spill Some Tea)

35

Transactional Commerce Inside Perplexity: Ashley Furniture’s AI Bet

36

Amazon Wants Your Store Open — But Keeps Its Own Closed to AI Agents

37

Why Loyalty Programs Are the Real Power Play as AI Reshapes Retail Media

38

How Brands Are REALLY Using AI for Retail Media Automation

39

How Clorox Uses Data Clean Rooms to Unlock Powerful Personalization (AI Marketing Explained)

40

Publicis Buys LiveRamp: What It Means for Retail Media, Data Ownership & the Future of Identity

41

Dollar General’s Retail Media Power Play: The Full-Stack Strategy Unlocking Brand Dollars

42

The Retail Media Illusion: Why Agentic Commerce Will Disrupt E-Commerce Sooner Than You Think

43

Predictive Commerce: Why Life-Stage Data Could Replace Retail Media’s Obsession with Transactions

44

AI Is Quietly Breaking Retail Media — And No One Wants to Admit It

45

Kroger’s Retail Media Playbook: Why Context Data Is the Future of Commerce Media

46

Retail Media’s Narrative Problem (And How to Fix It for Optimal Impact)

47

I Need Your Help! Which Retail Media Trends Can’t You Ignore in 2026?

48

Why iROAS Metrics Are So Inconsistent (And Why Debate Is Good For The Industry)

49

Bring the “Retail” Back to Retail Media: 4 Fixes Every RMN Needs Now

50

Kroger x YouTube: The Retail Media Breakthrough That Could Unlock Billions in Brand Budgets

51

In-Store Retail Media Measurement Is Broken — Shopper Purchase Rate Explained with Catalyst & In-Store Marketplace

52

7 Retail Media Upfront Secrets: What Home Depot Got Right (And What Others Are Missing)

53

The Real ROI of Retail Media Events: Are Work Trips Still Worth It in 2026?

54

Home Depot’s Retail Media Playbook: How Orange Apron Media Is Winning Where Others Can’t

55

Retail Media vs National Media: The Measurement Debate Brands Can’t Ignore

56

The Real Secret Behind Consistent Content: Storytelling, AI & My Big Mishap

57

AI Is Clicking Your Ads (And Wasting Your Budget) — The Hidden Retail Media Crisis

58

Brand Media vs Commerce Media: How Gildan Is Redefining Retail Media Strategy for Faster, Cheaper Growth

59

Writing Into the Void: How I Built Authority in Retail Media (From Zero to 28K Followers)

60

Why AI Grocery Shopping Isn’t Taking Over Yet (But Absolutely Will)

61

Dark Search & AI Shopping: The Hidden Threat (and Opportunity) for Retail Media

62

AI Advertising Is Happening NOW: What Retailers Must Know Before It’s Too Late

63

Agentic Commerce Isn’t the Threat You Think — Why Retailers Are Playing the Long Game

64

83% of Retail Media Campaigns Are Misleading You (iROAS Exposed)

65

The Retail Media Fermi Paradox: Why Everyone Talks Growth… But Only Amazon & Walmart Win

66

Retail Media Measurement Is Broken (Here’s What Brands Actually Want Instead)

67

Why Retailer Magazines Are the Next Big Retail Media Channel (Post-AI Shopping Era)

68

Why Retail Media Looks So Different in the US vs Europe (And Why You’re Comparing It Wrong)

69

AI Discovery Is Reshaping Retail: Shoptalk 2026 Insights

70

Shoptalk 2026: AI, Agentic Commerce & Retail Media’s Next Power Shift

71

Are AI Ads the Next Billion-Dollar Channel? How Retail Media Wins in the Age of LLMs [Agentic Commerce Expert Series Part 4 of 4]

72

Costco Exposing Its Retail Media Tech Stack Might Change Everything

73

Retail Media Has a PR Problem: CVS Media Exchange’s Bold Wake-Up Call

74

Google’s New AI Patent Could Hijack Your Landing Pages (And Charge You for It)

75

Why Ecommerce Signals Are Disappearing And What Retailers Must Do Next [Agentic Commerce Expert Series Part 3 of 4]

76

OpenAI Killed Instant Checkout… But Agentic Shopping Isn’t Dead (What Retailers Need to Know Now)

77

My RampUp Notes: Why Data Collaboration Is Winning Ad Budgets

78

How Nestlé Decides Which Retail Media Networks Get Budget (And Why They Compare Them to Google & Meta)

79

PDP the New Homepage? How AI Shopping Is Reshaping Retail Media & Ecommerce [Agentic Commerce Expert Series Part 2 of 4]

80

Dirty Secrets of Retail Media: 5 Ethical Dilemmas Brands Need to Know

81

AI, Retail Media & First-Party Data: What Everyone Is Really Saying After RampUp 2026

82

Why Retail Media Can’t Unlock Brand Budgets (Until Brands Fix This One Thing)

83

AI Shopping Is Here: How LLMs Are Rewriting Retail Discovery [Agentic Commerce Expert Series Part 1 of 4]

84

US vs EU Retail Media: The 5 Structural Barriers Reshaping In-Store Advertising

85

Retail Media 3.0: Why AI & Agentic Commerce Could Spark the Golden Era of Advertising

86

ROAS Refuses to Die: The Retail Media Measurement Problem No One Wants to Fix

87

AI Won’t Kill Advertising: The Bull Case

88

Dark Search & Broken Retail Media Signals: How AI Shopping Is Reshaping the Future of Commerce

89

Retail Media Standards Showdown: Why Brands Want Them (And Why Retailers Push Back)

90

AI Is Already Disrupting Retail Media Via 'Dark Search' Traffic

91

AI Is Stealing the Browse: How Retail Media Wins the Data War in the Age of ChatGPT

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Why Top Brands Are Building Their Own Retail Media Operating Systems (And Winning in 2026)

93

OpenAI Ads Inside ChatGPT: What It Means for Retail Media, Trust & the Future of AI Advertising

94

In-Store Experiential Retail Media: The 3X Sales Lift Brands Can’t Agree on Who Should Fund

95

Why OpenAI Ads Are a Wake-Up Call for Retail Media Networks (And What Happens Next)

96

Inside Amazon’s AI Shopping Funnel: Why Rufus Converts 3.5x Better

97

AI Is Quietly Rewriting Retail Media: What Happens When Shoppers Stop Searching?

98

Why Retailers Must Start Advertising in LLMs Now (Retail Media Meets AI Ads)

99

Retail Media’s Buffet Problem: Why Brands Are Losing Their Appetite (2026 Outlook)

100

Will Ads in ChatGPT Kill Trust or Create the Best Advertising Ever? A Retail Media Wake-Up Call

101

Costco Breaks the Silence: Inside the Retail Media Tech Stack That Has The Industry Talking

102

Instacart Ads’ Third Act: Ali Miller on Building the Infrastructure Powering Retail Media’s Future

103

Challenger vs. Legacy Brands in Retail Media: When Sponsored Products Stop Working (and What to Do Next)

104

Is Amazon Falling Behind? AI Agents, Rufus, and the Future of Ecommerce

105

7 Ways to Break the Retail Media Doom Loop

106

Retailers Are Finally Embracing AI Shopping Bots — Here’s What They Announced at NRF

107

Why the Future of Retail Media Isn’t Amazon or Walmart (It’s the Long Tail)

108

AI Is Rewriting Retail Media: Why the Funnel Is Officially Dead

109

What Retail Media Leaders Really Say at Private NRF Dinners (In-Store Media, Tech Stacks & Shopper Behavior)

110

NRF 2026: Why Retail’s Future Belongs to the Experimenters (Not the Five-Year Planners)

111

What I Learned Building Retail Media Breakfast Club in One Year (50,000 Downloads Later)

112

My Retail Media Content Diet: How I Stay Ahead of Trends Without Burning Out

113

Why Amazon Can’t Stop Agentic Commerce — And Why Other Retailers Must Lean In

114

5 Big Marketing Lessons Retail Media Must Steal From Venture Capital

115

Amazon’s Sea of Ads: Why 25+ Sponsored Products Per Page Still Works

116

The Retail Media Civil War Is Ending: How “Fluid” Sponsored Products Are Reshaping Search

117

AI vs. Retail Media: The Platform Shift No One Is Ready For

118

Inside Costco’s Secretive Retail Media Strategy: What Mark Williamson Revealed

119

AI Shopping Hype? My Black Friday to Cyber Monday Halftime Breakdown

120

Why Retail Media’s Metrics Are Failing — And What Actually Drives Brand Growth

121

Why Long-Tail Advertisers Are Becoming Retail Media’s Biggest Growth Engine

122

How RMNs Can Finally Win Over Media Agencies

123

AI-Fueled Shopping for The Holidays

124

Will Ads Ruin AI? Why Agentic Advertising Might Save the Internet

125

Get on the Damn Stage: Why 2026 Is Your Year to Step Into the Spotlight

126

Inside Mars’s Retail Media Investment Matrix — Why Only the Top 6 Retail Media Networks Win

127

AI Shopping Agents vs. Retailers: Who Owns Discovery Now?

128

Unfiltered Thoughts From Amazon Unboxed 2025

129

Developments in RTB (Real-Time Bidding) for Retail Media

130

Amazon Unboxed 2025 - Fresh Off The Press Announcements from Nashville

131

"Late By Design" - Molly Hjelm from Ace Hardware's RedVest Media Shares her Retail Media Gameplan

132

What CPG Brands Actually Control with Agentic Commerce Optimization (ACO)

133

AI Search to Disrupt Discovery for Retailers — Here's 3 Companies Thinking Outside The Box

134

Apply For The Damn Award & Conquer Your FOPO (Fear Of Other People's Opinions)

135

What is a 'CommerceGPT'? ['Snips' from Cocktails & Commerce]

136

Breakdown of How Sam's Club Cracked the Code on In-Store Retail Media

137

How Retailers Can Evolve To Compete With Agentic Shopping ['Snips' from Commerce Media Matters & Mind the Model]

138

The Secret Hopes & Dreams of RMN Leaders [New Research Preview]

139

Multi-Retailer Networks [Livestream Highlight]

140

Underrated Retail Media Metrics That Fly Under The Radar [Panel Episode]

141

Brian Monahan Is Going Big With Albertsons Media Collective ['Snips' from The Snarketing Podcast]

142

Is ChatGPT's Instant Checkout 'Really' Agentic? And Does It Actually Matter?

143

Will LLMS Monetize With Ads or Marketplaces? [Retailgentic Crossover]

144

Agentic Shopping Looks Crazy. So Did Self-Service Supermarkets.

145

Dollar General’s Austin Leonard Is Bullish On 'Last Mile' Opportunity

146

I Got Prime Deals. Or Did I? Why Consumer Distrust Is AI Shopping's Real Opening

147

The Fairy Godmother Of Retail Media, Cara Pratt, And Her Agenda At Circana

148

Retail Media's Measurement Problem Isn't Technical — It's Political

149

Trade vs. Retail Media: Who's Really Eating Whom? ['Snips' from Particular Audience & The Middlemen]

150

AI Makes Shopping Easier, But Shoppers Still Check Receipts

151

In what ways are using AI today that you weren't a year ago? [Panel]

152

Best Buy's Ad Platform Play: 'We Got Next'

153

AI Shopping Hits 75% Adoption ['Snips' from Retailgentic]

154

The Lazy Girl's Guide to Social Commerce

155

Why 'Omnichannel' Misses the Point [New Research From The Digital Shelf Institute]

156

Managing a Multi-Retailer RMN Stack (Part 3 of 3)

157

Underrated Advice For Choosing A Retail Media Agency Partner [Panel]

158

Building Retail Media Federations: Foundations and Barriers (Part 3)

159

Meet The First Retail Media Federations & Consortiums (Part 2)

160

Growth Beyond Amazon: Tapping Into Retail Media's Broader Opportunities (Part 2 of 3)

161

ROAS Isn’t Enough — The Buyer’s Checklist for Retail Media

162

The Retail Media Doom Loop

163

AI Agent Shopping & Existential Threats To Retail Media

164

Brands are from Mars, Retailers are from Venus: Getting Inside the Head of Retailers (Part 1 of 3)

165

9 Ways Retailers & Brands Can Make Loyalty Programs Attractive... To AI Agents

166

Your AI Agent Just Got Hacked

167

Sam's Club Races To Win Retail Media Network Share Through Experiences

168

Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Retail Conferences [Panel Episode]

169

Big Agencies & Retail Media: A Slightly Unhinged Relationship

170

Loyalty Programs To Give Retailers An Edge In AI Shopping Future?

171

AI Agents Hate Ads Today — But Will That Last?

172

Are retail media specialists involved in product development? [Panel Episode]

173

What Is Your AI Agent Buying? [New Columbia & Yale Research]

174

Why RMNs Keep Their Tech Stacks Secret From The Very Brands They Want To Attract

175

Rufus Remembers Me

176

Risky Retail Media Decisions That Paid Off [Panel]

177

How Alliances Could Solve Retail Media's Fragmentation Problem (Part 1)

178

Ads in AI Are Older Than You'd Think

179

Retailer AI Assistants: Are Shoppers Actually Using Them?

180

The Coming AI Marketplace Gold Rush

181

Criteo’s Frenemies Pile On

182

A retail media metric that isn't shiny or new but one that you return to again and again

183

Agentic Shopping Poses An Existential Threat To Retail Media (Part 2)

184

Agentic Shopping Poses An Existential Threat To Retail Media (Part 1)

185

The best conversation you had with your Shopper Marketing team

186

Will the retail industry welcome the “commerce media” newcomers?

187

Amazon Q2 Earnings: Best Of The Analyst Recaps

188

Walmart Reveals AI Roadmap That Points To A World Without Search Bars

189

Launching In New Markets & Marketplaces: 3 Brands Share Top Tips

190

Why Are Display Ads In Retail Media Still So Bad?

191

I'm back and I owe you an explanation

192

Season Finale! Returning July 28

193

Cannes Confessional #4: RMNs Should Chase That Brand Marketing Budget

194

Cannes Confessional #3: The Funnel is Now a Tunnel

195

Are You Sitting on a Retail Media Goldmine?

196

Cannes Confessional #1

197

What I’ve learned from 102 episodes over 5 months (and my future plans)

198

My highlights from the new 'Retailgentic' podcast

199

How These 4 Retail Media Leaders Are Using AI Right Now

200

Should We Really Care What Consumers Think About Retail Media Ads?

201

How an RMN's tech stack impacts your advertising results

202

Why AI Search Advertising Could Reach $25 Billion By 2029

203

How These 4 Retail Media Leaders Make Conference Season Count

204

Mary Meeker Is So Back: My Notes From Her 340-Page AI Futurecast

205

Meta Says ‘Just Trust Us’ With AI Ads, Will Amazon Follow Suit?

206

Where Does The Ecomm Team Really Belong? 3 Brand-Side Leaders Share Their Org Charts

207

Is Retail Media Actually Kinda 'Mid'? PART 2

208

Walmart's Sparky AI Shopping Assistant: My Hot Take

209

AI in real life: how retailers and brands are leveraging AI (real numbers)

210

Career Sliding Doors: The Pivotal Moments That Changed These 4 Ecomm Leaders' Careers

211

Retailers Hit 99% Ad Coverage Without Killing User Experience, New Report Shows

212

55% of consumers say they don't trust AI shopping chatbots & recommendations

213

Walmart is Betting on AI Agents, While Amazon Goes Proprietary

214

How retailers 'Do' Sponsored Product ads: 4 takeaways for brands

215

Brands demand retail media standards. Retailers say it's too hard. Do they kind of have a point?

216

Instacart’s Turnaround CEO Heads To The AI Frontier

217

Prime Day 2025: Are Brands Scaling Back? (3 Reasons To Reconsider)

218

Is Retail Media Actually Kinda 'Mid'?

219

"We're Not Dabbling Here": Amazon's Official Company Line On AI

220

DSPs Wanted: The Retail Media Revolution 96% of Advertisers Crave

221

Amazon Q1 Earnings Scorecard: Winners, Losers, and the Calm Before the Tariff Storm

222

My Notes From an Interview with Costco's RMN leader, Mark Williamson

223

The Back Channel: AI Is Replacing Devs (But Banned At Retailer X), Freudian Analysis Of Offsite Vs Onsite Retail Media

224

Amazon Haul Expands As Chinese Competitors Face Tariff Upheaval

225

The AI Shopping Agent War Begins

226

Offsite vs onsite retail media

227

Don't Just Put the Intern on It: Breaking the Cycle of E-Commerce Resistance

228

WOAS: Waste of Ad Spend

229

Trump’s Tariff Shock May Drive Major Shift In Retail Media Spending

230

'Vibe Marketing' comes to retail media

231

Walmart puts the hard word on advertisers with 25% spend bump

232

Our New 2-Speed Marketplace

233

Panel: The death of the marketing funnel

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The Other Side of the Story: Why Retailers Struggle with Media Measurement and Standardization

235

Why Real-Time Bidding Is Retail Media's Next Frontier

236

I Tested Amazon's AI Shopping Agent That Buys From Other Websites

237

Panel: New and exciting retail media metrics

238

Scouting For Tech: Lessons From Schwarz

239

Nova Act: What Amazon's Agentic AI Means for the Future of retail

240

Home Depot’s Retail Media Chief Puts Suppliers At The Center

241

Panel episode: Overcoming failure in retail media roles

242

Spotting Retail Media 'Imposter' Job Candidates Before They Burn You

243

Panel episode: How to convince someone that ROAS is not the answer

244

The Alexa+ Optimization Playbook For Brands

245

Its retail conference season. Get on the stage!

246

Amazon's Patent Reveals How Alexa+ Will Transform Product Discovery

247

Best Buy's Marketplace Bet Is Really About Ad Revenue

248

Retailers Are Learning to Sell (Part 3/3): How Retailers and Media Buyers Can Work Better Together

249

Retailers Are Learning to Sell—But This Time, It’s Media (Part 2/3): The Retail Media Tech Stack

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Retailers Are Learning to Sell—But This Time, It’s Media, Not Products (Part 1/3)

251

Sam's Club RMN: Notes from my interview with GM Harvey Ma

252

What Unilever's New CEO Isn't Saying About Retail Media

253

How AI affects the consumer path to purchase (AI in retail series, Part 5)

254

Panel: How These Three E-commerce Leaders Think About Hiring Retail Media Talent

255

Amazon's Triple Squeeze: Navigating Private Label Growth, 3P Pressure & Tougher Vendor Negotiations

256

How Autonomous AI Agents Will Transform Retail Discovery

257

How to select AI-enabled partner solutions (AI in retail series, Part 4)

258

What the heck is Agentic AI? (AI in retail series, part 3)

259

Panel: How 3 Retail Leaders Transformed Their Sales Teams’ Perspective on Retail Media

260

Walmart Scintilla: How it compares to Amazon, Kroger's data & insights offerings

261

Amazon Kills Off 'Inspire' - another tomb in the social commerce graveyard

262

Simple ways to get started with AI (AI in retail series, Part 2)

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The top questions that brands and retailers have about AI (Part 1 of AI in retail series)

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Panel: The One Change These 3 Retail Leaders Wish for in Retail Media

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The 5 Best Free Resources For Learning Retail Media In 2025

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The Retail Media Performance Gap Is Even Wider Than We Thought!

267

Why Is Amazon Suddenly Linking to Other Retailers? It's About the Ads

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Shopper marketing in the age of retail media

269

Panel: The Biggest Retail Media Heartbreaks—Insights from 4 Brand Leaders

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Retail Media's Next Challenge: Proving Real Results

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More retail media spend = More measurement scrutiny

272

Amazon Sellers Report More Fraudulent Customer Returns

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How Thrive Market Is Building A Different Type Of Retail Media Network

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Is Retail Media Part of Search, or Is Search Part of Retail Media?

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Panel: The Biggest Retail Media Challenges That Keep These 3 Brand Leaders Up at Night

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Amazon Alexa: Will We Get Beyond Checking The Weather?

277

Panel: One Skill These 5 Retail Leaders Recommend for Newcomers in Retail Media

278

The Retailer's Dilemma: Block or Embrace AI Shopping Agents?

279

The Lululemon Story [Book Review]

280

Beast Games Isn't Just A Hit—It's Amazon's New Retail Media Weapon

281

Panel: The analogies these 5 ecomm leaders use to educate their exec teams on retail media

282

OpenAI's "Operator" Will Change How We Shop (And The Future of Retail Media)

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Retail Media Growth Will Slow in 2025: Here’s Why

284

The History of Piggly Wiggly [Book Review]

285

Online Channels Set to Drive CPG Growth in 2025: Retail Media Takes Center Stage

286

Panel: One Skill These 4 Retail Leaders Wish They Had Developed Earlier in Their Careers

287

LinkedIn: Your Retail Media Trend Radar

288

Research from Amazon Reveals Ideal Ad Budget Allocation

289

Primal Branding: Book Review

290

What's next after VP of Ecommerce?

291

Panel: How these 4 ecomm leaders educate their leadership teams

292

Is Amazon’s new ‘Retail Ad Service’ just a trojan horse?

293

They found Amazon's Rufus AI patent

294

Kingdom of Prep: The J.Crew Story (Book Review)

295

What does it take to lead an RMN?

296

The Non-Obvious Metrics These 5 Brands Use for Retail Media

297

Beyond Keywords: The Evolution of Sponsored Ads

298

Amazon Rufus is a glimpse into the future of AI shopping assistants

299

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