Retailers pivot to advertising revenue through retail media networks
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Star Tribune
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Retailers are transforming into media companies by leveraging shopper data to build advertising networks (retail media networks). These ad operations, while still a small portion of overall sales, are growing rapidly and becoming highly profitable. Major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and others are using their customer data to help brands target consumers more effectively, creating a new revenue stream that rivals traditional product sales in profitability.
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· 3 pulledRetailers increasingly see themselves not just as sellers of goods but as media companies, using the data generated by millions of shoppers to help brands reach consumers and influence buying decisions.
Those advertising operations, known as retail media networks, still account for a small share of most retailers' sales. But they have become one of the industry's fastest-growing profit centers.
For decades, retailers made money the old-fashioned way: buying merchandise and selling it for more than they paid.
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