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CMO Strategies: Retail media continues to mature, as RMNs from the likes of Ulta and Gopuff build on their strengths

This is the first installment in Digiday+ Research’s 2025 CMO Strategies series that analyzes key marketer strategies and challenges across leading marketing channels, including ad-supported streaming, retail media, display advertising and social media. In this edition we take a look at retail media.

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Introduction

Retail media advertising has been the subject of a fair amount of industry buzz, but there are signs that the marketing channel could be heading toward maturation. For instance, 27% of marketers said retail media is one of two marketing channels that took the highest portion of their company’s budget as of first-quarter 2025, down 4 percentage points from first-quarter 2024. This is according to Digiday+ Research surveys conducted annually among brands, retailers and agencies.

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How data collaboration is forging scalable new revenue streams for hybrid business models

Max Carranza, vp, technology and data partners, LiveRamp

Partnerships have long been a growth engine for brands. For decades, companies have used co-branding to grow their customer base, foster loyalty and reduce marketing costs. Yet now, retailers are becoming publishers, brands are evolving into data providers and companies like Disney are seemingly everything all at once. This shift marks the most significant transformation in partner-driven insights since Google and Facebook first demonstrated the revenue-generating power of data.

Instacart, for example, built a highly profitable ads business to boost revenue. Ticketmaster and Live Nation merged to combine ticketing, concerts, sponsorships and advertising into a data-rich powerhouse. Fandango leveraged its exclusive moviegoer data to provide insights that major studios can’t access alone. Each company has developed a hybrid business model that leverages the collaboration of first-party data to create unique value for partners and drive market stickiness for itself.

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