WTF is commerce media?

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In the decade-plus since Amazon started selling ads based on people’s purchase histories, retail media has ballooned into a $59 billion business in the U.S., per eMarketer. But that’s just retailers. Airlines, hotels, financial services companies and even gyms have also started to spin up ad businesses on the backs of their customer transaction databases, which has spurred a new term: commerce media.

Commerce media is honestly a pretty simple concept. It boils down to ads targeted and measured based on transaction data. And that simple concept helps to explain why commerce media has been expanding to turn seemingly any and every ad inventory type into commerce media, as executives from PMG, Profitero+, Tinuiti and WPP Media break down in this video.

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How Amazon aims to do more with less

The rise of Amazon Advertising is news to no one in the industry’s $777 billion sector, but what needs more detail is just how it intends to sustain its challenge to the duopoly of Facebook and Google, especially in the wake of a 14,000 reduction in force (RIF).

The company’s recent Q3 earnings report showed Amazon Advertising revenues grew 24% year-over-year to $17.7 billion, with recent product launches expected to play a key part in furthering this growth.

Recently revised eMarketer figures suggest the e-commerce giant’s advertising division will generate $67 billion in 2025, up almost a fifth from the previous year, and is projected to top $90 billion within two years, with services such as Amazon Marketing Cloud and its demand-side platform key to this growth.  

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