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The Retail Media Doom Loop: 2026 Edition

Podcast: Retail Media Breakfast Club · Kiri Masters

Opublikowano: 2026-09-30

I’m revisiting one of my most popular episodes from last year: the retail media doom loop. The basic idea is pretty simple — a retailer sees the ad revenue being generated by Amazon and Walmart, launches a retail media network, and quickly grows by moving existing trade and shopper marketing dollars onto a media line. But what happens when that easy growth runs out? In this episode, I look at what the latest data and conversations with retail media leaders suggest about where the industry is actually headed in 2026 and beyond. I dig into why sponsored search and...