Commerce media

Retail media.

White-label retail and commerce media, planned and bought under your agency’s name. On-site sponsored products, off-site shopper-data audiences, measured on incrementality.

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What it is

Retail media, on-site and off.

Retail media is advertising bought against a retailer’s own shopper data. On-site, that is sponsored products and sponsored search on the store itself, the placements a shopper sees while browsing to buy. Commerce media is the wider category: the same purchase data, sold by retailers, banks, airlines, and marketplaces, applied wherever an audience can be reached.

The inventory concentrates. The largest networks, Amazon Ads and Walmart Connect, sit alongside a long tail of retailer and commerce networks, and demand for finite on-site placements pushes spend outward.

Off-site retail media takes that shopper data off the store and onto connected TV, social, and the open web. It is now the majority of brand retail media spend and the fastest-growing part of the channel. The reach is bigger; the proof is harder.

The buy is judged on incrementality, not last-click ROAS.
The market

Where retail media stands.

$178.2B

Global commerce media in 2025

Passed total television for the first time, at 15.6% of all global ad revenue. (WPP Media, December 2025)

53%

Off-site is the majority now

Off-site is the majority of brand retail media spend and the fastest-growing part of the channel. (Dentsu, 2025)

30–60%

The proof gap

Validated incrementality typically lands 30 to 60% below reported last-click ROAS. (The Current, 2026)

$9.4B

Concentration at the top

Of 2026’s $10.5 billion in incremental US retail media dollars, about $9.4B goes to the two largest networks. (eMarketer, 2026)

237M

Commerce media beyond retail

Marriott Media launched mid-2025 with 237 million Bonvoy members; Instacart’s ads business reported $771 million through three quarters of 2025. (Company disclosures; Instacart 10-Q, 2025)

Read the full research — Retail media in 2026: consolidation and the proof gap →

How we do it

How we plan, buy and measure it.

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Measurement-first planning.

We plan to validated incrementality and hold every network to the same test-and-control standard. Methodology and lookback windows get fixed in writing before budget moves, aligned to IAB/MRC definitions.

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Portfolio discipline.

We hold fewer networks and instrument them harder. A network earns its place on results: a shopper signal you cannot get elsewhere, incrementality you can validate, or media tied to a merchandising outcome you can name.

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On-site and off-site as one plan.

Sponsored products on the store and shopper-data audiences on CTV, social, and the open web run under one scorecard, so the spend that leaves the shelf is still measured against the same standard.

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Run under your brand.

White-label execution. The plan, the platforms, and the reporting carry your agency’s name. We staff the desk; you own the relationship.

The format, live

Commerce creative that converts.

Real units from our showcase, running live. Hover any one to play it.

Where it runs

Most of the money has left the shelf.

What you get

What lands on your desk, every flight.

Network plan

A portfolio designed on purpose: which networks to hold, why each earns its place, and how the budget splits on-site and off-site.

Sponsored-products setup

On-site search and product placements structured by margin and merchandising priority, with bid and budget rules documented.

Off-site activation

Shopper-data audiences extended to CTV, social, and the open web, with the audience logic and match method spelled out.

Incrementality read

Test-and-control design and a validated-incrementality result, so reported returns are checked against the number that moves the budget.

Cross-network scorecard

One view across every network, retail or otherwise, reconciled to a single incrementality standard instead of five reporting formats.

Post-flight read

What worked, what did not, and where the next flight’s dollars concentrate, written back to the plan you approved.

Related

Where it connects.

Let’s build your retail media the right way.

Tell us which networks you’re running. We’ll show you where the incremental dollars actually are, and what to hold.