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As retail media booms, lines blur between performance and brand marketing budgets

Digiday

Marketers and agencies are grappling with divisions over who exactly controls retail media spend, seemingly causing a trickle-down effect on how retail media deals are brokered. By 2028, retail media is expected to account for almost a quarter of all U.S. The rise of retail media networks has happened fast.

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Mars launches global ad review of nearly everything

More About Advertising

WPP’s Mediacom (now EssenceMediacom) won the combined Mars global media account in 2028, currently estimated at $2.4bn, about half in the US. Mars is reviewing most of its global advertising with the exception of creative (mostly at Omnicom) which poses a further challenge for WPP media operation GroupM.

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As retail media grows, more agencies are implementing their own ways to guide clients

Digiday

As more and more retailers open their data troves to find new ways to monetize them, media agencies (notably the holding companies ) have scrambled to assemble commerce or retail media units to help clients navigate this path. By 2028, we expect retail media revenue to exceed that of linear TV and CTV combined.” billion from $125.7

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Dispelling the myths of mobile advertising on the open internet

Digiday

Mobile app marketing is growing exponentially, with $500 billion in revenue anticipated by 2028 , according to Statista. A significant part of the expected growth in the category comes from agencies seeking sustainable and measurable outcomes through incremental channels beyond walled gardens.

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‘Isn’t this more of a quid pro quo?’: Confessions of an agency CEO on kickbacks in retail media landscape

Digiday

media ad spend in 2028, according to eMarketer. According to one agency CEO, the lack of transparency has led to suspicions of quid pro quo relationships between media buyers and retailers, in which retailers promise in-store shelf space in exchange for brands buying into their RMN.

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The customer data platform market

Martech

Market to triple by 2028 The global market for customer data platforms is expected to triple in size by 2028, according to a recent report by Mordor Research (See Figure 1). billion in 2028. Dig deeper: Does your company need a CDP? Annual spending on CDPs is predicted to grow from $2.13 billion in 2023 to $7.91

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Hybrid Solutions and Consolidation to Shape Identity Space This Year

VideoWeek

It isn’t even a Google thing, it’s an industry thing, adds Geoff Copps, SVP Audience & Identity EMEA at Kinesso, an IPG-owned performance marketing agency. According to WARC forecasts, by 2028, half of all global ad spend will be going to Meta, Amazon and Google.

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