Retail Media Networks: How the physical store will power their next phase of growth
- 1. Retail Media
Networks: How the
physical store will
power their next
phase of growth
ANDREW LIPSMAN
Principal Analyst, Retail and eCommerce
Insider Intelligence
- 3. Retail media is digital advertising’s third big wave after search
and social–and it’s destined to eventually be the biggest
Retail Media: Digital Advertising’s Third Big Wave
Retail media Social Search
Search: 14 Years
2002-2016
Social: 11 Years
2008-2019
Retail Media: 5 Years
2016-2021
Years from $1B to $30B
- 4. Retail media will be a $45 billion market
this year, and will continue growing by $10
billion a year
$13.2
$20.8
$31.1
$37.4
$45.1
$55.3
57.3%
49.3%
20.4% 20.5%
22.9%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
$0
$10
$20
$30
$40
$50
$60
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Retail media ad spending% Change
US Retail Media Ad Spending
$
Billions
- 5. Every retailer is becoming an ad network… but
which ones have what it takes to scale?
Digital Marketplaces / Platforms
Mass Merchandise / Department
Category Specialists
Commerce Intermediaries
Other Commerce Verticals
- 6. 76.8% 76.5% 77.9% 77.9% 76.8% 75.5%
3.5% 4.8% 5.1% 6.0% 7.0% 8.2%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Amazon dominates retail media, but next-tier
RMNs are carving out meaningful positions
Source:
US Retail Media Ad Spend Market Share
Every 1% in
market share
= $450
million in
high-margin
revenue
- 7. Top retail media networks will be among
2023’s biggest winners in digital advertising
growth
42% 41%
36%
30%
26%
19%
13%
10%
5%
3%
Retail Media Big Tech Streaming The Duopoly
Source:
2023 US Digital Ad Revenue % Growth Forecast
Among Top Platforms
- 8. Retail media fills a huge need for
brands
It sits at the intersection of three
massive marketing disruptions
TV
RETAIL
MEDIA
Digital
Ads
In-Store
Trend 1
Ratings in Decline
Trend 3
Digitizati
on of the
Store
Trend 2
Deprecation of
Third-Party
Identifiers
8
- 9. Future retail media budgets will pull from
everywhere –
digital, linear TV, and shopper/trade
marketing
Sources:
Net New Dollars Cannibalization
$
Billions
- 10. 3 ways the physical store
will power the future of
retail media advertising
10
- 11. #1 Retail media’s streaming TV advertising
opportunity will be powered by in-store sales
data
$0.51
$0.88
$1.83
$3.19
$4.75
$6.54
72.4%
106.7%
74.7%
48.7%
37.7%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
$-
$1
$2
$3
$4
$5
$6
$7
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
US Retail Media Off-Site Digital Ad
Revenues
Ad Spend % Change
Source:
$
Billions
- 12. #2 In-store attribution data will complete
the ROAS picture for brands with ‘the other
85%’ of retail sales
45.5% 44.8% 44.1% 42.1% 41.4% 41.4% 39.3%
35.9% 34.5% 32.4% 32.4%
24.8% 24.1%
Most Important Attributes for Retail Media Networks
% of Brands Indicating “Extremely Important”
Source:
- 13. 212.6
119.0
73.4 67.9 66.0 62.8
53.0
41.4
34.3
27.7 24.4 22.7
15.9
144.9
78.2
35.1
55.8
22.4
41.0
24.5
14.7
29.2
55.2
41.7
8.1 13.7
In-Store vs. Digital: US Monthly Audience Reach
November 2022
In-Store Digital
#3 In-store retail media will prove that
physical stores are the next major media
channel
Sources:
Millions
of
Unique
Visitors