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← See today's latestRetail media networks expand, incrementality measurement deepens
Quad Retail Media Network Growth
Quad is taking retail media off screens and into stores.
The marketing company expanded its In-Store Connect network through a partnership with Chedraui USA, deploying digital signage across 25 Smart & Final locations in California this fall [Quelle: PR Newswire]. The move gives CPG brands point-of-purchase activation through strategically placed screens combined with measurement capabilities. This builds on Quad's existing Smart & Final relationship and signals how retail-media arms are now competing on physical activation, not just online ad networks.
Expect hardware and home-improvement retailers to accelerate similar plays in Q4.
Incrementality Measurement Crisis
Advertisers want incrementality. They cannot measure it.
Seventy-one percent of retail-media advertisers across APAC now rank incrementality as their top KPI, yet most teams lack the infrastructure to actually quantify it [Quelle: Facebook IQ]. The industry has converged on the right question but fragmented on methodology. This gap mirrors the incrementality crunch that Ace Hardware's RedVest tackled by bolting on third-party measurement and closed-loop data from loyalty programs.
Platforms that ship incrementality tooling first will own the APAC advertising budget consolidation.
Agentic Commerce Preparation
AI agents are about to rewrite discovery and buying.
Moloco is positioning retail-media platforms for agentic commerce—a near-future state where AI agents, not just human shoppers, discover and purchase on behalf of consumers. The shift requires retail-media networks to redesign their targeting, bidding, and measurement workflows around machine-driven transactions rather than human intent signals. Early movers will need to integrate agent behavior modeling and real-time inventory signaling into existing programmatic stacks.
Expect retail-media RFPs to start asking vendors about agentic readiness in Q1 2027.
Quad expands In-Store Connect retail media network with Chedraui ...12 hours ago ... PRNewswire/ -- Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: QUAD), a marketing experience company that solves complex marketing challenges for its clients, is expanding its.prnewswire.com
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