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Amazon said Prime Day 2024 was its best yet, with record sales and more items sold during this two-day sale than any other Prime Day.   Amazon said it sold more than 200 million items during the 48-hour sale July 16-17. Amazon offered millions of deals to its 200 million paid Prime loyalty program members. Amazon […]

President Joe Biden is out of the race. And FTC Chair Lina Khan isn’t slowing down at all. “Sure,” you say. “But why is that relevant to the AdExchanger Commerce Media newsletter?” Because Khan, an aggressive antitrust enforcer, is ordering data from eight companies, which she describes as a “shadowy ecosystem of pricing middlemen,” in […]

Bacardi doesn’t have a digital marketing strategy, per se. And that’s because digital is the rum brand’s marketing strategy, said Laila Mignoni, Bacardi’s global VP of marketing and creative excellence. “We still buy TV, of course, mostly around live sports,” Mignoni told AdExchanger, “but digital is in everything we do; it’s the majority of our media […]

Etsy debuted a new marketing campaign this July that advertises the marketplace’s foundation and commitment to being an online store for handmade goods.   The campaign includes videos of sellers creating unique products by hand. One advertisement features a robotic arm at the start that is broken at the end of the video.   “Recently, […]

In January, the Chrome browser removed third-party cookies for 1% of users to facilitate testing of the Privacy Sandbox – and a new controversy was born. This small change precipitated a major crisis among DSPs, which began seeing IDs – what appeared to be third-party cookies on Chrome – used to propagate what should have been […]

Most shoppers plan to spend less this year for back-to-school purchases as they struggle with personal finances, according to Deloitte’s 17th annual back-to-school survey. The consulting firm surveyed 1,198 U.S. parents of school-aged children in May 2024.   Back-to-school spending per child, by income bracket  Deloitte estimates that shoppers will spend $586 per child for […]

Smokeless fire pit brand Breeo is ready to make TV an even bigger piece of its marketing strategy after trying Tatari’s new TV planning tool.

CAKES body, a DTC startup that launched in early 2022 selling self-adhesive nipple covers, is diversifying its media mix to “de-risk” its business as it prepares for a potential TikTok ban in the US.

Skincare and cosmetics brand Glossier announced it will be the official beauty partner with the USA Basketball Women’s National Team as the team prepares for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.   With the announcement, Glossier will gift the 2024 USA Basketball Women’s National Team packages of skincare and makeup products and “will have a […]

Uber has rocketed from no formal ad business two years ago to being on pace to earn more than a billion dollars from advertisers this year. Following the departure of Mark Grether, who spearheaded the Uber ad business and is now doing the same for PayPal, Uber is creating a three-legged ad business. The new […]