Posts by Kiri Masters
AI on Amazon: how brands can prepare to index their products in AI chat results
Job postings on Amazon’s website earlier this year show that Amazon has plans to add generative AI to its shopping experience. “We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the…
Read MoreNew and Exciting Ways to Leverage Brand and Product Content on Amazon
For brands that sell products on Amazon, content on product detail pages (PDPs) is one way to stand out. But it takes a lot of effort and investment to create…
Read MoreRandom Factory Brands
Random Factory Brands (RFBs) are not the familiar brands on your NPD or Dunnhumby report. They are random, factory-direct brands that aren’t sold anywhere else. And they’re coming for you.…
Read MoreIn It To Win It
How Amazon is pay-to-play for brands, why that matters, and what to do to win
We launched this research in October 2022, based on the question: “How Amazon is pay-to-play for brands, why that matters, and what to do to win?”.
This 12-page research report includes a framework to understand whether your brand needs more or less advertising investment relative to peers, the “Sponsorship Lift Matrix”
Read MoreRetail Media Allocation
How to allocate retail media budget like an expert…across a dizzying array of options – A Research Report by Kiri Masters and Matteo Bizon
Our research is based on how successful retail brands are allocating their media budget, acrss a burgeoning array of retail channels and media platforms.
In May 2022, we have released:
A white paper with our research findings
2 frameworks to use to make budget allocation decisions and compare retail media platforms
A webinar that gives an overview of research findings and our recommendations
The Amazon Maturity Matrix – 6 Factors That Drive Results On Amazon
A Research Report by Bobsled Marketing
Operating a successful Amazon sales channel is challenging. Operating requirements, new advertising tactics, customer demands, and competitive pressures all move at a breakneck speed. Sometimes it feels like achieving your Amazon targets is outside of your control.
But what if we told you that many of the success factors actually originate inside your own company? That the most critical drivers of success are often internal, and therefore within your control?
We call this the Amazon Maturity Matrix, a framework that helps brands to measure where they are on their Amazon journey, from the inside out.
Read MoreRetail Media’s Measurement Problem – Industry Must Solve Standardization Issue to Meet Growth Projections
Kiri Masters, Head of Retail Strategy at Acadia is quoted in Ad Age on March 9, 2023. “It’s the cost to the executives of trying to figure out how much…
Read MoreFit For Purpose: Next-gen DSP metrics that measure what matter
If you want to get the most out of Amazon DSP, then you need to start exploring beyond standard metrics such as impressions and ROAS. While these metrics are easy to pull from dashboards and compare to similar metrics on other platforms, there are significant limits on what these metrics can actually teach you about how DSP is really performing.
Fit For Purpose reveals 23 new next-generation metrics for Amazon DSP. Based on our retail media team’s deep experience with Amazon DSP, we have identified metrics that are tailored for each stage of the purchase journey, brand objective, and market position. These include 10 new metrics developed by Acadia that we believe should be a staple of every brand’s DSP dashboard.
Read MoreWhy Amazon-Fluent Companies Outperform Peers by 16%
Kiri Masters is Head of Retail Marketplace Strategy at Bobsled, an Acadia company, and the Founder of Bobsled Marketing. Amazon is different to other retail channels. That is the under-statement…
Read More4 Things We Know About Amazon Prime Day 2022
Kiri Masters is Head of Retail Marketplace Strategy at Bobsled, an Acadia company, and the Founder of Bobsled Marketing. This article was originally published on Forbes.com as ‘What We Know About Amazon…
Read More22% Of Brands Are Unhappy With How They Allocate Their Retail Media Budget. But There’s a Better Way
Retail media networks (RMNs) are an exciting place to run ads, because of the valuable first-party data that retailers have about their customers.
Read MoreWalmart Marketplace Partner Network Announcement
Bobsled Marketing is now one of the official Agency Solution Providers of the Walmart Marketplace.
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