All articles written by: Kiri Masters

Two Ways Amazon Is Making It Harder For Smaller Brands To Succeed – And What To Do Now

By Kiri Masters / August 31, 2023
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Kiri Masters is the Head of Retail Strategy at Acadia. Amazon wants to be the everything store, and while that path is paved with the hundreds of thousands of small…

Retail Media Networks—everything Ad Buyers And Sellers Need To Know About The $125 Billion Trend

By Kiri Masters / August 24, 2023
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Kiri Masters, head of retail strategy at Acadia, is quoted in Ad Age on August 15, 2023, where Acadia’s original analysis of retail media network launches is also cited. In…

Yes, it’s August. But peak season prep starts now

By Kiri Masters / August 17, 2023
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Kiri Masters is the Head of Retail Strategy at Acadia The peak shopping season has morphed and molded into a new shape: one that’s longer, lumpier, and in some sense…

AI on Amazon: how brands can prepare to index their products in AI chat results

By Kiri Masters / August 3, 2023
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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…

New and Exciting Ways to Leverage Brand and Product Content on Amazon

By Kiri Masters / July 19, 2023
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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…

Random Factory Brands

By Kiri Masters / June 8, 2023
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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.…

In It To Win It

By Kiri Masters / March 14, 2023
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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”

Retail Media Allocation

By Kiri Masters / March 13, 2023
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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

By Kiri Masters / March 12, 2023
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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.