All articles written by: Ross Walker

The Biggest Takeaways From unBoxed: Democratization, Simplification, and the Rise of Agentic Advertising

By Ross Walker / December 2, 2025
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With some distance from the major unBoxed 2025 announcements, the broader arc of Amazon’s advertising strategy is much easier to see.  Across 14+ product updates, three themes shaped nearly every…

Omnichannel Budget Allocation in the Age of Retail-Agnostic Shoppers

By Ross Walker / September 25, 2025
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✍️ About the Authors: Ross Walker is the Retail Media Team Lead at Acadia. | Damiano Ciarrocchi is a Senior Retail Media Manager at Acadia. – – –    Retail…

OLV: The Hidden Gem of Your Marketing Mix

By Ross Walker / September 11, 2025
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If you’ve been running Amazon ads for more than a few quarters, you’ve probably felt the squeeze.  Sponsored Products are more expensive than ever. Sponsored Brands and Streaming TV have…

Optimizing Paid Search: Maximizing ROI at the Bottom of the Funnel

By Ross Walker / March 20, 2025
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🎧 On the go? Listen to this case study in audio format. In our space, a lot of the conversations lean toward full-funnel strategies or upper-funnel tactics. While these topics…

The Full-Funnel Impact of Streaming TV: A Case Study From a Major Beauty Brand

By Ross Walker / February 26, 2025
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🎧 On the go? Listen to this case study in audio format. What does full-funnel advertising mean to you?  With so many conflicting perspectives from e-commerce professionals, you could think…

New Amazon Marketing Cloud Capabilities

By Ross Walker / April 11, 2024
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On a recent episode of the eCommerce Braintrust Podcast, host and Acadia’s Head of Retail Marketing Place Services, Julie Spear spoke with Ross Walker, retail team lead at Acadia about…

Some advertisers are doubling their Amazon spends at the expense of Meta and Google. Here’s what’s driving the change.

By Ross Walker / March 27, 2024
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In an article published March 12, 2024 in Business Insider, Acadia’s Retail Media Team Lead, Ross Walker, was quoted on how Amazon’s advertising-tech disruption challenges industry giants Google and Meta.…

Amazon Briefing: How Amazon Is Changing the Narrative Around Its Advertising Ecosystem

By Ross Walker / November 2, 2023
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Ross Walker, Senior Paid Media Manager at Acadia, was featured in a recent article from Modern Retail. Ross highlighted Amazon’s emphasis on video ad products and its evolving description, such as…

Why Digital Ad Platforms Are Ramping Up Their Full-Funnel Ad Strategies

By Ross Walker / September 27, 2023
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Ross Walker, Senior Paid Media Manager at Acadia, was featured in a recent article from Modern Retail. Ross gives his thoughts on why brands are drawn to Amazon’s new tools…