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Deliveroo Media opens its order tracker to programmatic ads
Deliveroo's most-viewed screen — the Order Tracker — is now buyable programmatically through Google Ad Manager, opening one of retail media's highest-attention placements to the open market.
Aug 43 min read


Amazon's ad machine hits $19.8bn — up 26% as sports inventory sells out
Amazon's advertising revenue climbed about 26% to $19.8bn in Q2 2026, with live-sports inventory selling out — cementing retail media and Prime Video as the industry's third ad giant.
Aug 33 min read


Teardown: what Asda plugging into Amazon's ad engine means for smaller retailers
Asda's UK-first tie-up with Amazon's retail ad service is a big-brand move — but it signals where retail media is heading for everyone. Here's what smaller retailers should take from it.
Aug 12 min read


Asda plugs into Amazon’s retail ad engine — a UK retail-media first
Asda is adopting Amazon’s Retail Ad Service across its online grocery and George platforms — the first UK retailer to do so — as the retail-media land grab intensifies.
Jul 313 min read


UK consumer confidence jumps 6 points — the biggest lift since 2023
The GfK Consumer Confidence Index rose 6 points to -17 in July 2026, its biggest monthly jump since November 2023, with every sub-measure improving. Why the Major Purchase Index is the number marketers should watch.
Jul 303 min read


UK online sales hit their highest share since 2021 — what June's ONS data means
Online shopping reached 29.4% of all UK retail spending in June 2026 — the highest since April 2021 — as online values jumped 14.4%. E-commerce is re-accelerating, and budgets should follow.
Jul 302 min read


Pets at Home makes 'The Perfect Poo' the hero — the smartest gross-out in UK retail
Pets at Home has built a national campaign around 'The Perfect Poo' — a cheeky but genuinely diagnostic sign of the right pet food — turning staff expertise into a talkable idea. Here's the lesson for retailers.
Jul 302 min read


UK retail’s slump eases: what the July CBI survey tells marketers
The CBI's July 2026 survey shows UK retail sales falling at their slowest pace in six months. A 'least-bad' market is the hardest to plan for — here's how retail marketers should respond.
Jul 293 min read


Beldray makes its TV debut as ITV woos first-time advertisers
Homeware brand Beldray’s first-ever TV campaign, run through ITV’s spend-matching Backing Business scheme, is a template for how UK SMEs can finally afford television.
Jul 283 min read


British Berry Growers takes aim at the junk-food billboard loophole
British Berry Growers’ ‘Fresh Outlook on Food’ campaign spoofs fast-food billboards to expose the out-of-home HFSS loophole — and demand junk-food ad bans near schools.
Jul 283 min read


YouTube Shopping lands in the UK: M&S, Currys and Boots bet on creator commerce
YouTube has launched its Shopping Affiliate Programme in the UK with M&S, Currys, Boots, Next and more — turning creator recommendations into a shoppable, auto-tagged storefront, even on the TV.
Jul 273 min read


Nectar360 becomes first UK retail media network to win IAB Europe certification
Nectar360 is the first UK retail media network to secure IAB Europe certification, a milestone for measurement standards. We explain why sta
Jul 234 min read


Epsilon gives brands more control over retail media — and a shot at AI shoppers
Epsilon's new 'Brand Pages' let advertisers build richer, shoppable retail media storefronts with unified measurement — and feed the AI sear
Jul 234 min read


The FA red-cards Iceland's 'England' store stunt — a lesson in ambush marketing
Iceland renamed three stores 'England' during the World Cup and was hit with an FA cease-and-desist. We unpack the ambush-marketing risk and
Jul 234 min read


Retail Media & Retail Marketing in the UK: The Guide (Updated Weekly)
A continuously updated guide to retail media and retail marketing in the UK — the fastest-growing corner of the ad market — from Amazon and Tesco to shopper behaviour, with all our latest coverage.
Jul 223 min read


Prime Day 2026: UK shoppers traded down, and brands should take note
New analysis of this year's Prime Day shows UK shoppers shifting spend away from big-ticket electronics toward groceries, beauty and everyday essentials — a behavioural signal brands can't afford to ignore.
Jul 222 min read


ASA bans M&M's and Morley's ads in first rulings under new junk food rules
The Advertising Standards Authority has issued its first rulings under the UK's new 'less healthy food' advertising restrictions, banning Instagram ads from M&M's and a Morley's franchise while clearing several rivals.
Jul 223 min read


Agentic commerce arrives: Google's Universal Commerce Protocol lets AI agents shop
Google's proposed Universal Commerce Protocol would let AI agents like ChatGPT and Copilot buy products directly — a potential turning point for how commerce works online.
Jul 212 min read


Tesco, Waitrose, B&Q and John Lewis join dunnhumby retail media alliance
A new dunnhumby pilot aims to let brands run one campaign across multiple UK retailers at once, tackling retail media's fragmentation problem.
Jul 203 min read


How the FIFA World Cup Is Transforming Tourism, Retail and Local Economies
The FIFA World Cup is far more than the world's biggest football tournament; it's a powerful economic engine that reshapes tourism, retail and local economies.
Jul 162 min read
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