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Galeria, Germany's last nationwide department-store chain, has filed for its fourth insolvency since 2020 after summer and autumn sales collapsed despite a profitable 2025.

Kantar Media has launched a retail-media-search monitoring tool and published an analysis of Amazon Search advertisers in France, with striking data on pure-play brands.

Google Shopping ads are the product listings — image, price and shop name — that sit at the top of Google. They don't run on keywords: they're powered by a product feed you manage in Google Merchant Center. Get the feed right, switch on the free listings, then run a Standard Shopping or Performance Max campaign to buy extra visibility. What Google Shopping ads actually are Those tidy product boxes at the top of a Google search — a photo, a price, your shop name, sometimes a s

Germany's Payback has launched 'Payback Produkte', an in-app marketplace selling thousands of items, as the loyalty giant with 35 million users evolves from points scheme to commerce platform.

Former Frasers Group CMO Beckie Crane-Stanion joins The Very Group as marketing director, taking charge of brand, marketing and in-house agency HelloStudio.

Best Buy Ads is launching CTV inventory, multi-touch attribution and AI tools, positioning itself as 'the next generation of commerce TV'.

DTC bedding brand Brooklinen produced its first celebrity-led and largest-ever campaign, 'Best. Sheets. Ever.', entirely in-house, timed to SNL and the NBA season.

Adobe projects US online holiday sales will hit a record $275.1 billion this November–December, up 6.7% year on year despite consumer strain.

A new study finds 48% of French 13-18 year-olds have used AI to make a purchase directly — a sign agentic shopping is arriving faster than brands expect.

A HyperFinity study finds underperforming loyalty schemes cost the UK's leading retailers nearly £807m a year through redemption friction, value erosion and app failures.

Kraft Heinz's Capri Sun launched a supersized, refillable 'Big Pouch' in a limited Walmart drop aimed at nostalgic adults — a scarcity-led test-and-learn.

Secondhand chain Cash Express is launching its online marketplace with a fashion-show stunt from agency Just Happiness — turning pre-owned goods into a catwalk-worthy statement.

Instacart is using nostalgic icons like Shrek and Scooby-Doo to market its Clementine AI meal-planning assistant, wrapping unfamiliar technology in the warmth of childhood favourites.

Direct-to-consumer brands that once bypassed stores are now fighting for shelf space at major chains, rewriting their marketing playbooks around retail as customer-acquisition costs bite.

Rewe is expanding its retail-media partnership with The Trade Desk so that purchase-based audiences from its physical stores now supplement its existing online data.

Lowe's has added Lowes.com and its Marketplace to CMO Jen Wilson's portfolio, folding e-commerce into a role already spanning marketing, retail media, loyalty and personalization.

Next lifted full-year profit guidance to £1.255bn after H1 sales rose 9%, with CEO Lord Wolfson crediting a 56% surge in digital marketing spend that still clears the retailer's returns hurdle.

Affiliate platform Howl has sold its creator division to Taboola's Connexity, refocusing on publisher relationships amid the creator economy's payment and profitability pressures.

Walmart is building a full-stack ad platform on its stores and TVs - CTV, an AI shopping agent and self-service. Why brands should treat it as a media platform.

Snap is putting AI-recommended shoppable ads into private Chat for the holidays. A real performance opportunity - if brands respect messaging as personal space.