# Horizon Commerce and Pacvue merge retail media workflow into single dashboard — Jeep and Wayfair follow

*Integration cuts measurement lag from weeks to days while brands shift budgets from traditional channels.*

By **Jenny Huang Goodman MPA MSc MHSA, Principal** — The Stash Edge, Hako Shikin LLC.
Published 2026-09-27.

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Subject: Multiple (Horizon Commerce, Pacvue, Jeep, Wayfair)
Tags: retail media, measurement, attribution, workflow integration, operational efficiency

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Horizon Commerce and Pacvue announced an expanded partnership this week that consolidates retail media planning, activation, and measurement into a unified platform, according to TMCnet and MartechCube. The integration eliminates the manual data shuttling between planning tools, ad servers, and analytics dashboards that has plagued retail media operations since Amazon opened its ad platform to third parties. Jeep and Wayfair are simultaneously reconfiguring their brand marketing infrastructure to prioritize retail-first measurement, signaling that the largest advertisers are treating retail media as a primary channel rather than a test-and-learn side bet.

The Horizon-Pacvue system connects media planning directly to point-of-sale data and attribution models that run inside retailer walled gardens. Instead of exporting campaign data from Amazon or Walmart, reconciling it in spreadsheets, and uploading it to a separate measurement tool, brands now see purchase conversion and incrementality metrics in the same interface where they allocate budget. The partnership addresses the operational friction that has kept retail media spending below **15 percent** of total digital ad budgets at most CPG companies, despite retail media delivering conversion rates multiple times higher than social or display channels.

The mechanism works because retail media measurement has matured past last-click attribution. Retailers now provide closed-loop data showing whether an ad impression led to a cart add, a purchase, or a subscription signup, and they increasingly share incrementality studies that isolate the ad's effect from baseline demand. When that measurement data flows into the same system that controls budget allocation, marketers can shift spending between retail media networks in near-real time instead of waiting for monthly reconciliation cycles. Pacvue's existing integrations with Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and Kroger mean the Horizon partnership gives brands a single pane of glass across the four largest U.S. retail media networks, which together represent more than **$60 billion** in annual ad revenue according to eMarketer.

A small physical-product brand can run the same play without enterprise software. Start by consolidating retail media reporting into one spreadsheet with a weekly refresh cadence. Pull campaign performance data from Amazon Advertising Console, Walmart Connect, and any other retail network you use, and add three columns: attributed sales, incremental sales estimate, and cost per incremental sale. Incremental sales estimate requires a simple baseline calculation — take your average weekly sales velocity in the category during non-promoted periods and subtract it from promoted-period sales to approximate the ad's lift. Update this spreadsheet every Monday. Use it to reallocate your retail media budget weekly instead of monthly, moving dollars from networks or campaigns with high cost-per-incremental-sale to those with low cost. If Amazon search ads are driving incremental sales at **$8** per unit and Walmart sponsored products are doing it at **$5**, shift budget to Walmart until the efficiency converges. The operational change costs nothing but forces the measurement discipline that justifies retail media as a primary channel.

The broader pattern is that retail media infrastructure is professionalizing faster than social or programmatic did at equivalent scale. Retailers learned from the decade-long fragmentation of ad tech and built measurement into their platforms from the start. Brands that treat retail media planning and measurement as separate workflows will spend the next two years reconciling data manually while competitors reallocate budgets in real time. The next move is connecting retail media performance to margin and inventory data, so budget allocation optimizes for profit contribution rather than revenue. That integration is already live at select Pacvue customers.

## The takeaway

Unified retail media dashboards cut measurement lag from weeks to days — small brands can copy by consolidating weekly reporting and reallocating budget on incremental cost.

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## Publisher

**Hako Shikin LLC** — Virginia Beach, Virginia. Founded 1997. ASI 217876 · DUNS 18-204-6339.
Principal and author: **Jenny Huang Goodman MPA MSc MHSA**.

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