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  "company": "Academy Sports + Outdoors",
  "headline": "Launched own retail media network to own customer data and ad revenue.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail media platform launch · Academy Sports + Outdoors\n\nLaunched own retail media network to own customer data and ad revenue.\n\nAcademy saw the margin opportunity in media and took it. Most retailers still hand media rights to a third-party platform. The ones winning are charging their own suppliers directly. If you have retail traffic — even modest — you have a media asset. The question is whether you're selling it or giving it away.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-02t18-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-02t18-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-02t18-2",
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      "title": "Launched own retail media network to own customer data and ad revenue.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nAcademy Sports + Outdoors advanced its omnichannel strategy by launching Academy Retail Media, creating a proprietary platform to capture ad revenue and deepen direct control over customer interaction data.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): retail media is not new, but ownership is. Instead of joining an existing network (which takes a cut), build your own if you have enough traffic. Academy's scale as a full-line retailer gives it leverage to attract CPG brands seeking access. The revenue from selling media to those brands offsets acquisition costs for new shoppers. Start small: offer a sponsored-listing option for your top 50 SKUs, price it below Amazon's ad rates, and own the data.\nWhat that means for you: Academy saw the margin opportunity in media and took it. Most retailers still hand media rights to a third-party platform. The ones winning are charging their own suppliers directly. If you have retail traffic — even modest — you have a media asset. The question is whether you're selling it or giving it away.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Yahoo Finance: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/academy-sports-outdoors-advances-omnichannel-130500143.html.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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