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  "company": "Academy Sports + Outdoors",
  "headline": "Retailer launches retail-media network, enabling brand advertising inside owned audience.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ STEEL · Retail media network launch · Academy Sports + Outdoors\n\nRetailer launches retail-media network, enabling brand advertising inside owned audience.\n\nRetail media networks are the quiet win that nobody talks about because they're not shiny. But they're efficient: the retailer has the customer, knows what they bought, and has a captive audience. You're advertising to people who already trust Academy enough to shop there. The conversion funnel is shorter. Most brands still spray money on Facebook when their actual retailer has a media network that's cheaper per converted customer.\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-2026-08-13t03-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-13t03-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-13t03-5",
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      "title": "Retailer launches retail-media network, enabling brand advertising inside owned audience.",
      "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 launched Academy Retail Media, allowing brands to advertise directly to Academy's customer base within the retailer's owned channels, per Yahoo Finance.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if Academy carries your product, you can now advertise directly to its shoppers inside the Academy app or website — and measure conversion back to in-store or online sales. This bypasses social-media ad costs entirely. If you have a product in Academy stores, test a small budget ($500–$1000) on their retail-media platform and measure incremental store lift against your usual social spend. Most brands ignore retailer media because they don't know it exists; it's cheaper and more direct than Facebook.\nWhat that means for you: Retail media networks are the quiet win that nobody talks about because they're not shiny. But they're efficient: the retailer has the customer, knows what they bought, and has a captive audience. You're advertising to people who already trust Academy enough to shop there. The conversion funnel is shorter. Most brands still spray money on Facebook when their actual retailer has a media network that's cheaper per converted customer.\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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