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  "headline": "DoorDash Ads adds interest and retailer targeting, new category share insights for CPG brands",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ GOLD · Platform feature expansion for CPG advertising and performance measurement · DoorDash Ads\n\nDoorDash Ads adds interest and retailer targeting, new category share insights for CPG brands.\n\nThis is a quiet but massive shift. For years, the retailer owned the customer insight; the brand was blind. DoorDash just handed the brand a telescope pointed at the retailer's own customer behavior. It costs next to nothing to run a test. Use it. A small brand can now walk into a Kroger buyer meeting with real proof that Kroger's customers want what you're selling, pulled from Kroger's own DoorDash traffic. That changes the conversation from \"please take a chance\" to \"your data says yes.\"\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/doordash-ads-2026-08-03t18-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/doordash-ads-2026-08-03t18-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/doordash-ads-2026-08-03t18-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ GOLD · Platform feature expansion for CPG advertising and performance measurement · DoorDash Ads\n\nDoorDash Ads adds interest and retailer targeting, new category share insights for CPG brands.\n\nThis is a quiet but massive shift. For years, the retailer owned the customer insight; the brand was blind. DoorDash just handed the brand a telescope pointed at the retailer's own customer behavior. It costs next to nothing to run a test. Use it. A small brand can now walk into a Kroger buyer meeting with real proof that Kroger's customers want what you're selling, pulled from Kroger's own DoorDash traffic. That changes the conversation from \"please take a chance\" to \"your data says yes.\"\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/doordash-ads-2026-08-03t18-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/doordash-ads-2026-08-03t18-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/doordash-ads-2026-08-03t18-3",
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      "title": "DoorDash Ads adds interest and retailer targeting, new category share insights for CPG brands",
      "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 👇\nDoorDash Ads launched interest-based targeting, retailer-level targeting, and category share insights, giving CPG brands more granular control over ad placement and performance measurement within the platform, per DoorDash announcement.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): use DoorDash Ads to validate a product test before you ask a retailer for shelf. Run a 14-day campaign targeting your specific retailer's customer base (Whole Foods shoppers, Kroger shoppers) with a limited SKU or flavor variant. Measure conversion rate and category share against competitors. Use that data in the retailer meeting—not to ask for space, but to show the retailer what their customers already want. The platform gives you the retailer's own customer data back, weaponized. Most brands still pitch retail based on brand story; the ones moving now bring retailer-level conversion data.\nWhat that means for you: This is a quiet but massive shift. For years, the retailer owned the customer insight; the brand was blind. DoorDash just handed the brand a telescope pointed at the retailer's own customer behavior. It costs next to nothing to run a test. Use it. A small brand can now walk into a Kroger buyer meeting with real proof that Kroger's customers want what you're selling, pulled from Kroger's own DoorDash traffic. That changes the conversation from \"please take a chance\" to \"your data says yes.\"\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 — DoorDash: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilgFBVV95cUxOUWNUZ2hiUGFhWmRfSmV5bmNGcGgtQ0h5VjQyNVpDQzBFSC1WQkpOVEs5V2QxVHVYSkFnMW0wWkhjOEE4eWZEQU41UVpVbU1WTjRkT3dOOE01VUlyc0dPNEJHQmZfcU5jVlc3bmxPSzlKcjZjdlF1bjhjWXd3T0lRdGc4Zm51TF9nUzRYaUJBYVB4WG1XMUA?oc=5.)\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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