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  "company": "The Home Depot, Milani Cosmetics",
  "headline": "Retail media networks become category-specific advantage; marketer spend shifts toward owned networks.",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail+ Research & Digiday+ Research",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Retail media network strategy consolidation · The Home Depot, Milani Cosmetics\n\nRetail media networks become category-specific advantage; marketer spend shifts toward owned networks.\n\ndon't spray your media budget across all retail networks. Identify the three retail doors where your buyer shops (Costco, Target, Walmart, specialty beauty, etc.) and concentrate your advertising spend IN those networks. Retail media algorithms favor repeat advertisers; you'll get better CPM, better placement, and better attribution if you own 70% of one network's budget in your category than 10% across seven networks. Pick one or two retail partners and dominate.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/the-home-depot-milani-cosmetics-2026-08-26t09-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/the-home-depot-milani-cosmetics-2026-08-26t09-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/the-home-depot-milani-cosmetics-2026-08-26t09-6",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Retail media network strategy consolidation · The Home Depot, Milani Cosmetics\n\nRetail media networks become category-specific advantage; marketer spend shifts toward owned networks.\n\ndon't spray your media budget across all retail networks. Identify the three retail doors where your buyer shops (Costco, Target, Walmart, specialty beauty, etc.) and concentrate your advertising spend IN those networks. Retail media algorithms favor repeat advertisers; you'll get better CPM, better placement, and better attribution if you own 70% of one network's budget in your category than 10% across seven networks. Pick one or two retail partners and dominate.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/the-home-depot-milani-cosmetics-2026-08-26t09-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/the-home-depot-milani-cosmetics-2026-08-26t09-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/the-home-depot-milani-cosmetics-2026-08-26t09-6",
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      "title": "Retail media networks become category-specific advantage; marketer spend shifts toward owned networks.",
      "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 👇\nPer Modern Retail+ Research and Digiday+ Research, marketers are rethinking retail media investment, with The Home Depot and Milani Cosmetics cited as examples of brands using owned or partner networks to consolidate reach and measurement.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): don't spray your media budget across all retail networks. Identify the three retail doors where your buyer shops (Costco, Target, Walmart, specialty beauty, etc.) and concentrate your advertising spend IN those networks. Retail media algorithms favor repeat advertisers; you'll get better CPM, better placement, and better attribution if you own 70% of one network's budget in your category than 10% across seven networks. Pick one or two retail partners and dominate.\nWhat that means for you: don't spray your media budget across all retail networks. Identify the three retail doors where your buyer shops (Costco, Target, Walmart, specialty beauty, etc.) and concentrate your advertising spend IN those networks. Retail media algorithms favor repeat advertisers; you'll get better CPM, better placement, and better attribution if you own 70% of one network's budget in your category than 10% across seven networks. Pick one or two retail partners and dominate.\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 — Modern Retail+ Research & Digiday+ Research: https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/modern-retail-research-the-marketers-2026-guide-to-retail-media-marketing-including-the-home-depot-milani-cosmetics-and-tinuiti/.)\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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