Instacart and The Trade Desk Partner To Boost CPG Advertising
The world leader in advertising technology, The Trade Desk, and North America’s top grocery technology company, Instacart, have announced a fresh collaboration. Through this collaboration, a limited number of CPG marketers will be able to leverage the strength of retail media in their programmatic campaigns. The alliance also hopes to increase the data-drivenness of CPG advertisers’ media buys on The Trade Desk. Based on customer activity and product purchase data from Instacart, it will allow them to connect with audiences that are interested in making a purchase.
Media buys for CPG advertising
GroupM and Beam Suntory are going to be pilot partners. With The Trade Desk, they will soon be able to develop and engage Instacart’s knowledgeable audiences for omnichannel advertising purchases. This data-driven strategy enables CPG brand partners to expand their reach outside of Instacart’s platform. Additionally, companies may reach highly motivated customers through The Trade Desk’s CTV and display channels before they even buy groceries.
Audience segmentation benefiting CPG marketers
Brands on The Trade Desk will have access to category-based purchase data from Instacart. They will be able to create more expansive, highly targeted audiences as a result, reflecting the purchasing habits of customers across the more than 1,400 retail banners that make up Instacart’s Marketplace in North America. Through the relationship, pilot brand partners can create audience segments based on categories. This can be achieved by layering their programmatic advertisements in The Trade Desk with exclusive Instacart data.
- Bought their category but not their brands
- Bought their brand
- Lapsed brand purchase
- Audiences who have never purchased their brand
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Instacart – The Trade Desk Partnership
More than 5,500 brand partners on and off Instacart receive value from Instacart, which is dedicated to fostering growth and providing value. With the Trade Desk relationship, Instacart is demonstrating its ongoing commitment to supporting marketers’ off-platform solutions. To assist CPG clients in gauging the effect of streaming TV advertisements on e-commerce platforms, Instacart introduced the first set of off-platform measurement capabilities in April in partnership with a top manufacturer of CTV devices.
Here’s what they said
Ali Miller, VP of Ad Product at Instacart said,
Brands continue to tell us that they are looking for performant, data-driven solutions to maximize their return on investment. Instacart is attractive to marketers who want to drive results by reaching high-intent consumers, on a platform enhanced by our depth of consumer behavioral data and highly measurable outcomes. Now, we can help brands expand their reach to audiences off our Marketplace via our partnership with The Trade Desk. It’s critical for brands to reach consumers at scale, and ultimately drive purchase – and we’re excited to provide new solutions to help achieve those goals.
Ben Sylvan, Vice President, Data Partnerships, The Trade Desk added,
Instacart brings a wealth of valuable life stage and verified purchase data to our platform for CPG advertisers. Instacart-informed audiences will help The Trade Desk advertisers be a lot smarter with their media buying across the open internet, enabling them to reach their most valuable buyers. We’re excited to see how these advertisers can come up with new, innovative campaigns, especially on connected TV.
Brittney Duncan, Sr. Director NA Media & Digital Marketing, at Beam Suntory stated,
As a world leader in premium spirits, Beam Suntory is driving growth through quality craftsmanship, consumer connections and entrepreneurial spirit. Retail media is an important channel in our portfolio marketing mix and Instacart Ads continue to drive performance for our brands. Instacart’s new partnership with The Trade Desk provides an opportunity for us to scale our retail media efforts across our programmatic campaigns, and inspire even more like-minded customers to enjoy our premium spirits.
Lauren Lavin, Executive Director, Commerce, GroupM Nexus North America commented,
Over the last few years, retail media has emerged as a highly valuable lever for us to connect our clients with high-intent consumers directly at the point of purchase. GroupM continues to secure first-to-market opportunities, like Instacart’s new pilot partnership with The Trade Desk, so our CPG clients’ investments can work smarter across the complex media landscape we know today.
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Instacart Enhances Ad Transparency and Trust with Strategic Alliances
Instacart has partnered with Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify to transform the transparency of Instacart Ads and authenticate Instacart Ads using DV’s market-leading viewability and fraud verification across Instacart Ads.
Instacart partners with IAS to launch ad transparency
Leading worldwide media measurement and optimization platform Integral Ad Science just announced a partnership with Instacart. With the help of the top grocery technology business in North America, Instacart Ads now have a higher level of transparency. Through this intriguing alliance, Instacart Ads will now support IAS’s viewability and invalid traffic (IVT) measurement. More than 5,500 brands that work with Instacart will profit from this.
Instacart Ads
The success of Instacart’s business is greatly influenced by Instacart Ads. By giving advertisers access to prime digital real estate in front of interested consumers, powerful advertising products and solutions combine the best of online advertising to assist CPG firms of all sizes in moving products off the shelves. Additionally, it makes it possible for CPG brands to interact with customers at the point of sale thanks to cutting-edge platforms and technology. Over 1,400 retail brands collaborate with Instacart, which is accessible to over 95% of North American households.
IAS’s viewability and invalid traffic measurement
The IVT solutions from IAS are made to guarantee that advertisements are seen by as many real people as possible in a variety of advertising situations. When advertisements are presented to consumers for a longer length of time, there is a larger likelihood that they will make an effect. With access to viewability analytics, advertisers can reallocate their budgets to the best-performing ad styles in order to maximize their spending. With regard to both buyers and sellers, IAS’s dependable viewability solutions promote efficiency and do away with time-consuming reconciliations.
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IVT Integration
Working with nine of the ten biggest RMNs, IAS has become the industry leader in third-party verification of retail media networks. When completely deployed, IAS’ viewability and invalid traffic assessment will provide Instacart advertisers with more assurance that their advertisements are being viewed by actual individuals and more transparency. Additionally, it will contribute to the success of media campaigns run by Instacart clients.
Here’s what they said
Tim Castelli, Vice President of Global Advertising Sales at Instacart said
We are delighted to partner with IAS as a third-party measurement platform for Instacart Ads. Their powerful technology ensures that marketers invest their spend on real consumers that want to make a purchase. Instacart Ads is a critical part of our business, with thousands of category-leading and emerging CPG brands using our platform and technology to meet consumers at the point of purchase.
Lisa Utzschneider, CEO, of Integral Ad Science, commented,
We’re honored that Instacart selected IAS to be a measurement partner and today’s announcement further reinforces IAS’s leadership in the retail media network space. Instacart Ads has quickly established itself as one of the most effective retail media networks in North America. Advertisers recognize the power of the Instacart Ads platform and the impact it has on sales and they are looking to add third-party measurement for even greater transparency.
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DoubleVerify’s New Partnership to Validate Instacart Ads
Instacart, the top grocery technology business in North America, and DoubleVerify, a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics, have partnered to allow media verification and enhance advertising performance throughout the platform. In order to confirm that Instacart video and display advertising are viewable by humans and are free from fraud/invalid traffic (IVT), the collaboration will make use of DV’s technology and data.
DoubleVerify’s quality measurement technology for advertisers
Instacart marketers will gain
- Fraud Protection – thanks to DV’s quality measuring technology effective advertising will reach genuine people. DV detects and safeguards advertising from fraud and IVT. It ranges from bot manipulation to hacked devices.
- Viewability Verification – DV offers thorough viewability verification. It determines whether an advertisement has the chance to be viewed and illuminate its effect.
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DV’s technology for ad transparency
To measure and validate advertising on its retail media network (RMN), Instacart has chosen DoubleVerify and IAS. DV’s cutting-edge technology and data will be used in this partnership to validate the viewability of Instacart’s video and display advertising, guaranteeing that they are seen by actual people and are brand-safe.
Here’s what they said
Mark Zagorski, CEO, of DoubleVerify, said,
We are excited to extend DV’s independent measurement on the Instacart Ads platform to ensure that campaigns meet key media quality criteria while maximizing performance for advertisers. Instacart has been a pioneer in online grocery shopping for over a decade, and this partnership exemplifies the leadership, innovation and trust that both companies have built.
Tim Castelli, Vice President of Global Advertising Sales at Instacart added,
We’re thrilled to partner with DoubleVerify to provide valuable viewability and IVT authentication to our mutual advertising clients. As we continue to scale our advertising solutions, we are committed to delivering measurable value and growth for our brand partners.
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New ‘Instacart for Shopify App’ Revolutionizes Merchant Advertising
The most prominent grocery technology firm in North America, Instacart, recently unveiled a brand-new Instacart for Shopify app. The novel solution gives Shopify’s up-and-coming consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms access to Instacart Ads. Shopify businesses can now seamlessly connect to Instacart Ads’ tools, insights, and automation. Over 1400 retail banners throughout North America are partnered with Instacart. With this innovative integration, Instacart continues to support emerging brands’ rapid growth. Additionally, it would provide Shopify merchants access to crucial sales information and self-serve ad goods. This indicates that many CPG brands on Shopify are probably generating revenue through the Instacart Marketplace without taking any additional action.
Instacart and its partners
The announcement strengthens Instacart’s dedication to assisting up-and-coming firms in driving omnichannel growth. Instacart simplified the design of Ads Manager in the previous year so that marketers could quickly select an aim and receive customized, enhanced suggestions for the ad forms. To achieve their corporate objectives, they included specific targeting and bidding alternatives. The business has increased its measurement capabilities. In order to assist brands in discovering the real effect of their Instacart Ads campaigns, it also provides sales lift testing and A/B testing. The average increase in sales for Instacart’s brand partners is above 15%, and in certain situations, it is even higher.
Instacart Integration with Shopify for merchants
For the first time ever, Shopify merchants can promote their company with Instacart Ads by using the Instacart for Shopify App. By offering insight into their Instacart sales directly in Shopify, where they already oversee the rest of their business, the new Instacart for Shopify app aids merchants in better understanding their business. With this visibility, businesses can take action to expand their reach and success among Instacart users.
The Instacart for Shopify App enables retailers to simply create an Instacart Ads Manager Account, view high-level ad performance analytics, and track their overall sales on Instacart. This integration serves as further evidence of Instacart’s commitment to providing new businesses with the resources and market knowledge they require to develop and engage with customers at the point of sale.
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How will it work?
A retailer can create a free Instacart Ads Manager Account after installing the Instacart App on Shopify. Standard onboarding takes less time thanks to features like automatic product recognition.
- The Instacart for Shopify app displays information about Instacart sales and KPIs from marketing campaigns.
- Retailers can track the performance of their brands across several channels in a single location.
- Use the best digital marketing tools available in Ads Manager to expand their brand.
- Use tried-and-true ad formats, such as Instacart’s featured product ads.
- Give CPG businesses prime digital shelf space throughout the Instacart Marketplace.
Here’s what they said
Ali Miller, Vice President of Product Management at Instacart commented,
With our extensive catalog across more than 80,000 retail partner stores in North America, we believe Instacart has one of the best platforms to help emerging brands grow. Combining our scale with Shopify’s merchant network creates a really powerful discovery tool for brands looking to understand their impact across different channels. With the Instacart for Shopify app, brands can learn about the sales they’re already driving on Instacart, and immediately take action by setting up Instacart Ads to supercharge discovery and sales.
Antonio Silva, Director of Partnerships at Shopify said,
At Shopify, we are committed to forging partnerships that empower our merchants and keep them on the cutting edge. Wherever there is an opportunity to connect merchants and buyers together, Shopify is there first. By offering access to efficient and effective advertising solutions through Instacart’s integration with Shopify, our merchants gain valuable insights about sales data, advertising opportunities and performance across Instacart’s marketplace directly within their Shopify dashboard.
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Omnicom Partners With Walmart, Instacart, First Of Many eCommerce Deals at Cannes Lions
Omnicom plans to announce several e-commerce-related partnerships with major retail players during the Cannes Lions festival. Recently, the agency holding company struck its first strategic agency partnership with Walmart Connect.
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Cross-screen Planning it is!
Walmart Connect, a closed-loop omnichannel media business offers advertisers an opportunity to reach Walmart shoppers on Walmart’s site and app, across its physical locations, and on the web. The first strategic agreement lets all Omnicom agencies execute cross-screen planning against Walmart audiences in the Omni marketing orchestration platform. Planners can identify the domains, apps, and screens with the most effective reach and cost for Walmart audiences. Using the Omni ID, they can push advertisers’ first-party data to the Walmart DSP where it combines with Walmart audiences.
The retail giant is building a platform to leverage the scale of Walmart’s first-party data and strong customer relationships to help marketers deliver strong ROI in an increasingly fragmented environment. Walmart Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer Seth Dallaire said.
“Our partnership with Omnicom illustrates Walmart Connect’s focus on driving growth, improving product capabilities, and educating the industry on the role retail media platforms have in delivering measurable solutions that connect clients with omnichannel shoppers.”
The access to the WalmartDSP and within Omni will allow optimizing supply paths as well as inventory planning that will increase the investment efficiency for OMG clients. As quoted by Digiday, Megan Pagliuca, Chief Activation Officer, Omnicom Media Group said,
“We can take client first-party data, push it via the Omni ID into the Walmart DSP, then plan the right inventory paths to execute against. Having Walmart be a part of our planning capabilities gives a significant benefit to our CPG advertisers. And that is particularly powerful for the non-endemics because we can both use Walmart data, and then optimize towards other outcomes rather than in-store measurement.”
Another potential benefit of the deal is the ability to connect Walmart’s in-store TV network in its 4,700 stores to Omnicom’s programmatic OOH practice. Dallaire told Digiday,
“Omnicom has been leading the way in terms of that programmatic out-of-home space. So I see that as being a really interesting and fun area for us to collaborate.”
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Data, the oil to the e-Commerce vehicle
Omnicom making its second of a series of deals, at this week’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. The agency holding company announced a strategic partnership with e-commerce player Instacart which involves sharing data and new measurement capabilities that can more directly tie sales to TV advertising.
Instacart is building a roadmap to working within the clean room infrastructure of Omni – Omnicom’s open operating system which orchestrates better outcomes for clients across the entire consumer purchasing journey. The Omni clean room allows access to previously built partnerships with NBCU & Disney for planning and measurement.
Instacart has the full insight of the sales data – right from customers searching through checkout – across different touchpoints. Instacart provides CPG brands with aggregated, anonymized, and retailer-agnostic data insights across the entire Instacart app that allows advertisers to better understand their customers’ online buying habits.
The partnership advances OMG’s goal of providing brand executives with a holistic view of media investments, allowing them to prove the effectiveness and value of advertising. Ryan Mayward, Vice President of Ad Sales at Instacart explained,
“For example, in the future, a home cleaning supply brand can better understand how its ads on Hulu drove purchase of its products on Instacart.
We can also dive deep on basket analysis and content consumption trends with Omnicom to help that brand understand which products resonate most with audiences. Our vision is to equip CPG brands with the data and shopping insights they need to better understand their business and identify growth opportunities.”
Summing up the collaboration on insights and measurement, Officer Megan Pagliuca said,
“Omnicom and Instacart can help brands transform top-of-funnel, brand-building marketing channels to outcomes-based media.”
On the series of e-Commerce moves, Omnicom eCommerce CEO Frank Kochenash concluded that each collaboration offers unique capabilities to connected commerce which will benefit the client investment across all mediums.
Instacart President Carolyn Everson Steps Down Only After 3 Months
Carolyn Everson announced that she will step down as Instacart president at the end of the year. The surprise decision comes barely three months after Everson took the helm at the grocery delivery service company.
Instacart’s C-suite recently changed following the departure of its head of advertising, Seth Dallaire. Several big tech executives have been hired, including those from Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, and Google. Instacart’s valuation rose to nearly $40 billion this year, but some of its newcomers, including Everson, have experience managing larger teams.
Over the last decade, Everson has served as Facebook’s ads chief and was Fidji Simo’s most high-profile hire at Instacart. Simo had been at Facebook for ten years, including two years heading the Facebook app, before becoming CEO of the delivery tech company.
Carolyn Everson shared on social media that as she approaches 50 she plans to take a ‘real break’ to consider her next move.
“Fidji and I have been friends for over 10 years and we both agreed that this was the best decision for the company and for me personally. I believe in the company’s mission and the team, and am grateful for the opportunity to have contributed to Instacart’s growth. I intend to take time to dream up what’s next.”
Simo said in a statement that it was a mutual decision and was grateful for her contributions.
“We believe it’s the right decision for both the company and Carolyn based on our priorities and the role she was looking for at this point in her career. She’ll be staying on with us through the end of the year, and leaves as a friend to the company.”
As president of Instacart, Everson manages many divisions, including advertising, partnership services, and legal. As a result of the pandemic, grocery delivery services had flourished and recorded their first profit of $10 million in April 2020, adding 350,000 more customers to their roster.
According to CNBC, Instacart has identified its advertising business as one of its fastest-growing segments, but it is looking to expand into the cash-intensive business of quick commerce, or 15-minute delivery, to compete with the likes of DoorDash and GoPuff. It was widely expected that Instacart would go public this year, but reportedly pushed back plans in order to focus on growth.
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Instacart’s Ad Chief Seth Dallaire Exit To Join Walmart
Instacart’s Ad chief will be moving over to Walmart as the chief revenue officer (CRO). Wal-Mart poaches Instacart’s CRO, Seth Dallaire, to fill the same role in the retail advertising wars. Before Instacart, Dallaire was responsible for turning Amazon into the world’s third-largest digital advertising company. Instacart had recruited him in 2019 to build a sizeable ad business. Business Insider reports, this part of the operation generated $300 million in sales last year. Now, it has lost the key architect who could make it possible.
Walmart intends to build its advertising business by utilizing customer data to drive digital ad revenue. Dallaire, an expert in programmatic automated advertising, will help Walmart scale Connect and Walmart +. Walmart Connect is Wal-Mart’s ad-platform unit, which will release its own DSP in the near future.
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As quoted by Adage, Walmart spokesperson confirmed the recruitment and said,
“His remit will include Walmart Connect, membership (Walmart+), data monetization, and business partnerships.”
Dallaire will directly report to John Furner, the CEO, and president of Walmart U.S. Instacart, an online grocery, and delivery service, has enhanced its advertising offerings and personnel. Seth’s exit comes after the company brought former Facebook executives Fidji Simo as CEO and Carolyn Everson as president.
It might look that Instacart is picking up the most talented Facebook execs. However, the reality is different! The Information reports that Instacart had earlier poached key executives that include developers and engineers from Amazon to build a $10billion to $20billion ad business.
Again quoted by Adage, an Instacart spokesperson expressed gratitude for his contributions and wished him for his future endeavors, said,
“Over the last two years, Seth and our broader advertising team have helped build Instacart into one of the largest pure-play grocery ad platforms in the world, supporting more than 2,500 brands.”
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