Updated: november, 2024

Self-service Retail Media Networks

The rise of self-service platforms has transformed how brands interact with retail media networks, offering greater control, flexibility, and efficiency. These platforms enable advertisers to directly manage their campaigns, from creation to optimization, without relying on managed services.
As brands and sellers seek to maximize their presence and performance in this diverse retail media landscape, this list helps identify relevant players in the space.

European retail media networks

2024 Self-Service Retail Media Networks Directory

How prevalent are self-service capabilities in the retail media industry? How many retail media networks offer self-service platforms? Who are the leading players in self-service retail media?

The self-service retail media market is experiencing rapid growth, with major marketplaces players like Amazon, Walmart, and Instacart leading the way with robust self-service advertising platforms. These self-service options are transforming how brands interact with retail media networks, offering greater control, flexibility, and efficiency.

As the self-service trend continues to gain momentum, we're seeing increased demand for tools and solutions that can help brands streamline their efforts across various self-service retail media platforms.

At mimbi, we decided to collect as much data as possible and share it with the community. As this is a fast moving environment, we also expect the community to help us update, correct and evolve this table to make it a collaborative database that everyone can use.

For now, you’ll find 50+ commerce media networks with self-service platforms with public data we collect (last update November, 2024) for each of them that you can filter.

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FAQs

Our 2024 directory of Self-Service Retail Media Networks

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Where are located these networks?

The US market seems to be more advanced, with players like Amazon, Target or Walmart quickly offering a self-service platform. However, there are also strong platforms elsewhere, such as Mercado Libre in LATAM. In Europe, players such as Zalando (ZMS), Allegro (Poland) or BOL.com (Netherlands) offer platforms.

Do all networks offer self-service capabilities?

To date, we account for more than 40 self-service platforms. These networks can be operated by online pure-players and/or brick-and-mortar retailers, using in-house technology or technology from vendors such as Criteo, Citrus, Mirakl Ads or Topsort.

What geographies are covered by the Retail Media Networks listed on mimbi’s index?

We focus primarily on the US and European markets (top markets are the UK, Germany and France), with partial coverage of LATAM and APAC. Smaller markets are particularly interesting when they are dominated by local retailers that global brands may not necessarily know about. See our full index

What types of businesses can benefit from Retail Media?

For online marketplaces, Retail Media Networks provide a valuable way to monetize customer data and site traffic. For brands or advertisers, Retail Media Networks offer a unique opportunity to reach consumers at critical points in the purchase process, while often providing a more direct attribution of advertising spend to sales.

Where does the data in this index come from, and how often is the list updated?

The data is a mix of technology detected on retailers' websites, data collected from ad tech vendors' websites, and PR and publicly available data. Thanks to the growing retail media community around mimbi, we are getting more and more market insights, that allow us to update data on a monthly basis.

What is mimbi's role in the retail media industry?

Mimbi.io provides a retail media intelligence platform designed to help both brands and agencies better allocate their budgets and inform the next cycle of their advertising strategy. It provides data aggregation to bring together retail media networks, business data and teams in a transparent way.

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