Walgreens is working with LiveRamp to give its advertisers hands-on access to data from its 101 million loyalty program members.
Through the partnership, Walgreens Advertising Group—or WAG—is offering a clean room solution that lets advertisers target customized groups of Walgreens customers across walled gardens and the open web. Advertisers can then connect that targeting data back to Walgreen’s sales data, giving a clearer picture of which ads work.
Using LiveRamp’s conversion APIs, advertisers can see “real incremental sales—not attributed sales—on over 450 offsite platforms,” said Abishake Subramanian, group vp of customer marketing and media monetization at Walgreens.
WAG is one of many retail media networks partnering with tech companies to improve their pitch to advertisers as the retail media landscape gets more crowded and more competitive.
“For advertisers to want to continue to spend money—or spend money in the first place—they should have access [to] and understanding of who they’re targeting, why they’re targeting them, and the effectiveness,” …