Ritson: retail media is cannibalizing brand budgets, not adding new dollars

Mark Ritson argues at Adweek that marketers are wrongly raiding brand-building budgets to fund retail media, treating it as incremental when it is really just point-of-sale promo marketing rebranded.

Why it matters. Marketers who keep shifting brand budgets into retail media risk starving long-term brand equity to fund what is often just repackaged trade promotion.

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