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  "company": "Academy Sports",
  "headline": "Retailer launches retail media network to compete for brand ad spend at shelf.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail media network launch · Academy Sports\n\nRetailer launches retail media network to compete for brand ad spend at shelf.\n\nThis is the move that flips the power dynamic. For years, brands spent on Facebook to drive traffic to stores, then crossed their fingers. Now the retailer is saying: spend with us, and we'll show you the lift on our shelf. Academy is not trying to be Amazon; it's trying to be the floor. Every regional and national retailer is building one of these. If you're not testing with them, you're leaving proof on the table.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/academy-sports-2026-08-09t03-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/academy-sports-2026-08-09t03-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/academy-sports-2026-08-09t03-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail media network launch · Academy Sports\n\nRetailer launches retail media network to compete for brand ad spend at shelf.\n\nThis is the move that flips the power dynamic. For years, brands spent on Facebook to drive traffic to stores, then crossed their fingers. Now the retailer is saying: spend with us, and we'll show you the lift on our shelf. Academy is not trying to be Amazon; it's trying to be the floor. Every regional and national retailer is building one of these. If you're not testing with them, you're leaving proof on the table.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/academy-sports-2026-08-09t03-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/academy-sports-2026-08-09t03-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/academy-sports-2026-08-09t03-2",
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      "title": "Retailer launches retail media network to compete for brand ad spend at shelf.",
      "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 👇\nAcademy Sports + Outdoors launched Academy Retail Media (ARM), a retail media network designed to connect brand partners with Academy's customers and link ad exposure to in-store velocity, per SGB Online.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you sell physical products at retail, your next media partner is the retailer itself, not Facebook or Google. ARM lets a brand test creative and messaging against the exact audience that walks the aisle — and measure lift in real time on the shelf where it matters. Pitch Academy (or your retailer) a small test budget; start with search-style ads on their site and in-store displays. The retailer owns the conversion data; you get the proof to spend bigger.\nWhat that means for you: This is the move that flips the power dynamic. For years, brands spent on Facebook to drive traffic to stores, then crossed their fingers. Now the retailer is saying: spend with us, and we'll show you the lift on our shelf. Academy is not trying to be Amazon; it's trying to be the floor. Every regional and national retailer is building one of these. If you're not testing with them, you're leaving proof on the table.\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 — SGB Online: https://sgbonline.com/academy-sports-launches-retail-media-network/.)\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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