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  "company": "Academy Sports + Outdoors",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ SILVER · Retail media launch · Academy Sports + Outdoors\n\nRetailer launches own media network to monetize shopper data.\n\nif you are a physical-product brand selling through Academy stores, you can now advertise directly to Academy shoppers without buying media from a platform that competes with Academy. The retailer offers placement and targeting, and you keep your customer data closer. Test a small budget ($2-5K) in a single Academy Retail Media campaign tied to a new SKU launch or seasonal promotion. Track the lift in that store versus comparable stores that do not have the promotional spend. The data will tell you if buying directly from the retailer beats paying Amazon or Meta for the same reach.\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-outdoors-2026-08-06t18-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-06t18-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-06t18-4",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ SILVER · Retail media launch · Academy Sports + Outdoors\n\nRetailer launches own media network to monetize shopper data.\n\nif you are a physical-product brand selling through Academy stores, you can now advertise directly to Academy shoppers without buying media from a platform that competes with Academy. The retailer offers placement and targeting, and you keep your customer data closer. Test a small budget ($2-5K) in a single Academy Retail Media campaign tied to a new SKU launch or seasonal promotion. Track the lift in that store versus comparable stores that do not have the promotional spend. The data will tell you if buying directly from the retailer beats paying Amazon or Meta for the same reach.\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-outdoors-2026-08-06t18-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-06t18-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-06t18-4",
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      "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, a proprietary advertising platform designed to help brands reach customers and generate new revenue from first-party shopper data.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you are a physical-product brand selling through Academy stores, you can now advertise directly to Academy shoppers without buying media from a platform that competes with Academy. The retailer offers placement and targeting, and you keep your customer data closer. Test a small budget ($2-5K) in a single Academy Retail Media campaign tied to a new SKU launch or seasonal promotion. Track the lift in that store versus comparable stores that do not have the promotional spend. The data will tell you if buying directly from the retailer beats paying Amazon or Meta for the same reach.\nWhat that means for you: if you are a physical-product brand selling through Academy stores, you can now advertise directly to Academy shoppers without buying media from a platform that competes with Academy. The retailer offers placement and targeting, and you keep your customer data closer. Test a small budget ($2-5K) in a single Academy Retail Media campaign tied to a new SKU launch or seasonal promotion. Track the lift in that store versus comparable stores that do not have the promotional spend. The data will tell you if buying directly from the retailer beats paying Amazon or Meta for the same reach.\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 — Yahoo Finance: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/academy-sports-outdoors-advances-omnichannel-130500143.html.)\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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