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  "company": "Academy Sports + Outdoors",
  "headline": "Academy launches retail media network; omnichannel inventory drives ad placement.",
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      "title": "Academy launches retail media network; omnichannel inventory drives ad placement.",
      "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), enabling brands to advertise within its owned ecosystem and leverage inventory data to reach shoppers across channels, per announcement.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you sell through Academy, do not wait for them to approach you about advertising. Pitch into Academy Retail Media directly with a small budget ($1,000-$2,000 test). The CPM is lower than paid social, and the buyer is already in the store. You are not competing for attention; you are competing for basket placement. Test it on a adjacent-category product (if you sell water bottles, advertise during sports-nutrition or fitness-gear campaigns) and measure in-store lift.\nWhat that means for you: Retail media used to be a side play. Now it is a primary channel for any brand that sells through a major retailer. Academy just made it easy for smaller brands to access it. The cost is low, and the targeting is precise because they own the inventory and the customer data. It is the opposite of spray-and-pray.\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 (via PR Newswire): 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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