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  "company": "Academy Sports + Outdoors",
  "headline": "Academy launches retail media network to compete with Amazon and Walmart ad units.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}",
  "source_name": "Yahoo Finance",
  "source_url": "https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/academy-sports-outdoors-advances-omnichannel-130500143.html",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail media platform launch · Academy Sports + Outdoors\n\nAcademy launches retail media network to compete with Amazon and Walmart ad units.\n\nif your brand is sold in Academy, you now have two levers — the product margin and the media buy. A brand can test a new SKU at low shelf velocity, then run an ad campaign inside Academy's network to lift that velocity, all inside one retailer system. The play is not to replace your paid-media spend, but to repurpose part of your media budget into Academy's owned channel where the shelf is. This closes the loop between paid discovery and in-store pickup or delivery.\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-2026-08-13t15-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-13t15-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-13t15-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail media platform launch · Academy Sports + Outdoors\n\nAcademy launches retail media network to compete with Amazon and Walmart ad units.\n\nif your brand is sold in Academy, you now have two levers — the product margin and the media buy. A brand can test a new SKU at low shelf velocity, then run an ad campaign inside Academy's network to lift that velocity, all inside one retailer system. The play is not to replace your paid-media spend, but to repurpose part of your media budget into Academy's owned channel where the shelf is. This closes the loop between paid discovery and in-store pickup or delivery.\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-2026-08-13t15-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-13t15-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-13t15-3",
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      "title": "Academy launches retail media network to compete with Amazon and Walmart ad units.",
      "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 👇\nPer Yahoo Finance, Academy Sports + Outdoors launched Academy Retail Media, an advertising platform that lets brands buy visibility within the retailer's omnichannel ecosystem.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if your brand is sold in Academy, you now have two levers — the product margin and the media buy. A brand can test a new SKU at low shelf velocity, then run an ad campaign inside Academy's network to lift that velocity, all inside one retailer system. The play is not to replace your paid-media spend, but to repurpose part of your media budget into Academy's owned channel where the shelf is. This closes the loop between paid discovery and in-store pickup or delivery.\nWhat that means for you: if your brand is sold in Academy, you now have two levers — the product margin and the media buy. A brand can test a new SKU at low shelf velocity, then run an ad campaign inside Academy's network to lift that velocity, all inside one retailer system. The play is not to replace your paid-media spend, but to repurpose part of your media budget into Academy's owned channel where the shelf is. This closes the loop between paid discovery and in-store pickup or delivery.\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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