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  "company": "Ace Hardware",
  "headline": "Weather-triggered programmatic ads boost retail media network performance.",
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  "source_name": "Digiday",
  "source_url": "https://digiday.com/marketing/ace-hardware-adds-weather-triggered-programmatic-ads-to-retail-media-strategy/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Dynamic pricing & messaging tied to real-time conditions · Ace Hardware\n\nWeather-triggered programmatic ads boost retail media network performance.\n\nweather-triggered ads are not new, but most brands only run them at the macro scale (January = winter gear). Ace Hardware scaled it to the local level and integrated it into a retail-media network where adjacent CPG brands bid for placement. If you sell seasonal, weather-dependent, or climate-responsive products (ice melt, cooling mats, sunscreen, rain gear), build a weather-trigger into your email or SMS calendar. Template: 'Temps dropping to 28°F tonight in [city] — [product] ships in 24 hours.' Send the message only to subscribers in ZIP codes where forecasted low is ≤30°F. Measure open rate and click-through rate against non-triggered sends. Most brands send the same seasonal email to everyone; you send it only to people in need.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/ace-hardware-2026-09-03t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ace-hardware-2026-09-03t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ace-hardware-2026-09-03t18-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Dynamic pricing & messaging tied to real-time conditions · Ace Hardware\n\nWeather-triggered programmatic ads boost retail media network performance.\n\nweather-triggered ads are not new, but most brands only run them at the macro scale (January = winter gear). Ace Hardware scaled it to the local level and integrated it into a retail-media network where adjacent CPG brands bid for placement. If you sell seasonal, weather-dependent, or climate-responsive products (ice melt, cooling mats, sunscreen, rain gear), build a weather-trigger into your email or SMS calendar. Template: 'Temps dropping to 28°F tonight in [city] — [product] ships in 24 hours.' Send the message only to subscribers in ZIP codes where forecasted low is ≤30°F. Measure open rate and click-through rate against non-triggered sends. Most brands send the same seasonal email to everyone; you send it only to people in need.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/ace-hardware-2026-09-03t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ace-hardware-2026-09-03t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ace-hardware-2026-09-03t18-5",
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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 👇\nPer Digiday, Ace Hardware's RedVest Media retail-media network added weather-triggered programmatic advertising to its advertiser toolkit nearly one year into launch.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): weather-triggered ads are not new, but most brands only run them at the macro scale (January = winter gear). Ace Hardware scaled it to the local level and integrated it into a retail-media network where adjacent CPG brands bid for placement. If you sell seasonal, weather-dependent, or climate-responsive products (ice melt, cooling mats, sunscreen, rain gear), build a weather-trigger into your email or SMS calendar. Template: 'Temps dropping to 28°F tonight in [city] — [product] ships in 24 hours.' Send the message only to subscribers in ZIP codes where forecasted low is ≤30°F. Measure open rate and click-through rate against non-triggered sends. Most brands send the same seasonal email to everyone; you send it only to people in need.\nWhat that means for you: weather-triggered ads are not new, but most brands only run them at the macro scale (January = winter gear). Ace Hardware scaled it to the local level and integrated it into a retail-media network where adjacent CPG brands bid for placement. If you sell seasonal, weather-dependent, or climate-responsive products (ice melt, cooling mats, sunscreen, rain gear), build a weather-trigger into your email or SMS calendar. Template: 'Temps dropping to 28°F tonight in [city] — [product] ships in 24 hours.' Send the message only to subscribers in ZIP codes where forecasted low is ≤30°F. Measure open rate and click-through rate against non-triggered sends. Most brands send the same seasonal email to everyone; you send it only to people in need.\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 — Digiday: https://digiday.com/marketing/ace-hardware-adds-weather-triggered-programmatic-ads-to-retail-media-strategy/.)\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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