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Walmart is stepping up its advertising ambitions with a new dashboard that says sets it apart from Amazon by the appearance of brands, how many other people buy products at their points of sale after seeing a product ad.
The dashboard, called Walmart Ad Center, measures the functionality of virtual advertising crusades and tracks statistics such as ad clicks and cross impressions. The concept is to measure advertisers’ ad spend device rollback and credit card data, said Jeff Clark, vice president of product products and product marketing at Walmart Media Group.
The panel, which Nestlé, Procter and Gamble and Mondelez have tested in beta, is also intended to make it less difficult for advertisers to host all their knowledge in one position and update it daily. Advertisers have had this knowledge before, but have had to ask Walmart to create a report every time they sought to see knowledge or parts of knowledge through other tools.
Clark said the dashboard was Walmart’s first step toward creating an ad control platform of the kind that corporations use to promote it on platforms like Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
He also said the dashboard would allow advertisers to balance ad spend when products are in peak demand. During the coronavirus pandemic, stores ran out of products such as toilet paper and disinfectant wipes, making it difficult for advertisers to know how to adjust their advertising budgets.
Walmart doesn’t say how much money you make from advertising, however, it’s an idea to make a few billion dollars a year from advertising sales. eMarketer estimated that Amazon would gain $13 billion in publicity this year.
The dashboard is Walmart’s main milestone this year in expanding its advertising arm, Walmart Media Group, to compete with Amazon and other retailers, such as Target, for advertising dollars. In January, Walmart launched a self-service advertising platform and app programming interface with a handful of ad generation corporations that automate the acquisition of Walmart and in-app classified ads.
Walmart said the number of advertisers who participated in the API program has quintupled since January, but specified the number of advertisers it had. Clark said the program will expand to include more complex generation corporations this year.
Walmart Media Group sells two types of virtual classified ads: classified ads from sponsored products that appear to have search effects and graphic classified ads. Clark said Walmart has taken the opportunity to offer ad formats that look like its 4,700 physical stores, such as promotions and signage, and to use the first-hand knowledge gathered from its shoppers.