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Retail media execs: contextual, AI-driven intent beats retrospective data

Ad Age is reporting that at Advertising Week New York, executives from Lyft, Albertsons Media Collective and Pinterest described using first-party and contextual data to tailor retail media ads to a shopper’s real-time mindset rather than past purchases.

Why it matters. Retailers that shift from retrospective purchase data to real-time AI-expressed intent can offer advertisers a new measurement standard for relevance, pressuring rivals still selling on past-purchase targeting.

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