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Retail Media

Where advertising and retail meet

Choose the most comprehensive Retail Media solution in the Italian market: we combine On-Site activation across the physical and digital touchpoints of our retail partners with Off-Site profiling, built by combining online purchase data with consumer data from physical stores.

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Post-Campaign Analysis

Retail Media On-Site

An integrated offer across three strategic assets

From in-store visibility to digital activation and CRM, iOL Advertising brings brands into an integrated ecosystem that engages consumers before, during and after the purchase, turning every touchpoint into a communication opportunity.

In-Store

Maximum visibility at the point of sale with media solutions that reach consumers at key moments along their purchase journey.

Digital Signage

Radio In-Store

Custom On-Field Activations

Digital On-Site

Display formats across the network’s main digital touchpoints, reaching consumers during the planning and information stage of their purchase journey.

Websites

Apps

Digital Flyers

CRM

Direct messages to loyalty customers through the network’s CRM channels: personalized content, dedicated offers and measurable calls to action.

DEM to profiled loyalty customers

SMS and push notifications

Custom cluster activation

Winning partnership

iOL Advertising & Selex

Selex Commercial Group

Together with Selex Commercial Group — Italy’s leading mass retail player, operating through a nationwide network of retail brands — we combine the strength of the digital world with that of retail.

A partnership that brings together reach, proprietary data and technology, delivering a level of coverage and data depth that no other competitor can offer in Italy.

38 M
Visits per month across national stores
100 M
Visits per year across digital properties
+7 M
Customers with active loyalty cards

ITALIAN HOUSEHOLDS

More than one in two Italian households shops at Selex Group supermarkets

Source: Internal Data, 2025.

Retail Media Off-Site

Planning and Insights

Advertising campaigns across our premium inventory, targeted using retail data from our partners and iOL Advertising’s first-party data: an ecosystem of data that no one else can combine in Italy.

This is the Off-Site side of iOL Advertising’s Retail Media solution.

Retail Audience

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Media planning based on audience segments built from transactional data on supermarket purchases, progressively aggregated by our Retail partners (Selex and ReStore).

Audience Match

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Media planning based on audience segments created by combining data from the brand, our retail partners and iOL Advertising, supporting different use cases (inclusion, exclusion, lookalike).

Deep Insights

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Research designed to uncover insights into purchase behaviors and interests, derived from our retail partners’ datasets.

RETAIL AUDIENCE

Targeting preferences and shopping habits

Thanks to our partnerships with leading Italian mass retail players — including ReStore and Selex — we can create audience segments and target advertising campaigns based on data about consumers’ preferences and purchasing habits across the mass retail sector.

Choose from a wide range of predefined audiences, or let us build custom audiences based on your specific needs.

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AUDIENCE MATCH

Data merging for hyper-relevant targeting

By combining three sets of first-party data — those available to iOL Advertising, our retail partners and the brand itself — we can target advertising campaigns that truly reach the most relevant audience for each brand.

And the full potential of this data comes to life in our Data Clean Room, a protected and secure environment designed to safeguard the privacy of both brands and consumers.

DEEP INSIGHTS

Know your consumers, win them over.

Gain insights into purchase behaviors and interests derived from our retail partners’ datasets, giving you an increasingly detailed understanding of consumers and enabling more precise campaign planning across specific audience segments.

Socio-demographic and geographic profile

Purchase frequency

Categories and products purchased

Related products

Analysis

Discovery

Activation

POST-CAMPAIGN ANALYSIS

Real impact: Sales Uplift and Sell-out

Once your Retail Media campaigns have run, you can also measure their real-world impact through sell-out data, by monitoring purchase receipts.

You’ll gain visibility into Sales Uplift, which measures the conversion rate of advertising campaigns into actual purchases, as well as your sell-out performance compared with competitors.

Post campaign analisys

OUR ADVANTAGES

Retail Media: why choose iOL Advertising.

iOL Advertising offers brands a Retail Media ecosystem unlike any other in Italy, combining nationwide reach, digital and physical channels, proprietary data and measurement of campaign impact on sales.

Reach

Achieve unparalleled nationwide coverage across the Italian retail landscape.

Omnichannel

Adopt an integrated solution that connects in-store, online and CRM touchpoints within a single strategy.

1st Party Data

Turn data into value with a proprietary data asset that makes campaigns more relevant, precise and measurable.

Measurable Results

Go beyond standard metrics: we measure the real impact of campaigns through dedicated analyses, uncovering insights into sales performance.

Explore our Retail Media AD formats

See all AD formats available in iOL Advertising’s Retail Media offer, with complete technical specifications.

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Interested in our Retail Media solution?

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