London, 31 July, 2024: John Lewis has announced a suite of new retail media capabilities, helping brands connect with customers shopping on johnlewis.com. The move will allow brands to create and manage their own campaigns, including via banner ads and sponsored product listings. It also offers users a clear dashboard showing exactly how their campaigns are performing, how customers are engaging, and how many sales are coming through.
Brands can maintain always-on campaigns, and quickly adapt to seasonal trends and sales peaks such as Back to School and Black Friday. In addition, thanks to real-time data and performance metrics, brands can measure the impact of their initiatives right down to the individual product level and search terms.
The options have been delivered in partnership with Epsilon, the global advertising and marketing technology company which recently launched a similar offer for Waitrose.
As well as helping household names connect with millions of customers, the new options can also be particularly helpful for helping customers explore new brands that are relevant to their search and browse activity.
All ads are carefully reviewed by John Lewis’ in-house team to make sure they are suitable, beneficial and relevant for customers. The investment underscores its dedication to improving the customer experience by better connecting individuals with the brands they care about, at the right time in their purchase journey.
Jemma Haley, Retail Media Business & Proposition Strategy at John Lewis, said: “While retailers have long been advertising on their own websites, we want to improve the experience, and make it even easier for customers to connect with the brands and products that meet their needs.
“As part of this, we’re providing brands with more targeted and relevant ways to connect with customers. Our shoppers are unique in terms of the ways they research, browse and buy, and we need to be ready to meet them in the moments they are ready to purchase or engage with a brand.”
Owen McAdam, Trade Marketing Manager, BSH UK & Ireland, commented, "John Lewis’ sponsored product ads performance is exceptional, driving both awareness and sales. Placing our Bosch and Siemens products in a prestigious setting like John Lewis helps to maintain a premium image and resonates with discerning consumers. The platform's ease of use, campaign control, and transparency make it an invaluable tool for our marketing strategy."
Epsilon’s Regional CEO Europe, Alban Villani, added: “John Lewis offers a unique and scaled audience across its online and in-store environments. People visit John Lewis in search of inspiration, to validate their research and to make purchases that often initiate a longer-term brand relationship. It’s a real opportunity for brands to evolve their strategies beyond performance goals to think about how they engage customers in ways that build awareness and loyalty.
“We look forward to supporting John Lewis further as they continue to test and learn across categories and build an even more impactful omni-channel media proposition for brands.
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About the John Lewis Partnership
The John Lewis Partnership owns and operates two of Britain's best-loved retail brands - John Lewis and Waitrose. Started as a radical experiment over a century ago, the Partnership is now the largest employee-owned business in the UK, with over 74,000 employees who are all Partners in the business. The Partnership is purpose-driven, existing to create a fairer and more sustainable future for our Partners, customers, brands and communities. Our Purpose not only inspires our principles, drives our decisions and acts as our guide to be a force for good, it steers us to do things differently and better - all in service of creating a happier world for everyone and everything we touch.
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About Epsilon
Epsilon is a global advertising and marketing technology company positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe. Epsilon accelerates clients’ ability to harness the power of their first-party data to activate campaigns across channels and devices, with an unparalleled ability to prove outcomes. The company’s industry-leading technology connects advertisers with consumers to drive performance while respecting and protecting consumer privacy. Epsilon’s people-based identity graph allows brands, agencies and publishers to reach real people, not cookies or devices, across the open web. For more information, visit epsilon.com.