Retail Media: Ace Expands RMN With Doordash - Sixteen:Nine
Ace Hardware expanded its retail media network (RMN) through a partnership with DoorDash, extending ad inventory into delivery commerce. This affects brands selling through Ace Hardware channels, not Amazon, Walmart, or Target sellers directly.
Retail media is accelerating toward a fragmented, multi-platform model — every retailer with delivery ambitions is monetizing ad space, compressing brand budgets and complicating attribution across channels.
RMN fragmentation continues — every major retailer and delivery platform is building closed ad networks, pulling CPG and home improvement brand budgets away from Amazon DSP and Walmart Connect. Brands in hardware, home improvement, or lawn/garden should audit where their trade and co-op dollars are going before Ace/DoorDash packages get pitched by reps.
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Ace-DoorDash RMN deal fragments hardware ad budgets further.
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Ace-DoorDash RMN deal fragments hardware ad budgets further.
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Retail Media: Ace Expands RMN With Doordash Sixteen:Nine
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If you sell hardware or home improvement brands, ask your Ace Hardware rep whether co-op funds now include DoorDash placement — and demand impression and ROAS data before committing budget.
In the next 30 days, map your brand's RMN spend across all retail partners — if Ace is on the list, renegotiate terms to include delivery channel performance metrics.
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