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One thing that was clear at DMEXCO - Digital Marketing Expo & Conference 2026: Retail media has never had more momentum. The Kevel team had a productive week in Cologne. Industry leaders shared the trends and successes shaping retail and commerce media. We also co-hosted a dinner with Digital Bash, bringing retail and commerce media leaders around one table to talk about where the industry is heading next. Thank you to Nina Kress at OnlineMarketing.de for a brilliant evening, and to Sergio A. Aragón, Andrew M., Martin Jensen and Sylvia Mannes for representing Kevel. #DMEXCO #RetailMedia #CommerceMedia

For the first time, all three partners behind DG Media Network's onsite and offsite buy sat down together to talk about what it means. Austin Leonard of DG Media Network, Matthew Fantazier of The Trade Desk and Matthew Newcomb joined moderator Lou Paskalis on Beet.TV. Dollar General now runs onsite and offsite campaigns in one place. Kevel powers the onsite display. The Trade Desk brings the open web. What it means for advertisers: • One buying environment for onsite and offsite • One set of audiences and controls • One view of results, built on authenticated shoppers Which matters most to your team? Tell us in the comments. Hear it from all three sides: https://bit.ly/4d7CP2f #RetailMedia #RetailMediaNetworks #AdTech #CommerceMedia

🟠 What a great week at Groceryshop 2026 for the Kevel team. We kicked off the week with The CPG Guys and Rethink Retail with plenty of Vegas energy. We then hosted the Groceryshop After Dark with QSIC. Great company, great conversations, and a standout performance from Benjamin Thompson's shirt and Matt Lee's outfits. Consider the Groceryshop dress code officially raised. Our team, Joe McCorkle, Benjamin Thompson, Ben G. and Herik Mourão, spent the week talking with retailers, brands and partners about what is working in practice. Six takeaways stood out to us: 1️⃣ Be specific about AI. Generative AI opens new possibilities. Machine learning has powered retail predictions for decades. 2️⃣ Reporting and decisioning solve different problems. One tells you what happened. The other decides what happens next. 3️⃣ Retail media has to prove outcomes. Brands need credible measurement. Retailers need to create value for advertisers and experiences that serve their customers. 4️⃣ The shopper sets the agenda. Value, convenience and relevance came up again and again. 5️⃣ Connected commerce is operational work. Creating a seamless shopper journey across physical and digital requires more than a good presentation. 6️⃣ Proof over promise. The best conversations covered what teams built, how they measured it and what they learned. ❓ What was your biggest takeaway from Groceryshop? 📸 Featuring: Andrew Lipsman, Tom Limongello, Brian Monahan - Albertsons Media Collective, Parbinder Dhariwal - CVS Media Exchange (CMX), Leanne Gibson - Loblaw Advance, Drew Cashmore - Vantage, Sarah Nesheim - Crafted and Matt Lee. #Groceryshop #RetailMedia #CommerceMedia #Grocery #RetailTech

At Kevel, growing fast and caring deeply about people go hand in hand. Our people leader, Mike Kohn, shared a few of the ways we look after each other on Leading Beyond the Org Chart with Rise Results. 🔸 We celebrate outcomes, rather than hours logged 🔸 We share the why behind every change 🔸 We gather the whole team once a year to connect in person 🔸 We provide our team members with the trust to work in the way that fits their lives "We are all adults" is one of our values, and it's built on trust. Listen to the full episode to hear more: ➡️ https://bit.ly/4iM7kyi #PeopleFirst #StartupCulture #FlexibleWork #Leadership #Kevel

🎉 Please join us in welcoming Josip Vulic to Kevel as our Principal Engineer! We sat down with Josip to get to know him a little better. Here's what he had to say: What excites you about joining Kevel? 🧑🏻💻 "The opportunity to build a net-new product. I love the zero-to-one phase of engineering, and starting with a blank canvas while having the backing of an established team is the best of both worlds. I'm excited to get my hands dirty and see what we can build." Can you share a fun fact about yourself? 💻 "I have a massively over-engineered homelab made up of a mix of new and old hardware. It's a great sandbox for me to learn new tech and run services for my home network. It also means I spend my free time building enterprise-grade solutions for problems I don't have." 📍 Based in: Brisbane, Australia Welcome to the team, Josip. We're thrilled to have you at Kevel! #NewHire #RetailMedia #CommerceMedia #TeamKevel

🎙️ Creating meaningful connections across the buyer journey to reach consumers at relevant moments can help drive better outcomes. On the newest episode of Unlocking Retail Media, The Trade Desk's Matthew Fantazier and James Avery cover an increasingly relevant topic in retail and commerce media: connecting with consumers across the buyer journey, rather than focusing on a single channel. 1️⃣ Reach them on Spotify in the morning 2️⃣ Find them again shopping on Dollar General's site at lunch 3️⃣ Show up on streaming TV that night Matt’s point: Focus on activating valuable commerce signals across the consumer journey to drive incremental growth. Listen to the full episode of the podcast here ➡️ https://bit.ly/47RiAmE Or watch the full episode on YouTube here ➡️ https://bit.ly/4rln9ya #RetailMedia #Commercemedia #AdTech #UnlockingRetailMedia

👏 Great products are built by great teams. Great teams are built by leaders willing to invest in developing and mentoring other people. Sandy G., SVP of Product and Engineering at Kevel, has been named a 2026 honoree in the Inspirational Mentors category at the AdExchanger Top Women in Media & Ad Tech Awards. Mentorship is built on more than good intentions. It scales through people who make time for it, consistently, without needing credit for it. That's what Sandy has embodied across her career and inside our product and engineering teams. 👏 Congratulations, Sandy. This is so deserved. View the full list of honorees here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/edDSei4h #TopWomenNetwork #TopWomeninMediaandAdTech

☀️ The best team culture and bonds are built beyond the confines of meeting rooms and Zoom screens. Last week, the Kevel Portugal team traded screens for a rural farmhouse in Vilela-Amares for their 2026 retreat. "The best teams are made up of people who like each other." Tiago Boldt Sousa put it well back in 2019, and it's exactly what our Portugal team retreat is built on. We looked back at what each team built this year, looked ahead at what's next, dug into AI development, and ran cross-team sessions to shape what's coming. Some of the best ideas came out over the dinner table, not the whiteboard. Cooking and eating together, farmhouse-style, did as much for this team as any session on the agenda. 🫶 Sharing knowledge. Planning a better future. Building the culture. The slogan printed on the new Kevel t-shirts this year, thanks to Eduardo V., became more than just a concept by the end of three days. #TeamKevel #CompanyCulture #WeareKevel #PortoTeam

Successful Retail Media RFPs all have one thing in common: sharp focus. Advertising teams have different goals. The key to success is ensuring that the procurement process helps to select the technology partner whose strengths best align to those goals. The solution is a sharper process, with clear demos and weighted selection criteria that highlights your team’s advertising program ambition. A focused RFP: • Defines your advertising program ambition first • Separates what you want to own from what you want to extend • Goes deep on twenty questions instead of shallow on a hundred • Builds in time for vendors to explain their answers Get this right and your RFP moves faster, with the right vendors in the room. Our new blog shares the playbook. Read it here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e5Ue3nwQ #RetailMedia #CommerceMedia #AdTech #RFP #RetailMediaNetworks

🎙️ Ask ten brands what retail media success looks like, and you'll get ten different answers. Art Sebastian, who built Casey's retail media program from scratch before founding advisory firm NexChapter, says it comes down to two questions: Am I meeting my objective, and am I growing the business? On the newest Unlocking Retail Media, he tells James Avery what actually separates a real result from a vanity metric: ▪️ A lift in sales, or an incremental return on the dollars invested ▪️ Impressions and click-through rate are the supporting cast, not the headline Proof over promise, every time. 🎧 Listen now on all podcast platforms: https://bit.ly/47RiAmE 📺 Or watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/46NLTWl #RetailMedia #AdTech #Kevel #RetailMediaNetwork