Retail's Top Direct Advertisers for Q1



10. The Finish Line, Inc.

9. Kohl's Illinois, Inc.

8. Macy's

7. Adidas

6. Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.

5. Under Armour

4. Eastbay
Direct buys accounted for a large portion - 91% - of Eastbay’s desktop ad spend during Q1. The top overall and direct site for the retailer was stack.com, with 88% of total desktop site spend share. Hitting an average of 102 sites per day, the brand also directly targeted top sites wunderground.com, nexusmods.com, drudgereport.com, and milesplit.com.
3. eBay Inc.
The third top direct retail advertiser by impression volume, 75% of the online giant’s desktop ad spend was on direct buys. eBay released 687 unique desktop creatives across an average of 205 sites per day. Suddenlink.net was the top overall and direct site for eBay, grabbing 38% of overall desktop site spend share. Huffingtonpost.com, home.suddenlink.net, sports.yahoo.com, and espn.go.com followed as top direct sites by impression volume.
2. Walgreen Co.

1. Amazon.com
Coming in as the number one direct retail advertiser for the First Quarter of 2016 was Amazon.com. 74% of the online monster’s desktop spend in Q1 was on direct buys, releasing a staggering 1,300 unique desktop creatives across an average of 297 sites per day. With a third of Amazon.com’s desktop site spend share, Yahoo.com was the top direct site, and overall site, by a longshot. CNN.com, the second top direct site, accounted for only 6% of total site spend share in comparison. Rounding out the top five direct sites, by impression volume, were goodreads.com, boxofficemojo.com, and sidereal.com.

An out-of-the-box thinker with a love for disruptive ideas, Jordan's background spans PR and events for the wedding & hospitality industry in Los Angeles and Scottsdale and also launching one of America's most unique food trucks. She jumped from the food start-up scene to the tech start-up scene in 2013 to join one of the most unique companies in ad tech. Jordan is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication.
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