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Walmart Connect emphasized on March 2, 2026, the necessity for retail media to expand beyond digital shopping aisles, focusing on finding customers wherever they spend their time, rather than solely relying on sponsored product listings and banner ads on a retailer’s own platforms. This follows Perdue's partnership with Pacvue and Walmart Connect, announced on February 25, 2026, to execute an expansion into full-funnel media. Perdue, a U.S. protein brand, sought to grow beyond lower-funnel search given intensifying competition in the frozen, fully cooked category. Earlier, on February 24, 2026, Khurrum Malik, VP of Marketing at Walmart Connect, stated at CES that the company's evolution into a comprehensive digital platform enables "couch to cart to sales" storytelling, noting that CTV advertising combined with linear TV delivers a 55% reach increase following the launch of Vizio about a year prior. On January 30, 2026, at the same CES event, Brett Wein, group director and head of general merchandise fashion and non-endemic at Walmart Connect, participated in a panel discussing the state of digital advertising and its future of increased precision and personalization driven by AI.
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