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Impact Brief: Africa rewrites retail media

Lagging brands will lose ground.

by TMO Partner
March 16, 2026
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Impact Brief: Africa rewrites retail media

Dentsu Africa has released a new Impact Brief on retail media in Africa

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[PRESS OFFICE] Dentsu Africa has released a new Impact Brief with a message the industry can no longer ignore. Africa is not catching up. Africa is overtaking.

Brands that continue to rely on global playbooks are bleeding opportunity in the world’s fastest evolving retail market.

The brief, Africa’s Retail Media Leapfrog: A dentsu Africa Impact Brief, shows how the continent has skipped legacy ecommerce stages entirely and built a mobile first, WhatsApp powered, marketplace driven commerce economy.

While global markets debate cookie loss, African consumers have already moved on, and they are not coming back.

Structural shift

This is not a trend. It is a structural shift. A shift that is already reshaping where people discover, buy and stay loyal. A shift most brands are still not prepared to compete in.

The brief explains why identity not impressions is now the battleground and how dentsu’s COPO powered by Merkury gives marketers the visibility, accountability, and commercial clarity the continent demands.

Marketers who want to grow in Africa must understand the new architecture of influence, attention and commerce and rebuild their strategies accordingly. The brands that adapt will scale. The brands that do not will continue to lose relevance, share, and advantage.

This Impact Brief is the map. Whether you win or fall behind depends on whether you read it.

Download the full brief here.


 

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