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Creator Marketing & Commerce Media: How Creators Can Build Brands and Drive Sales

Creator Marketing & Commerce Media: How Creators Can Build Brands and Drive Sales

Dudley, Frank

Paperback

Business GeneralMarketing

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 14, 2027

ISBN10: 1394450273
ISBN13: 9781394450275
Publisher: Wiley
Published: Jan 14 2027
Pages: 416
Language: English

Connect creator-driven influence with commerce media for full-funnel customer activation

In Creator Marketing & Commerce Media: How Creators Can Build Brands and Drive Sales, Frank Dudley, Northwestern University faculty member and the first Director of the IAB, connects two disciplines that have traditionally operated in silos. With commerce media ad spending projected to exceed $100 billion by 2027, this book shows how content, influence, and commerce converge to guide customers from awareness to advocacy.

Creator Marketing & Commerce Media introduces the Customer Choice Journey framework, detailing how brands, creators, and retailers collaborate across multiple touchpoints. Real-world examples include MrBeast's expansion from YouTube into Feastables' retail partnerships, beauty brands leveraging creator content in programmatic retargeting, and WalmartConnect's integration of first-party data with off-site creator campaigns to drive measurable results.

Readers will also discover:

  • Actionable frameworks for building scalable creator partnerships and activating commerce media networks across the full customer choice journey
  • How retail media networks, connected TV, and digital out-of-home advertising serve as commerce media channels that amplify creator influence
  • Strategies for adopting an omnichannel view that moves beyond isolated social media campaigns to reach buyers at key touchpoints
  • Methods to measure and justify creator marketing ROI through data-driven precision and integrated campaign optimization across platforms
  • Insights from brands such as Walmart, Target, Hyatt, and Expedia drawn from Northwestern's annual Creator Marketing Summit

Written for marketers, brand strategists, agency professionals, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in marketing and media programs, this book delivers the strategic connections between creator marketing and commerce media that drive real business results across retail, brand management, and digital platforms.

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