Moloco Commerce Media Overview

Create great shopping experiences with the retail media platform built for growth

An AI-native advertising system designed for real-time personalized performance.

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Why commerce media
leaders love Moloco

The best retailers don't just run ads. They build ad businesses — measured in ad revenue as a percent of GMV (A2G). Retailers have hit 1% A2G within their first year. Some of those go on to reach 2% within the first two years, and the strongest surpassed 3% within the first three years.

AD REVENUE GROWTH

Double A2G

Majority of customers at least doubled ad revenue as a percentage of GMV (A2G) since their first four weeks on MCM.

ADVERTISER PERFORMANCE

1100% Sponsored Product ROAS

Average advertiser ROAS, sponsored products, Q1 2026

ADVERTISER ACTIVATION

2X Activation Rate

Increase in advertiser adoption within the first year post launch

Real results across the mobile gaming ecosystem

"Wayfair needed an ad technology partner that could deliver real-time personalization across our catalog of millions of products while maximizing Return on Ad Spend for oursuppliers. Moloco's ML-based platform met that bar — driving a 30% increase in Display Ad Click-Through-Rate during initial POC testing and scaling effectively across thousands of supplier campaigns on our infrastructure."

Fiona Tan
Chief Technology Officer

AI that delivers what
legacy systems can’t

Onsite ads with others
Legacy retail media plateaus

When shopper behavior shifts, the static rule-based systems struggle to adapt. A2G stalls.

Onsite ads with Moloco
Moloco Commerce
Media compounds

Moloco Commerce Media personalizes ads for every shopper, every session. A2G grows.

Onsite ads with others
Manual performance tweaks

Legacy platforms need manual tuning to chase performance.

Onsite ads with Moloco
Self-optimizing performance

Moloco Commerce Media model continuously retrains and learns from billions of shopper data points. Improves without intervention. A2G grows.

Onsite ads with others
Brands will leave you

Advertisers are more likely to churn when results plateau.

Onsite ads with Moloco
Brands will love you

Advertisers are more likely to reinvest in ads as they see high ROI and sales grow. More brands and more budget means your
A2G grows.

AI-native performance technology, engineered for the future of retail.

Founded and led by AI advertising pioneers

Moloco was founded in 2013 by machine learning engineers who built AI advertising engines inside the world's largest technology companies. In commerce media, they apply their AI expertise to deliver relevant ads that improve the shopper experience, help advertisers achieve strong ROAS, and enable retailers to grow their ad business.

Purpose-built AI for continuous optimization

Moloco's CARA (Compound Ad Recommendation Architecture) orchestrates multiple models and agents across six technical domains: Campaign Automation, Ad Personalization, Bidding, Signals, Supply and Ad Serving, and Demand Activation. The platform processes an estimated 190B real-time machine learning predictions per day, ingesting conversion events, catalog data, search queries, clicks, and impressions for each retailer platform and adapting to live shopper behavior.

Deep learning engineered for retail

Our models ingest signals from multiple sources simultaneously to predict click and conversion of each available ad candidate. Updated every two hours, your dedicated AI system learns from actual results to stay accurate and reflect shifting shopper behavior.

Built to grow ad revenue as a percent of GMV (A2G)

Moloco Commerce Media optimizes beyond clicks  — it optimizes for the trajectory of your media business, feeding performance gains back into advertiser demand, inventory expansion, and A2G growth. Every new campaign, placement, item, shopper interaction, and advertiser outcome strengthens the next decision.

A2G growth accelerates when shoppers, advertisers, and retailers improve together.

Purpose-built to help retailers
grow their ad business

Moloco Commerce Media gives your advertisers the capabilities to perform throughout the funnel — from capturing purchase intent in search, to building brand consideration, to managing brand deals. Ad formats run on the same CARA AI, which means performance compounds across your ad business.

Measurement is what enables advertisers to scale budgets intelligently. As your A2G scales, growing advertisers need to know which levers actually drive revenue. Our reporting stack answers that with SKU-level visibility, flexible attribution models, and separate ROAS tracking for direct sales and brand lift. Built-in A/B testing and ghost bidding provide visibility into incrementality, so budgets naturally flow toward what works.

Advertisers launch and manage campaigns directly in your platform while you retain control over roles, permissions, and creative review. The AI handles: targeting, product selection, bid management, and campaign optimization run continuously without manual intervention.

Moloco Commerce Media is designed to minimize the time between integration and impact. The platform connects to your existing retail tech stack, and once live, your dedicated AI models begin learning from your shopper data. Soon after, advertisers are onboarding while your system optimizes in the background. The sooner you launch, the sooner advertiser demand can start building.

Security and data privacy is foundational to Moloco Commerce Media's architecture. Each retailer’s models are trained on their own first-party data in private cloud instances. Single sign-on and multi-factor authentication protect platform access. We take data and security seriously. For full information, please see our Trust Center and Security and Compliance pages for more details.

FAQ

What does success on Moloco Commerce Media look like, and how long does it take?

We measure success by A2G, which is your ad revenue as a percent of your total sales volume (GMV). It's the clearest signal that your retail media business is actually growing. Retailers have hit 1% A2G within their first year. Some of those go on to reach 2% within the first two years, and the strongest surpassed 3% within the first three years. Growth comes from a defined playbook we run with you, covering both how you attract advertisers and how you expand ad inventory. We revisit and build on it together every six months. This is a multi-year partnership, not a launch-and-leave deployment.

Who is Moloco Commerce Media designed for?

Moloco Commerce Media is built for marketplaces and retailers that want to transform their shopper data and digital real estate into a scalable media business. Retailers measure us on A2G growth. Our founders built AI advertising systems at some of the world’s largest technology companies. Now, they’re applying that expertise to help retailers grow onsite ad revenue, improve shopper relevance, and offer brands measurable performance.

What is required to get started?

Getting started typically includes integrating Moloco's ad serving and measurement capabilities, enabling access to relevant first-party data (e.g., product catalog and shopper interactions), and setting initial campaign and placement configurations. Moloco provides hands-on support throughout integration, onboarding, and optimization.

How is your approach to AI different from other retail media solutions?

Instead of relying on fixed rules or manual targeting, Moloco Commerce Media uses deep-learning models to predict which ad impression will deliver the highest likelihood of conversion in real time. This drives better ROAS for advertisers, which unlocks higher budgets. This, in turn, generates more training data, which sharpens the model further. That flywheel is what makes A2G compound on our platform rather than plateau.

What ad types do you support?

Moloco supports a range of ad formats that feel natural to the shopping experience, from discovery to purchase. These include:

• Sponsored Display and Video ads
• Sponsored Brand ads
• Sponsored Product ads

How can retailers reach more brands through Moloco?

Moloco Commerce Media integrates with demand partners such as Skai's omnichannel advertising platform. This means Skai's network of over 8,000 brands can now seamlessly access Moloco-powered retail media networks through the same platform they use to manage campaigns on Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Google, and other channels.

Can your commerce media platform scale as traffic grows?

Yes. Our deep learning models adapt automatically as your traffic, inventory, and product catalog grow.

Scale your A2G with Moloco Commerce Media

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