Powering commerce media for
top retailers and marketplaces

+30% Display Click-Through-Rate (CTR) vs baseline during Proof of Concept (POC)

“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

1,000%+ average return on ad spend (ROAS) six months post-implementation

"Previously, entry barriers to advertising were high, and results were difficult to measure. After implementing Moloco Commerce Media, we've completely resolved those challenges through its Cost-Per-Order (CPO)-based model and AI-driven automated optimization. The fact that 70% of our self-serve merchants adopted the platform within just one year demonstrates the significant transformation across our entire ecosystem."

Hideo Yamashita
Ad Growth Manager

Your ad business grows when
your advertisers do

Retail media has one reliable law: advertisers reinvest where they see returns, and move their money when they don’t. That makes advertiser performance the engine of your ad business — not inventory, not ad load, not sales headcount. Most retailers start on MCM below 1% A2G. The ones that break through don’t do it by showing more ads. They do it by making every campaign their advertisers run perform well enough to justify the next investment.

Many retail media
businesses can hit
a ceiling early.

The difference between platforms that break through and those that don't comes down to one thing: whether advertisers see results worth reinvesting in.

Advertisers have options — and they follow performance

Advertisers allocate budgets to channels that prove results. If your platform can't demonstrate measurable ROI, budgets go elsewhere. This isn't a sales problem - it's a performance infrastructure problem.

Outcomes can win more budget

Many retail media platforms lead with a list of ad formats. But advertisers don't buy formats - they buy results. Having Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Display only matters if the campaigns running on them perform. The format is the means; advertiser confidence is the goal.

Without the right AI, A2G stalls

Many platforms stay below 1% A2G. The difference between those that break through and those that don't isn't inventory or ad load - it's whether the underlying technology can turn shopper signals into outcomes advertisers can measure and reinvest in.

Every stage of the funnel.
One platform.

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 rather than staying siloed by format type.

Lower funnel - sponsored products

Turn high-intent traffic
into advertiser results.

Your search and browse surfaces can offer some of the most valuable ad inventory — where shoppers are actively considering what to buy. Sponsored Products converts that intent into measurable advertiser outcomes. Where legacy platforms match queries against static keyword lists, Moloco's AI predicts purchase intent from behavioral signals and shopper context, selecting products more likely to earn a click and a conversion. Relevant ads get results for advertisers — without disrupting the shopping experience.

Bidding that buys outcomes

Advertisers choose how they buy. Target ROAS holds delivery to a stated return goal. MaxSales takes a budget and maximizes attributed sales against it. Fixed CPC gives precise cost control and works from day one, before the models have conversion history. As campaigns mature, advertisers graduate from manual control to outcome-based automation.

Relevance shoppers actually appreciate

Personalized, relevant ads help shoppers discover products they’re looking for — which is why performance and shopper experience rise together rather than trading off.

Proof advertisers can act on

In Q1 2026, advertisers achieved an average ROAS of 1,100% for sponsored products across platforms and verticals.

Mid funnel - sponsored brands & sponsored display

Give advertisers a reason to bring their brand budgets to you.

Once advertisers trust your platform with performance budgets, the next tier is brand and consideration spend — typically larger, and typically going to channels that pair reach with evidence. Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display extend advertiser presence beyond search, running on the same AI that drives sponsored listings so brand placements stay relevant to the shopper in front of them.

Brand placements in the shopping journey

Display and brand-level units across high-visibility onsite surfaces, available on CPC or CPM, letting advertisers build consideration where shoppers are already browsing.

Shopper behavior that surfaces better placements

Audience targeting built on behavioral signals from your own platform — the segments only you can construct, informed by how shoppers actually browse and buy.

Familiar levers for sophisticated buyers

Keyword and placement targeting give advanced advertisers and agencies the controls they look for from established retail media channels, lowering the barrier to bringing existing playbooks and existing budgets to your platform.

Upper funnel - reserved display & sponsorship

Bring your direct-sold business onto the same engine.

Enterprise brand deals don't run through self-serve auctions — they're sold on insertion orders with committed placements. Reserved Display brings that business onto the same platform as your auction demand, unifying impression-guaranteed buys, Cost-Per-Time sponsorships, and performance campaigns under shared infrastructure and measurement.

Guaranteed reach for committed budgets

Offer Impression-guaranteed and time-based (CPT) buying for the brands that plan quarters ahead and pay for certainty.

Direct sales and auction demand, one system

Your ad sales team sells sponsorships; your long tail self-serves performance campaigns; both run on shared infrastructure, measurement, and controls.

Pricing that matches the deal

CPC, CPM, pay-per-order, and CPT cost types — so the commercial model fits the advertiser instead of forcing every deal into one shape.

Measurement

Sophisticated budgets go where results can be verified.

Moloco Commerce Media closes the loop from impression to purchase: SKU-level attribution over a configurable window, direct and total ROAS across an advertiser’s catalog, and reporting broken out by the dimensions buyers actually plan against. For the platforms and brands that demand more, our holdout-based incrementality framework can help quantify the effectiveness of ads — for the platform and for advertisers.

SKU-level details

Attribution at the item level — direct conversions and same-account halo purchases so ROAS claims hold up to a brand’s own analytics team.

Forecasts before the commitment

Pre-launch estimates of impressions, clicks, and purchases, plus guidance on budgets and targets, reduce abandoned setups and misconfigured campaigns.

Reporting that builds advertiser confidence

Reporting broken out by the dimensions advertisers actually plan against — by SKU, campaign, audience, and time period — so performance conversations move from "trust us" to "here's the data."

Every format improves because the same intelligence powers all of them.

The capabilities above aren’t separate products bolted together — they run on one AI system, trained on your data alone. Your dedicated models update every two hours, learning from actual results to stay accurate as shopper behavior shifts. The system makes over 190 billion real-time predictions a day across the platform, delivering personalized ads with under 100ms p95 latency — fast enough that you don't have to sacrifice load time for monetization. And it’s built entirely on first-party data: no third-party cookies, no cross-retailer pooling, your data working only for you.

Optimization without the ops burden

The AI automates keyword targeting, product selection, bid management, and campaign optimization — continuously, without manual intervention. As your catalog changes, categories launch, or seasonal dynamics shift, the system adapts automatically.

Serving that protects the shopper

Ad quality algorithms lower effective bids when possible, throttle low-relevance ads, and filter weak matches out of search results — so yield can grow while protecting the shopper experience that sustains it.

Scale you don’t have to manage

Infrastructure scales automatically with inventory growth, catalog expansion, and traffic spikes, including high-concurrency events without manual infrastructure management.

FAQ

What ad formats does Moloco Commerce Media support?

Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display, and Reserved Display (including guaranteed impressions and Cost-Per-Time sponsorships). The ad formats support creatives that are both images and video. Most platforms start with Sponsored Products to build advertiser trust on performance, then add mid- and upper-funnel formats as demand grows - each stage opening a new tier of advertiser budget.

How is this different from a rules-based sponsored products platform?

Legacy platforms match queries against static keyword lists and require manual inputs and interventions to adjust campaign settings. Moloco’s AI predicts purchase intent from behavioral signals and shopper context, and outcome-based bidding (Target ROAS, MaxSales) optimizes delivery against the goals advertisers actually have. The practical difference: advertisers manage a business outcome, not a bid sheet.

Do advertisers run campaigns themselves?

Yes. Advertisers launch and manage campaigns, while you retain governance through roles, permissions, provisioning, and creative review. Self-serve is what lets advertiser adoption scale without linear ad ops growth.

How do we measure what advertisers get?

SKU-level reporting, configurable attribution, and direct plus total ROAS across a brand’s catalog. The holdout-based incrementality framework can help quantify ad effectiveness for the platform and for advertisers.

Is our data protected?

Yes. Each platform’s models are trained exclusively on its own data within an isolated environment, and Moloco’s on-site architecture is built entirely on first-party data.

We take data and security seriously. For full information, please see our Trust Center and Security and Compliance pages for more details.

Can Moloco work alongside our existing ad tech or in-house system?

Yes. Flexible deployment options - auction infrastructure only, bring-your-own models, or the full Moloco AI stack - plus an API-first integration model mean you can adopt what fits your roadmap today and expand later, whether you’re replacing a platform, supplementing an in-house build, or launching net-new.

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Customer provided data; analysis period: Q4 2024.

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Moloco internal data, as of April 2026. A2G (advertising spend as a percentage of gross merchandise value, "GMV") is measured as total ad spend / total GMV during weeks 3-6 following each customer's commercial launch on Moloco MCM (their first billing date), excluding the first two weeks to remove soft-launch ramp. Sample: 24 MCM customers, measured at the contractual-customer level, that had completed six weeks of activity by April 2026. The substantial majority began below 1% initial A2G.

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Source: Daily active users (DAU), for the purposes of this claim, is defined as the average number of unique consumer devices observed across Molocos integrated exchange partners and proprietary SDK on Android and iOS devices globally per business day. Based on a Moloco internal estimate of potential daily user reach across an average of five sample business days in March and April 2026. Each device is assigned to a single country to prevent double-counting; tablets are excluded through deterministic classification using exchange signals and device model matching; and country-specific device-to-user calibration factors are applied to translate device counts to estimated unique users.


Moloco Internal Data; count of distinct app bundles (iOS and Android cumulative total) where Moloco received at least one RTB (real time bid) request in the 90-day period ending April 3, 2026, worldwide. �Independent� refers to apps not operated by Walled Gardens (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon Shopping, YouTube).

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Moloco internal analysis, May to June 2025. Based on a retention analysis of over 10 million non-gaming app users across 624 consumer apps on Moloco Ads (iOS and Android, UA campaigns only). Rolling day-7 retention, defined as any recorded app activity on days 1 through 7 after install, was measured for users who installed between May 1 and June 23, 2025. The median rolling day-7 retention rate across all consumer apps was 26%, meaning 74% of non-gaming users had no recorded app activity in the 7 days following the 24 hours after install period (D0.

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Source: AppsFlyer, App Uninstall Report 2025, Study of Android 2.2k apps covering 1.3bn installs (November 2024).

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Moloco internal analysis, May to June 2025. Based on a retention analysis of more than 10 million gaming app users across 437 gaming apps on Moloco Ads (iOS and Android, UA campaigns only). Rolling day-7 retention, defined as any recorded app activity on days 1 through 7 after install, was measured for users who installed between May 1 and June 23, 2025. The median rolling day-7 retention rate across all gaming apps was 42%, meaning 58% of gaming users had no recorded app activity in the 7 days following the 24 hours after install period (D0).

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Moloco Internal Data; count of distinct app bundles (iOS and Android cumulative total) where Moloco received at least RTB (real time bid) request in the 90-day period ending April 3, 2026, worldwide. 'Independent' refers to apps not operated by Walled Gardens (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon Shopping, YouTube).

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Moloco internal analysis, January 2024 to November 2025. Meta-analysis of 22 apps across 8 countries running both re-engagement and user acquisition campaigns on Moloco Ads. Minimum total gross advertising spend of at least $100,000, with each campaign being at least $10,000. RE and UA campaigns shared the same optimization goal and at least one overlapping target action event and campaign timeline. 3.8x times lower CPA means the median cost per action on RE campaigns is 73% lower than the median cost per action on UA campaigns for the sample group.

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Moloco internal analysis, January 2024 to November 2025. Meta-analysis of 18 apps across 8 countries running both re-engagement and user acquisition campaigns on Moloco Ads. Minimum total gross advertising spend of at least $100,000, with each campaign being at least $10,000. RE and UA campaigns shared the same optimization goal and at least one overlapping target action event and campaign timeline. 5.6x higher performance reflects that median ROAS for RE campaigns is 5.6 times higher than the median of ROAS for UA campaigns in the sample.

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Moloco Internal Data, validated with customer; analysis period: December 2024 - June 2025.

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Moloco internal data for average ROAS for sponsored product campaigns in Q1 2026. Calculated as the sum of total attributed revenue across MCM divided by the sum of ad spend for retailers active over the whole quarter. Retailers are considered active if they have non-zero ad spend throughout the quarter. ROAS is calculated using each retailer\'s own attribution configuration, including direct and indirect (halo) attributions where reported. Attribution logic, including windows and types, varies across retailers. Results reflect a mix of business models and verticals.