During Thursday’s game between the Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins, viewers will be able to shop everything from holiday deals to packaged goods on Walmart.com using an on-screen QR code and, for the first time, NBCU’s text-to-shop functionality in its Shop the Pod program. Advertisers will have access to close-loop measurement to attribute sales across linear and streaming media during the program through a Walmart Connect and NBCUniversal data collaboration.
Walmart will show a two-minute segment from its holiday ad campaign, “Deals of Desire,” highlighting its biggest deals immediately before Black Friday.
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This is the latest in a series of partnership from NBCU with retail media players, including prior deals with Walmart, Instacart and Albertson’s Collective. Walmart Connect also has been active on the partnership front, and this collaboration appears to resemble one in its second year with Paramount and Unilever to put shoppable ads into SEC and Big Ten college football telecasts.
“Everyone is trying to connect the effectiveness of their campaigns—across the customer journey—to outcomes,” said Rich Lehrfield, senior VP and general manager of Walmart Connect. “We’re constantly exploring new ways to close the loop for brands. In this case, it’s closing the measurement gap across linear and streaming for the first time with Walmart Connect’s omnichannel purchase data. Linear remains the biggest piece of the total TV market, anchored in live sports, and this is a meaningful first step to how we apply our retail data in that environment.”