The retail marketing trends that matter in Australia in 2026 come down to three shifts: shoppers are hunting value harder than they have in a decade, the major retailers are rebuilding their businesses around private label and first-party data, and…
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The most useful brand activation campaign examples have three things in common: the activation does one job, it makes the shopper's decision easier rather than just louder, and the mechanic fits the moment it lives in. Below are recent Australian…
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Bamboo Marketing is a Sydney shopper marketing agency. Since 2004 we have designed the promotions and in-store experiences that move shoppers from noticing a brand to buying it — the work that sits between a brand’s marketing team, the retailer’s…
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What does a point of sale marketing agency do? A point of sale marketing agency plans, designs and manages the marketing a shopper encounters at the moment of purchase — displays, shelf signage, promotions, sampling and, increasingly, retailer-owned digital screens.…
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In-store activation ideas are easy to generate and hard to justify. Sampling stations, shelf theatre, QR competitions, demo staff, pop-up experiences, gift with purchase, digital screen takeovers — the list of things a brand can do in a store is…
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Between the start of July and the end of August, a kitchen appliance shopper in Australia could have taken a bonus Visa gift card of up to $200 from Beko, up to $500 from Omega, a FURI knife set worth…
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An Australian shopper this winter could buy bread at Ritchies for a chance at a Breville espresso machine, pick up a bottle of Chivas for a shot at playing the Old Course at St Andrews, or spend at Repco for…
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Somewhere at Repco, a single $40,000 jackpot lost an argument. The promotion currently in market is ten $4,000 Flight Centre gift cards instead — same money, split ten ways — and whoever made that call understood something that rarely makes…
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There's a particular kind of silence that settles over a range review meeting when a promotion pitch misses. The deck was polished, the mechanic was clever, the brand team loved it — and the category manager on the other side…
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Picture a cardboard display at the end of a Coles aisle — paid for, approved, built by store staff on a Tuesday — where nobody involved could tell you what decision it was built to change. The brief said "drive…
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