{"id":9562,"date":"2023-05-19T19:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/nearly-30-of-instacarts-revenue-is-from-advertising\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T19:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:47:45","slug":"nearly-30-of-instacarts-revenue-is-from-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/nearly-30-of-instacarts-revenue-is-from-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 30% of Instacart\u2019s revenue is from advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instacart made $740 million in ad revenue in 2022, a 30% increase over 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surging ad business.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/instacarts-ad-business-surges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Information<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grocery-delivery firm\u2019s ad revenue totaled about $740 million last year, up 30% from 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter. That\u2019s a striking increase, given that the digital ad market was largely stagnant last year. Nearly 30% of Instacart\u2019s 2022 revenue came from selling advertising rather than actually delivering groceries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ads accounted for about 20% of Instacart\u2019s $1.5 annual revenue in 2021 \u2013 about $300 million \u2013 according to a June 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/instacart-advertising-business-revenue-ipo-amazon-seth-dallaire-2021-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insider<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For comparison.<\/strong> Advertising accounted for about 10% of Amazon\u2019s revenue in 2022, according to The Information. Meanwhile, Amazon made $37.7 billion in revenue through advertising last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why we care.<\/strong> Instacart remains a viable alternative for brands to promote products directly to consumers. And the company has <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/instacart-releases-a-new-streamlined-ad-creation-process-389000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated its platform<\/a> to attract more advertisers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bigger picture.<\/strong> In 2022, Google and Meta\u2019s advertising market share dropped below 50%. This trend is expected to continue in 2023, in part, due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-and-meta-are-losing-their-edge-as-tiktok-amazon-instacart-ads-grow-391062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rise of emerging ad platforms<\/a> like Instacart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rise of retail media networks.<\/strong> Retail media search spend is forecast to be near $30 billion this year \u2013 and RMN digital ad revenue is expected to hit $45 billion. Dig deeper in <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/us-paid-search-spend-forecast-2023-427066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. paid search spend forecast to hit $110 billion in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/instacart-ad-revenue-2022-427360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nearly 30% of Instacart\u2019s revenue is from advertising<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instacart made $740 million in ad revenue in 2022, a 30% increase over 2021. Surging ad business. The Information reported: \u201cThe grocery-delivery firm\u2019s ad revenue totaled about $740 million last year, up 30% from 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter. That\u2019s a striking increase, given that the digital ad market was largely stagnant last year. Nearly 30% of Instacart\u2019s 2022 revenue came from selling advertising rather than actually delivering groceries.\u201d Ads accounted for about 20% of Instacart\u2019s $1.5 annual revenue in 2021 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}