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June 22, 2026

Uber Advertising: Transforming Movement into Brand Momentum with a Unified Commerce Media Solution

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Instant access has changed the way people live. Consumers move through their day making decisions in real time based on what they need, where they are, and what feels most relevant in the moment. Advertising hasn't always kept pace, with campaigns often planned and measured in separate systems, while consumers experience a continuous journey.

At Uber Advertising, we believe in a future where brands can show up across those journeys in a more connected way. That's why we're bringing together new products, partnerships, and capabilities under a single vision: helping brands engage consumers across the moments, journeys, and surfaces where decisions happen.

Because the most valuable opportunities aren't just when people choose Uber. They're when people choose brands.

Introducing Uber Marketing Manager: The evolution of our advertising platform

Uber Marketing Manager text on black with colorful outline icons for delivery, shopping, food, and travel
Today, we're introducing Uber Marketing Manager, the technology foundation for the next chapter of Uber Advertising.   

As Uber Advertising has expanded across advertiser types, formats, and surfaces, advertisers have gained new ways to engage consumers across Uber Eats, Uber, and beyond. Uber Marketing Manager represents our vision for bringing those experiences together through a more unified approach—creating the foundation for more connected advertising across Uber.

Built on our Ads Manager platform for restaurants, Uber Marketing Manager is a self-serve destination designed to support advertising across Uber and Uber Eats. Over time, it will bring more advertising experiences together through a single platform with streamlined workflows and more cohesive strategies.

Beyond a new name, this new platform represents the next step toward a more unified approach to advertising with Uber.

Built around how consumers actually decide

Consumers don't experience brands through individual channels, formats, or campaigns. They move fluidly between discovery, intent, and action throughout their day—and Uber Marketing Manager reflects our long-term vision for helping advertisers do the same.

A uniquely Uber advantage

By connecting signals across Uber and Uber Eats, brands can engage consumers not just based on who they are, but what they're considering, where they're headed, and what they're deciding.

Designed for what is next

As advertising becomes increasingly intelligent, Uber Marketing Manager is being designed to make sophisticated advertising more intuitive—helping advertisers navigate complexity, understand what matters most, and make more informed decisions with greater confidence.

Krispy Kreme: The power of connected moments

Krispy Kreme’s work with Uber Advertising provides an example of what connected commerce can look like in practice.

Sponsored Listings and offers remain a core part of Krispy Kreme's delivery strategy, helping the brand stay visible and competitive when customers are actively deciding what to order on Uber Eats. At the same time, Krispy Kreme has partnered with Uber Advertising to expand into new experiences like Item Showcase on Uber Eats and Journey Ads across Uber to drive discovery, engagement, and action across more moments of the consumer journey.

Last week, Krispy Kreme took the next step in that journey as an early launch partner for Destination Offers, rolling out a campaign in Mexico. By connecting digital engagement with real-world action, Destination Offers create new opportunities to engage consumers before they arrive and influence real-world visits.

Three app screens show an Uber trip with a Krispy Kreme offer, map pickup, and QR code for 15% off.
As one of the first brands launching Destination Offers, Krispy Kreme demonstrates how brands can engage consumers across connected moments—from what customers discover and choose on Uber Eats, to how they engage while in motion, to where they go next. More broadly, the brand's work reflects a growing shift toward engaging consumers across the moments that shape their decisions rather than relying on individual placements in isolation.

One Uber, continued momentum: Creative Studio expands across markets, moments and experiences

As audiences look beyond the digital doom scroll for more real-world interaction and cultural connection, Uber Advertising is continuing to expand how brands can show up across people’s daily lives. Sitting at the intersection of digital engagement and physical movement, Uber is uniquely positioned to help brands turn media into moments consumers can actually experience.

That’s where Creative Studio comes in. From immersive ride experiences and destination-based activations to premium Uber Eats integrations and custom brand storytelling, Creative Studio helps brands extend campaigns from screens into the real world—transforming advertising from something consumers see into something they can ride in, interact with, visit or experience.

For Molson Coors, Creative Studio is helping the brand show up around a global soccer tournament—one of the biggest cultural moments of 2026—with a portfolio-wide campaign across Coors Light, Miller Lite, Blue Moon and Topo Chico Hard Seltzer. The work brings together in-app experiences, branded airport shuttles, custom content and a planned branded vehicle activation tied to the summer’s biggest sports and celebration moments—helping Molson Coors connect refreshment, fandom and responsible celebration across the Uber platform and in the real world.

Uber Shuttle van wrap with Coors Light branding, LGA–NYC route details, QR code, and multiple vehicle views

“This summer’s biggest cultural moments are punctuated by global soccer and the Fourth of July and continue with the countless celebrations they inspire. As consumers are constantly moving between content, commerce and real-world experiences, Molson Coors is creating new opportunities for our brands to connect in relevant and meaningful ways. Our partnership with Uber Advertising helps us engage legal-drinking-age consumers in those moments with experiences that are timely, useful and additive to the occasion. Together with Uber Advertising’s Creative Studio, we’re reimagining how our brands can connect with consumers not only around what they’re watching, but around the journeys they take and the ways they choose to celebrate.”

Molson Coors Beverage Company logo with yellow, orange, and blue circular icon and navy text

Brad Feinberg, VP Media & Marketing Operations in US & Canada for Molson Coors Beverage Company


And for adidas, Creative Studio is helping extend the brand’s “Backyard Legends” narrative across Europe through a first pan-European Journey Takeover campaign, playable ads, and post-checkout placements. By aligning digital storytelling with local cultural moments, including Bad Bunny concerts in key markets, the campaign shows how Uber Advertising can help global brands create scaled, market-relevant experiences that meet consumers in the moments they are already moving through.


Three mobile screens show an Adidas soccer ad game: map dropoff, goalkeeper challenge, and score results.

To bring these digital-to-IRL capabilities to more brands worldwide, Uber Advertising is expanding Creative Studio’s footprint into new global markets over the course of 2026 and 2027. The rollout begins in 2026 in Australia and Brazil, followed by continued expansion across LATAM, EMEA and APAC throughout 2027, giving more brands access to the creative, experiential and commerce-driven solutions that bring Uber’s connected advertising platform to life.

Building for how consumers actually make decisions

Across Uber, there are nearly 200 million monthly active users and 40 million trips every day.1 These moments span far beyond a single app session. They happen while people are deciding where to go, what to order, what to buy, and what feels worth choosing next.

Over the past several weeks, we've introduced new ways for brands to connect with consumers across those moments. We brought Uber Advertising directly into existing workflows with APIs and deepened on-platform engagement opportunities with offer solutions that help restaurants influence decisions and build loyalty. We’ve also expanded how brands can reach consumers across Uber’s marketplace with premium formats on Uber Eats, the ride experience with offers on Uber, and beyond Uber’s apps with Offsite Ads.

Taken individually, each of these innovations creates a new opportunity for brands to engage consumers. Together, they represent something larger: a more connected approach to advertising built around life’s movement and how people actually make decisions. 

What began as individual opportunities to influence decisions is evolving into the ability to engage consumers across multiple moments throughout their day. Together, these experiences reflect a broader shift toward reaching consumers wherever decisions are being made—from what to order to where to go next.

"As Uber Advertising continues to grow, we're focused on making advertising more accessible for businesses of every size. Our vision is to bring together the tools, experiences, and insights advertisers need to engage consumers across Uber Eats, Uber, and beyond—whether they're running a simple self-serve campaign or managing sophisticated cross-platform strategies. Ultimately, we want to help advertisers understand which combinations work best for their goals so they can engage consumers in the ways that are most effective for their business."

Smiling man with short dark hair wearing a blue plaid shirt against a light background

Manas Mittal, VP of Product, Advertising, Membership & Rides Marketplace at Uber


Opening new roads to Uber Advertising’s platform

As Uber Advertising becomes a more unified platform for brands to reach consumers where they already are, we are also making it easier for advertisers to connect offers and measurement capabilities into the broader systems brands already use.

That is where the Ads APIs become an important foundation. By giving advertisers and partners more direct access to Uber Eats ad products, campaign activation and performance measurement, APIs help reduce friction, improve buying efficiency and bring Uber Advertising more directly into existing workflows. Over time, we will continue to expand API capabilities so brands have more flexibility in how they plan, buy, optimize and measure with Uber Advertising.

Partnerships are another key part of making the platform more accessible. Through our partnership with Mastercard Commerce Media, Uber Advertising is extending advertiser reach so more brands can connect with Uber customers in high-intent moments that matter. The solution will leverage Mastercard's proprietary insights to deliver more relevant content, including offers, to Uber customers, creating value for consumers and advertisers alike. The partnership will begin in the U.S., with plans to expand into additional markets. 

Together, the Ads APIs and Mastercard partnership reflect the next phase of Uber Advertising’s growth: a more unified, more accessible platform that meets advertisers where they want to activate, measure and create value for consumers.

Turning movement into momentum

The next chapter of commerce media isn't defined by channels. It's defined by how well brands can connect with consumers across the moments that shape what they do next. By activating complementary solutions together, brands can create more seamless consumer journeys to drive stronger engagement, acquisition, and growth.

And increasingly, we're seeing those moments drive impact beyond the platform itself. A recent third-party validated study with Affinity Solutions found that Sponsored Listings on Uber Eats drove a 27% incremental lift in sales across all channels and a 5% incremental lift in brick-and-mortar sales, demonstrating how engagement on Uber can influence real-world outcomes beyond a single transaction.2

+27% sales lift across all channels and +5% brick-and-mortar sales lift in pastel infographic
From Uber Marketing Manager to Creative Studio expansion and strategic partnerships, we're building new ways for brands to engage consumers across the journeys they already live.

Because life's movement isn't just where people go. It's where decisions happen. And we're just getting started.

Sources:

1 Uber Technologies, Inc., Q3 2025 Earnings Report

2 Uber Advertising and Affinity Solutions, May 2026. Analysis of 12 campaigns to measure the incremental impact of Uber advertising products (Sponsored Listings or Offers) on a restaurant brand's total sales. Individual results may vary.