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The partnership

Three partners, one sale. Each does what it already does best, and each earns from every unit.

Tryon the PulpoAR screenPaywith one Mastercard tapTake homethe retailer's product
PulpoAR
The software
Brings
  • AI skin analysis and live AR try-on
  • 20,000+ products already digitised
  • The vending machine and mirror, sourced and built
  • The screen that runs retail media between sales
Gets

A software fee per unit and a share of retail media revenue.

mastercard
The point of sale
Brings
  • Contactless tap to pay on every unit
  • Card-linked offers and loyalty at the tap
  • Closed-loop measurement, from ad to sale
  • Introductions through its local account teams
Gets

Cross-border card volume, its brand at the point of purchase, and new shopper and audience insight.

Retail partner
The product
Brings
  • The assortment and the stock
  • Store counters and mall locations
  • Its loyalty programme, such as MY SEPHORA or SHARE
  • For example Sephora, Faces or Ulta Beauty, or a global beauty partner that already works with Mastercard
Gets

New sales without new floor space, more loyalty members, and a share of retail media revenue.

20,000+ products digitised is a PulpoAR company figure. Revenue splits are a proposal for discussion.

The screen earns between sales.

Every unit is also a media screen inside the store or the mall. Retail media in MENA reached USD 434M in 2025, up 18.1%, the region's fastest-growing ad channel (WPP Media, June 2025). Three placements brands can buy:

Idle-screen ads

When no one is shopping, the screen plays brand ads that invite the next shopper to try.

Sponsored try-on

A brand pays to be the first look a shopper tries on the screen.

Sponsored recommendation

A brand's product is the featured pick after the skin analysis.

Closed loop, ad to tap. The ad, the try-on and the Mastercard payment happen at the same screen, so brands see which ads led to a sale. Each unit also counts passers-by anonymously, body only and nothing stored, the way digital billboards are measured.

Why Mastercard

Cross-border volume

Visitors pay with cards from home, so each sale feeds Mastercard's fastest-growing assessment line.

Brand at the point of purchase

"Powered by Mastercard" on the machine, the mirror and the receipt.

Loyalty at the tap

Card-linked offers and the retailer's programme earn on the same purchase.

Shopper and audience insight

Anonymous data on who passes, what they try, choose and pay for, by market.

Pilot in Dubai. Scale across EMEA.

A 90-day pilot with a leading regional beauty retailer: a few vending machines in malls or at DXB, and mirrors on store counters. Visitors from every EMEA market pass through Dubai, so the results travel.

The ask: scope the pilot with us.

Retailers in viewSephora, Faces, Ulta Beauty, Boots, Watsons, Al Tayer beauty halls. Alshaya (Ulta, Boots) already issues the Aura card with Mastercard.
We measureTry-on to purchase, average ticket, visitor-card share, offer redemptions.
Then scaleTake the winning format to other EMEA markets with Mastercard's local teams.

See it working.

Two formats, one tap. Both demos run PulpoAR's live software, step by step.