The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Niccolo Gloazzo from Kettle & Fire who represents one the fastest growing bone broths in the category. We met Niccolo at shoptalk Barcelona out in Spain and a casual conversation led to a podcast on omnichannel leadership and what's needed for today's media mastery including winning and retaining customers and households.

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Here's what we asked him :
1. You have been in this tech led Omnichannel space now for a decade plus. What are some learnings for you and what surprised you?
2. What a wild whacky 4 years for retail media. The large brands have brought out the full budgets. How does a smaller brand like yours compete?
3. How are you investing your media $ today? Are you leaning on certain platforms and are platforms created equal?
4. Measurement - what metrics do you look for in a world where there is limited standardization?
5. How do you ensure your teams are staying abreast of trends and changes in this space? Tell us about the importance of conferences and what matters?
6. Right now there is coupon craziness - all the digital coupon providers are having a field day. To me this is not sustainable. It’s teaching the consumer a very wrong behavior. That’s coming at the expense of a stalled budget on retail media. What is your advice on retail media budgets go forward?
7. Can we discuss pieces of retail media - Search, offsite, onsite - banner ads, social. What is considered a good investment - a mix of all or focusing heavily on search like it is today?
8. Lastly, we always ask - what’s next. What trends are you following and coaching the industry on? What adoption curve are we at the edge of?

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The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Courtney McCants, Director of digital product sales, emerging tech at RR Donnelley. She is driven by a passion for innovative solutions and emerging technologies, and spearheads RRD’s Emerging Technology Product sales team. With 15 years of experience in media and advertising, Courtney has partnered with retailers and CPGs to craft strategies that authentically enhance customer value across the purchase journey and diverse advertising channels. Her team serves as the voice of RRDonnelley’s customers, channeling their feedback to develop strategic market offerings that shape the evolution of adtech and martech.

Find Courtney on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-mccants-71311710/
Find RR Donnelley on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rr-donnelley/
Find RR Donnelley online at: https://www.rrd.com/

Here's what we asked her :

1. Martech is hitting us hard and is real given its AI backing. How is martech evolving to handle the significant changes in our data environment we are exposed to?
2. So RRDonnelley recently acquired Vericast’s print and digital media units. What does this mean for the cpg industry and brands - how about retailers?
3. What a crazy inflation driven volume challenged environment we are seeing the last 18 months. Are brands responding well? Is media driving value in consumer minds?
4. Can’t really not discuss retail media in today’s omnichannel retail environment. Love to get your opinion on the state of retail media, data and how it is making a difference for brands - or is it?
5. Just as media evolves, so should measurement, but I just hear ROAS, IROAS, impressions, its like nothings changed - why? What prevents true ROI?
6. Digital marketing has evolved heavily to self service. Helping, inhibiting - and what are implications for brands and retailers?
7. Give us your viewpoint on what a meaningful connection between brands and consumers looks like. Are there any examples you can highlight?
8. Finally, let’s ask you to look future forward. What’s in store for martech and adtech, what’s the next evolution.?

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DISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast episode is provided for general informational purposes only. By listening to our episode, you understand that no information contained in this episode should be construed as advice from CPGGUYS, LLC or the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for research on any subject matter. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by CPGGUYS, LLC. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.

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The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Paul Wright, head of international at Uber advertising. This episode originated during Shoptalk Europe back in June at Barcelona. Needless to say, the last 4 years have seen a whirlwind change in retail media across the board. I’m talking 60+ RMN’s in the US, huge media budget shifts to sales and lower funnel but yet instore media not penetrated at all. In Europe, in store media has been RMN for a while. We thought why not learn more about international RMN, how the approach is and what the focus may be.

Find Paul Wright on Linkedin at : https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulwright66/
Find Uber on Linkedin at : https://www.linkedin.com/company/uber-com/
Find Uber online at : https://www.uber.com/us/en/about/

Here's what we asked him :
1. Your career passes through media who is who from Apple, to Amazon, omnicom, ad tv, you’ve owned companies and been a CEO in this space and even an ethical ad tech company. Take us through the years and how you got to Uber international.
2. What’s changed over the years? Did RMN”s exist in Europe and international well before they got to the US?
3. Having spent time at who is who in advertising, can you give us a quick overview of instore media and why it is considered an RMN in Europe?
4. Lets talk uber advertising for international markets. What countries, what offerings?
5. On the measurement side, how evolved is your international measurement? Are there standards and guidelines you follow?
6. What makes Uber advertising attractive to brands in Asia vs Western Europe? Which Asian markets are evolved?
7. How integrated are you with Uber eats and how do the 2 of you work together to deliver for brands?
8. Lastly, we always ask - what’s next. What trends are you following and coaching the industry on? What adoption curve are we at the edge of? What is uber ads international on the cutting edge of?

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DISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast episode is provided for general informational purposes only. By listening to our episode, you understand that no information contained in this episode should be construed as advice from CPGGUYS, LLC or the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for research on any subject matter. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by CPGGUYS, LLC. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.

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The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Yann Gautier from VML and Nicole France from Contentful. Today’s CPG landscape has accelerated a decade in the last 4 years since the beginning of the pandemic as far as omnichannel retail is concerned. One of the areas that requires profound transformation is engaging customer content. AI is at the forefront making the possibility of significantly scaling personalized messages in content possible in minutes. Today, we talk to two guests from one such company on the mission of ‘content : from anywhere to everywhere and to rapidly build experiences customers crave.’ Simply put, content is now a hot hot topic.

This episode is sponsored by Contentful.

Find Nicole France on Linkedin at : https://www.linkedin.com/in/lnicolefrance/
Find Contentful on Linkedin at : https://www.linkedin.com/company/contentful/
Find Contentful online at : https://www.contentful.com/
Find Yann Gautier on Linkedin at : https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanngautier/
Find VML on Linkedin at : https://www.linkedin.com/company/vml/
Find VML online at : https://www.vml.com/

Here's what we asked them :
1. What was unique about contentful that drove you to be here. What is the role of a chief evangelist of content?
2. Give us a day in the life of a CPG vertical lead for VML?
3. Over covid and the last 4 years with the consumer’s transformation to be 100 % digital - what has been the significant change in content and communication - what have you observed?
4. How as AI changed the game and are you working with contentful to fully leverage AI for scale?
5. Take us through the various services contentful offers. Let’s dive into ninetailed and studio as well.`
6. What constitutes engaging content and what does it take for a brand to create it on the contentful platform?
7. Give us some examples of successful content created from the contentful platform powered by AI? Who is doing this well?
8. What’s next for content? What are the power forces organizing in this space - and why should our listeners pay attention to contentful?

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The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Steve Zurek, VP of thought leadership at NielsenIQ. Sri and Steve have a debate and dialogue on private label leadership, the current inflationary trends and the display pressure of the store environment and a reality check on what's really true at retail vs sensationalizing the outcomes.
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This episode is sponsored by NielsenIq

Here's what we asked him :
1. Your career passes through PepsiCo, P&G, Haleon and NIQ. What are learnings in your corporate career you have picked up over time and what would you pass on to a younger you graduating college?
2. What a wild whacky 15 months since Apr 2023, not asking for a crystal ball, but shouldn’t baselines have settled down given all the one year lapse for snap, EBT, commodified is all well past us?
3. Let’s take inflation head on. Is the volume challenge problem driven or anchored on inflation and significant pricing taken over 2021- early 2023
4. Private label - winning formula for todays times. Commodities available more than they ever have. Has private label made a come back and here to stay?
5. On the people side, how do you ensure your teams are staying abreast of new analytics trends in the industry? Inflation - how are you helping brands to navigate it?
6. Right now there is coupon craziness - all the digital coupon providers are having a field day. To me this is not sustainable. It’s teaching the consumer a very wrong behavior. Thoughts?
7. Price gaps, slopes, curves all indicate the way forward is to work on inflation related pricing and deliver the right value for the consumer. Value can mean so many things - what is your advice on value?
8. Lastly, we always ask - what’s next. What trends are you following and coaching the industry on? What adoption curve are we at the edge of?

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THE CPGGUYS are joined in this episode LIVE from the Cannes Lions international festival of creativity at the Amazon pod - by Anastasia Leng, CEO of CreativeX. It's a conversation centered around the immense power of AI and how digital creative is changing by the hour. We are joined by special guest Ajay Sharma, VP at Bayer, who has also been our special guest interviewer on a previous episode with Nicole Vinson from Kellanova.
Find Anastasia Leng on Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleng/
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Here's what we asked her :
1. Your career - UPenn to google to a startup founder at hatch.co to CreativeX. Take us through the years and your advice for anyone wanting to follow in your footsteps as a creative captain running such a creative agency.
2. We are at creative’s most important gathering in the world, so far what have you seen that captivates the mind as a consumer of content?
3. As brands build creative content, what role does data play in the final product? This includes both data to create content and data that is produced from content.
4. No better place than Cannes to see the evolution of creative excellence. Take us through your own experiences as CEO of CreativeX what you have seen evolve over the last few years and decade. Does the pre covid post covide digital creator economy mean anything?
5. AI is all around us - its a buzzword to many, many functions have been using it for ever. How AI is changing what creative excellence means. Will generative AI allow auto creation of campaigns? Is that a good thing?
6. Finally, touching creative all the time - what is your advice to building brands in a digital age?
7. In a digital creator economy, everyone is doing creative. How do large brands responds and how do agencies respond?

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The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Jeff Bustos, VP Measurement addressability data to discuss retail media performance and standards. Jeff has spent a lifetime in media greatness and is the absolute authority to hold brands and retailer accountable on this journey.

Find Jeff Bustos on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bustosjeffrey/
Find IAB on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iab/
Find IAB online at: https://www.iab.com/

Here's what we asked him :
1. Your career spanning Interpublic, WPP and Omnicom and now the king of measurement. Take us through the years from Florida international Univ through the years to IAB? What advice do you have for someone who wants to be in this RMN space?
2. What do you see as some of the critical challenges at RMN’s today?
3. Not all RMN’s are made the same. Some small, some scaled, some medium, Some with significant inventory, some with little or no offsite. How does a brand navigate this?
4. What do you see as the most significant trends or developments at RMN’s right now?
5. How does the IAB collaborate with other industry stakeholders to set standards and best practices for advertising?
6.With increasing concerns over data privacy, how is the IAB working to ensure responsible practices among advertisers and publishers??
7. Now the prize question of them all - how is the IAB setting standards for retail media measurement - give us a short summary of your findings in January this year?
8. What’s the next a-ha in RMN’s - is it all instore, is it offsite inventory, and will cookie deprecation’s acceleration change everything?

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Patrick Miller, co-founder of Flywheel, a division of Omnicom. Joining Peter to co-host the program is Flywheel's Jacqui Dynowski. Patrick discusses "The Big Shift" white paper which he co-wrote with Katie Box.

Follow Patrick Miller on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickgmiller/
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Patrick answer these questions:

1. Brands were very dominant in the first half of the last century. What changed in terms of the retail landscape and how did brands respond?
2. What is it about the digital shelf in online marketplaces that differs from the physical world and what power do brands have in this channel?
3. Why are retailers so excited about retail media? What are their core motivations for launching networks?
4. For retail media to deliver revenue and profit growth to retailers, there is an expectation that it will attract “Net new” investments from brands. What do brands need in exchange for these new dollars to begin flowing at scale?
5. You often use words like closed-loop, determinism and probabilism when talking about media across retailers. What does this mean for brands in the context of their media spend and why should they be thinking about deterministic measurement?
6. Meanwhile domestic retailers are feeling pressure from new competitive sources like Chinese marketplaces. Why and how are they responding?
7. How should brands be leveraging the power they have in the era of marketplaces and retail media to realign the balance of power and how should retailers respond?
8. What types of investments and choices do brands need to make in order to evaluate which retail media networks are right for them? And how will they know which ones are best positioned to help them grow profitably?

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