PVSB and Fresh Four Co-Host Andrea K. Leigh, CEO of Allume Group, recap their impressions of the 2023 Amazon Accelerate Sellers Conference.

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Molly Hjelm, Head of Ad Sales at Dollar General Media Network, the retail media division of Dollar General.

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Molly answers these questions:

1)  Would you please highlight a few of the pivotal roles that you think most helped prepare you for your evolution in leading an ad sales team in retail media?
2) What specifically drew you to the opportunity at DG Media Network?
3) Would you please help dimensionalize the DG Media Network’s audience reach and frequency, the underlying customer transaction asset.
4) DG Media Network chose to launch its platform with offsite capabilities which is fundamentally different than how other major retail media networks came into existences. What is the story here and, in terms of the marketing funnel, in which parts is DG Media Network particularly well-suited to help advertisers reach your shoppers: upper funnel, lower funnel, where and why?
5) How are you thinking about the opportunity for non endemics?
6) DG Media Network recently announced that your’re making it incredibly easy for Brands, Agencies and non-endemics to engage with DG shoppers as you evolve your portfolio with self-serve, social, and google. What are the details here?
7) Performance measurement is critically important for advertisers seeking to justify the sizeable shift in budget from traditional channels like linear TV and print. What is DG Media Network making available to your advertisers to help them lean into your offerings?
8) What do you see as areas for growth and innovation in retail media that has you excited about the future of this rapidly growing third wave of digital advertising after search and social?

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Walid Benchama, Global Director of Shopper & Channel Insights at the Coca-Cola Company,

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Walid answers these questions:

1)  Walid, your career journeys crosses countries and has both brand management and insights. Take us through the years starting out in Morocco to BIC and now Coke?
2) Tell us about what you think has changed in shopper centric journeys over the last few years? Is the path to purchase now exclusively led by digital? Do
3) What about innovation launches - is the right way digital first for brands?
4) Is today’s consumer experiences in digital engaging and what about in store which is still largely linear?
5) In a world of omnichannel consumers where the digital reach of most brands has exploded in the last 3 years, how are you staying ahead, are there specific suggestions you would give brands?
6) Let’s go to talent. No organization can be successful without the right people and employees. What makes a good insights leader - what is their DNA? How do they focus on growing brands?
7) POS and the checkout experience - why is that largely still not monetized and what tactics can one employ to drive impulse and conversions at POS? 
8) The last question on the cpgguys is always ‘fast forward’ - Where is the practice of insights going? Does AI change everything?

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Ben Tienor, Director of Gulp Media Network, the Retail Media division of 7-Eleven which is the world's largest convenience retailer with over 13,000 corporately-owned and franchised stores in North America.

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Ben answers these questions:

1) Would you please highlight a few of the pivotal roles that you think most helped prepare you for your evolution in leading the commercialization of Gulp Media Network?
2) Would you please help dimensionalize Gulp Media Network’s audience reach/ frequency and the underlying customer transaction asset. 7Rewards is a well-established consumer loyalty program as is the 7NOW Delivery platform. I have to imagine these longitudinal data sets are foundations to your audience identification capabilities.
3) What types of advertisers will find Gulp Media Network particularly appealing as marketing channel? Is it all about immediate consumption food & beverages or is it more and why?
4) What are the primary on-site capabilities for advertising that Gulp Media Network is offering and where in the marketing funnel do each of these capabilities typically support consumer engagement?
5) Would you walk us through some of the offsite partnerships that Gulp Media Network has established and the value you see these partners bringing to advertisers seeking to leverage the 7-Eleven’s shopper audience?
6) Performance measurement is critically important for advertisers seeking to justify the sizeable shift in budget from traditional channels like linear TV and print. What is Gulp Media Network making available to your advertisers to help them lean into your offerings?
7) Ben, what news do you have to share with our audience about the continued roadmap for Gulp Media Network that will be of particular interest?
8) What do you see as areas for growth and innovation in retail media that have you excited about the future of this rapidly growing channel?

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This episode was originally published on our sister podcast The FMCG Guys and features Tom Langley, head of retail media for John Lewis Partnership with includes the John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets.

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Bryan Leach, founder and CEO of mobile loyalty rewards program Ibotta., a free cash back rewards web and mobile app that gives you real cash for everyday purchases when you shop. Ibotta provides thousands of ways for consumers to earn cash on their purchases by partnering with more than 2,700 brands and retailers. Ibotta also powers rewards programs for top retailers and makes its offer content available on a number of leading websites and apps through the Ibotta Performance Network. 

This episode is sponsored by Ibotta.

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Bryan answers these questions : 

1. Let's discuss your journey from Yale Law School, courts, to being a lawyer and then starting Ibotta. How did that happen? What advice do you have for others who want to follow in your footsteps?
2. Take us through the value proposition of Ibotta. What should brands expect from a partnership, and why should they seek it?
3. Ibotta has significant reach with retail. Take us through your retail partnerships, and the one with Walmart is considered sort of exclusive. Demystify what that could mean.
4. How does a consumer benefit from the app? Why is it considered the premier loyalty platform for a brand?
5. The latest version of ios 17 brings with it the end of cookie-based tracking for the most part.  How does this impact Ibotta and your relationship with the consumer? How do you ensure privacy for the consumer?
6.  Retail media - today’s hottest topic and everywhere at retail. How is Ibotta part of the retail media ecosystem or planning to be engaged in it?
7. A bit over a year ago, Ibotta launched the Ibotta Performance Network. Can you tell us about that evolution and the factors that culminated in this offering?
8. Looking ahead, what are the biggest challenges facing the industry? The opportunities? 

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Gregory Grudzinski, Head of Content for WARC Digital Commerce, an Ascential Company that has been helping marketers and strategists Make it “WARC” since 1985.

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Learn about the WARC/DSI Report “How Retail Media is Disrupting Marketing Structures” here: https://lp.warc.com/organizational-readiness

Gregory answers these questions:

1)  Gregory, your report looks at how retail media is disrupting marketing structures.  Of all the factors at play, what prompted you to zero in on retail media?
2) How is Retail Media reshaping the traditional path to purchase, and how have brands had to adapt?
3) How is Retail Media changing the relationship brands have with retailers?
4) Looking beyond RM, how are functions like manufacturing, R&D, logistics, and supply chain being influenced by the move to digital commerce?
5) Based on the research you conducted, what are the optimal KPIs to use to measure retail media performance?
6) What do you see as some of the top challenges facing brands as they develop proficiency in digital commerce?
7) Your report presents some differing opinions regarding Centers of Excellence as a driver of digital transformation.  Can you take us through it? 
8) I see in the report you spoke with a number of CPG insiders about organizational change.  What are some of the top attributes winning companies share?

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Lisa Kinney, VP Customer Analytics & Market Intelligence at Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food & drug retailers in the United States.

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Follow Albertsons online at: https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/

Watch Lisa serve a Skyline Cheese Coney to Former First Lady Barbara Bush: https://local12.com/news/local/barbara-bush-visited-the-tri-state-several-times

Lisa answers these questions:

1)  Customer-centric insights & analytics are at the heart of your experience. What drew you to this field and what types of data sources do you think as being central to a retailer’s ability to establish business intelligence capabilities for success?
2) Are demographics still primarily relevant in terms of customer understanding or are they more contextual in helping better understand customer segments based upon purchasing behavior? What do you see as the inherent limitations of demographics in analytics?
3) Historically, retailers have leveraged the analytic muscle of its key vendor partners to inform their business analytics. Is that still the case? How are retailers accessing meaningful insights independent of CPG manufacturers and what role do you see these business partners playing going forward?
4) A retailer’s transaction data set is quite rich. How should retailers mobilize and create strategy and actions with this asset and what are the barriers or key to simplifying for merchants to use and action?
5) Can you give us a flavor for some of the problems that retailers are tackling through analytics?
6) How important are analytics in supporting eCommerce and full-funnel retail media marketing?
7) How do retailers or brands trying to create a customer centric, data driven culture get started? What are some of the lessons learned throughout your career you can share to help accelerate success and avoid some of the pitfalls you have had to learn and pivot to avoid?
8) Any words of wisdom for peers or early in their careers that you can offer to help them navigate this ever changing industry of data, analytics, and change management?

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Bing Chen & Jeremy Tran, co founder of the Asian focused impact VC - Gold House. This is a spirited conversation on being Asian in the workplace and career aspirations.

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Follow Gold house online at: https://goldhouse.org/

Bing and Jeremy answer these questions:

1. Bing - give us the scoop on your career, from U Penn to google to Youtube. How did that result in AU holdings being formed and what is your advice to others who want to follow your path?
2. Jeremy - what is Gold House - what is your role as COO. How did you transition from being an attorney at law to COO of Gold House?
3. Jeremy - who becomes part of the gold house family? Of course thanks to your generosity, Rhea Raj, my daughter was featured by you in partnership with AEG on the billboard on times square
4. Bing - what brands, companies are under the gold house venture - give us an overview of them and the why behind some of them?
5. Bing - Asians and entertainment - very scaled outside the US : China, Korea, Japan, Bollywood, severely under represented in the USA, why? How is Gold house solving for this?
6. Jeremy - As the COO, what do you look for when bringing creators into Gold House? What do you advise them once they are part of the network? Who invests in Gold house? 
7. Bing - lets talk about the invite only venture network and multicultural board seat network. How do Asians and other multicultural executives benefit from this. How do they reach out to gold house?
8. Jeremy & Bing - here on the cpgguys, the last question is always fast forward - what’s next for Gold House and the group of companies? What is considered nirvana for you?

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Liz Buchanan, and Troy Treangen, Head of Global Product & Platforms at NielsenIQ, the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth.

This episode is sponsored by NielsenIQ.

Follow  Liz Buchanan on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-buchanan-35b2007
Follow  Troy Treangen on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troy-treangen-800a841
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Listen to NIQ’s “Need to Know” on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/niq-need-to-know-podcast/id1696192898

Liz and Troy answer these questions:

1)  Liz & Troy - describe your career paths to NIQ and learnings along the way. Advice to others pursuing a career in insights. 
2) Liz - what is one version of the truth and how is NIQ delivering for brands and retailers 
3) Troy - describe the several product names against this one version of the truth and what brands and retailers can expect in each one 
4) Liz - Troy mentioned you're leading an effort to roll out a new platform to every country and customer globally. what benefits can brands and retailers expect from this?
5)  Troy - how are you incorporating tech into your products - especially AI and ML. 
6) Troy - how do you support customers investing in data lakes and building their own capabilities?
7) Liz - tell us about customer success, and how you are personally leading that globally for NIQ
8) Liz - How do you work with customers and get feedback to inform what you develop and roll out?
9) Troy - our last question is always fast forward, what can brands expect from an NIQ omnichannel roadmap perspective. Omnichannel?

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