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Retail Media Breakfast Club — 258 episodes

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1

The Retail Media Illusion: Why Agentic Commerce Will Disrupt E-Commerce Sooner Than You Think

2

Predictive Commerce: Why Life-Stage Data Could Replace Retail Media’s Obsession with Transactions

3

AI Is Quietly Breaking Retail Media — And No One Wants to Admit It

4

Kroger’s Retail Media Playbook: Why Context Data Is the Future of Commerce Media

5

Retail Media’s Narrative Problem (And How to Fix It for Optimal Impact)

6

I Need Your Help! Which Retail Media Trends Can’t You Ignore in 2026?

7

Why iROAS Metrics Are So Inconsistent (And Why Debate Is Good For The Industry)

8

Bring the “Retail” Back to Retail Media: 4 Fixes Every RMN Needs Now

9

Kroger x YouTube: The Retail Media Breakthrough That Could Unlock Billions in Brand Budgets

10

In-Store Retail Media Measurement Is Broken — Shopper Purchase Rate Explained with Catalyst & In-Store Marketplace

11

7 Retail Media Upfront Secrets: What Home Depot Got Right (And What Others Are Missing)

12

The Real ROI of Retail Media Events: Are Work Trips Still Worth It in 2026?

13

Home Depot’s Retail Media Playbook: How Orange Apron Media Is Winning Where Others Can’t

14

Retail Media vs National Media: The Measurement Debate Brands Can’t Ignore

15

The Real Secret Behind Consistent Content: Storytelling, AI & My Big Mishap

16

AI Is Clicking Your Ads (And Wasting Your Budget) — The Hidden Retail Media Crisis

17

Brand Media vs Commerce Media: How Gildan Is Redefining Retail Media Strategy for Faster, Cheaper Growth

18

Writing Into the Void: How I Built Authority in Retail Media (From Zero to 28K Followers)

19

Why AI Grocery Shopping Isn’t Taking Over Yet (But Absolutely Will)

20

Dark Search & AI Shopping: The Hidden Threat (and Opportunity) for Retail Media

21

AI Advertising Is Happening NOW: What Retailers Must Know Before It’s Too Late

22

Agentic Commerce Isn’t the Threat You Think — Why Retailers Are Playing the Long Game

23

83% of Retail Media Campaigns Are Misleading You (iROAS Exposed)

24

The Retail Media Fermi Paradox: Why Everyone Talks Growth… But Only Amazon & Walmart Win

25

Retail Media Measurement Is Broken (Here’s What Brands Actually Want Instead)

26

Why Retailer Magazines Are the Next Big Retail Media Channel (Post-AI Shopping Era)

27

Why Retail Media Looks So Different in the US vs Europe (And Why You’re Comparing It Wrong)

28

AI Discovery Is Reshaping Retail: Shoptalk 2026 Insights

29

Shoptalk 2026: AI, Agentic Commerce & Retail Media’s Next Power Shift

30

Are AI Ads the Next Billion-Dollar Channel? How Retail Media Wins in the Age of LLMs [Agentic Commerce Expert Series Part 4 of 4]

31

Costco Exposing Its Retail Media Tech Stack Might Change Everything

32

Retail Media Has a PR Problem: CVS Media Exchange’s Bold Wake-Up Call

33

Google’s New AI Patent Could Hijack Your Landing Pages (And Charge You for It)

34

Why Ecommerce Signals Are Disappearing And What Retailers Must Do Next [Agentic Commerce Expert Series Part 3 of 4]

35

OpenAI Killed Instant Checkout… But Agentic Shopping Isn’t Dead (What Retailers Need to Know Now)

36

My RampUp Notes: Why Data Collaboration Is Winning Ad Budgets

37

How Nestlé Decides Which Retail Media Networks Get Budget (And Why They Compare Them to Google & Meta)

38

PDP the New Homepage? How AI Shopping Is Reshaping Retail Media & Ecommerce [Agentic Commerce Expert Series Part 2 of 4]

39

Dirty Secrets of Retail Media: 5 Ethical Dilemmas Brands Need to Know

40

AI, Retail Media & First-Party Data: What Everyone Is Really Saying After RampUp 2026

41

Why Retail Media Can’t Unlock Brand Budgets (Until Brands Fix This One Thing)

42

AI Shopping Is Here: How LLMs Are Rewriting Retail Discovery [Agentic Commerce Expert Series Part 1 of 4]

43

US vs EU Retail Media: The 5 Structural Barriers Reshaping In-Store Advertising

44

Retail Media 3.0: Why AI & Agentic Commerce Could Spark the Golden Era of Advertising

45

ROAS Refuses to Die: The Retail Media Measurement Problem No One Wants to Fix

46

AI Won’t Kill Advertising: The Bull Case

47

Dark Search & Broken Retail Media Signals: How AI Shopping Is Reshaping the Future of Commerce

48

Retail Media Standards Showdown: Why Brands Want Them (And Why Retailers Push Back)

49

AI Is Already Disrupting Retail Media Via 'Dark Search' Traffic

50

AI Is Stealing the Browse: How Retail Media Wins the Data War in the Age of ChatGPT

51

Why Top Brands Are Building Their Own Retail Media Operating Systems (And Winning in 2026)

52

OpenAI Ads Inside ChatGPT: What It Means for Retail Media, Trust & the Future of AI Advertising

53

In-Store Experiential Retail Media: The 3X Sales Lift Brands Can’t Agree on Who Should Fund

54

Why OpenAI Ads Are a Wake-Up Call for Retail Media Networks (And What Happens Next)

55

Inside Amazon’s AI Shopping Funnel: Why Rufus Converts 3.5x Better

56

AI Is Quietly Rewriting Retail Media: What Happens When Shoppers Stop Searching?

57

Why Retailers Must Start Advertising in LLMs Now (Retail Media Meets AI Ads)

58

Retail Media’s Buffet Problem: Why Brands Are Losing Their Appetite (2026 Outlook)

59

Will Ads in ChatGPT Kill Trust or Create the Best Advertising Ever? A Retail Media Wake-Up Call

60

Costco Breaks the Silence: Inside the Retail Media Tech Stack That Has The Industry Talking

61

Instacart Ads’ Third Act: Ali Miller on Building the Infrastructure Powering Retail Media’s Future

62

Challenger vs. Legacy Brands in Retail Media: When Sponsored Products Stop Working (and What to Do Next)

63

Is Amazon Falling Behind? AI Agents, Rufus, and the Future of Ecommerce

64

7 Ways to Break the Retail Media Doom Loop

65

Retailers Are Finally Embracing AI Shopping Bots — Here’s What They Announced at NRF

66

Why the Future of Retail Media Isn’t Amazon or Walmart (It’s the Long Tail)

67

AI Is Rewriting Retail Media: Why the Funnel Is Officially Dead

68

What Retail Media Leaders Really Say at Private NRF Dinners (In-Store Media, Tech Stacks & Shopper Behavior)

69

NRF 2026: Why Retail’s Future Belongs to the Experimenters (Not the Five-Year Planners)

70

What I Learned Building Retail Media Breakfast Club in One Year (50,000 Downloads Later)

71

My Retail Media Content Diet: How I Stay Ahead of Trends Without Burning Out

72

Why Amazon Can’t Stop Agentic Commerce — And Why Other Retailers Must Lean In

73

5 Big Marketing Lessons Retail Media Must Steal From Venture Capital

74

Amazon’s Sea of Ads: Why 25+ Sponsored Products Per Page Still Works

75

The Retail Media Civil War Is Ending: How “Fluid” Sponsored Products Are Reshaping Search

76

AI vs. Retail Media: The Platform Shift No One Is Ready For

77

Inside Costco’s Secretive Retail Media Strategy: What Mark Williamson Revealed

78

AI Shopping Hype? My Black Friday to Cyber Monday Halftime Breakdown

79

Why Retail Media’s Metrics Are Failing — And What Actually Drives Brand Growth

80

Why Long-Tail Advertisers Are Becoming Retail Media’s Biggest Growth Engine

81

How RMNs Can Finally Win Over Media Agencies

82

AI-Fueled Shopping for The Holidays

83

Will Ads Ruin AI? Why Agentic Advertising Might Save the Internet

84

Get on the Damn Stage: Why 2026 Is Your Year to Step Into the Spotlight

85

Inside Mars’s Retail Media Investment Matrix — Why Only the Top 6 Retail Media Networks Win

86

AI Shopping Agents vs. Retailers: Who Owns Discovery Now?

87

Unfiltered Thoughts From Amazon Unboxed 2025

88

Developments in RTB (Real-Time Bidding) for Retail Media

89

Amazon Unboxed 2025 - Fresh Off The Press Announcements from Nashville

90

"Late By Design" - Molly Hjelm from Ace Hardware's RedVest Media Shares her Retail Media Gameplan

91

What CPG Brands Actually Control with Agentic Commerce Optimization (ACO)

92

AI Search to Disrupt Discovery for Retailers — Here's 3 Companies Thinking Outside The Box

93

Apply For The Damn Award & Conquer Your FOPO (Fear Of Other People's Opinions)

94

What is a 'CommerceGPT'? ['Snips' from Cocktails & Commerce]

95

Breakdown of How Sam's Club Cracked the Code on In-Store Retail Media

96

How Retailers Can Evolve To Compete With Agentic Shopping ['Snips' from Commerce Media Matters & Mind the Model]

97

The Secret Hopes & Dreams of RMN Leaders [New Research Preview]

98

Multi-Retailer Networks [Livestream Highlight]

99

Underrated Retail Media Metrics That Fly Under The Radar [Panel Episode]

100

Brian Monahan Is Going Big With Albertsons Media Collective ['Snips' from The Snarketing Podcast]

101

Is ChatGPT's Instant Checkout 'Really' Agentic? And Does It Actually Matter?

102

Will LLMS Monetize With Ads or Marketplaces? [Retailgentic Crossover]

103

Agentic Shopping Looks Crazy. So Did Self-Service Supermarkets.

104

Dollar General’s Austin Leonard Is Bullish On 'Last Mile' Opportunity

105

I Got Prime Deals. Or Did I? Why Consumer Distrust Is AI Shopping's Real Opening

106

The Fairy Godmother Of Retail Media, Cara Pratt, And Her Agenda At Circana

107

Retail Media's Measurement Problem Isn't Technical — It's Political

108

Trade vs. Retail Media: Who's Really Eating Whom? ['Snips' from Particular Audience & The Middlemen]

109

AI Makes Shopping Easier, But Shoppers Still Check Receipts

110

In what ways are using AI today that you weren't a year ago? [Panel]

111

Best Buy's Ad Platform Play: 'We Got Next'

112

AI Shopping Hits 75% Adoption ['Snips' from Retailgentic]

113

The Lazy Girl's Guide to Social Commerce

114

Why 'Omnichannel' Misses the Point [New Research From The Digital Shelf Institute]

115

Managing a Multi-Retailer RMN Stack (Part 3 of 3)

116

Underrated Advice For Choosing A Retail Media Agency Partner [Panel]

117

Building Retail Media Federations: Foundations and Barriers (Part 3)

118

Meet The First Retail Media Federations & Consortiums (Part 2)

119

Growth Beyond Amazon: Tapping Into Retail Media's Broader Opportunities (Part 2 of 3)

120

ROAS Isn’t Enough — The Buyer’s Checklist for Retail Media

121

The Retail Media Doom Loop

122

AI Agent Shopping & Existential Threats To Retail Media

123

Brands are from Mars, Retailers are from Venus: Getting Inside the Head of Retailers (Part 1 of 3)

124

9 Ways Retailers & Brands Can Make Loyalty Programs Attractive... To AI Agents

125

Your AI Agent Just Got Hacked

126

Sam's Club Races To Win Retail Media Network Share Through Experiences

127

Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Retail Conferences [Panel Episode]

128

Big Agencies & Retail Media: A Slightly Unhinged Relationship

129

Loyalty Programs To Give Retailers An Edge In AI Shopping Future?

130

AI Agents Hate Ads Today — But Will That Last?

131

Are retail media specialists involved in product development? [Panel Episode]

132

What Is Your AI Agent Buying? [New Columbia & Yale Research]

133

Why RMNs Keep Their Tech Stacks Secret From The Very Brands They Want To Attract

134

Rufus Remembers Me

135

Risky Retail Media Decisions That Paid Off [Panel]

136

How Alliances Could Solve Retail Media's Fragmentation Problem (Part 1)

137

Ads in AI Are Older Than You'd Think

138

Retailer AI Assistants: Are Shoppers Actually Using Them?

139

The Coming AI Marketplace Gold Rush

140

Criteo’s Frenemies Pile On

141

A retail media metric that isn't shiny or new but one that you return to again and again

142

Agentic Shopping Poses An Existential Threat To Retail Media (Part 2)

143

Agentic Shopping Poses An Existential Threat To Retail Media (Part 1)

144

The best conversation you had with your Shopper Marketing team

145

Will the retail industry welcome the “commerce media” newcomers?

146

Amazon Q2 Earnings: Best Of The Analyst Recaps

147

Walmart Reveals AI Roadmap That Points To A World Without Search Bars

148

Launching In New Markets & Marketplaces: 3 Brands Share Top Tips

149

Why Are Display Ads In Retail Media Still So Bad?

150

I'm back and I owe you an explanation

151

Season Finale! Returning July 28

152

Cannes Confessional #4: RMNs Should Chase That Brand Marketing Budget

153

Cannes Confessional #3: The Funnel is Now a Tunnel

154

Are You Sitting on a Retail Media Goldmine?

155

Cannes Confessional #1

156

What I’ve learned from 102 episodes over 5 months (and my future plans)

157

My highlights from the new 'Retailgentic' podcast

158

How These 4 Retail Media Leaders Are Using AI Right Now

159

Should We Really Care What Consumers Think About Retail Media Ads?

160

How an RMN's tech stack impacts your advertising results

161

Why AI Search Advertising Could Reach $25 Billion By 2029

162

How These 4 Retail Media Leaders Make Conference Season Count

163

Mary Meeker Is So Back: My Notes From Her 340-Page AI Futurecast

164

Meta Says ‘Just Trust Us’ With AI Ads, Will Amazon Follow Suit?

165

Where Does The Ecomm Team Really Belong? 3 Brand-Side Leaders Share Their Org Charts

166

Is Retail Media Actually Kinda 'Mid'? PART 2

167

Walmart's Sparky AI Shopping Assistant: My Hot Take

168

AI in real life: how retailers and brands are leveraging AI (real numbers)

169

Career Sliding Doors: The Pivotal Moments That Changed These 4 Ecomm Leaders' Careers

170

Retailers Hit 99% Ad Coverage Without Killing User Experience, New Report Shows

171

55% of consumers say they don't trust AI shopping chatbots & recommendations

172

Walmart is Betting on AI Agents, While Amazon Goes Proprietary

173

How retailers 'Do' Sponsored Product ads: 4 takeaways for brands

174

Brands demand retail media standards. Retailers say it's too hard. Do they kind of have a point?

175

Instacart’s Turnaround CEO Heads To The AI Frontier

176

Prime Day 2025: Are Brands Scaling Back? (3 Reasons To Reconsider)

177

Is Retail Media Actually Kinda 'Mid'?

178

"We're Not Dabbling Here": Amazon's Official Company Line On AI

179

DSPs Wanted: The Retail Media Revolution 96% of Advertisers Crave

180

Amazon Q1 Earnings Scorecard: Winners, Losers, and the Calm Before the Tariff Storm

181

My Notes From an Interview with Costco's RMN leader, Mark Williamson

182

The Back Channel: AI Is Replacing Devs (But Banned At Retailer X), Freudian Analysis Of Offsite Vs Onsite Retail Media

183

Amazon Haul Expands As Chinese Competitors Face Tariff Upheaval

184

The AI Shopping Agent War Begins

185

Offsite vs onsite retail media

186

Don't Just Put the Intern on It: Breaking the Cycle of E-Commerce Resistance

187

WOAS: Waste of Ad Spend

188

Trump’s Tariff Shock May Drive Major Shift In Retail Media Spending

189

'Vibe Marketing' comes to retail media

190

Walmart puts the hard word on advertisers with 25% spend bump

191

Our New 2-Speed Marketplace

192

Panel: The death of the marketing funnel

193

The Other Side of the Story: Why Retailers Struggle with Media Measurement and Standardization

194

Why Real-Time Bidding Is Retail Media's Next Frontier

195

I Tested Amazon's AI Shopping Agent That Buys From Other Websites

196

Panel: New and exciting retail media metrics

197

Scouting For Tech: Lessons From Schwarz

198

Nova Act: What Amazon's Agentic AI Means for the Future of retail

199

Home Depot’s Retail Media Chief Puts Suppliers At The Center

200

Panel episode: Overcoming failure in retail media roles

201

Spotting Retail Media 'Imposter' Job Candidates Before They Burn You

202

Panel episode: How to convince someone that ROAS is not the answer

203

The Alexa+ Optimization Playbook For Brands

204

Its retail conference season. Get on the stage!

205

Amazon's Patent Reveals How Alexa+ Will Transform Product Discovery

206

Best Buy's Marketplace Bet Is Really About Ad Revenue

207

Retailers Are Learning to Sell (Part 3/3): How Retailers and Media Buyers Can Work Better Together

208

Retailers Are Learning to Sell—But This Time, It’s Media (Part 2/3): The Retail Media Tech Stack

209

Retailers Are Learning to Sell—But This Time, It’s Media, Not Products (Part 1/3)

210

Sam's Club RMN: Notes from my interview with GM Harvey Ma

211

What Unilever's New CEO Isn't Saying About Retail Media

212

How AI affects the consumer path to purchase (AI in retail series, Part 5)

213

Panel: How These Three E-commerce Leaders Think About Hiring Retail Media Talent

214

Amazon's Triple Squeeze: Navigating Private Label Growth, 3P Pressure & Tougher Vendor Negotiations

215

How Autonomous AI Agents Will Transform Retail Discovery

216

How to select AI-enabled partner solutions (AI in retail series, Part 4)

217

What the heck is Agentic AI? (AI in retail series, part 3)

218

Panel: How 3 Retail Leaders Transformed Their Sales Teams’ Perspective on Retail Media

219

Walmart Scintilla: How it compares to Amazon, Kroger's data & insights offerings

220

Amazon Kills Off 'Inspire' - another tomb in the social commerce graveyard

221

Simple ways to get started with AI (AI in retail series, Part 2)

222

The top questions that brands and retailers have about AI (Part 1 of AI in retail series)

223

Panel: The One Change These 3 Retail Leaders Wish for in Retail Media

224

The 5 Best Free Resources For Learning Retail Media In 2025

225

The Retail Media Performance Gap Is Even Wider Than We Thought!

226

Why Is Amazon Suddenly Linking to Other Retailers? It's About the Ads

227

Shopper marketing in the age of retail media

228

Panel: The Biggest Retail Media Heartbreaks—Insights from 4 Brand Leaders

229

Retail Media's Next Challenge: Proving Real Results

230

More retail media spend = More measurement scrutiny

231

Amazon Sellers Report More Fraudulent Customer Returns

232

How Thrive Market Is Building A Different Type Of Retail Media Network

233

Is Retail Media Part of Search, or Is Search Part of Retail Media?

234

Panel: The Biggest Retail Media Challenges That Keep These 3 Brand Leaders Up at Night

235

Amazon Alexa: Will We Get Beyond Checking The Weather?

236

Panel: One Skill These 5 Retail Leaders Recommend for Newcomers in Retail Media

237

The Retailer's Dilemma: Block or Embrace AI Shopping Agents?

238

The Lululemon Story [Book Review]

239

Beast Games Isn't Just A Hit—It's Amazon's New Retail Media Weapon

240

Panel: The analogies these 5 ecomm leaders use to educate their exec teams on retail media

241

OpenAI's "Operator" Will Change How We Shop (And The Future of Retail Media)

242

Retail Media Growth Will Slow in 2025: Here’s Why

243

The History of Piggly Wiggly [Book Review]

244

Online Channels Set to Drive CPG Growth in 2025: Retail Media Takes Center Stage

245

Panel: One Skill These 4 Retail Leaders Wish They Had Developed Earlier in Their Careers

246

LinkedIn: Your Retail Media Trend Radar

247

Research from Amazon Reveals Ideal Ad Budget Allocation

248

Primal Branding: Book Review

249

What's next after VP of Ecommerce?

250

Panel: How these 4 ecomm leaders educate their leadership teams

251

Is Amazon’s new ‘Retail Ad Service’ just a trojan horse?

252

They found Amazon's Rufus AI patent

253

Kingdom of Prep: The J.Crew Story (Book Review)

254

What does it take to lead an RMN?

255

The Non-Obvious Metrics These 5 Brands Use for Retail Media

256

Beyond Keywords: The Evolution of Sponsored Ads

257

Amazon Rufus is a glimpse into the future of AI shopping assistants

258

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