From Walls to Bridges: The Power of Cross-Functional Data Collaboration, a Beet.TV Leadership Series at GroceryShop 2025, presented by Epsilon

LAS VEGAS — The retail media network explosion mirrors the programmatic advertising boom 15 years ago in a lot of ways to Digitas North America’s’ Chelsea Monaco. As the convergence of shopping, advertising, and media becomes more solidified, the wide retail media could look a lot smaller in the near-future.  “If you look at what […]

LAS VEGAS –Instore retail media represents the “natural evolution” of the broader retail media category, said Marlow Nickell, founder of Grocery TV. Speaking with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan at the Groceryshop convention, Nickell said the shift from online to physical locations reflects where most transactions actually occur. “When you think about it, 90-plus percent of […]

LAS VEGAS — Organizations struggling to move from siloed data to actionable cross-channel insights should start small and prioritize progress over comprehensive solutions that never launch. “It’s about simplification and everyone seems to be wanting to boil the ocean, and that’s always hard,” Cristina Marinucci, VP Global Growth & Omni Commercial Insights at Mondelēz International, […]

LAS VEGAS — The “too-late target” is a perennial problem of the programmatic age. And it’s particularly cringeworthy when an ad tech professional experiences a targeted ad after they have already purchased the item they’re subsequently seeing on their digital screen.  “If I go into an electronic store to buy a new laptop or a […]

LAS VEGAS – Retail media’s rapid evolution has made data collaboration an essential tool for both advertisers and retailers, said Liz Roche, vice president of media and measurement at Albertsons Media Collective, during an interview with Beet.TV’s David Kaplan at the Groceryshop convention. “Data collaboration is absolutely the name of the game right now,” Roche […]

LAS VEGAS – Retailers across the board face growing challenges around how to share and activate data responsibly, and Dollar General’s DG Media Network (DGMN) is no exception. Speaking at the Groceryshop convention, Austin Leonard, vice president and general manager of DGMN, said the company is focused on fostering trust, transparency and privacy across its […]

Is your next customer a bot? The way consumers shop and discover products is undergoing significant changes, marked by a highly fragmented journey that spans social feeds, e-commerce platforms, retail media, and AI services. Just when retail media was exploding, AI-powered interaction services are now determining which products are presented to consumers, effectively acting as […]

LAS VEGAS — After years of ad industry striving, the convergence of identity resolution with artificial intelligence tools is finally delivering on the practical promise of brands crafting truly personalized, real-time marketing at scale.  “Missing pieces, like the identity layer and AI, are coming together in ways that enable both the scale and the speed […]

LAS VEGAS — Brand research can be so expensive and time consuming, even the biggest marketers limit themselves to a handful of these interactions a year. As a result, the informed decisions about marketing and advertising based on real-world contact with their consumers are also limited.  Enter TestPilot, which claims to help brands host exponentially […]