Jonathan Opdyke

CANNES — The future of shopping may involve conversations with bots, not browsing websites. Agentic shopping – where AI-powered agents handle purchases – is poised to become as crucial for brands and retailers as having a website is today. “I do believe in the future of agent shopping,” said Michael Komasinski, CEO of Criteo, in […]

LAS VEGAS — Retail media is exploding, and Brian Gleason wants to take a big bite. In a November investor update, Criteo outlined its own retail media offering. Speaking at Omnicom’s Commerce Media Summit at CES 2025, Brian Gleason, President, CRO, Retail Media, Brian Gleason, offered his views on artificial intelligence, measurement and the future […]

LAS VEGAS — Retail media is expanding beyond Amazon to more retailers, while the umbrella “commerce media” is growing opportunities for media to connect to consumer transactions. At CES 2025, Omnicom Media Group hosted discussions on the future of advertising and its “Momentum Multiplied” on the OMG Platform. In this panel, guests discussed how “premium” […]

Looming legislation that will change the rules of the game for ad tracking may be regarded by some with fear – but could Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) actually be beneficial for everyone? For the uninitiated, the GDPR came in to effect back in 2016, whilst the final deadline for compliance comes this […]

About a year ago, performance marketing technology provider Criteo had a lock on lots of e-commerce companies. What it lacked was access to brand marketers that did not have their own e-commerce sites. “Those brands have a challenge in creating a performance solution because the sales are actually measured in third-party ecommerce sites that they […]