The Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast is a podcast about all the ways the retail industry is changing and modernizing. Every Saturday, senior reporters Gabi Barkho and Melissa Daniels break down the latest retail headlines and interview executives about what it takes to keep up in today’s retail landscape, diving deep into growth strategies, brand autopsies, economic changes and more
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Mizzen and Main’s Kevin Lavelle: The DTC space ...
There is no lack of success stories in the direct-to-consumer markets. But there are also questions being asked of how long the industry can sustain itself. With a plethora of new brands launched every day, built on VC money with tall growth targets,...
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Visible CMO Minjae Ormes: Phone service can be ...
A few months ago, Verizon launched Visible, a new brand that sits within the multi-billion dollar company. Launched invite-only, Visible is a digital-only phone carrier with no stores and e-commerce only service. And the telco brand is taking cues...
27 min
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MM. LaFleur's Sarah LaFleur: To grow, you have ...
As DTC brands grow up, they begin to look a lot like traditional brands. The challenge then, is differentiation. The solution: better data management. MM. LaFleur, the “bento box” pioneer of women’s workwear is one of those brands that uses data...
33 min
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Deloitte Digital’s Alicia Hatch: We are ready t...
Consultancies are turning into agencies as agencies grapple for a seat at the table. Alicia Hatch, CMO of Deloitte Digital, the $1 billion ad agency that sits within Deloitte, has insight into why consultancies are built for the modern CMO. On this...
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Gravity Products CEO Mike Grillo: DTC is not a ...
Born online direct-to-consumer brands are increasingly turning to traditional physical retail models to find new places for growth. Mike Grillo, CEO at Gravity Products, thinks DTC is just a launch model and not a sustainable business model for the...
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Thirty Madison's Steven Gutentag: DTC brands ri...
Thirty Madison, the parent company behind men’s hair loss treatment Keeps and migraine treatment company Cove, which just raised a little over $15 million in funding, is using the wellness and health momentum in the DTC industry as it looks to...
33 min
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American Express's Elizabeth Rutledge: Customer...
At a time when brands everywhere are turning to digital marketing to connect with customers, American Express is taking a much more human approach. For Rutledge, her motto has always been, 'Customer first,' so it felt natural to try and find a way to...
32 min
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Shiv Singh: When it comes to platforms, markete...
For Shiv Singh, most of the industry's current problems come down to trust. That's the focus of the former PepsiCo and Visa marketing executive's new book, co-written with psychologist Rohini Luthra. The book, called "Savvy: Navigating Fake Companies,...
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Hims' Andrew Dudum: A DTC shake out is coming
One year old men's healthcare DTC brand is attempting to disrupt healthcare. The company, which is centered around removing the friction from treating common health issues such as erectile disfunction and hair loss, uses a combination of affordable...
33 min
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Orange Theory’s Kevin Keith: ‘Wellness is here ...
Orange Theory, a fitness company founded in 2010, is now making $1 billion in revenue and is on track to open 2,500 studios by 2024. The brand is riding the wellness wave, which means more than just fitness. Kevin Keith, chief brand officer at Orange...
30 min
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Ro’s Rob Schutz: Facebook remains the most effe...
Ro, a healthcare direct-to-consumer company that began with a product to treat erectile dysfunction, has a different set of marketing challenges to worry about compared to other DTC brands. Regulation in marketing pharmaceutical products differs from...
32 min
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'How Hill City affects Gap Inc. is TBD': Eric T...
Late last year, Gap Inc. launched Hill City, an activewear line that is its version of Athleta, but for men. It's also the retail giant's new opportunity to keep growing in activewear. Eric Toda, head of marketing at Hill City, says the advantages of...
31 min
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Parachute's Luke Droulez: I don't want to be kn...
Born online, so-called DTC brands are growing up. Retailers that were once solely e-commerce are now turning to a more traditional playbook for growth. Rolling our physical retail stores is the first step in the way. Parachute, a digitally-born bed...
30 min
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Intel's Teresa Herd: In-house agencies have 'in...
The road to in-house certainly isn’t smooth. As the industry gets more and more excited about brands building their internal agencies, a bit of a rude awakening came in December last year when Intel announced it would be shuttering its internal...
20 min
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SAP’s Alicia Tillman: The focus of B2B marketin...
B-to-B marketing is not a bubble. The rise of influencers and direct-to-consumer businesses have presented marketers with new challenges with whom to market to and which tools and channels to use. Inside SAP, chief marketing officer Alicia Tillman is...
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Karmarama's Ben Bilboul on working with a consu...
Consolidation is the name of the game and one of the big players in the M&A space are consultancies. Karmarama CEO Ben Bilboul discusses the merits of being acquired by Accenture, why he is wary of holding companies and more.
25 min
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Marketing drives the business again and agencie...
On this episode of the Making Marketing by Digiday, we recap the big themes that emerged for marketers this year, from agency consolidation to marketing evolving as a driver of business.
9 min
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GoPro’s Nick Woodman on building a media brand ...
For GoPro, it never considered itself as solely a camera maker. Rather, it was a media brand, according to founder Nick Woodman. He discusses reshaping the brand over the years, how GoPro’s media team operates differently and more.
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iCrossing’s Anne Bologna: Brands will take more...
Big mergers resulting in new entities like Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R have set the tone for 2019: It’s going to be the year of consolidation. Anne Bologna, chief strategy officer at Hearst-owned agency iCrossing, says there is too much...
24 min
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Deutsch’s Mike Sheldon: The advertising agency ...
The big shift in this year has been in the marketers’ demands from an agency. It’s not just about the advertising anymore. Agencies are increasingly being called on to solve business problems -- and it's showing. Mike Sheldon, Chairman and CEO of...
27 min
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IBM’s Michelle Peluso: Marketers need to be ret...
Blockchain and AI are IBM's big bets to take the company back on the top as a leader in innovation and technology. Michelle Peluso, chief marketing officer at IBM, discusses how the technologies will change the craft of marketing.
31 min
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Nestle’s Pete Blackshaw: It’s challenging for a...
There's a lot of talk around "nimbleness" inside big companies. But the legacy internal red tape stands in the way of operations and the lessons of traditional marketing behavior are difficult to unlearn. That's been the responsibility of Pete...
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Rothy's president Kerry Cooper: The challenge f...
Instagram has long been touted as a haven for direct-to-consumer brands. The case has been the same for Rothy’s, a women’s shoe brand that recently surged in popularity after actress and royal family member Meghan Markle, wore the label on the day...
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MedMen’s David Dancer: Regulations need to catc...
Cannabis has succeeded in going from being stigmatized by society to now capturing the imagination of retailers, investors and consumers. MedMen, a publicly traded company out of California, is at the forefront of the developing cannabis...
32 min
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MullenLowe Group's Alex Leikikh: There are too ...
The agency world is shrinking. Alex Leikikh, global CEO at MullenLowe Group, thinks there is an oversupply of agencies in the U.S. market. He believes that as more clients start to go in-house, there will be more mergers and more agencies will go out...
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