The CPG Guys are joined by Paula Destin’s, VP of Campaign Measurement, Planning & Amazon Marketing Cloud at Amazon Ads.

This episode was recorded in Austin Texas during the annual Amazon unBoxed event.

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We asked Paul these questions:

1) Amazon Ads Measurement Strategy and Vision: What is the biggest challenges Amazon faces when measuring ad performance across its vast ecosystem?
2. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: How is Amazon leveraging AI to improve the accuracy of attribution models?
3. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Can you describe any recent advancements in predictive analytics within your team’s deliverables?
4. Ad Performance & Insights: How does your team help advertisers identify key drivers of performance beyond basic metrics like CTR or ROAS?
5. Ad Performance & Insights: How do you measure and track long-term brand impact or offline effects of Amazon ads?
6. How do you handle cross-device attribution in a privacy-first world?
7. Amazon Marketing Cloud: What are the unique advantages of using Amazon Marketing Cloud comparedto other clean rooms or measurement solutions?
8. How are vendors/sellers able to leverage measurement in AMC?
9. Amazon Marketing Cloud: Can you share some examples of how advertisers are using AMC to enhance their media planning and optimization?
10. Amazon Marketing Cloud: How does Amazon ensure that AMC remains flexible for advertisers with different needs and levels of technical expertise?
11. Collaboration and Partnerships: How does Amazon work with third-party measurement solutions, and what role do partnerships play in your overall measurement ecosystem?
12. Innovation and Future Outlook: What innovations in ad measurement and attribution are you most excited about over the next few years?

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Mark Baum, Chief Collaboration Officer at FMI, the Food Industry Association and Liz Buchanan, North America President of NielsenIQ. FMI & NielsenIQ are collectively performing a joint research along with Thinkblue LLC - a consulting powerhouse that includes our co-host Sri, on the latest in retail media. They are interviewing brands, retailers and service providers to determine where this RMN topic evolves. The firest iteration of results is to be published at FMI mid winter in late Jan 2025.

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We asked Liz & Mark these questions:

1) Why partner on retail media, why now? Mark follows Liz.
2) What can the industry expect in a partnership between your organizations? Is it a one time effort to land an opinion or will we see an evolution? Mark goes first.
3) Who is the desired audience for the research? Where can the industry broadly find the results? Will there be a learning component or is it a white paper only?
4) what is NIQ’s offerings on retail media? How does this complement what you do
5) why partner on retail media, why now?
6) What can the industry expect in a partnership between your organizations? Is it a one time effort to land an opinion or will we see an evolution?
7) Who is the desired audience for the research? Where can the industry broadly find the results? Will there be a learning component or is it a white paper only?
8) what is NIQ’s offerings on retail media? How does this complement what you do?

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The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Gabriel Dillon, bringing you the ongoing value proposition of contentful. He is the Principal, Strategic Alliance Manager, and is back at Contentful after a stint and ninetailed, bringing his expertise in personalization and testing to the world's largest composable content ecosystem. Before this, he led partnerships at Ninetailed. He also founded a Y Combinator-backed startup, successfully scaling it with top-tier venture capital. Gabriel was Algolia’s first North American sales hire, and later, its first partner sales executive. Along the way, he built top-tier agency relationships at Contentful.

This episode is sponsored by Contentful.

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Here's what we asked him :
1. Give us the scoop on your career and how you anchored the last few years on content as a business model.
2. Gabriel , what does the Ninetailed acquisition mean for Contentful? How does it improve the overall portfolio of Contentful?
3. The single hottest word in content today and we saw it dominate Cannes Lions is AI - how do AI and content intersect?
4. What about platforms - which platforms matter for content engagement and how do you provide services to drive it.
5. Responsibility around content governance matters. How is AI challenging this very theory and how is Contentful thinking about governance and services around it?
6. Content is more than production - ROI asks is the name of the game - how do you see a measurement framework around it - what about Contentful?
7. Talk to us about content personalization at scale - is this even feasible and how does Contentful’s platform enable it?
8. Gabriel - what are key trends around this space we should advise brands to focus on? Why should brands and retailers connect with you to scale?

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DISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast episode is provided for general informational purposes only. By listening to our episode, you understand that no information contained in this episode should be construed as advice from CPGGUYS, LLC or the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for research on any subject matter. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by CPGGUYS, LLC. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represe

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