Beyond the Brand

Beyond the Brand
Podcast Description
Beyond the Brand takes you inside the minds of today’s top marketing leaders to uncover the strategies, insights, and challenges shaping the future of brand growth.
Hosted by Adam Wright and Matt Huntly, each episode features candid conversations with experts across retail, media, e-commerce, and consumer goods. From digital transformation to first-party data and retail media to product innovation, we explore what’s really driving success in modern marketing.
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Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on contemporary marketing strategies, challenges, and insights, with episodes covering topics such as digital transformation in retail, the use of first-party data for marketing performance, and product innovation. For example, the inaugural episode featuring Paul Stafford delves into building a retail media network and the evolving landscape of retail media.

Beyond the Brand takes you inside the minds of today’s top marketing leaders to uncover the strategies, insights, and challenges shaping the future of brands.
Hosted by Sampl’s Matt Huntly and Adam Wright, each episode features candid conversations with experts across retail, media, e-commerce, and consumer goods. From digital transformation to first-party data and retail media to product innovation, we explore what’s really driving success in modern marketing.
Brought to you by Sampl (Sampltech.com) – precision product sampling that puts your product in the hands of real buyers.
In this episode of Beyond the Brand, hosts Adam Wright and Matt Huntly sit down with Matt Higgins and Ash White, managing partners at Dentsu’s Addressable Media and Total Commerce units.
Together, they explore the fast-evolving world of retail media, from its roots in Amazon to its expansion across major UK retailers. With years of experience guiding brands through media transformation, Matt and Ash unpack the changing role of creative, measurement, and collaboration in retail media today.
Key takeaways
▶ Amazon remains central, but UK retailers are quickly building sophisticated media offerings to compete
▶ In-store media and digital shelf insights are finally getting the attention and measurement they deserve
▶ Creative is emerging as a critical, and often overlooked, driver of retail media performance
▶ Standardisation and shared learning are accelerating the entire industry, even among competitors
▶ Brands that define clear objectives upfront are seeing the best results from test and learn campaigns
Why listen
▶ Hear how Dentsu is helping brands and retailers work together more effectively in this complex space
▶ Learn how to approach retail media planning based on objectives, not just RoAS
▶ Understand what is really going on behind the scenes at conferences and award shows
▶ Get practical advice for brands starting to invest in retail media or levelling up what they already do
Links & resources
▶ Matt Higgins on LinkedIn▶ Ash White on LinkedIn▶ Dentsu UK▶ Sampl – sponsor and host platform of the show
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