Description

Position your company’s thought leaders as industry authorities through the AiR Leaders Podcast. Each 20-30 minute, professionally produced conversation explores real retail challenges, strategic perspectives, and forward-looking ideas, reaching an engaged audience of senior retail decision makers.

What’s included:

• 20-30 minute expert interview published across RETHINK Retail podcast channels.
• Promotion across RETHINK Retail channels. Including RETHINK Retail newsletter sent to 25,000 retail industry professionals and LinkedIn with over 30,000 followers, plus one NRF promotional post via either LinkedIn or email.
• Each episode sees 3,000-6,000 listens from our senior retail leader audience.
• Promotion for each Podcast will follow a strategic visibility arc: a strong launch push, continued reinforcement over the following weeks, and evergreen resurfacing when the topic is most relevant.
• Recording of the episode and highlight clips made available to the sponsor for sharing their own website, sales presentations, and social media.
• Opportunity to help shape the discussion topic and include a retail perspective, ensuring the conversation aligns with your thought leadership objectives.

Target Audience:

• Senior executives - Senior Director and above - from reputable retailers or brands with a minimum of 1,000 employees.
• Leaders directly involved in AI initiatives within their organization or team.
• Typically part of tech, product, data, innovation, operations, or strategy leadership teams.
• Download the  AI audience fact sheet here.

Key Benefits:

Podcast interviews provide a unique platform to position your executives as industry authorities while sharing actionable insights with a highly engaged audience of retail decision makers. The professionally produced format, combined with promotion across RETHINK Retail channels, maximizes reach, visibility, and follow-up opportunities with the right audience.

Recommended Topics:

1. The Human-AI Partnership: Rethinking Retail Leadership. How executives can blend AI capabilities with human judgment to drive innovation and growth.
2. AI That Knows Your Customer Before They Do. Exploring predictive analytics and behavioral AI for proactive retail strategies.
3. Generative AI in Marketing: From Creative Spark to Competitive Advantage. Turning AI-generated content into a tool for strategic differentiation in marketing and merchandising.
4. The Ethical Edge: Building Trust in AI-Driven Retail. How retailers navigate privacy, fairness, and transparency while scaling AI solutions.
5. From Data to Dollars: AI in Retail Revenue Optimization. Real stories of AI driving pricing, assortment, and promotional strategies that boost margins.
6. Smart Stores, Smarter Decisions. Rethinking in-store operations with AI, robotics, and intelligent workflow solutions.
7. Conversational AI Beyond Customer Service. How voice and chat interfaces are transforming brand engagement, loyalty, and conversions.
8. AI-Powered Supply Chain Resilience. Lessons in leveraging AI for supply chain, demand planning, and operational agility.
9. Sustainability by Design: AI for a Greener Retail Future. How AI is helping retailers minimize environmental impact and support ESG commitments.
10. AI for Complex Challenges: Real Stories from Retail Innovators. Highlighting concrete examples of AI solving complex business challenges across retail.
11. Breaking Silos: Scaling AI Across People, Teams, and Systems. Exploring organizational and cultural strategies for successful enterprise-wide AI adoption.
12. Beyond the Data Turning - AI Insights into Action. How retailers move from AI-generated insights to tangible business outcomes, closing the gap between analytics and execution.

Want more info? Download the RETHINK Retail Audience Fact Sheet - AI.

Sponsor to provide:

• Logos 2 | DUE: ASAP | SUBMIT LOGOS HERE  
  • 1 full-color logo as high-resolution vector file. .eps, .ai, or .pdf files preferred. 
  • 1 single-color - black or white - logo as high-resolution vector file. .eps, .ai, or .pdf files preferred.
• Content deliverables as dictated by the NRF content team.