Description

Position your company’s thought leaders as industry authorities through the Media In Retail Leaders Podcast. Each 20–30 minute, professionally produced conversation explores real retail and retail media challenges, strategic perspectives, and forward-looking ideas related to media, commerce, and customer engagement, reaching an engaged audience of senior retail, marketing, media, and commerce decision makers.

Available:

Availability in the 2nd and 4th week of every month starting March

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.
• Attendees are leaders directly responsible for retail media strategy and execution, typically spanning retail media, merchandising, technology, product, data, innovation, operations, and corporate strategy functions.

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.

Episode Recommended Topics:

1. From Trade to Retail Media: What is Really Behind Retail Media's Meteoric RiseSpecial introduction episode. How legacy trade practices evolved into today’s fastest-growing profit engine.
2. Retail Media as a Competitive Moat: How the Flywheel SpinsHow owned media creates durable advantage for retailers - SOLD, 
3. First-Party Data as the New Media CurrencyA discussion on how shopper data is being activated responsibly to drive relevance, measurement, and stronger brand–retailer collaboration.

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

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.