The Modern Retail Podcast
Episodes
HP's Antonio Lucio: 'Most data is commoditized'
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the year of the pivot to reality, marketers are rethinking their reliance on agencies and relationships with platforms. The General Data Protection...
‘Advertising’s a weird industry’: Wieden+Kennedy’s Neal Arthur on stumbling into a career
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As managing director of Wieden+Kennedy, Neal Arthur is an independent spirit who grew up as the only black kid in his California neighborhood. At Wied...
Verizon’s Andrew McKechnie: ‘I’ve always been experimental’
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew McKechnie is the chief creative officer at Verizon, where he’s building the company’s in-house agency, 140. McKechnie, who last served as g...
'I felt like a fraud': PJ Pereira on proving yourself in advertising
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
PJ Pereira is the founder and creative chairman of Pereira & O'Dell. He also wrote a trilogy of West African myths. On this episode of Starting Out, P...
TBWA's Nancy Reyes: 'When you earn something, it’s the best feeling you have'
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Reyes is the managing director of TBWA\Chiat\Day in New York. Reyes grew up in Long Island City in New York amid rundown houses and warehouses. ...
Leo Burnett’s Mark Tutssel on applying lessons from sports to advertising
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Tutssel is the executive chairman at Leo Burnett. Early on, he learned to watch people to understand them and the value of their attention. On th...
Essence’s Christian Juhl on growing companies and selling reptiles
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Juhl is the global CEO at Essence. Juhl, who majored in political science in college, sees modern work as being inherently political -- from...
‘In careers, you make bets’: GE’s Linda Boff on taking chances and hiring with her ‘spidey sense’
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
GE CMO Linda Boff has been in business for years. As a manager, she has developed what she calls a "spidey sense" about hiring. On this episode of Sta...
OMD CEO John Osborn: Allow yourself flexibility to explore opportunities
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Osborn recently made a major leap when he moved to media agency OMD after 25 years at creative shop BBDO. But the seemingly sharp turn in his car...
Ogilvy & Mather’s John Seifert You’re only as good as others give you permission to be
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From college dropout to the worldwide CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, John Seifert’s career seems like the plot of a movie. Seifert joined the agency for a ...
Big Spaceship’s Michael Lebowitz: ‘Half of all success is serendipity’
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Lebowitz is the founder and CEO of creative agency Big Spaceship, which has grown to over 100 employees since he started it in 2000. In this e...
Razorfish co-founder Jeff Dachis on his days of being a provocateur
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Dachis is the founder of diabetes management app One Drop and co-founder of Razorfish. On this episode of Starting Out, Dachis discusses his care...
DigitasLBi’s Michael Kahn: Sustainable leadership is a ‘marathon at a sprint pace’
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Kahn went from multiple entrepreneurial stints to a long-term leadership role at Performics before arriving at DigitasLBi as its global brand ...
Barton F. Graf CCO: ‘90 percent of a creative person’s life is rejection’
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gerry Graf is the chief creative officer and a founder at creative agency Barton F. Graf, who’s worked at major creative shops like Goodby Silverste...
Omnicom’s Jonathan Nelson: 'As you run a larger company, it’s harder to say we’re all equal'
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Nelson is the CEO at Omnicom Digital, a global marketing and communications holding company that employs about 84,000 people around the world...
McCann’s Harris Diamond: Hire people who are better than you
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
McCann Worldgroup CEO Harris Diamond has taken the IPG network to new heights since he came on board in 2012. In this episode of Starting Out, Diamond...
Cycle Media’s Jason Stein: 'You can’t succeed if you’re not delegating to great people'
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Stein, founder and CEO of marketing service agency Laundry Service and media company Cycle, pushed himself to the extreme while founding two com...
‘If I do this one more day, I might be doing it forever’: Ian Schafer on leaving the agency business
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Longtime agency veteran Ian Schafer recently announced his exit from the agency business following a midlife crisis that motivated him to try somethin...
P&G’s Marc Pritchard: ‘We needed to start having a discussion about unconscious bias’
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Pritchard, chief brand officer at Procter & Gamble, made waves in the marketing industry by starting a conversation about unconscious racial bias...
Best of 2017: Marketing experts share their best tips for success
28 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This year, Digiday launched a new podcast called “Starting Out." We invited some of the biggest names in marketing to share the secrets of their lea...
'Lucky doesn’t happen by accident': Brandless’ Tina Sharkey on finding opportunities
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tina Sharkey, co-founder and CEO of Brandless, thought she would follow in her mother's footsteps and run a fashion company. But after graduation, her...
'Anyone can be an entrepreneur': VC Eric Hippeau on diversity in startups
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Hippeau, managing partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, has invested in many entrepreneurial projects. For him, an important part of deciding whethe...
'My biggest fear is inertia': DDB’s Wendy Clark on having a doer mentality
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Clark, CEO of DDB North America, has won many awards during her years of leadership in the agency world. For her, it boils down to being a doer...
‘I always wanted to put on a show’: Y&R global CEO David Sable on being in the public eye
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Sable, Y&R global CEO and chairman of the board, is a pillar of the Madison Avenue set. The former Wunderman executive is known for his love of ...
'I wanted to see if I could be really, really happy': Rei Inamoto on his life goals
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Starting Out, Rei Inamoto details his childhood in Japan, his experience as a twin and his five-year plan.
'I had shitty mentors': Bryan Wiener on learning to lead
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
360i Chairman Bryan Wiener has a pretty simple formula for success: old-fashioned hard work. Wiener, who has had a long career in the ad business and ...
'In our industry, we wring our hands a lot': Jaime Robinson on getting back to basics
02 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jaime Robinson is one of the industry's best-known creatives. The former Wieden+Kennedy executive now runs her own shop, Joan, which she co-founded la...
'There weren’t people talking about the things I wanted to say': Ogilvy Noor's Shelina Janmohamed on changing narratives
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Shelina Janmohamed is the vp at ad agency Ogilvy Noor, Ogilvy's Islamic consultancy, where she teaches brands how to sell to the Muslim customer. This...
'You gotta show up': Katrina Craigwell on introverts at work
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Katrina Craigwell, GE Digital head of marketing innovation, has become a force in the marketing industry for her championship of women and women of co...
'Instinct gets you money, instinct gets you power': Dany Lennon on using her gut
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dany Lennon has done it all: From music to advertising to agency life, Lennon, now the founder of recruiting and coaching company Creative Register, i...
'When you get fired it sticks with you': Jeff Goodby on the hardest part of his job
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Goodby, the chairman at Goodby Silverstein and Partners, has built a storied career in advertising. Goodby founded the agency along with Rich Sil...
‘It meant more when I finally achieved something’: Sarah Thompson on life as an outsider
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On the first episode, Sarah Thompson, the global CEO of Droga5, joined us to discuss the value of keeping it simple and what it’s like to try land a...
Introducing Starting Out
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Starting Out is Digiday’s latest podcast. A show where we find out how the industry’s biggest movers and shakers made it, what’s their special p...