Shopless
Welcome to Shopless, where we engage with industry leaders in retail and commerce media to uncover their journeys to success. As many of us know, there's no formal education path specifically for retail media. Our goal is to explore the diverse career paths that have led these individuals to their current positions and share valuable insights along the way.
Episodes
What does Domino's, Microsoft, Google and Amazon have in common? If you answered "Moloco's Artist in Residence" you'd be right. Curious? You should be. Pat Copeland, technically a software "guy" has helped engineered some of the most prolific online media platforms in our retail media history at their most rocket ship like points. Hear how he's caught those takeoffs, what he's working on now at Moloco and what that has to do with p...
*Originally recorded January 2025*
The man, the myth, the retail legend, Mark Stamps sits down as one of our very first guests and outlines a 26-year career in retail. From Walmart IT to the brand side with Skittles to media agency and retail media technology, Mark has seen a lot and asked a lot of great questions around measurement, brand needs and insights along the way to some of our most prolific partners in the industry.
*Originally recorded July 18, 2025*
In this episode of Shopless, we welcome retail media legend Cara Pratt for a very fun, very nerdy walk through her career, from stocking deodorant and accidentally ordering way too much Chapstick, to helping build some of the biggest data and retail media businesses in the industry.
We get into Cara’s career path along with conversations around clean data, retail media, AI, measurement, and t...
In this episode of Shopless, we sit down with retail media strategist, writer, speaker, and professional industry truth-teller Colin Lewis for a conversation that goes from Dublin garage bands and fruit jam deliveries to airlines, e-commerce, marketplaces, and the future of commerce media.
We talk about Colin’s early days driving around Ireland trying to get marmalade onto shelves, what airlines can teach retail media about at...
In this episode of Shopless, we sit down with Costco retail media leader Mark Williamson for a conversation that covers everything from early startup chaos and financial advising during the Great Recession to building retail media programs at Sam’s Club, Ahold Delhaize, CitrusAd, and now Costco.
We talk about entrepreneurship inside massive retail organizations, why retail media is harder than it looks, and what it actually ta...
In this episode of Shopless, we welcome eMarketer principal analyst Sarah Marzano for a fun, fashionable, retail media conversation about how she got here, from working in consignment and studying merchandising at FIT, to buying kids’ clothes at Macy’s and Lord & Taylor, to becoming one of the sharpest voices covering retail media today.
We talk about what it’s really like to be a buyer, why cashmere can haunt ...
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