Episode

LIVE at Shoptalk Spring: Retail Media Confessions, Hype Cycles, and the Creator Reckoning

Podcast: Future Commerce
Published: Apr 2, 2026
Duration seconds: 1609
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Summary

Recorded live on the Shoptalk Spring show floor, Phillip and Alicia sit down with Leah Logan, VP of Retail Media Transformation for Inmar Intelligence, and Andrew Lipsman, Founder & Chief Analyst at Media, Ads + Commerce, fresh off a spirited on-stage debate about agentic commerce. We debunk AI Traffic Apocalypse predictions and make the case for creators as a critical yet overlooked retail media channel.