{"podcast":{"title":"The Glossy Beauty Podcast","slug":"the-glossy-beauty-podcast-520172","podcast_index_feed_id":520172,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/DIGI3794372059","website_url":"http://glossybeautypodcast.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/80ac6758-71a2-11e9-b68f-d3b7cce1a72d/image/ed028c4a35bf28b75d4abd8de0cb4c18.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Digiday Media","episode_count":388,"summary":"The Glossy Beauty Podcast is the newest podcast from Glossy. Each episode features candid conversations about how today’s trends, such as CBD and self-care, are shaping the future of the beauty and wellness industries. With a unique assortment of guests, The Glossy Beauty Podcast provides its listeners with a variety of insights and approaches to these categories, which are experiencing explosive growth. From new retail strategies on beauty floors to the importance of filtering skincare products through crystals, this show sets out to help listeners understand everything that is going on today, and prepare for what will show up in their feeds tomorrow.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T14:18:22.994235+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-glossy-beauty-podcast-520172"},"episode":{"title":"Is agentic shopping the next big thing in beauty? Sephora and Ulta are betting yes","slug":"is-agentic-shopping-the-next-big-thing-in-beauty-sephora-and-ulta-are-betting-yes","published_at":"2026-05-28T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-glossy-beauty-podcast-520172/is-agentic-shopping-the-next-big-thing-in-beauty-sephora-and-ulta-are-betting-yes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-glossy-beauty-podcast-520172","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/DIGI7120813255.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/DIGI7120813255.mp3","summary":"Artificial intelligence is the undisputed main character of 2026, showing up everywhere from the wedding industry to perfume creation. But even while AI’s place in society remains contentious — in the buzzy “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” AI is a bigger antagonist than Miranda Priestly — beauty brands and retailers are rushing to adopt AI into their platforms. That includes two of beauty’s major players, Sephora and Ulta. In March, Sephora announced an integration of its app within ChatGPT, while Ulta Beauty announced its own artificial intelligence integration via a partnership with Google Gemini just a month later. On this week’s episode of the Glossy Beauty Podcast, hosts Lexy Lebsack and Sara Spruch-Feiner are joined by senior beauty reporter Emily Jensen to discuss Sephora's and Ulta’s recent investments into AI, and how agentic shopping is poised to evolve in the beauty industry. How exactly AI will shape the consumer pipeline and influencer beauty shopping in the months and years to come remains to be seen. But with Amazon (and its proprietary AI capabilities) on Sephora's and Ulta’s heels as a major beauty retailer, the beauty retailers are diving right in rather than risking getting left behind.","meta_description":"Artificial intelligence is the undisputed main character of 2026, showing up everywhere from the wedding industry to perfume creation. But even while AI’s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1907,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-glossy-beauty-podcast-520172/episodes/is-agentic-shopping-the-next-big-thing-in-beauty-sephora-and-ulta-are-betting-yes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-glossy-beauty-podcast-520172/is-agentic-shopping-the-next-big-thing-in-beauty-sephora-and-ulta-are-betting-yes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}