Retailers are facing a rapidly evolving landscape where consumer expectations, AI advancements, and social media platforms like TikTok are redefining engagement. It feels like the holiday shopping season just ended, but when do retailers start planning for the next one, and some retailers already behind the curve for this season? Joining us today is Carey Cockrum, Director of Consulting at Cella by Randstad Digital, where she helps major brands and marketing teams optimize their strategies with data-driven insights, AI-powered content creation, and cutting-edge retail marketing trends. With the holidays just around the corner, she’s here to share what’s next for retail marketing, campaign optimization, and how brands can stay ahead in a hyper-competitive space. ABOUT CAREY COCKRUM Carey has been a part of the Creative Agency space for nearly 30 years. She has served as Designer, Creative Director, Creative Operations Lead and Agency Lead in both internal and external agencies (big and small). Carey has worked directly with C-suite stakeholders to understand organizational strategies that inform effective creative solutions. She is a bit of a data nerd and loves demonstrating results. Brands she’s supported include Fruit of the Loom, Wendy’s and Humana. In her free time, she enjoys going back to her creative roots through painting and drawing. She also spends her time improving upon the house she lives in today in Southern, MI - inside and out. RESOURCES Catch the future of e-commerce at eTail Boston, August 11-14, 2025. Register now: https://bit.ly/etailboston and use code PARTNER20 for 20% off for retailers and brands Don't Miss MAICON 2025, October 14-16 in Cleveland - the event bringing together the brights minds and leading voices in AI. Use Code AGILE150 for $150 off registration. Go here to register: https://bit.ly/agile150 Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstrom Don't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnow The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company…
Ruth and Jeff (and a very special guest) talk through four movies about magic: The Illusionist (2006), The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), Now You See Me (2013), and Now You See Me 2 (2016). Did these magical movies cast a spell, or should they be locked in a safe with a defective escape mechanism and cast into the bottom of a lake forever?…
Ruth and Jeff talk about 2001’s fashion-thriller-comedy, Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, and quote their way through most of the movie. Will this be a “cool story, Hansel,” or will the DVD “can’t not die in a freak gasoline fight accident”?
Ruth and Jeff review Michael Bay's 2007 special effects action-drama (with some LaBoeuf wit to season), Transformers , having recently watched it with their kids. Find out on this episode whether this was a good decision, or whether the trailers decepti-conned them into mis-remembering this movie as good. (Oh, that we could blame the trailers...)…
Ruth and Jeff review a Marvel movie that came out before every movie became a Marvel movie: Fantastic Four. No, not the one that came out a few years ago. The other one. Will it be Fantastic? Or is it Doomed?
Jeff and Ruth talk about the 2003 Christopher Guest mockumentary, A Mighty Wind. Will it be a kiss at the end of the rainbow, or will the mighty wind blow it away?
Jeff and Ruth talk about several boxes worth of DVDs they have sitting close enough to the official DVD binder to count, containing Seasons 1-4 of the TV crime procedural, Bones . Will they bury them again back in the binder like any good anthropologist/detective might do, or send them off to the morgue (as in the thrift store)?…
Jeff and Ruth discuss Steven Spielberg’s 1991 flight of fantasy, Hook , starring everybody famous in the 90s. Will it learn how to fly back into the DVD case or be devoured by the crocodile of our recycling pile?
Ruth and Jeff discuss the first season of the Canadian comedy, Slings & Arrows. Set in a fictional Stratford, ON, this Showtime series from the early 2000s starred Paul Gross and several other semi-famous Canadian actors. Find out on this episode of the podcast whether a future where their DVD binder still contains this series is “to be, or not to be”?…
Ruth and Jeff discuss producer and writer Lorne Michaels’s infamous masterpiece, Three Amigos. Will the DVD survive its encounter with the El Guapo of this podcast or will it ride off into the sunset and out of our house in the direction of Value Village? Also stay tuned for the moment where Ruth mistakes Driving Miss Daisy for a much older movie, and Jeff is right about Dan Ackroyd being in it, but wrong about him being in Driving Over Miss Daisy (that was John Ritter).…
Ruth and Jeff discuss civilly (at first) the merits and demerits of Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin’s 1994 library propaganda/fantasy, The Pagemaster. Jeff nerds out on animation stuff and Ruth draws some lines — join us to see if it survives!
Jeff and Ruth discuss the 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s ingenious Poirot mystery, Murder on the Orient Express. We may not be a jury of twelve, but we’re going to use every last one of our “little grey cells” to judge this DVD.
Ruth and Jeff discuss the classic Scottish sci-fi musical, Brigadoon. Will this majestic masterpiece vanish into the mists (i.e., the garbage can), or will it live to be rewatched again — and hopefully sooner than a century from now! (Sorry, lots of Brigadoon-centric references in that write-up!)
Ruth and Jeff discuss the celebrity-stacked and profanity-laced 1985 kid's adventure movie, The Goonies. Is this DVD going to stay in their treasure chest (aka DVD Binder), or does it need to walk the plank?
Ruth and Jeff discuss the special-effects-laden 1998 film, Pleasantville. Will their response be black-and-white, or will they have a more colourful reaction?
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