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The next webinar in the Talking Shop series is just around the corner

It’s not long to go until our next webinar of the series, “Reality Check: How 2024 Retail Media Predictions Have Held Up So Far” which follows our first two webinars of the series “Mastering retail media with Boots Media Group: A deep dive into the fundamentals” and “Assessing the size of the retail media prize”.


What can I expect from the next webinar of the series?


In this third webinar of the series, we pause to reflect on the retail media predictions made at the beginning of 2024. Three quarters into the year, it’s time to assess how these forecasts have fared against the evolving landscape of retail media. Our panel of industry experts will review key trends, analyse what’s been accurate, and discuss what the remainder of the year might have in store.


Meet the speakers


Emma Dean

Working with the founders to build SMG from the bottom up, Emma was fortunate enough to experience the many different facets of an ever-changing business and industry.  Starting her career in a commercial role within a partnership in-house at Sainsbury's, building their retail media proposition whilst simultaneously building FMCG brand trust, knowledge, and ultimate growth in the channel.  Emma broadened her retail side expertise into the travel retail sector when heading up a partnership on-site at Heathrow.  


Emma has worked with key stakeholders from the UK's retailers, media owners, and top FMCG's in developing and leading SMG's Capture agency.  More recently, Emma has developed her career in the people, culture, and capability sector, in a centralised position within SMG.


Dean Harris

Dean is a dynamic marketing leader with over 15 years of experience spanning B2B and B2C markets, previously holding roles in advertising, loyalty, CRM, trade planning, brand management, and customer strategy.


His career started in advertising, working at McCann Erickson across their global B2B client portfolio. Now at Co-op, Dean has spent more than a decade driving the performance of Co-op’s grocery and life services businesses in a variety of customer & commercial functions.


As the Head of Co-op Media Network, Dean is responsible for growing Co-op’s convenience-focused media business. Partnering with advertisers to leverage Co-op’s scale, media attention, and first-party data to make purchase decisions easier for shoppers.


As Co-op Enterprise Person Data Owner, Dean is also trusted to safeguard customer interests whenever their data is shared, moved, and used.


Georgina Evenden 

Georgina has been helping brands build effective media campaigns for over 15 years. Starting her career in partnerships for the live entertainment industry, Georgina understood early on that the best results come from true collaboration and integration.


An opportunity to develop Capture’s media proposition nearly 10 years ago led to an exciting three years of working hand-in-hand with retailers and brands to push the retail media agenda and ensure it is considered from the infancy of brand planning.


Since then, her experience across a number of agencies, strategically planning media campaigns across various categories, has enabled a well-rounded view of how to bring it all together to deliver the best results; from retail media and E-commerce through to digital and ATL.


Georgina rejoined SMG this year to head up the Capture agency business, which exists to help FMCG brands make the right choices across the commerce media landscape, buy campaigns efficiently, and deliver robust, consistent reporting to understand exactly what works.


Jon Rabone

Jon serves as the UK Online Grocery Head and UK Retail Media Lead for Mars Wrigley. He is passionate about digital innovation and the future of Retail Media, believing that its development could be a catalyst for advancing omnichannel strategies and enhancing the consumer experience.


For more information about this webinar, you can click here. Make sure to register your attendance and reshare the webinar to let us know that you’ll be joining us.


About SMG

SMG is by far the UK’s largest player in the accelerating retail media space, combining un-matched retail media investment expertise Capture, the market-leading retail media management technology platform Plan-Apps, and Threefold, the leading consultancy and managed service provider for retail media networks in the UK and North America.


As an independent retail media pioneer, SMG’s data expertise and technology innovations drive the growth and evolution of connected commerce and in-store retail media space, offering true omnichannel capabilities. Now one of the fastest-growing British media and technology companies, SMG works with over 800 CPG brands and operates retail media networks for Boots, Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, and The Very Group.


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