Over the last four years I have been simultaneously navigating the worlds of CPG marketing and technology startups.

This has allowed me to gain some insight into the current state of the CPG industry. I firmly believe that we are being held back!

Imagine: you just got notified by your finance department that a significant portion of your annual budget is left unspent, and it's already December. For most of us, we don't even need to imagine, do we? If you've never been in this situation,...

One of our newest clients called us in a panic recently. Apparently, one of his company's brand VPs is putting enormous pressure on him and his team to demonstrate where every single dollar they put into shopper marketing and e-commerce budget...

We recently conducted a survey which shows that the tools and systems used by the majority of our respondents are almost three decades old! 

Shopper marketers serve many internal and external clients, each with unique needs and business questions. As a result, shopper marketing practitioners constantly chase the latest information, often creating custom one-off reports and...

By now we have waxed lyrical about all of the very many frustrations that we know shopper marketers face.

Poor productivity. Complexity. Meetings. Dodgy spreadsheets. Disasters waiting to strike … We feel your pain!

Think of your workload and what needs to be accomplished in your work day. Now take that work day and cut it in half…

That’s the state of productivity in the CPG and retail marketing world.

What is the common thread that unites Mondelez, Merck, WPP, Beiersdorf, Auchan Group and Metro? All of them fell prey to the ransomware attack last summer.

The virus named Petya hijacked their computer systems and demanded a ransom payment....

I think we can agree that the CPG and retail marketing industries are facing some compelling problems.

We live in a world of increasing accountability, you need to know and thoroughly understand what marketing investments are or aren’t working....

Industry veteran Olga Yurovski, with more than a decade of experience at Fortune 500 companies as a brand, product and shopper marketer, understands the frustrations of shopper marketers.

We have outlined these frustrations below, have a read and...