Some planners, buyers and visiting reps may take media department receptionists for granted, but that’s now almost impossible to do at UM’s West 33rd Street offices, where the agency unveiled a new, state-of-the-art commerce lab dedicated to beloved UM receptionist Marva Sealy. The lab is named Marva’s and dedicated to Sealy, who has been the
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The first two days of Digiday’s biannual Media Buying Summit, in Naples, Fla., touched on a host of issues and opportunities media agencies face this year. … The biggest media development of the last few years, retail media, has been a major focus for many agencies and brands. Amie Owen, U.S. head of commerce for
The U.S. head of commerce is one of Ad Age’s 2023 40 Under 40 honorees Amie Owen has “actually been on a tear, getting the UM Commerce name out there,” she said. Owen is the U.S. head of commerce at global media agency UM, a part of IPG Mediabrands, which is making advances in retail
IPG Mediabrands’ UM unit this morning announced the launch of a new retail media budget allocation and optimization tool capable of analyzing and managing the return-on-investment of retail media buys. Dubbed “Shoptimizer” (see screenshot above), UM claims it is a “first-of-its-kind” for the ad industry, and disclosed results of a test phase of various commerce
Clients that tested Shoptimizer saw between 12% and 15% lift in incremental sales Before the pandemic, UM was working with a handful of clients on retail media and commerce investments that totaled about a few hundred million dollars in billings. Now, as many 40 clients are driving $2 billion in global commerce billings for the
Keeping the complexities of marketing channels in mind, Digiday+ Research has analyzed strategies and challenges across leading marketing channels — like programmatic display and social media — to identify key trends and best practices in our CMO Strategies series. In this installment, Digiday+ Research focuses on an analysis of the retail media landscape and its
The popularity of content creators and social commerce is increasingly driving momentum for livestream shopping — sort of an update on the QVC days of shopping channels. But instead of a television network, the shopping is happening across social media and retail platforms, from Walmart to Amazon. Experts point to live shopping’s potential to accelerate
It’s not often a new revenue opportunity comes along for media agencies, as their traditional sources of income (commissions on planning and buying) dry up in the age of procurement. That’s in large part why both holding companies and independent agencies have rushed to grow their commerce media units — it’s a new vein of
Amie Owen, head of shopper marketing for UM Worldwide, joins the CPG scoop in this pre-holiday edition. Amie talks about her two decades of shopper experience, and how she brings a teacher’s lens to the hot world of commerce media as new consumer behaviors continue to shape the space. Amie, Risa, and Jennifer also discuss
If 2022 is the year of commerce media, then 2023 might be the year commerce media ups its game to break down internal silos and improve its measurement. IPG’s UM has quietly been active in the shopper marketing space since 2013, forming UM Shopper with one employee: Amie Owen. The media agency is now morphing
