Advertising Trends: Traditional vs. Online Retailers and European Market Insights

On this week’s M&W Podcast we summarize our take on the latest GDP data, a critique of Mark Zuckerberg’s take on how AI-driven advertising will impact GDP, second quarter ad results and much more.   Plus, on this week's podcast, our Advertising 101 series continues with a focus on digital advertising with Scott Ensign, chief strategy officer of independent agency Butler/Till.

This follows the past eight weeks where we explored the role of agencies (Ep. 23 with Macquarie Securities' Tim Nollen, the function of global account leads (Ep. 24 with Heartmore's Carl Hartman), media agencies (Ep. 25 with Boston University professor Janna Greenberg), media planning (Ep. 26 with Scott Wensman), media research (Ep. 27 with Stacey Schulman), national TV and CTV buying (Ep. 28 with Todd Gordon), local TV (Ep. 29 with Janice Finkel-Greene), outdoor advertising (Ep. 30 with Keith "Kappy" Kaplan) and our first segment on digital advertising at agencies (Ep. 31 with Martin Galvin from Calm Media).  Our first six parts focused on marketers and how they allocate resources (you can listen to these interviews on episodes 17-22 of The M&W podcast).