The CPG Guys

Enabling Contextual Commerce with The Mars Agency's Ethan Goodman & Chicory's Jason Young

Peter V.S. Bond & Sri Rajagopalan Season 1 Episode 117

The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Ethan Goodman, SVP of Commerce, Media & innovation at The Mars Agency & Jason Young, President of Chicory a NYC-based tech firm and the leading digital shopper marketing platform for CPG and grocery brands. Its signature “Get Ingredients” button can be found on over 1,500 recipe websites, including Taste of Home, Delish, LandOLakes.com and thousands of influencer food blogs. Leveraging its extensive recipe network, Chicory partners with leading CPG brands like Nestlé and grocery retailers like Wakefern to serve hyper-relevant ads to consumers in the moments when they’re planning their grocery purchases. As the pioneer of shoppable recipes and the expert in contextual commerce, Chicory creates the digital tools to take grocery shoppers from inspiration to checkout in a few clicks.

This is the third in a 3 part series with Chicory.

Follow Chicory online at: http://www.chicory.co
Follow Ethan on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethangoodman/
Follow Jason on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-young-digitalmediaexpert/

Ethan & Jason answer these questions:

1) Jason - What was it about Chicory’s business model that attracted you?
2) Ethan - can you give our audience a view into what the day in a life of a SVP of commerce media looks like?
3) Jason - what is the mission you are on for Chicory? How does it help brands develop brand equity given your background? How will this connect to developing Chicory as a possible media network of the future?
4) Ethan - what is the partnership with Chicory, how are you both collectively delivering for the consumer, and give us a peek into how the partnership works day to day?
5) Jason - give us your predictions on the future of digital grocery as it intersects with marketing (its on your home page). What is Chicory’s role in enabling that?
6) Ethan - talk to us about your retail partnerships in particular and how its delivering wins for Mars?
7) Ethan - decompose the word contextual commerce for sales folks - what is the simple English definition - or is this the domain of marketers exclusively?
8) Jason - what’s next for Chicory - what would  you want our audience to know? Can you please share a roadmap?

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