This Month Above the Fold - Amazon takes the top Fortune 500 spot, Amazon's push for cleaner PDPs and the AI-ready shelf, & Walmart's full funnel bet

This Month Above the Fold - Amazon takes the top Fortune 500 spot, Amazon's push for cleaner PDPs and the AI-ready shelf, & Walmart's full funnel bet

In this month’s episode, Emma and Danny Hoffman, Senior Director of Global Retail Strategy at Flywheel, break down three commerce shifts brands should be watching: what Amazon overtaking Walmart on the Fortune 500 signals about its push to become the everything company, how Amazon’s latest content updates are pushing brands toward cleaner, more AI-friendly PDPs and shopping experiences, and why Walmart’s Google, VIZIO, and Vibe.co moves point to a bigger full-funnel bet on connecting media, stores, data, and commerce outcomes.

What if measurement isn't broken, just incomplete? Featuring Job Gibs of Walmart Connect

Jon Gibs, Group Director, Media Insights and Measurement, Walmart Connect joins the show to explore how full-funnel measurement is evolving from attribution to creative effectiveness, and what it takes to turn fragmented signals into a clearer picture of business impact. With a unique vantage point across the ecosystem, Walmart Connect helps marketers tie first-party shopping behavior with exposure across in-store, ecommerce, and VIZIO’s CTV ecosystem, and move beyond isolated metrics to understand how awareness, consideration, and conversion work together.

This Month Above the Fold - Alexa for Shopping, Prime Day in June, and the store's role in retail's data shifts

In this month’s episode, Emma and Danny Hoffman, Senior Director of Global Retail Strategy, break down three commerce shifts brands should be watching: * How Amazon’s rebrand of Rufus to Alexa for Shopping is embedding conversational commerce directly into the shopping journey * Why Prime Day moving to June changes the retail calendar * How store remodels are turning physical retail into a more connected data and consumer experience. Watch or listen now to hear what these changes mean for brands trying to stay ahead of the next wave of commerce.

How to plan for the next 5 years of retail disruption

Disruption is a familiar force in retail, yet many brands still struggle to plan ahead. In this conversation, Emma and Doug Koontz, Senior Director of retail Insights, unpack Flywheel Retail Insights’ annual Future Retail Disruption report and what it means for brands planning for 2026 and beyond. From value-seeking behavior, affordable wellness, and private label pressure to AI’s role in making conversational commerce the norm and retail media’s evolution into a full-funnel commerce engine, Doug explains the forces reshaping retail and how brands can prepare for what comes next without losing sight of the fundamentals. Download the report here. [https://www.flywheeldigital.com/guides/future-retail-disruption-report]

How Clorox is building toward 1:1, personalized marketing in a multi-retailer world

Today’s shoppers bounce between retailers, channels, and missions, but they still expect brands to understand what they need. In this episode, Emma sits down with Tiffany Tan, Head of eComm Growth Accelerator at Clorox, to talk about how Clorox is striving toward 1:1, personalized marketing, the data and clean room foundations behind it, and how AI can help scale personalization in a real, practical way. You’ll hear how Clorox thinks about high‑value shoppers, what it takes to move from broad targeting to more tailored experiences, and how Tiffany is planning for a future where creative, audiences, and measurement all work together to serve real people, not segments on a slide. As mentioned in the episode, you can listen to "How brands can own the AI search revolution" here. [https://www.flywheeldigital.com/podcast/from-powerless-to-proactive-how-brands-can-own-the-ai-search-revolution-w-mike-odonnell]