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Helen Johnson

Helen Johnson

Managing Director of Capture and Plan-Apps at SMG, the UK's leading commerce media agency; former senior brand director at Procter & Gamble.

Sep 7, 2026

2:40
How do you see commerce media evolving and what does it mean for brands and agencies now?
2:46
Yeah.
2:47
One of the things I've really learned being in this industry for the last four years is that people have different definitions for different words.
2:54
So what I thought I'd do is start with how I view commerce media.
2:58
We could agree if that's the same or we can then take a different kind of approach.
3:02
But the way that I simply think about commerce media is it's the use of any data So any first party commerce data and or commerce media inventory point that a brand uses within its advertising campaign.
3:17
And I say that because I've heard sometimes it referred to just offsite, for example, or I've heard it referred to just as using data, for example.

15 MINS LATER

18:05
Is that something you're seeing and are you doing much in that space?
ChloeHOST
30:26
Yeah
30:26
...
30:26
but no one's ever used it.
30:27
Yeah.
30:27
And we're, like, 90% sure on it, innit? Yeah.
30:29
And if she looks like that name, 'cause we, with Honey, Honey wasn't gonna be called Honey.
30:34
She was actually gonna be called Gypsy.
ChloeHOST
35:17
Yeah.

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