The Pistol has been appointed to spearhead the strategy, go-to-market, enablement, and growth of the Liquor Legends Retail Media program. This initiative is powered by Zitcha, a retail media platform developed and incubated by The Pistol.
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Olay hails ‘Hello Better Me’ in new brand platform
Olay has introduced a new brand platform, ‘Hello Better Me’, across Australia and New Zealand. The campaign seeks to align with a cultural shift towards more empowering and authentic beauty narratives, particularly for women in mid-life and beyond.
Retail media investment surges amidst growing measurement challenges: IAB
The IAB Australia Retail Media State of the Nation 2025 Report shows seven in 10 advertisers and agencies engaged in retail media have increased their investment over the past year. But frustrations with clear, standardised measurement and transparency within the retail media sector is growing.
Australian podcast consumption surges to over half of Aussie population as CRA extends Triton Digital partnership
Commercial Radio Australia and Triton Digital’s latest podcast data shows 52% of Australians are now listening to or watching podcasts each month, more than doubling in the past five years from 25% of Australians back in 2020. The news comes as CRA confirms extension of its partnership with Triton Digital on the rankings tracker.
Marks & Spencer debuts fashion line in David Jones stores nationally
The UK’s Marks & Spencer (M&S) has debuted its fashion line in David Jones stores across Australia, marking its first international wholesale partnership in its Fashion business.
Bye bye Flybuys: Ampol’s Z Energy ditches third party loyalty for own platform – gains data, maintains sales, sees customer acquisition surge
Ampol-owned Z Energy abandoned its existing loyalty approach built around Flybuys and Airpoints, after Flybuys NZ closed. Airpoints remains a partner. However, the company built a new loyalty program on its own platform in just nine months by selecting an offer orchestration solution and integrating it into its existing Salesforce-based stack. Bespoke builds are apparently out as configuration trumps customisation – and that also means marketing has a lot more control and independence. Now that Z owns the first-party data, the focus in on orchestrating real-time offers, driving scan rates and engagement higher and selling a lot more pies and barista-made coffees. Three months post-launch, fuel volume are holding firm, customer numbers are surging, and scan rates have popped almost 10X. Loyalty, it turns out, works better when you own it.
Master data platform: How UNSW’s marketing chief learnt to crack open new martech, data investment and collaboration with IT
It’s been seven years since the University of NSW first dipped its toe into martech waters, a move its marketing and digital experience director, Sofia Lloyd-Jones compares to going from dial-up broadband to full fibre. Thanks to solid progress in the first wave of martech innovation, plus concerted efforts to unite the tertiary education behind ‘lifelong learning’ as the next growth opportunity, she’s now cracked open a whole-of-organisation master data platform investment anticipated to help UNSW navigate the snakes and ladders game of international student recruitment caps and restrictions – as well as AI’s disruptive impact on what it means to even learn and build capability in the near term.
Top ten global martech analyst Scott Brinker says tech vendor consolidation has begun, agentic AI’s impact deep on marketers to master a complex, multi-agent future
Mi3’s tech editor Andrew Birmingham is joined by global Martech doyenne and Chief Martec’s editor-in-chief Scott Brinker to dissect the 2025 Martech Landscape, his famed spaghetti-styled industry maps, now at 15,000 different tech solutions, and what it really means for marketers. From the prolific number of martech vendors and AI-powered tools to the dawn of agentic AI and the quest for a universal data layer to unify fractured data feeds, they unpack the pace, the promise – and the peril – of martech’s accelerating complexity. Brinker explains why martech consolidation is finally underway, why agentic AI may be as transformative as the internet, and what needs to happen before we hit a truly interoperable, multi-agent future. Along the way: data chaos, consumption pricing, cybersecurity blind spots—and why marketers must learn to ride the wave, not be crushed by it.
CDP versus master data platform: How UNSW’s marketing chief learnt to crack open new martech, data investment and collaboration with IT
It’s been seven years since the University of NSW first dipped its toe into martech waters, a move its marketing and digital experience director, Sofia Lloyd-Jones compares to going from dial-up broadband to full fibre. Thanks to solid progress in the first wave of martech innovation, plus concerted efforts to unite the tertiary education behind ‘lifelong learning’ as the next growth opportunity, she’s now cracked open a whole-of-organisation master data platform investment anticipated to help UNSW navigate the snakes and ladders game of international student recruitment caps and restrictions – as well as AI’s disruptive impact on what it means to even learn and build capability in the near term.
From brand funnels to demand power: What Treasury Wine Estates tech and marketing chiefs are doing to jointly fuel the commercial playbook
“Powering a commercial playbook” – that’s the job Treasury Wine Estates digital, data and technology chief and former CMO, Kate Whitney, sees her technology team needing to play. And that means helping the marketers not just build brand stories, but demand power. With more than half of marketing leaders still struggling to forge a relationship with their technology counterparts, here’s how Whitney and Penfolds CMO, Kristy Keyte, have found a way to get their teams not only collaborating, but aligned on business and customer outcomes.