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March 20, 2024

Disruptive Retail Media with Hy-Vee's Kayla Winstead

Disruptive Retail Media with Hy-Vee's Kayla Winstead
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The CPG Guys

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Kayla Winstead, VP of Retail Media at Hy-Vee, the Iowa-based grocery retailer with over 280 large-format grocery stores in 8 states. Hy-Vee's Retail Media Platform in known as Red Media.

Follow Kayla Winstead on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylabasart/
Follow Hy-Vee on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hy-vee/
Follow Hy-Vee Red Media online at: https://www.hredmedia.com/

Kayla answers these questions:

  1. Let’s start with a look at your professional career and what experiences you think have been pivotal in helping you lead the retail media program at Hy-Vee?
  2. What, from your perspective, makes retail media such a powerful marketing channel for brands and what do you see Hy-Vee bringing to the mix in terms of assets that makes your company well-suited to deliver value to brand advertisers and to your shoppers?
  3. You launched a platform 3 years ago in partnership with Quotient. Last year, you decided to sunset that relationship and relaunched as RedMedia. What was the thinking behind this decision?
  4. Ok, let’s start digging into the ad products that you are offering starting with onsite. What are the core offerings and what type of bidding system is available for sponsored search?
  5. What other offerings do you have for offsite or in-store discovery?
  6. While many of your capabilities are within Hy-Vee’s tech stack, you still require partnerships. What partnerships have you established to support on-site, offsite & in-store products (LiveRamp, Trade Desk, CTV, Samsung Ads) and what integrations have you made to enable brands to leverage existing 3rd party platforms to execute campaigns on Hy-Vee? (Citrus)
  7. For brands to invest in RMNs, they need to ensure that the performance measurement meets their standards. What is Hy-vee offering brands to support measurement in-house or via third-party  Are you offering clean room access to anonymized, aggregate data & what are your thoughts on the movement to standardize how RMNs define and measure performance under the guidance of the IAB?
  8. Looking into 2024 and even 2025, what should our audience expect to see from Hy-Vee that will make RedMedia an even more compelling platform for brand equity investment?


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Kayla Winstead

Vice President

As the Vice President of Retail Media at Hy-Vee, I lead with a fervent dedication to reshaping the landscape of food retail. With a background initially rooted in project management and strategic planning within the technology sector, I honed my skills in team dynamics, executive correspondence, and organizational expertise.

My current role entails spearheading innovative and impactful media solutions for our esteemed supplier partners. I thrive on the challenge of bridging business objectives with a vibrant and welcoming work environment, fostering a culture where creativity flourishes and success is shared.

My solutionist personality propels me to embrace each new venture with energy and excitement, leveraging both my wealth of experience and journey of constant learning. I firmly believe that the most serious endeavors can also be the most enjoyable, fostering collaboration and camaraderie as teams and partners navigate uncharted territory together.

With a commitment to growth and a penchant for questioning the status quo, I champion a culture of continuous improvement, where every challenge is an opportunity and every success serves as a pathway to greater achievements.