Kevin Longo

CANNES — At a Beet.TV panel during Cannes Lions 2024, Snap executives emphasized the platform’s ability to recreate intimate shopping experiences with friends, leveraging AR capabilities and close social networks. They positioned Snapchat as a “third place” for users to connect authentically, creating opportunities for brands to become part of Gen Z’s social rituals and purchasing […]

CANNES – Social-media companies in the past decade have built out their commerce platforms, helping brands to drive direct sales. As they collaborate with retailers that sell advertising, they are finding ways to complement each other’s strengths. “For everything that retail media networks have, one thing they don’t have is consistency,” Kevin Longo, head of […]