bricks and clicks by Triple Whale Network

Last Updated: June 26, 2026
Johnny and Colin are mathematicians who work with some of the biggest consumer packaged goods companies around.Each week they discuss grocery trends, trade marketing, and the world of consumer packaged goods.Make sure you're subscribed to never miss an episode.Check them out at https://omniumcpg.com
Expo Trends and Innovation: Season 2 Finale
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Demos, Merchandising, and Sampling: Rowdy CEO Kellie Lee on Effective Launch Strategies for Food Brands.
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

How Tru Earth's Ryan McKenzie is Disrupting the Laundry Industry
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Gina El Kattan of Nuba Tisane - The Real Work Begins After Creating a Great Product
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Geotargeted Ads and Competitively Priced Products w/ Vasa Martinez
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Data-Driven Marketing and Generative AI: The Future of E-Commerce with Triple Whale
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Maximizing Velocity Thresholds: Lessons from CPG Leader Mike Fata
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

AI is already impacting CPG - Min Chen of Wisy
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Excel battles, roller coasters, and trainings, oh my!
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Launching a pancake mix online, and in store. Andrew Maida Flourish Pancakes
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If you heard the most recent what's in my pantry episode, the group talked about launching a panckae mix brand. Andrew Maida Launched Flourish a few years ago, and talks expanding into the US.

What's in my pantry? Year end edition!
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

What is RGM (Revenue Growth Management) And Why You’ll Hear of it More in 2023
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Starting a Bread Business to Impressing Your Crush - Sadie Scheffer Bread SRSLY
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Balancing Mission and Profit - Lisa Curtis Part 2
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Bringing New Products and Ingredients to Grocery Shelves Responsibly - Lisa Curtis Kuli Kuli
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Sell IN and Sell THRU Retail - Shopper marketing with Mary Tarczynski
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Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.

Deductions and Trade Management: An Oversimplified Look
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The unsexy parts of the process may be the most important. Reviewing the trade spend you’ve spent on events with retailers may not always be the most exciting.

It's Actually Plant Based! Olivia Chen on launching Twrl Milk tea during the pandemic and scaling since
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Olvia Chen and Pauline Ang are best friends and moms who started Twrl Milk Tea during the pandemic needed to fulfil the need for going out to the boba shop.

Oatly's SVP of Retail Sales Heather Cooper - REPLAY from Natural Bay Area
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Johnny and Colin are back! This episode was recorded live at Naturally Bay Area with Heather Cooper, Senior Vice President of Retail Sales at Oatly.

All about Oreos! Season 1 Wrap up.
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We're taking a few weeks off for a pat leave, so we're going the episode we've been putting off.

Grocery store promotions during the dog days of summer. From ice cream to sunscreen!
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It's that time of the year -- when buyers are looking to run promotions on everything from ice cream to sunscreen.

What's wrong with raising capital in the CPG space?
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Johnny, Colin, and Lucas share their experience raising capital, and why it's left a bad taste in their mouths.

Sales velocity based on Josh Mohr's Tweet.
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Josh Mohr posted this would you rather to Twitter. Johnny and Colin breakdown which one is better.

Omnium's approach to hiring and working in CPG
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Johnny and Colin break down their approach to hiring, recruiting, and managing and we discuss why there aren't more graduates looking to work in consumer packaged goods.

How Bachan's Became the Number 1 BBQ Sauce on Amazon.
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Johnny and Colin chat with Chase Novelich, Director of Ecommerce at Bachans, a Japanese Hot Sauce that has quickly become a pantry favorite.

Pricing for growth and profitability - Drew Marconi
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Drew Marconi, founder of Intelligems, swings by to talk about pricing and how it impacts your bottom line. Your customers may be

Sales Velocity and Distribution Measure
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Johnny and Colin fly by themselves in this episode talking about sales velocity. In this episode they discuss:

Josh Mohr shares the strategy behind TCHO's rebrand.
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Josh Mohr cut his teeth at Red Bull Energy Drink during its early days in North America. After an 8-year stint in the energy drink category, he hopped over to help Muscle Milk become the #1 protein brand with millennials, ultimately ushering the brand through acquisition. 

What sweet treat is in the pantry?
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What else is in our pantry? Johnny, Colin, and Lucas reach shoulder deep into their pantries to pull out 3 more stacks for discussion around pricing and promotion.

Can you guess what CPG products are in our pantry?
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As the Omnium team builds out My Brand Pantry, Johnny, Colin, and Lucas all picked a product from their pantry and guess the price on DTC websites, Amazon, and grocery retailers.

What is Account Planning? | The Wheel
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Johnny and Colin are planning out their year of promotions. Hear how they plan for their CPG clients. In this episode they talk about planning how to roll out the MAPs across all teams.

MAPS Key Learnings in the Annual Planning Cycle | The Wheel
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How do you use your data, and what learnings can you develop from it? Johnny and Colin break down what to look for when developing your MAPS.

What do startup CPG brands need to know about going into stores? [Recorded Live]
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Recorded live in the Gorgias office, Colin Davidson shares what brands who started as DTC need to know before going into grocery.

Expo West Recap and a review of products across the pond.
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In this episode, Lucas asks Johnny and Colin about Expo west. What they saw, what was missing, and what their biggest takeaways were.

You can't make it up in volume - Mythbusting thin margins.
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One of the most common myths in CPG is that you can make it up in volume. Sometimes it's doable but unless you're a big company you're not going to make up for eroding margins.

We screwed up spending $75,000,000 (hypothetical dollars)
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We screwed up how we would spend the $75,000,000 raised by Liquid Death by not investing in data. Investing in Nielson, IRI and other data sources are a great investment when growing your business.

Busting the myth that you need a revolutionary packaging update
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Johnny and Colin are back, and don't expect this episode to be popular, but watch out when changing your packaging. It's rare to see a lift in sales when there is new packaging being released.

Using Your Trade Spend to Drive Performance
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Johnny and Colin share how they use pay for performance marketing to evaluate the best trade rates and promotional opportunities in grocery store promotions.

Conversation with Liquid Death VP of Cult Indoctrination Stix
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In this episode of Bricks and Clicks, Stix joinsJohnny and Colin of Omnium to talk about Liquid Death's Cans in Hands strategy.

Rising Tide Prices Lift All and Campbell's Brothtails
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In this episode of Bricks and Clicks, Johnny and Colin of Omnium break down

Spending $75M, Supply Chain Questions, and Omicron impact
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The first recorded episode of the year

Why is it so hard for legacy brands to sell online?
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Colin and Johnny of Omnium breakdown why it's so hard to sell online.

Distributing Hundreds of SKUs
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60-75% of account planning is spent on distribution planning because it's going through SKU by SKU to see what products are selling well in each location.

Account Planning and Distribution
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What happens during account planning? In short it’s a collaborative process when everyone, from the team at Omnium, heads of sales, account management, and customer marketing go over weeks and years of data to drive and execute the strategy for each account (retail store).

Transactional Spending vs Promotional Spending
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Transactional spending is something we all spend on, buying events, ads, shopper marketing, any type of marketing in store -- the goal of these is to drive sales in store, but also to build relationships with your retail partners.

Why so many grocery products fail
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When you walk the grocery store, you always see the same products. Why is that? It might be easy to ignore when launching a new product, but most products that are launched, don’t make it. Your favourite brands probably started out with one product, and even if you do succeed, it’s very hard to replicate that.

Where Does Grocery Data Come From?
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Retail data comes over looking at 104 weeks, or two years worth of data to be able to make multimillion dollar decisions for CPG brands.

What is Trade Marketing?
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What is Trade Marketing?

Meet your hosts, Johnny and Colin of Omnium
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Welcome to Bricks and Clicks, hosted by Johnny and Colin of Omnium. Every day they bring strategy and insights to their CPG clients developed by mathematicians with PhDs. Now they're sharing insights, strategy, and weekly events with you!

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