P&G's Benjamin Spiegel Admits What He Got Wrong About Consumer Behavior

The global chief digital officer also discussed AI, 'maskne,' virtual influencers and the lipstick effect

Benjamin Spiegel, global chief digital officer for Procter & Gamble’s beauty segment, is not afraid to admit that some changes in consumer behavior he thought might occur during the pandemic … well, did not occur.

“There were a lot of things that we assumed would happen early on that, in the end, didn’t quite pan out,” noted Spiegel while speaking at Adweek’s Elevate: AI summit.

One was an expected boom in direct-to-consumer shopping. Instead, Spiegel explained, retailers got

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