Inside Adidas' World Cup Film, Upfronts Week Breakdown & Caitlin Clark's Pharma Campaign

Caitlin Clark is starring in Eli Lilly's new "Start How You Can" campaign from Wieden+Kennedy Portland — and it is a meaningful shift in how a major pharmaceutical company is showing up in culture. The campaign positions exercise, not medication, as the frontline message for health. It launched at the Indiana Fever opener and rolled out nationally across TV, social, print, cinema, and major city takeovers. Joining us to talk about it: Lina Polimeni, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Consumer at Eli Lilly.

In the WORLD FAMOUS TWO MINUTE DRILL: WPP US President Michael Houston is stepping down after 24 years at the holding company — transitioning to senior advisor as CEO Cindy Rose continues reshaping the operating model. It is upfronts week in New York. NBCU celebrated its 100th anniversary at Radio City with a sports-heavy pitch, AI-powered live contextual advertising launching in Q4, and Vin Diesel announcing four Fast and Furious shows coming to Peacock — Tina Fey joked they were "throwing themselves a huge birthday party so they can sell ads during it." Fox went all-in on the World Cup and Tubi at NYC Center — 100 million monthly active users, a new AI-native ad operating system called Fox Fan OS, and James Corden is coming back to host a late night show after World Cup matches. Amazon went big at the Beacon Theater — Oprah, Chris Pratt, Michael B. Jordan, Diplo, Kacey Musgraves, and the official greenlight for Fourth Wing. And Xavier Blais posted about Heinz rival wipes and it's very good.

Then JD Jurentkuff, CCO of LOLA USA, and Mo Adlouni, Global Senior Director of Marketing at adidas, join us to go inside "Backyard Legends" — the five-minute World Cup film that dropped last week and is already being called an instant classic. The agency is brand new. The film is enormous. We get into how it got made.

Then it is B&E's voicemail segment — listener call-ins with their best ideas and pitches played live on the show.

And to close: Megan Graham, reporter at The Wall Street Journal, joins us to break down what is actually happening at the upfronts from a retail media and advertising perspective. Retail media is reshaping how media gets bought. Billions of ad dollars are at stake. This one is retail media upfronts for the rest of us.