How Kimberly-Clark Is Rewiring Retail Media with AI

Ali Kefali argues that clean rooms create value only when brands use privacy-safe collaboration, AI-driven audience design, and faster experimentation to find growth before the market prices it away

Kimberly-Clark is using artificial intelligence-driven audience models inside clean rooms to deliver return-on-ad-spend improvements two to five times over prior benchmarks. Head of Strategy Ali Kefali argues that privacy-safe data collaboration with retailers may reshape how CPG brands find and act on demand signals.