Connoisseurship has come even to donuts in recent years. Lush flavor combinations, customizations, sheer size - have all become product differentiators as a number of regional fan favorites extend their footprints. With over 155 locations, the 17-year-old Duck Donuts was ahead of this curve in customized dunkers. But how does it expand and defend its brand in this hot category?

As we ramp up for next week's Brand Insider Summit: CPG in Nashville, I turned to an old friend of MediaPost's to reflect on his 15 years at MillerCoors and his path to digitizing a foundational category in traditional advertising. In talking to Brad Feinberg, VP of Media and Digital Molson Coors AmCom, however, it was clear that his much earlier experience in entertainment marketing was as formative as his time in CPG.