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You won’t catch Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, Instagramming his lunch or stress-baking sourdough bread during the day. He’s at his computer by 6 a.m. and working until 6 or 7 at night from his home office on Long Island (aka, his grown daughter’s former bedroom). These long days […]
One interesting facet of the COVID-19 outbreak has been the sudden primacy of data and science in setting policy. Today in AdExchanger’s podcast series “Social Distancing With Friends,” Wavemaker Global’s chief data sciences officer, Karima Zmerli, speaks to the evolving data story. “For me the most important thing was to understand what model has been […]
Some CEOs have a home office. Others, such as LiveRamp chief Scott Howe, have a 1956 Airstream Bubble trailer. Today on “Social Distancing With Friends,” Scott steps away from his family of five (plus two cats and a white Lab) and checks in from his “perfect escape pod.” The backstory, in Scott’s words: I spent […]
Mediaocean CRO Ramsey McGrory has seen some turbulent times, from serving in an Army combat hospital during the Persian Gulf War, to working as an executive at Right Media during the 2008 recession. He knows how to operate through chaos. “I tend to get very focused and even more productive because I’m so focused,” he […]
As a digital advertising OG, John Nardone has steered quite a few ships through economic downturns. While this one feels different, he has a lot of practical advice on leading during a hard time – whether it’s the necessity of overcommunicating or the importance of preparation for client calls on Zoom. John also weighs in […]
Most mornings, you’ll find Barry Lowenthal, CEO of The Media Kitchen, doing makeshift yoga and Pilates with his neighbors on the beach near his condo in Palm Springs – at a safe distance, of course. And then the day kicks off, a series of Zoom calls and hangouts and conversations with staff, vendors and brand clients […]
A factoid for our times: Kohler’s sales of smart toilets increased eightfold during the first two weeks of March compared with this time last year. The trend makes sense to Alex Farr, CEO of Zammo, a platform that brands can use to easily build voice apps. Touchless tech is taking off as people do their […]
Todd Garland spent the past 12 years building BuySellAds into a programmatic mainstay, and a standout of the Boston ad tech scene. “The idea that you can wake up one day and wonder if it’s gone is terrifying,” he says. The questions of existential dread have mostly subsided, as people settle into their work-from-home routine. There are even […]
If you’re blocking the word “coronavirus,” you’re essentially blocking everything. In this episode of “Social Distancing With Friends,” The Washington Post’s VP of commercial tech, Jarrod Dicker, checks in from his high-energy household (its members include three boys and two dogs) to talk publisher problems, including aggressive advertiser blocklists and the general trend of deflating […]
Really though, does a pharma company like Bayer even need to advertise during a global pandemic? Actually, yes, says Bayer’s head of media in North America Josh Palau. “Right now, consumers are so in need of the products we make that anything we can do to make sure we’re front and center to get what […]
What happens when everybody in a global organization suddenly has to work from home? Integral Ad Science chief Lisa Utzschneider speaks about leadership – across multiple time zones – during a pandemic. “When you looked at the data early on, you could see it coming,” she says. “The team in Tokyo, they were the first […]
Jayne Peressini, senior director of growth marketing at DraftKings, quips that she’d been practicing social distancing for a long time before the coronavirus took over all our lives – she’s got two kids under the age of three at home. Evenings are spent playing family games and binge watching “Tiger King” on Netflix with her wife, […]
Nope, the social distancing ain’t over yet. Will it ever be? In this episode, Eric Franchi – cofounder of the OG ad net Undertone and operating partner at MathCapital – talks about how ad tech startups can survive the pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout. Are there still investment opportunities? This is the third economic […]
In this new podcast series, AdExchanger editors break the cabin fever by talking with the top thought leaders and practitioners in digital and data-driven advertising – all while under social isolation. Abhay Singhal, CEO of InMobi Marketing Cloud and co-founder of InMobi Group, is making the best of San Francisco’s shelter in place order. What […]
In this new podcast series, AdExchanger editors break the cabin fever by talking with the top thought leaders and practitioners in digital and data-driven advertising – all while under social isolation. Beeswax CEO Ari Paparo (portrait by his daughter) chats with AdExchanger managing editor Ryan Joe about the shift to working from home, the post-pandemic […]
In this new podcast series, AdExchanger editors break the cabin fever by talking with the top thought leaders and practitioners in digital and data-driven advertising – all while under social isolation. While it’s impossible right now to fully make sense of our new national weirdness, it’s helpful – and therapeutic – to talk through how […]
This week’s podcast guest is Jane Clarke, CEO and managing director of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement. She will give a related presentation, titled “The Next Wave Of TV Measurement,” at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO New York conference. In this episode, Clarke discusses the measurement crisis created by the old TV ratings system’s […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. The godfather of programmatic has retired from advertising. Or has he? In his first interview since selling AppNexus to AT&T for an estimated $1.6 billion (and stepping down), former CEO Brian O’Kelley comes on the AdExchanger podcast for a nice long talk. O’Kelley, known to friends […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Adform is a proud member of the tiny club of huge independent ad platforms. With 900 people working in 26 countries, the Denmark-based company takes an engineering-driven approach to data-driven ad buying. Profitable since the early days, its top-line revenue has doubled year on year for […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Branding and performance are two sides of the same coin. Maybe that’s why they can never see eye to eye? This week on the podcast, 360i CEO Jared Belsky discusses the need for clients to bring the two disciplines together rather than allow them to exist […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Advertising in retail and ecommerce environments has grown from a subset of shopper marketing to a key channel for the world’s biggest brands. This week on the podcast, Triad CEO Sherry Smith talks about that evolution. Triad’s customers are big retailers like Staples, Kohl’s, GameStop and […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week on the podcast we hear from Jocelyn Lee, head of the AI advertising practice at Heat. Heat is one of several agencies acquired by Deloitte Digital, and Lee’s job there is to help brands and agencies drive creative impact using advanced data strategies. One […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week on the podcast, Jivox CEO Diaz Nesamoney talks about the state of creative personalization and his company’s journey. Jivox didn’t start life as a dynamic creative optimization (DCO) platform. Its first product was an interactive video overlay format, but when a market failed to […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week in the podcast studio, Lauren Nemeth tells some rollicking stories from her years in the ad tech trenches at DoubleClick, AppNexus, Turn and other companies. She also discusses her current job as chief revenue officer at Nextdoor, a platform that connects people within communities. […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Late last year, publisher platform Sovrn raised $25 million to build on its diversified product suite. Shortly thereafter it acquired VigLink, a platform to help publishers optimize their affiliate revenue. This week on the AdExchanger Talks podcast, CEO Walter Knapp summarizes the company’s thesis: “Can we […]
Lauren Fisher, Principal Analyst at eMarketer, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO San Francisco conference, taking place April 29-30. Programmatic is still growing like a weed. In its October forecast, eMarketer predicted programmatic in digital display will grow from $47 billion in 2018 to $69 billion in 2020. This week on the podcast, eMarketer […]
Matt Derella, Twitter’s global VP of revenue and content partnerships, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Industry Preview conference on Jan. 23-24. Two years ago, Twitter was a company in distress. Usage and revenue were in decline, executive turnover was rampant and the company was rumored to be for sale. “For someone who loves this company, and so […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Shawn Riegsecker may be the world’s most durable ad tech founder, but he didn’t plan it that way. Riegsecker founded Centro in 2001 to automate the manual work required to plan and buy local digital ads. After years of development, he scrapped and reengineered the platform […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. “Data management is a well-established discipline everywhere except marketing.” Today in the podcast studio, one of the inventors of the DMP discusses why companies struggle mightily to get their data strategy right. Ana Milicevic was VP of product at Demdex, a first-wave DMP that Adobe acquired […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. LinkedIn is on track to surpass $2 billion in ad-based revenue during its fiscal 2019 – a remarkable number, given that LinkedIn has kept paid media squarely on the back burner (a policy it shares with parent company Microsoft). Its advertising opportunity is more akin to […]
