AdExchanger Talks interviews key figures in marketing who are transforming digital advertising and media. New and previously published episodes are available on this page and on your preferred podcast app.
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Michael Bologna has been a key player in the unfolding story of advanced television since the beginning. He spent the first 21 years of his career at GroupM, most of it in so-called “emerging media,” a term that gradually came to include the clunky old […]
Parents, media companies and brands are struggling to adapt to a sea change in how kids consume content. Children have migrated away from traditional entertainment channels like Nick Jr. in droves, embracing new platforms – mostly YouTube and mobile games. But digital environments are fraught. YouTube has been criticized for a rise in disturbing videos […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. The world’s largest independent media agency didn’t have a dedicated programmatic capability until 2013. Historically a big TV buyer, Horizon Media decided to build its own “desk” in a way that would distinguish it from holding companies: by focusing on transparent pricing of media and […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. In the mid-’90s, Marita Scarfi was working as an accountant but wanted in on nascent the internet economy. After a period of networking, she landed at digital agency Organic, where over the course of 17 years she rose from controller to CEO. After a stop […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Chip Schenck, Meredith’s VP of data and programmatic, wants to take care of his advertisers – specifically the brands that have been with the publisher of Allrecipes, Shape and Better Homes and Gardens for the long haul. Among Meredith’s top clients over the last 100 […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week’s podcast guest has a way of showing up during pivotal moments in internet history. He was president of AOL Media Networks from 2004 to 2007 during the first ad platform build-out there. Later he was brought on as CEO of The Weather Channel […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. The basic structure of agencies hasn’t changed much in 20 years, but the competition has exploded, according to Rapp Worldwide CEO Marco Scognamiglio. “Your Wundermans, your Ogilvys, your RAPPs are still big, successful businesses. We’ve done very few acquisitions. We’ve grown organically,” Marco Scognamiglio says […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. As big brands seeking younger audiences move TV budgets online, some have been put off by digital’s triple threat: brand safety, viewability and fraud. Hulu is there for them. Hulu basically offers the benefits of TV in a digital buy, according to Doug Fleming, Hulu’s […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Mike Shehan, CEO of Denver-based video ad platform SpotX, is building what he describes as a “modern ad server” to support monetization of ads across digital video, OTT and linear broadcast environments. Shehan sold a controlling stake in his company to European broadcaster RTL Group […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Mark Grether has held just about every marketing job you can imagine. He was an agency guy at WPP (where he cofounded Xaxis), a publisher exec in Germany, a client-side marketer in the retail industry and even a professor of marketing. Today he is CEO […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. CEO Dave Finocchio started Bleacher Report along with his three cofounders in 2005 after deciding most sports media wasn’t connecting with young people. “There was a generation of sports fans that have been stuck with their dad’s and grandfather’s sports voice,” Finocchio says on the […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Clocking at 44 minutes, the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks with Criteo CEO Eric Eichmann is our longest yet. Pardon our loquaciousness, but there was just so much to talk about. Criteo is one of the high flyers in the data-driven marketing space, with a […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. SafeGraph launched this year with $16 million in funding from more than 100 investors, and a very driven founder in former LiveRamp CEO Auren Hoffman. On the podcast this week, Hoffman talks about his trajectory and his new company’s pure focus on providing accurate location […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week on AdExchanger Talks, MoPub honcho Janae Redmond holds forth on changes in the mobile app ecosystem – and how the Twitter-owned exchange has responded to them. For one, the number of apps isn’t growing as fast as it once did, and the publisher […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. After graduating Stanford in 2010 with a degree in math and computational sciences, Anneka Gupta took her first software engineering job with a company called Rapleaf. That was seven years ago, and she’s still there – though the company and its positioning have changed utterly. […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Eyeo and its Adblock Plus browser extension don’t grab the headlines they did in 2015 and 2016, when ad blocking rates in the US and Europe surpassed 20% of desktop users. But mobile ad blocking failed to meet doomsayers’ warnings. Still, the company has pressed […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. “B2B always kind of follows B2C, whether it’s the use of video, social media or commerce,” Dun & Bradstreet CEO Bob Carrigan says in the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks. “And programmatic is moving aggressively now into the B2B space.” The problem: It’s hard for […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Condé Nast’s Evan Adlman will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 25–26 on a panel titled “Data Accuracy And The DMP.” Condé Nast has sold programmatically for years. It was the first publisher to open a private marketplace, circa 2010. Over the last two […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. For this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks, we have The Weather Co. in the studio. Weather was ranked No. 2 on AdExchanger’s recent list of the Top 10 Programmatic Publishers for 2017. The IBM subsidiary is a huge seller of mobile app inventory, and has […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. The emergence of header bidding three years ago came close on the heels of Index Exchange’s pivot from traditional media sales into programmatic publisher enablement. In this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks, CEO Andrew Casale describes the reinvention header bidding enabled for his 16-year-old family-operated […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. “I don’t even use the term ‘holding company,’” MDC Partners CEO Scott Kauffman says in the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks. “We don’t even think of ourselves as a parent company.” What, then? Kauffman says MDC’s investment philosophy is about “partnership” rather than “ownership.” The […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Google and Facebook have no problem compelling advertisers to create ads that visually conform to their huge platforms. Smaller publishers? Not so much. This week’s podcast guest, TripleLift CEO Eric Berry, built his company five years ago based on that fundamental reality. “We wanted to […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Business Insider’s Jana Meron will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC IO New York conference on October 25-26 in a presentation titled “Insider View From The Publisher.” Meron is a big booster of ads.txt, the new IAB Tech Lab-created initiative that lets publishers easily broadcast a list of their […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Mediaocean is boring – in a good way. The 50-year-old marketing workflow and billing provider offers a relatively mundane set of marketing and advertising enablement tools. Its customer base is stable, its revenue predictable. In a few years, God willing, the rest of the […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week’s podcast guest, Kieley Taylor, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC IO New York conference on October 25-26 on a panel titled “Battle of the Platform APIs.” Social media advertising continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, driven by video, a new generation […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Among early programmatic ad platforms, 10-year-old AdRoll is unique in the breadth of its customer base. With 35,000 mostly small-to-mid-sized companies in its roster, AdRoll claims to be the most widely adopted standalone performance-marketing platform. AdRoll is profitable, and it expects to surpass $300 […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Rubicon Project’s new CEO, the storied Michael Barrett, comes into the studio for the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks. And he doesn’t disappoint, talking in-depth about the company’s roadmap and fee structure. Barrett has known Rubicon Project since its inception 10 years ago, when […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Programmatic has matured far beyond its early days as a source of low-CPM, backfill demand for publishers, but marketplace friction and talent shortages are still holding it back. “Programmatic enables so much more than what exists on the direct sales side,” Ryan Pauley, Vox […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. NBCUniversal’s upfront event at Radio City Music Hall next Monday will kick off a month of negotiations between media buyers and networks. And NBCU is the biggest seller in the upfront. Basically, if ad deals were family meals, this would be Thanksgiving dinner. But […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Once upon a time, The Washington Post took a conservative approach to digital platforms like Facebook. Then Jeff Bezos bought the paper and everything changed. The latest episode of AdExchanger Talks brings you an in-depth discussion with Jarrod Dicker, WaPo’s head of commercial product […]
