Home AdExchanger Talks Podcast: PebblePost’s Marita Scarfi Delivers… The Mail

Podcast: PebblePost’s Marita Scarfi Delivers… The Mail

SHARE:

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 at creative agency 72andSunny, she made the jump to marketing tech, joining PebblePost as CFO earlier this year.

PebblePost provides retargeting and other forms of segmentation in the direct mail channel by linking web cookies to home addresses.

“You take intent data … capture that, then send something in the home,” she says in the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks. “Everybody does eventually go through the mailbox. We don’t deal with all the noise of the digital space.”

From the consumer’s point of view, the ad “format” is a piece of paper that can be used to make a purchase anywhere: in-store, web, mobile or on the phone.

“In my view, it provides this very seamless omnichannel approach, which I believe hasn’t been solved for at all by all of these different marketing companies,” she says.

Also in this episode: why agencies are in a tough spot, the migration of marketing talent and the future of in-housing.

Must Read

John Gentry, CEO, OpenX

‘I Am A Lucky And Thankful Man’: Remembering OpenX CEO John ‘JG’ Gentry

To those who knew him, John “JG” Gentry wasn’t just a CEO. He was a colleague who showed up with genuine care and curiosity.

Prebid Takes Over AdCP’s Code For Creating Sell-Side AI Agents

The group that turned header bidding software into an open standard is bringing the same approach to publisher-side AI agents.

Meta logo seen on smartphone and AI letters on the background. Concept for Meta Facebook Artificial Intelligence. Stafford, UK, May 2, 2023

Meta Bets That Its Ad Machine Can Fund Its AI Dreams

Meta is channeling its booming ad revenue into a $135 billion AI drive to power its “personal superintelligence” future.

Privacy! Commerce! Connected TV! Read all about it. Subscribe to AdExchanger Newsletters
Comic: Header Bidding Rapper (Wrapper!)

Microsoft To Stop Caching Prebid Video Files, Leaving Publishers With A Major Ad Serving Problem

Most publishers have no idea that a major part of their video ad delivery will stop working on April 30, shortly after Microsoft shuts down the Xandr DSP.

AdExchanger's Big Story podcast with journalistic insights on advertising, marketing and ad tech

Guess Its AdsGPT Now?

Ads were going to be a “last resort” for ChatGPT, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promised two years ago. Now, they’re finally here. Omnicom Digital CEO Jonathan Nelson joins the AdExchanger editorial team to talk through what comes next.

Comic: Marketer Resolutions

Hershey’s Undergoes A Brand Update As It Rethinks Paid, Earned And Owned Media

This Wednesday marks the beginning of Hershey’s first major brand marketing campaign since 2018