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Zach Rodgers

Zach Rodgers

Executive Editor

Zach runs AdExchanger’s editorial operations and supports programming strategy for AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO and Industry Preview events. Under his leadership the publication was recognized with a Jesse H. Neal Award in the category of “Best Media Brand” in 2016 and two regional Azbee Awards for “Best Technical Article” in 2017. He was previously Managing Editor at ClickZ, and his work has been published in The Guardian, Mashable and elsewhere.​ He is the host of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast featuring key leaders in the media, marketing and advertising technology arena. He frequently moderates at industry events. ​

Articles By Zach

  • Podcast

    Podcast: Media Agency Tectonics

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    Dentsu Aegis Network’s media billings grew 28% in 2018, according to benchmarking firm RECMA, making it the fastest-growing media group among the holding companies. The company now has $13 billion under management across Carat, dentsu X, iProspect and other agencies. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Dentsu Aegis’ media chairman, Doug Ray, describes the agency’s growth […]

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    Podcast: Xaxis, Then And Now

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    WPP Group’s programmatic platform subsidiary Xaxis has navigated several seasons of change in programmatic. “When Xaxis was started it was very much around this concept of leveraging programmatic to help advertisers reach audiences,” Global CEO Nicolas Bidon says in this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. But over time that old definition of programmatic has become […]

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    Podcast: What Innovation Means Now

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    This week on AdExchanger Talks, 614 Group CEO and Founder Rob Rasko graces the studio for a discussion of the changing nature of programmatic and entrepreneurship. 2018 was a year of change in programmatic, exemplified by Xandr’s acquisition of AppNexus. The deal has created uncertainty: Where will networks that used to transact on the AppNexus […]

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    There Is No Podcasting Bubble

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    This week’s guest, Tutuwa Ahwoi, will present at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO San Francisco, taking place April 29-30, on “How To Harness The Momentum In Podcasting.” Podcasting is increasingly a source of audience and revenue growth for publishers. In this episode Ahwoi, a 12-year veteran of National Public Media, shares lessons learned from her many […]

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    Podcast: Everything Is Shoppable

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    This week on the podcast, entrepreneur Rachel Tipograph describes her startup MikMak and her vision for a future where every media format is commerce-enabled. The company provides universal product detail pages that brands can embed in any content environment and that integrate with pretty much every retailer out there. A person can swipe or tap […]

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    Podcast: The Singular BOK

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: Adform Follows Function

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: Soft Skills

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    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 […]

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    AT&T’s Signal To Xandr: No More M&A For Now

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    Xandr just can’t deal right now, according to sources. When AT&T hired Brian Lesser to run its new targeted advertising business and acquired AppNexus as its anchor asset, the company signaled it might move quickly on more acquisitions. But the appetite for mergers has faded since then, and the company now plans to hold off […]

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    Podcast: Retail Madness

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: Why AI

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: Diaz Nesamoney On Creative Technology

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: The Interesting Career Of Lauren Nemeth

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    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. […]

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    Podcast: Bill Demas, Three-Time CEO

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    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week, Conviva CEO Bill Demas steps up to the mic for a conversation about his years at the helm of Turn and the hurtling comet that is streaming TV. When Demas stepped up to run Turn after several years spent building out search and ad […]

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    Podcast: Sovrn Goes Wide

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: Programmatic By The Numbers

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: Time Traveling With Twitter

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: A DSP’s Story

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    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 […]

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    Comic: Father Time's Feed

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    A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

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    Relive 2018 With AdExchanger’s Eight Best Podcast Episodes

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    Listening to podcasts can be an ideal way to pass the time during the holidays, a pleasant distraction while wrapping presents or giving the dog its fourth daily walk to escape hearing your nephew Brandon wearily explain another meme to the old folks. We’re here for you. Below are eight of our most popular podcast […]

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    Podcast: Data Management Without Failure

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    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 […]

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    Podcast: Inside LinkedIn’s $2 Billion Ad Business

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    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 […]

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    Comic: Voice Next Year

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    A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

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    Podcast: Everywhere There’s Signs

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    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Michael Provenzano’s first startup was perfectly timed. Along with his cofounders, he developed one of the industry’s first demand-side platforms, Invite Media, and sold it to Google three years later in one of the most notable deals in the early days of programmatic. His second startup, […]

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    Comic: "That's the one that stole my ad spend."

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    A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

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    Podcast: TV’s Upcoming Season

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    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. In the podcast studio this week, GCA Advisors managing director Josh Wepman talks about the changes afoot in television. Wepman has sold companies to Google, Snap, Yahoo, Pitney Bowes and Telstra, among others, and TV is his key strategic focus right now. “When you think about […]

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    Podcast: All About Dotdash

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    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Dotdash is among the oldest continuously operating digital publishers. In its previous incarnation as About.com, the company employed legions of “experts” on topics as varied as saving for retirement, diabetes and the Middle East. Later, under the ownership of IAC, it rebranded as Dotdash and structured […]

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    Podcast: The Information Advantage

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    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Jounce Media founder Chris Kane gave a popular presentation at Programmatic IO New York on the buzzy discipline of supply-path optimization (SPO). In this episode, Kane comes into the AdExchanger studio for a deep dive on SPO and the ways advertisers can use it to optimize […]

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    The Unruly Video Ad Market

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    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This episode of AdExchanger Talks is supported by StackAdapt. On the podcast this week, Unruly Media CEO Norm Johnston talks about the evolution of video ads – how they’re bought, how they’re sold and who gets to sell them. Unruly’s value proposition is to provide high-quality audiences […]

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    WPP Q3 Worse Than Feared, Kantar Officially For Sale

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    Something is wrong with WPP Group – or, perhaps, many somethings. On its Q3 call with investors Thursday, management detailed a list of ailments longer than that of a septuagenarian overdue for his physical. North America? “Further weakening.” Creative agencies? “Doing poorly.” Account losses? As bad as you’ve heard. Revenue was down .8%, and the […]

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