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Eyeo GmbH, the German tech company that owns the popular ad blocker Adblock Plus, has navigated a tricky course as the world’s largest ad blocker and, more recently, as an advertising platform in its own right. For years, ad blocking was an uncomfortable topic in digital media and advertising. Nowadays, online ad platforms and mobile […]
What’s it like to start a new agency just as the coronavirus pandemic takes over the world and advertisers pull back spend? In early February, Kern Schireson unveiled his data agency Known, which he built by combining his company Schireson Associates with two acquisitions: Stun Creative and the branding agency Blackbird. A month later, the […]
Matt Kilmartin, CEO and co-founder of data startup Habu, is embracing the walking meeting. He goes for long strolls in the woods near his home in the suburbs about 20 miles outside of Boston, eschewing the video conference for good old-fashioned phone calls. Zoom fatigue is real. Walking and talking is “a good way to […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. There is a mix shift underway caused by COVID-19 that will affect channels differently, according to Angela Steele, CEO of Carat USA. The best positioned media sellers can provide a clear line of sight into TV and video […]
When Adam Blitzer, EVP and GM of three Salesforce clouds (Marketing, Commerce and Community) co-founded marketing automation platform Pardot in 2007, the Great Recession was just around the corner and real estate was damned cheap. Pardot the startup snagged the top floor of a 34-story office building in Atlanta for $4 a square foot and […]
David Jones is CEO and founder of brand tech firm You & Mr Jones – but he’s also become the family CTO. With a global company to run and four kids (aged 8, 12, 15 and 17) all doing the remote learning thing, the Jones home runs on Wi-Fi. But it’s also important to disconnect. After […]
It’s a truism now: “The world will never be the same.” But how will it change, exactly? This week on AdExchanger Talks, Digital Capital Advisors CEO Jay MacDonald draws on his long experience as a founder, media executive and M&A adviser to offer predictions on how COVID-19 will transform marketing and technology. Winners: e-commerce, streaming, […]
Innovid CTO and co-founder Tal Chalozin checks in from his studio loft in New York’s Soho area, where he lives with his wife, his 3-year-old, his 1-year-old and a table saw he uses when he wants to zone out by building furniture. In today’s episode of Social Distancing With Friends, Tal and AdExchanger managing editor […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Jeff Green, The Trade Desk founder and CEO, is at home in Southern California, grounded for the longest time in decades, according to the ad tech vet and business road warrior. But The Trade Desk isn’t hitting pause. Because many smaller ad platforms and startups that […]
Diego Meller, co-founder of app marketing platform Jampp, is no stranger to crisis. He started his first business, an online market research provider in Latin America called Livra.com, in 1999 – just in time for the internet bubble to burst. Livra survived the turmoil and was eventually acquired by Ipsos in 2008 … in the midst […]
The digital audio audience grew 11% between the second half of February and the second half of March, according to data from audio ad platform AdsWizz. But that new listening activity is not evenly distributed. This week on AdExchanger Talks, AdsWizz CEO Alexis van de Wyer digs into the trends. He says news and science […]
TripleLift CMO Jordan Bitterman has worn a lot of hats in the digital ad industry, across an array of companies. He’s worked at digital agencies (Digitas), media agencies (Mindshare), enterprise tech giants (IBM) and now an ad tech startup. Today on Social Distancing With Friends, AdExchanger managing editor Ryan Joe chats with Jordan about making […]
In this episode of Social Distancing With Friends, Kargo CEO and founder Harry Kargman talks wine tasting over Zoom, keeping morale high and how to get the timing right so your company can accelerate when the pandemic is over. Also, he predicts what advertiser activity might look like as the world comes out of its […]
Kevin Mannion is trying to figure out what his clients need right now. As the president and chief strategy officer at business intelligence firm Advertiser Perceptions, Kevin is in constant contact with media buyers and ad tech players who are grappling with how to work with this “new normal, which is not normal.” Kevin’s new […]
Some things they don’t prepare you for in CEO school. “We had a board meeting and talked about macroeconomic consequences of global pandemics, which is something a traditional board meeting wouldn’t have talked about,” Narrative I/O Founder Nick Jordan says this week on AdExchanger’s Social Distancing With Friends podcast. Nevertheless there are universal startup principles […]
Work/life balance is a myth, especially in the age of coronavirus. More often than not Amanda Martin, VP of enterprise partnerships at Goodway Group, goes upstairs to grab some laundry … and ends up drifting over to her computer where she immediately gets sucked back into work. “I don’t call it work/life balance, I call […]
Travel is the backbone for many business categories, including entertainment, events, hospitality and food and dining. But that backbone is broken right now, and may never fully recover. Rafat Ali, founder and CEO of the travel industry publishing company Skift, has his finger on the pulse of the travel industry. It was three years after the 9/11 attacks […]
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 […]
