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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 […]
