Vox Media Chief Revenue Officer Ryan Pauley has dealt with a lot since the pandemic hit two months ago. His team first had to deal with the cancellation of South by Southwest, where Vox Media usually sets up a large presence. Then advertisers panicked and pulled spend. And now those same advertisers are reentering, albeit […]
Joe Hogan and his wife flew to the far corner of northwest Florida in early March for a long weekend. They’ve been there ever since. “If we’re still working from home in a month or two, we’re going to suffer through the heat of the summer here, I’m sure,” said the EVP of sales and […]
Think you’re busy under lockdown? Nicolle Pangis is running a company while taking care of two young girls and potty-training a new puppy. “I’d be lying to say every day is a great day,” she said, “but I’m trying to make more days great days than harder days.” From her refinished attic in suburban New […]
The coronavirus pandemic has led advertisers to rapidly switch directions, adjusting media buys and ad creative on the fly as the market changed overnight. “Automation feels like a necessity,” says Tara Walpert Levy, VP of agency and brand solutions at Google. “Both to try to help people capture any profitable growth they can, and to […]
Brian Wieser has never been busier – and that includes his time as an investment banker on Wall Street. “Every day is like learning 10 years of information,” he said. As GroupM’s global head of intelligence, Brian absorbs massive amounts of economic and governmental data surrounding the crisis and modeling out different scenarios. He drills […]
IPG CEO Michael Roth believes that post-pandemic, aspects of work-from-home life will definitely stick at agencies, and business travel policies will be dramatically changed. “Working from home has turned out to be fairly attractive,” he said. “It’s amazing how the world and commerce go on.” Overall, the tone from IPG clients is pretty erratic. Travel, […]
2020 hasn’t exactly gone as planned. As the newly appointed president of the IAB, David Cohen barely had time to shake hands with the rest of the leadership team before the nationwide onset of social distancing and working from home. Meanwhile, IAB Tech Lab President Dennis Buchheim, a frequent flyer who normally spent his time […]
For ad sellers dealing with pandemic’s economic effect, the battle is over. The siege has now begun. “The novelty of us not being together, not being able to be with our customers or go to events, is wearing off,” says Doug Weaver, founder of sales training consultancy The Upstream Group. Instead of face-to-face trainings and […]
Mike Law, president of Dentsu Aegis Network’s Amplifi, is thinking hard about what entertainment advertising this year might look like, with production and live events on hold. “You want to have some understanding of what that supply actually is,” he says. “We don’t want to commoditize this to just being about, we’re buying something and […]
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 […]
Sir Martin Sorrell thinks the term “social distancing” could use a rebrand, since we’re actually communicating more than ever, albeit virtually. “I think social distancing is not the right way of putting it,” he says. “It’s physical distancing.” As founder and CEO of S4 Capital, Sir Martin is keeping an eye on his 2,500 employees […]
Brands are avoiding “coronavirus”-related keywords like they’re the actual coronavirus. And in times like these, it’s up to the buy side to start an open conversation about brand safety tolerance, said GroupM executive Oscar Garza. “It’s understandable some brands don’t want to be associated with tragedy, but at the same time, news is news,” he […]
Like all of us, marketing veteran Laura Desmond is navigating the new rules of the video call. In this installment of AdExchanger’s “Social Distancing With Friends” podcast series, she shares her thoughts on the emerging rules of remote collaboration. “The level of intimacy is actually pretty high, but I also find that my energy is […]
When Rubicon Project and Telaria announced their merger in December, the coronavirus was only just beginning to raise flags in Wuhan, China. Three months later, the deal is officially done – the merger closed on Wednesday – and Michael Barrett, CEO of the combined entity, is adjusting plans for the integration and product road map. The companies […]
In this new podcast series, AdExchanger editors break the cabin fever by talking with the top thought leaders and practitioners in digital and data-driven advertising – all while under social isolation. The scale of economic losses from the coronavirus pandemic are directly related to earlier missteps, says Insider Inc. CEO Henry Blodget. “The United States […]
In this new podcast series, AdExchanger editors break the cabin fever by talking with the top thought leaders and practitioners in digital and data-driven advertising – all while under social isolation Hearts & Science CEO Erin Matts is waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic in a cabin in the woods in Barryville, New York, running virtual […]
In this new podcast series, AdExchanger editors break the cabin fever by talking with the top thought leaders and practitioners in digital and data-driven advertising – all while under social isolation. The coronavirus pandemic will create far-reaching economic ripples across the advertising industry, says Watson Advertising CRO Jeremy Hlavacek, who’s currently working double-duty while homeschooling […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. In this new podcast series, AdExchanger editors break the cabin fever by talking with the top thought leaders and practitioners in digital and data-driven advertising – all while under social isolation. Three months after being named CEO of […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Regulation is bringing much needed changes to the digital advertising landscape, but with it comes functional decline. This week on AdExchanger Talks podcast, Programmatic Advisory CEO Wayne Blodwell discusses how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts.Accenture Interactive has grown massively in the 11 years since its founding. Accenture Interactive has grown massively in the 11 years since its founding. The agency division of consulting giant, Accenture has annual revenue of $10 billion and is […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Gabe Rogol, CEO of B2B marketing platform Demandbase, gives an update on his company and the account-based marketing (ABM) trend. ABM tracks closely with programmatic advertising. Both disciplines emerged about 12 years ago […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. With the rapid proliferation of customer data platforms (CDP Institute counts more than 100 vendors) comes a need for support. On AdExchanger Talks this week, Actable CEO Matt Greitzer discusses the nascent competitive set of service companies that […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Jewelry brand and retailer PANDORA has grown rapidly in the United States, but new competitors – both traditional and DTC – are rearing their heads. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Charisse Hughes, CMO Americas, talks about the company’s […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Dotdash SVP Sara Badler advises publishers to adopt a cleaner, more stripped-down version of programmatic. A subsidiary of IAC, Dotdash owns a network of websites in verticals such as personal health, home design, […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. In this episode, we try to unpack the mystery of China: its tech giants, its attention economy and, yes, the role of the Communist Party. Our guide is Humphrey Ho, US Managing Director of China-based agency Hylink Digital. […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Was it just three days ago that Google Chrome told the world that come 2022, it would block third-party cookies by default? Already a tsunami of coverage and analyses has resulted, much of it wondering about the negative […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. In 2012, about six years after its founding, 33Across was in peril. Approximately $4 million in revenue disappeared in the space of a month as agencies redirected budgets previously spent with ad tech partners to their in-house trading […]
Cadillac’s Melissa Grady is living proof that the CMO role is changing. Grady rose through the ranks at several auto, insurance and tech brands before landing at Cadillac as head of performance. One year later she was CMO, advancing a cutting-edge data strategy. This week on AdExchanger Talks, she explains her rapid rise and Cadillac’s […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you’re looking for proof that advertising can be a force for good in the world, look no further than the Ad Council. The non-profit draws more than $1 billion in donated media annually, and creatively its work […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, CEO Pete Kim describes the origins of MightyHive, the programmatic media services company that was acquired by S4 Capital in 2018. Today, MightyHive is known as a programmatic adviser to Google clients, but […]
