Chris Geraci

The departure of long-time television investment executives at two of the world’s largest media agency groups, Omnicom Media Group and GroupM, underscores the changing television marketplace, accelerated by the pandemic. At GroupM, changes to the investment team began in 2016, when longtime chief investment officer Rino Scanzoni left. He was replaced by another investment vet, […]

Creating a futures marketplace is easier said than done, but over the years, the TV upfront model has been adopted and refined by parts of the ad industry in a multitude of ways. The latest comes from AOL, which this past week unveiled a plan to hold a “Programmatic Upfront” in September. The AOL event […]