The Roku Channel was born in 2017 as a licensed third-party content hub to woo audiences toward streaming. Then, the channel began courting original content in 2021. The wider the content distribution, “the more engagement we can drive with our advertisers and the more we can monetize and invest in content,” said Katina Papas Wachter, head of ad sales and strategy at The Roku Channel.
Attention Capital executive partner Lisa Gersh will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Industry Preview conference in New York on Jan. 28-29, 2020. Lisa Gersh knows a good brand investment when she sees one. Before joining new media venture group Attention Capital as an executive partner over the summer, Gersh spent most of her career in key […]
Acorns is an app that allows users to invest spare change left over from daily purchases in the stock market. Now it’s making an investment of its own with the creation of a digital magazine called Grow aimed at millennials. “We’re looking to satisfy a hunger our users have for financial content,” said Jeff Cruttenden, […]
