You & Mr. Jones

Martech holding company The Brandtech Group acquired Pencil, a generative AI platform for ads, on Thursday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Instacart Exit Seth Dallaire, out! Instacart’s ad chief is jumping over to Walmart as chief revenue officer amid a shakeup in the grocery delivery service’s executive ranks, Business Insider reports. Dallaire will work to scale Walmart Connect, the retail giant’s ad platform unit – […]

Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021.  This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. The term “artificial intelligence” gets tossed around to loosely describe everything from dynamic creative optimization and automated media planning to […]

You & Mr Jones completed a $260 million Series B round on Tuesday coming on the heels of an impressive 2020 during which clients tapped into its strengths in digital and ecommerce. The company grew organically by more than 27%, while traditional agencies struggled their way through the pandemic. “We’ve just been through a year […]

You & Mr Jones said Thursday it has acquired influencer marketing agency Collectively in a quest to create one of the top five global, scaled influencer marketing companies. You & Mr Jones snapped up San Francisco-based Collectively for an undisclosed amount. Collectively will be combined with theAmplify, the 25-person, LA-based influencer marketing firm You & […]

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 […]

After a three-year stint as Havas CEO, David Jones realized the agency model needed more than a revamp. It needed a complete restart. “It got to a point where it would be far easier to build a technology company that does marketing than to try to change a big legacy business into that,” he said. […]

No other holding company has had its CEO as ingrained as WPP. Now WPP must keep its massive organization, with so many disparate agencies and pieces, together without Sorrell. “He was important not only as the voice, look and feel of WPP, but he was very much involved in the day-to-day operations,” said Rebecca Lieb, […]