Bill Wise, CEO of Mediaocean, talks about how the company came to be by merging with stalwart DDS, along with its current position in the business, and how agency holding companies are evolving. Visit Marketecture.tv (https://www.Marketecture.tv) to join our community and get access to full-length in-depth interviews. Marketecture is a…
Eric and Ari talk about the first year of the Marketecture podcast and shout outs for various trends and predictions. Visit Marketecture.tv (https://www.Marketecture.tv) to join our community and get access to full-length in-depth interviews. Marketecture is a new way to get smart about technology. Our team of real industry practitioners…
Andrew Kraft is one of the best known and respected executives in media. He recently left The Arena Group along with CEO Ross Levinsohn in the wake of an AI mini-scandal. We get to the bottom of what happened. Also, are ad tech companies listening to your phone, or no?…
Jon Carpenter, the CEO of Comscore, joins us to talk about the company, the JIC, and the future of measurement. Plus Scope3 and Sincera funding rounds. Also Aderize tries to Justify Its Existence. Each week we'll bring you the latest news and perspective about advertising technology, trends, Copyright (C) 2023…
Long-time head of the Media Rating Council George Ivie talks about the work he does to assure accurate media measurement, how he's working in parallel with the TV JIC, and what this has to do with the movie Quiz Show with John Turturro.
James Borow and Daniel Druger host the Taking Inventory podcast talking all things commerce media and social commerce. They talk with us about Snap, X, open web, and everything else.
Scope3's co-founder and COO talks about carbon measurement and reduction, and how it is working with BOK. Plus the TV+ trademark dispute and an update on Kubient.
Brian Morrissey from the Rebooting talks to us about sustainable media models, the Jezebel closing, and Buzzfeed's new strategy. Also YouTube blocks ad blockers.
Shamim Samadi was the co-founder of Beeswax and a long-time veteran of Google's ad group. Now he's working with the IAB on developing standards for bringing RTB to retail media.
Tom Trisacari talks about the musical he's writing, plus valuations of ad tech companies.
Gavin Dunaway of The Media Trust talks fraudulent ads, including scams targeting the elderly and the early days at AdMonsters. We have an update on the Freewheel duplicate auction issue, and its earnings week for tech giants.
The hardest thing in podcasting is finding an audience. Amaze Media Labs offers an ad buying platform that podcast owners can use to serve digital ads alongside contextually relevant content. Its ads can drive audiences to landing pages with more content such as a trailer or a specific episode. Bryan…
Chris Kane from Jounce joins us to try to define what an MFA site is and what we should do about them. An anonymous blog post accuses Freewheel of duplicating bid requests. And Fenestra tries to Justify Its Existence.
Spaceback’s creative automation tools turn high-performing social posts into production-ready ads for brands like CB2, UGG, Ulta and Corkcicle. In our interview, Ari Paparo asks CEO Casey Saran to explain why brands need a vendor for this when they already have creative assets and production tools at hand (short answer:…
Captify has been around a long time. Historically, the company has used search intent data ingested from its partners’ on-site search to build cookie-based segments that it then licenses to media buyers — typically big agencies. In recent years the company has developed a contextual ad product for web and…
Adam Heimlich from Chalice.ai tries to convince Ari that he should have invested in custom algos. We also pour one out for the legendary Sizmek. Elliot Easterling from BonBon tries to Justify His Existence.
Well before CTV was cool, BrightLine pioneered interactive ad formats that marry the responsiveness of digital with the creative impact of TV. Its clients include large streaming services and media companies like NBC Universal, Disney, and Warner Bros Discovery. In this conversation with Mike Shields, President and Chief Strategy Officer…
LightShed's Rich Greenfield talks WPA strike, Charter-Disney, antitrust, and more., Also Justify Your Existence with Octane11.
ActionIQ is a customer data platform with a focus on data activation and orchestration. In this conversation with Ari Paparo, CEO Tasso Argyros parses several varieties of CDP and explains where his company fits. Ari and Tasso also discuss what marketers shopping for data architecture need to know about reverse…
BlueConic is a customer data platform whose client list includes Colgate, Mattel, and Hearst. Its customer sweet spot is large companies with multiple sub-brands and regional personalization. In this interview led by Mike Shields, CEO Cory Munbach talks about the platform’s inner workings and how it makes first-party data available…
Can ads do good? Amy Williams from Good-Loop gives us a rundown on ESG and carbon in ad tech. Plus Yobi Justifies its Existence.
In our interview led by Eric Seufert, Dataseat CEO David Phillipson says the company was built on the assumption that persistent identifiers will eventually disappear entirely from the in-app advertising environment. Its platform replaces behavioral signals with contextual data to prepare for this future and creates custom algorithms for each…
Terry Kawaja from Luma Partners talks about mistakes buyers and sellers make in the M&A process. We talk about the upcoming Google antitrust case and what the Google spin-out might be worth. Plus "Justify Your Existence" with Opiniary.
Digital Remedy (formerly CPXi) has spun gold for 23 years by providing a managed-service model for digital advertising. From its origins as an ad network, the company has evolved to offer media execution, attribution, and analytics for campaigns that span all digital media — including desktop, mobile, audio, CTV, and…