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Michael Provenzano founded Vistar Media to bring programmatic buying to digital out of home advertising. With demand for digital signage returning after a horrendous 2020, he gives an update on the company – including its recent $30 million investment from out of home giant Lamar Advertising.

The Delta variant notwithstanding, travel is coming back. What form does the recovery take? A conversation with Justin Scarborough, senior director of programmatic at Fort Worth digital agency PMG.

Kinesso SVP Sarah Rose says user-level measurement will still work in a post-cookie environment, but it will be complicated. “It’s going to be a hodgepodge of site-level data, CDP-level data, DMP-level data,” she says.

The CEO of Amazon specialist Alpha Precision Media discusses key changes in Amazon's ad ecosystem: the underutilized power of Twitch, the future of retargeting using Amazon data, changes to sponsored search and attribution improvements. 

Outside Inc. has put together an unrivaled portfolio of active lifestyle brands, including Backpacker, Women's Running, Yoga Journal, Outside Magazine, Outside TV, Gaia GPS, Peloton Magazine and more. CEO Robin Thurston discusses Outside’s audience opportunity and his plan to grow subscriptions to 50% of revenue. 

Google’s decision to grant third-party cookies a stay of execution until 2023 sparked relief and frustration across the industry. Digitas SVP Liane Nadeau, who has been out in front on the shift to privacy-friendly ad targeting, discusses how this latest change is likely to impact advertisers, agencies and publishers.

Google’s size and fragmented company structure mean it's constantly buffeted by dueling incentives on a range of issues impacting marketers, agencies, publishers, tech and of course consumers – not to mention emerging regulatory pressure. Tara Walpert Levy, VP Americas, Agency and Brand Solutions, discusses the high wire act.

Similar to the Brood X Cicada hatch of 2021, the eruption of privacy-related news has been incubating for a long time. Sheila Colclasure, IPG-owned Kinesso’s global leader on digital responsibility and public policy, describes how we got to this highly-disruptive moment.  

DoubleVerify's first institutional investor describes the company’s journey from an ad verification point solution provider in 2008 to a full-suite ad measurement company valued at $5.4 billion.

As addressable TV advertising gains steam, so too has excitement among agencies and advertisers. In this episode, RPA Chief Media Officer Jim Helberg describes the progress he sees and what he hopes happens next. “What once was the power of large blunt objects in terms of audiences could now translate into the power of precision in a world of platforms we could never have even imagined.”