In this 30-minute conversation, Les Hollander surveys Spotify's tapestry of ad offerings and its opportunity within the broader radio market. US advertisers spent about $1 billion on digital audio in 2016 and $15 billion on terrestrial radio. "It's a big marketplace,” he says. “It's ripe for disruption."

Among early programmatic ad platforms, 10-year-old AdRoll is unique in the breadth of its customer base. With 35,000 mostly small-to-mid-sized companies in its roster, it claims to be the most widely adopted standalone performance-marketing platform.

Barrett talks in-depth about his client listening tour and his roadmap for the company. Rubicon Project was tripped up last year by the header bidding trend and client pushback on fees, but he says the rapid pace of change leaves room to innovate. 

Vox Media has embraced automated selling and is finding ways to enhance its programmatic offerings. In this week’s episode, VP Ryan Pauley discusses walled garden scale, the ad tech tax, content studios, the problem with "programmatic native" and more.

This year NBCUniversal is substantially altering its go-to-market for the upfronts. In the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks, NBCU's SVP of advanced advertising products, Denise Colella, details the changes. 

This week's episode offers an in-depth discussion with Jarrod Dicker, WaPo's head of commercial product and technology, on the publisher's aggressive experiments with Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP, Apple News and Snapchat. 

As global CRO at Bloomberg Media, Keith Grossman oversees a "business within a business" that reaches 62 million users and brings in nine figures of revenue annually. Grossman talks about his sales strategy for that business-focused audience, and where programmatic fits in. 

When the news dropped that Oracle would acquire Moat, DataXu CEO Mike Baker's first thought was not that Oracle had made a big move in measurement, but that it had bought a piece of the walled garden action.

VideoAmp's 25-year-old CEO, Ross McCray, talks about his company's ambition to unify media planning across digital, mobile and television – including linear TV media bought during the upfronts.

Six months ago Dentsu officially closed on its $1.5 billion acquisition of CRM and digital media agency Merkle. In this episode, chief data and product officer John Lee discusses the integration of Merkle's data assets with the holding company.