Stream Wars and the Future of TV draws observations about the current state of TV from the perspectives of the consumer, the media companies, and the digital challengers, and examines strategies that legacy media and advertising players need to adopt in order to survive their existential battle with big tech. It’s 90 minutes of insights and fun!

Guest Speaker: Rich Greenfield, LightShed Partners

LUMA’s Terence Kawaja and Brian Andersen take a look at the media and marketing sector from the perspective of the need for, opportunity with, and constraints on consumer data. As more media becomes addressable, identity has become the keystone of data-driven marketing, let alone all consumer touchpoints.

Terry Kawaja talks about one of his big passions: comedy. In particular, he discusses using comedy in a business context: why he does it, the science behind it, and comedy's undeniable effectiveness, complete with personal anecdotes of comedic applications throughout his career. 

Terry will give his 5 rules for comedy in business and provide examples of different creative formats and applications. It's fun for the whole family!

Special guest Ana Milicevic of Sparrow Advisers joins Terry Kawaja in a discussion on the Ad Tech and MarTech sectors’ current consolidation phase in perspective and prognosticates what we can expect going forward. With Ana, they discuss the long term case for optimism in the sector, describe the four main areas of deal activity and specifically address the impact of the Coronavirus crisis on deal-making.

Geoff Ramsey of eMarketer joins the conversation with Terry Kawaja to parse the shiny new objects that fascinate the marketing world. Together, they take an objective assessment of the hype generated by the ubiquitous buzzwords and TLAs to determine which ones are real and which ones are B.S.

Brian Berger of Mack Weldon and Terry Kawaja discuss the Future of D2C Brands. This promising category of marketers got off to an incredible start with double-digit market share gains and more than $10 billion in acquisitions, but it now faces headwinds from rising acquisition costs to increased competition from the incumbents as well as COVID-19

Creative is a key component to advertising, marketing and customer experience. Yet the industry has often approached the subject without sufficient mind to the consumer who now requires a different experience. David Jones of You & Mr Jones and Terry Kawaja discuss where the industry went wrong and how it can now leverage technology to drive innovation and change to suit the consumer.

It’s been said that we are in the “Golden Age of Podcasts” as creation, consumption, and monetization of podcasts have exploded over the last few years. Yet, in many ways, the podcast industry is still in its early days. Sheila Spence of Spotify and LUMA’s Terence Kawaja and Conor McKenna discuss how we got here and what lies ahead for this growing sector.

Terry Kawaja and Mark Greenbaum walk through their thesis on how strategic corporate development should be done to optimize outcomes. It’s the secret sauce behind LUMA’s over-market transaction valuations. Tune in to learn the right way to address the single most important decision in your company’s success.

The global pandemic effectively disrupted the economic structure of multiple industries resulting in thousands of furloughed and laid-off professionals. Overnight, many employment positions and opportunities vanished, and even more are threatened. Acclaimed Build Your Dream Network author J. Kelly Hoey joins Terence Kawaja for an in-depth discussion on approaches to career strategies in times of crisis.