Michael Bendell's ad ops career spans an impressive list of large media brands (Federated Media, MTV, BlogHer/SHE Media, etc.), as well as niche players like This Old House and Ebony.

Today, he's leveraging what he learned through those experiences to provide consulting advice to media companies.

In this episode of Ad Ops All Stars, Michael talks about what it was like from working in ad ops at large brands with big teams and plenty of support, to running ad ops for This Old House, where he had to dig in and do a lot of the work on his own.

He also shares lessons learned from navigating several mergers and acquisitions, and talks about the challenges of managing rapid change.