VideoWeek

This week's episode features Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK and one of the industry's most unique thinkers. Sutherland joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief at VideoWeek, to give his wide-ranging insights on the state of creativity in advertising. Sutherland discusses why he believes many aspects of advertising's impact are simply impossible to measure, the need for creatives to embrace the trivial, and why he thinks process in creativity is overrated. 

This week's episode features Austin Scott, Head of Video Market Development, EMEA, at Xandr. Austin joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief at VideoWeek, to discuss 'the myth of convergence', the challenges facing the European CTV advertising market, whether the TV incumbents are doing enough to safeguard their future, the relationship between broadcasters and platforms, and why we aren't seeing more interesting creativity taking place in CTV environments.

Tess Alps has been one of the UK industry's most interesting and vibrant characters over the course of her career. As she is about to step down from her role as Chair of Thinkbox to focus more on her writing and her role at the Advertising Standards Authority, at New Video Frontiers we did an exit interview with Tess. In this episode, Tess joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief at VideoWeek, to discuss her past career, the TV industry's relationship with GAFA and her advice to women in the industry. 

This week's episode features Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman of S4 Capital and is an extended version of the interview at New Video Frontiers. Sorrell joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief at VideoWeek, to discuss the stellar growth of S4 Capital, his views on WPP and the other agency holding groups, the challenges and opportunities in China and what he would have done differently if he had the time again. 

This week's guest is Brian Cullinane, chief revenue officer at VideoElephant. Brian joins Vincent Flood, VideoWeek's Editor-in-Chief, to talk about VideoElephant's new OTT platform VideoElephant TV, why news publishers have been slow moving into CTV, and the challenges publishers have faced when attempting to pivot to video.

This week's guest is Lara Izlan, director of advertising and data analytics at ITV. Lara joins Vincent Flood, VideoWeek's Editor-in-Chief, to talk about ITV's new addressable TV advertising solution Planet V, how ITV's culture has been changing over the past few years, and how "small acts of bravery" can help push forward diversity within the industry. 

This week's guest is Ian Whittaker, founder at Liberty Sky Advisors. Ian won City A.M.'s "Analyst of the Year" award no less than two times and has been a regular contributor to our events over the years. Here he joins Vincent Flood, VideoWeek's Editor-in-Chief, to look at the macro economic situation is likely to impact the advertising industry, the bizarre rallies in the stock market as tech share prices go through the roof, and how consumers and businesses are likely to cope with both the pandemic and the global recession looming on the horizon. 

This week's guest is Liam Brennan, Global Director of Innovation for WPP-owned Mediacom, one of the world's leading media agencies. Liam joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief at VideoWeek to discuss how brands are responding to the pandemic, how agencies are coping, how the agency model is evolving and whether the threat from consultancies materialised in the way that some predicted. 

This week's episode is with Denise Colella, SVP for Advanced Advertising Products & Strategy at NBCUniversal. Denise joins Vincent Flood, VideoWeek's Editor-in-Chief, to discuss the launch of Peacock, how NBCU is working with Sky which is also owned by Comcast, and how AVOD services can compete with SVOD. 

This week’s guest is Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman at Ogilvy, and author of two books, The Wiki Man and Alchemy, The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense. Rory joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief at VideoWeek to discuss lockdown, behavioural psychology, brands that have succeeded with seemingly terrible products, the role of data and technology in advertising, before taking a detour into conservatism and Brexit.