VideoWeek

Lindsey Clay is CEO of Thinkbox, a marketing body that represents the UK TV industry. In this episode Lindsey joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief at VideoWeek, to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the TV industry, Thinbox's relationship with the tech world, and her work with WACL, a club for senior women in communications and advertising. 

Johnny Ryan is the industry's best known privacy advocate. As Chief Policy Officer of Brave, Johnny has spoken about privacy everywhere from the UN right through to the US Senate Judiciary Committee. In this episode, Ryan joins Vincent Flood, VideoWeek's Editor-in-Chief, to discuss the recent revelation that Brave was redirecting users to affiliate links from their search results without informing the user, where his passion for privacy comes from, and the state of privacy enforcement. 

Richard Kramer is Senior Analyst at Arete Research and in this episode he joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief at VideoWeek, to discuss the antitrust case being taken against Google, which parts of the company the regulators might seek to carve off (if any), and how ad tech is perceived by Wall Street, the confusion in ad tech and the rise of China. 

David Shing (better known as "Shingy" is one of the most instantly recognisable figures in the advertising industry and worked with AOL and then Verizon Media as their digital prophet. Shingy is part-marketer and part-futurist, and is now working independently with a number of clients. In this episode he joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief of Video Ad News, to discuss the predictions he got right and wrong, how he came to become a digital prophet, the Tim Armstrong years at AOL, the state of video and TV advertising, AR and VR, and of course what the future holds...

In this episode Rishad Tobaccowala, Senior Advisor to Publicis, joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief of Video Ad News, to discuss how agencies are like cockroaches, the 'turd on the table' for agencies, Sir Martin Sorrell and S4 Capital, the roles that Marcel and Epsilon are playing at Publicis and the leadership crisis at Facebook.

Rishad Tobaccowala has been one of the industry's most influential leaders for many years now. Rishad served as Chief Growth Officer and as Chief Strategist for Publicis, the world's third largest agency holding group that has 80,000 employees worldwide, and earlier in the year Harper Collins published his business book, Restoring the Soul of Business, Staying Human in the Age of Data.  

Mary Keane-Dawson is CEO of Takumi, a company that helps brands scale influencer marketing campaigns. Here Mary joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief of Video Ad News, to discuss how influencers have been coping with the pandemic in spite of being housebound, whether authenticity can be maintained when money changes hands, and the progress on diversity in the industry. 

This guest week’s guest is Belinda J Smith, who is Global Diversity Ambassador for the the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA). 
Belinda is also a diversity activist and over the course of her career she has headed up media and acted as Global Head of Marketing Intelligence for EA, which is home to one of the most highly rated in-house teams in the industry. 
In this episode Belinda joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief of Video Ad News to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement, the role of the social platforms and their relationship with President Trump, the countless attacks on journalists, and in terms of  how brands are lending their support. Also discussed is the issue of racial equality in the media and advertising industry.  

For over a decade now, Ciaran O'Kane has been one of the industry's most outspoken and interesting commentators. Ciaran is CEO of WireCorp, a B2B publishing business that counts Exchangewire, Fast Growth Brands and The Gaming Economy amongst its titles. Here Ciaran joins Vincent Flood, Editor-in-Chief of Video Ad News, to discuss how the 'pandession' is likely to hit the industry, GAFA, ad tech innovation in Europe and where he'd invest £100 million if he had it today.

Brian Wieser is one of the industry's finest analysts and heads up business intelligence for GroupM. Brian joins Vincent Flood, Video Ad News's Editor-in-Chief, to discuss the impact of the pandemic on advertiser behaviour, the future of TV and how agencies are becoming closer to supply-side-platorms.

Few people have changed the TV and cable landscape today more than Tom Rogers. Prior to becoming Chairman of Captify, Rogers lead the on-demand TV revolution as CEO of TiVo, was President of NBC Universal Cable where he was instrumental in founding CNBC, MSNBC, The National Geographic Channel and many others. 

In this episode, Rogers joins Vincent Flood to discuss leadership in the pandemic, the launch of Quibi, and the challenges ahead for the TV and advertising industry.