Data + Privacy

I’m the creative and user experience director for a marketing agency that works with hundreds of CPG and ecommerce brands. I love using AI in my day-to-day job. Before you start wondering about the likelihood of a creative guy embracing AI, know this: It’s not for producing the actual work. Rather, I use it as […]

Does the incoming Trump administration and RFK Jr.’s potential appointment as the head of Health and Human Services (HHS) spell the end of TV drug ads? Probably not, argues Josh Walsh, CEO and co-founder of BranchLab, a data science firm for health care advertisers, and this week’s guest on The Big Story. Efforts to crack down […]

As the advertising landscape evolves, retail media has emerged as a powerful beast that marketers must harness. ANA’s recent Retail Media Networks Fair brought together advertisers, retail media networks, a Wall Street advisor and measurement experts to discuss today’s hottest medium. The main takeaway? There is an urgent need for brands to adapt and thrive […]

Digital advertising has long promised precision and efficiency. But our obsession with “following the audience” has allowed low-quality sites and vanity metrics to thrive while brand integrity suffers. This singular focus on targeting audiences and measuring their impact through typically non-incremental attribution, rather than evaluating media quality, has steered us off course. The digital landscape […]

Reflection a couple of weeks after election day is inevitable. But planning for what’s next is where the real impact lies.  Political ad strategies evolved quickly this year, as campaigns moved beyond exclusivity, focusing on flexibility and reach.  Here’s what this cycle taught us and how it will guide our business in the medium term.

Jessica Alter, co-founder of the nonprofit Tech for Campaigns, believes political campaigns should model their digital ad strategy on that of seed-stage startups. She joins the podcast this week to talk through this year’s unexpected election results.

This December, Sequent Partners will say farewell to the advertising and media industries.   After 21 years of devising innovative ways to improve the effectiveness of advertising investments, we’ve decided it’s time. Freedom and the open road beckon. We will be retiring from media consulting. And while we will continue to provide assistance to the industry […]

A recent McKinsey report surveying C-suite-level marketing leaders revealed what the industry has known for some time: the purview of the CMO has expanded… yet again.

Trump won the 2024 election. To discuss how paid media played a role (and didn’t) in his victory, we bring on guest Jordan Lieberman, CEO of Power Interactive. The programmatic buying company handled more than 1,000 digital campaigns across the political spectrum this election cycle.

On October 27, 1994, I watched history unfold as the first-ever digital banner ads ran on HotWired.com. Roughly a dozen ads went live that day, catapulting the world of advertising into a new era.  As we mark the 30th anniversary of that monumental milestone, I can’t help but draw parallels between that moment and the […]