Adtech Unfiltered

Things are changing rapidly in the world of location advertising. For years, advertisers focused on one aspect of location: the granularity with which consumers could be reached. It’s understandable; targeting consumers at the right place and time can drive real world action, a key goal for many advertisers. With the urging of privacy advocates and expectations set by regulators, advertisers using location data must understand forthcoming standards of transparency and privacy. Accordingly, the world of location is entering a new era. We chat with Lawrence Chan, the EVP of Data Ecosystems at mobile intelligence company Cuebiq to shed light on how advertisers can continue leveraging location data while observing new standards of privacy compliance.

When was the last time you saw an ad that provided an experience worth remembering? Many advertisers prioritize technology or targeting for their media campaigns, over their actual campaign messaging. Too often, marketers obsess over reaching the right audience, without equal consideration for the experiences they’re delivering. As VP of Business Intelligence for The Basement—Ira Maher oversees media strategy, operations and analytics disciplines, while he focuses on customer experience associated with every account. In our latest episode, Ira shares how his teams leverage marketing, technology, data, and automation to ensure that ads aren’t merely endured, but rather, experiences worth remembering.

The word “innovation” gets thrown around a lot in advertising. Despite the desire to think outside the box, advertisers and marketers don’t always walk the walk as well as they talk the talk. How can we prioritize innovation to better serve our clients and our careers?   On this episode of AdTech Unfiltered, we talk to a seasoned marketer about how to make innovation happen. Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Growth Officer at Publicis Groupe, has been a pioneer in the digital marketing space for over 35 years. He’s developed noteworthy agency teams and nurtured tech-first ideas for brands like GM, McDonalds, Disney and United Airlines. Listen in, as Rishad shares various execution strategies, how to stay ahead of the curve when navigating a career in advertising, and why advertisers who ignore change always lose.

This month we'll be talking to Publicis Groupe's Chief Growth Officer Rishad Tobaccowala about how to stay innovative in today's fast-moving advertising world. 

Whether your media budget is big or small, it’s always worthwhile to review how efficiently your campaigns are spending media dollars. For vetted tips on how to spend more effectively, we turn to Centro’s expert, Laura Perritte. As National VP of Client and Media Services, Laura is a pro when it comes to maximizing client investments and pushing working media to the max. Listen in, as she dishes on how to get scrappy by using data sources, personalizing creative messaging, developing custom audiences, considering geography, executing across social channels, and more! Don’t miss out on these tips from the field—with so many media options to choose from, assessing whether you’re getting the best bang for your buck is now more important than ever.

Next month on Adtech Unfiltered, how can companies of all sizes get scrappy with their advertising?

Influencers have become a lasting fixture of the social media marketing world—but in a loosely regulated space, marketers are wary of jumping into a pool of unknowns. Catapulting into the spotlight in the 2010s, influencers have become a valuable component of the social media marketing world. Once a niche space targeting younger audiences, influencer marketing is now on pace to reach ad spend levels between $5 and $10 billion by 2022.   These social-first spokespeople market products and services to targeted followings that range from a few thousand to tens of millions. The potential for influencers to reach a variety of ever-expanding audiences remains strong. However, since influencer marketing is a loosely regulated space, agencies may hesitate to jump into a pool of unknowns. To bring clarity to the haze, we chat with Dalyn Ward, the Director of Product at influencer marketing platform Popular Pays. Dalyn speaks to how marketers should be approaching the influencer space—from measurement options to bots and AI, to the infamous Fyre Festival.

This shift in the advertising industry’s focus can be largely credited to a heightened programmatic mindset, and with that—a pressing expectation for more automated processes in advertising. Centro’s Founder and CEO, Shawn Riegsecker, discusses the impact that automated systems have had on the way advertisers buy media, client expectations around transparency, the advertising job market, and predictions for the future of digital advertising.

Centro's Adtech Unfiltered: coming in April 2019.