Next in Media

By Mike Shields

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Everything we know about the media, marketing and advertising business is being completely upended thanks to technology and data. We're talking with some of the top industry leaders as they steer their companies through constant change.

Episode Date
Kasha Cacy, Known CMO: Navigating YouTube's "Other" Category for Advertisers
Jul 10, 2025
How to Bring Creators and Commerce Together Without Alienating Your Audience
Jul 08, 2025
Retail Media's Future with Anne Harrell of Pacvue in Cannes
Jun 30, 2025
A Tale of Two TV Upfronts
Jun 26, 2025
Can Spotify Become a Bigger (Video) Ad Player?
Jun 24, 2025
Walmart Connect's Ryan Mayward on Pushing Beyond Retail Media
Jun 20, 2025
Google's Sean Downey on YouTube Playing Matchmaker Between Creators and Brands
Jun 17, 2025
Should Paypal be building an ad business?
Jun 11, 2025
Mike and Emily Riley talk media agency paralysis, Amazon vs Trade Desk, Paramount Drama and Sydney Sweeney Soap
Jun 09, 2025
Should Brands Care More about Sports, Creators, or Creators Who Care About Sports?
Jun 04, 2025
Emily and Mike talk about the ad world's new obsession with models, and whether brands are too trusting of AI ad buying
Jun 02, 2025
Why Ad Tech Might Finally Get a Piece of That Creator $
May 21, 2025
Mike and Emily do a post upfront breakdown, mourning Xandr while debating whether Amazon is out ad teching Google
May 19, 2025
Emily and Mike Talk AI in Media Buying, Agency Layoffs, and Trade Desk Bounceback
May 13, 2025
YouTube Enters the Upfront Season in the Driver's Seat
May 12, 2025
"Why did we anoint Google and Apple as privacy czars?"
May 06, 2025
"I think it will be blunt and arbitrary" - Goodway Group CEO Jay Friedman on what happens if marketers have to slash budget during Tariffmageodon
Apr 30, 2025
Emily and Mike talk Google Trial, Other Google Trial, Google Cookies
Apr 28, 2025
How a Blogging Network Became a Video First Sports Media Staple
Apr 24, 2025
The Open Web is Under Attack
Apr 22, 2025
How to Turn Music Artists into YouTubers
Apr 16, 2025
Tariff Brand Paralysis, Retail Media Uncertainty, and Trade Desk Legal Troubles
Apr 14, 2025
What Happens When Retail Media Eats Everything
Apr 09, 2025
Mike and Emily Riley Review the Week in Ad News
Apr 07, 2025
The Brand Forum Bonus Episode
Apr 04, 2025
How Mattel Reaches Kids, Teens and Parents in a YouTube and TikTok World
Apr 01, 2025
How Do Microinfluencers (Like Haxman) Land Brand Deals on YouTube?
Mar 27, 2025
So What's a Branded Map on Fortnite Again?
Mar 25, 2025
A Top Digital Talent Manager Talks About the Creator Brand Bubble, and Where to Find the Next 'Mormon Wives'
Mar 20, 2025
Why Does Pinterest Have a Chief Content Officer?
Mar 18, 2025
Why 2025 Might be an Addressable TV "Tipping Point"
Mar 11, 2025
How RFK Jr. Could Blow a Hole in the TV Ad Market - And Why it Probably Won't Happen
Mar 04, 2025
Some AI Real Talk with Jellyfish
Feb 27, 2025
That generational shift that needs to happen is so far away. And that's the biggest problem for sports right now.
Feb 18, 2025
Breaking Down the Netflix vs YouTube Streaming War
Feb 13, 2025
So, is AI Going to Ruin the Internet and Kill Journalism?
Feb 11, 2025
Is AI Going to Ruin - or Bolster - the Creator Economy?
Feb 06, 2025
Why CTV Ad Targeting is Much Harder Than You Think
Feb 04, 2025
Long Form Creator Content Really is Having a Moment Right Now
Jan 30, 2025
'Disney is a technology company' - What's behind the push to have a unified ad tech platform at the mouse house?
Jan 28, 2025
TikTok in Limbo - What Should Brands and Creators Be Watching For
Jan 24, 2025
Where YouTube is Ahead of the Other Streamers on Ads
Jan 21, 2025
What Happens When You Build a Media Company on TikTok, and it Goes Away?
Jan 16, 2025
Medialink's Mark Wagman Breaks Down CES, and Why 2025 is the year of "Aggressive" Brand Energy
Jan 14, 2025
Why Some Brands Are Still Way Behind on Creators
Jan 09, 2025
What's a Bank Like Chase Doing Selling Advertising?
Jan 07, 2025
How Brands Can Fight Back Against Walled Garden Dominance
Dec 30, 2024
Why Marketers Are Still 'hedging their bets' on a Google Breakup, and the End of Cookies
Dec 22, 2024
Why YouTube Wants Creators & Brands to Make Videos That Make You Feel Good
Dec 19, 2024
Why e.l.f. is Bullish on Social Commerce - Whether TikTok Stays or Goes
Dec 17, 2024
Why Traditional Media Companies are Stuck Watching Creators Surge
Dec 12, 2024
Inside Reddit's Plan to Become the Next Giant Ad Platform
Dec 10, 2024
Why Brands May Need Creators in Their Product Development Teams
Dec 05, 2024
Why Amazon is Trying to Downplay its Retail Media Dominance
Dec 03, 2024
The former President of Cameo Wants to Help Brands Go Shopping for Creators
Nov 21, 2024
How to Reach Multicultural Audiences in the Stream-First Era
Nov 19, 2024
Ian Schafer on Why Creators Might Need Upfronts
Nov 14, 2024
What's it like for Advertisers to Wait Around for the DOJ, and Google
Nov 12, 2024
How CookIt Media Is Helping Brands And Creators Break Bread
Nov 07, 2024
Adam Singolda Wants Publishers To Collaborate To Fight AI Junk
Nov 05, 2024
What's Really Holding Back Big Media From Doing More With Creators
Oct 31, 2024
Sir Martin on AI, Google, and Trump
Oct 29, 2024
Should We Really Treat Creators Like Mini Media Companies?
Oct 24, 2024
Can Comcast, Paramount and Charter Work Together To Grow CTV?
Oct 22, 2024
How Roku Plans To Bring All Those Instagram Advertisers To TV
Oct 15, 2024
Meet The Company That Brought Ryan's World To The Big Screen
Oct 08, 2024
So, How Is Google's Ad Tech Trial Going?
Oct 01, 2024
The Dangers Of The Ad Buying Industry's 'Overcorrection' Toward Performance
Sep 24, 2024
How Crunchyroll Quietly Became A Streaming War Victor
Sep 17, 2024
An Insider's Take On How YouTube Became A CTV Force
Sep 10, 2024
Why Traditional TV Companies Are Looking to Call Out Platforms on Brand Safety and Transparency
Sep 03, 2024
How to Build a Retail Media Network in 15 Minutes
Aug 21, 2024
Is Google About To Be Broken Up?
Aug 13, 2024
How Samsung Plans to Compete for TV Dollars With its Own FAST and Data
Aug 06, 2024
How Google Dropped the Ball on a Post-Cookie Solution
Jul 30, 2024
NBCU May Have Reason For Olympic Optimism
Jul 23, 2024
How Macy's is Quietly Building a New Profit Center From Retail Media
Jul 16, 2024
A Trio of Top Media Execs Talking AI, YouTube's TV ascendency, and whether short Form Video is like Chicken Fingers
Jul 02, 2024
The View on Retail Media - and the State of Targeting - from Europe
Jun 25, 2024
How the pandemic accelerated Uber's advertising plans
Jun 18, 2024
U of Digital's Shiv Gupta on the Trade Desk's marketing prowess, Disney's embrace of ad tech, and why the cookie delay has everyone in limbo
Jun 11, 2024
Wny many brands are still too skittish about social medial
Jun 04, 2024
What the growth of Roblox says about the future of media and advertising
May 28, 2024
Why the Paris Games - and Patrick Mahomes - May Put Peacock into a New Stratosphere
May 21, 2024
How brands are using TikTok to create new products, including Chipotle menu items
May 14, 2024
How Tubi went from an obscure ad tech company to a content player making shows with actors from Bridgerton
May 07, 2024
The IAB Thinks the FTC Hates Ads
Apr 30, 2024
The Latest on Google Privacy Sandbox From Inside the Publishing Trenches
Apr 23, 2024
Is gaming finally ready for an advertising explosion?
Apr 16, 2024
Trying to move ad spending past DEI box checking
Apr 09, 2024
Why social shopping might finally be ready to break out in the US
Apr 02, 2024
What is TV made for?
Mar 26, 2024
How Retail Media took over the ad business seemingly overnight
Mar 19, 2024
So you've been pretending to understand AI
Mar 12, 2024
Is YouTube Headed for a Paywall?
Mar 05, 2024
"We're going to be talking about real outcomes, not cookie-based outcomes."
Feb 27, 2024
Live from the Kochava Summit, its Next in Media
Feb 20, 2024
What happens when an election year happens during a Cookiepocolypse
Feb 13, 2024
Why there is no one like Mr. Beast
Feb 06, 2024
The Week in Review
Feb 02, 2024
How one news brand is thriving amidst a digital publishing meltdown
Jan 30, 2024
Week in Review with Mike & Ari
Jan 27, 2024
Ok seriously, what in god's name is Google's Privacy Sandbox?
Jan 23, 2024
Mike and Ari talk Google Layoffs, The Sandbox, Peacock's big moment, and CES Chicken
Jan 19, 2024
Fortnite and Roblox for (Ad) Dummies
Jan 16, 2024
Why 2024 Should Be a Great Year For Advertising - But Not for Everyone
Jan 10, 2024
Ari and Mike kill The Messenger
Jan 05, 2024
Adweek's Catherine Perloff on the biggest ad tech stories of 2023 - and what she's watching in 2024
Jan 02, 2024
Hasbro's CMO on the state of kids media in 2024
Dec 19, 2023
How to build a major ad business inside a retailer like Albertsons
Dec 12, 2023
How Tastemade avoided the digital media flameout to become a major CTV player
Dec 06, 2023
What Brands Still Don't Understand About TikTok
Nov 28, 2023
Why the CTV ad experience is still a work in progress
Nov 20, 2023
Multicultural marketing is finally getting more focus from brands - but still has a long way to go
Nov 14, 2023
"Weather at its core is the original influencer"
Nov 07, 2023
Inside Walmart's Journey Toward Becoming a Major Ad Player
Oct 31, 2023
Why Vizio Wants to Bother With Being an Advertising Company
Oct 26, 2023
How TV is borrowing from the social media ad playbook
Oct 17, 2023
What do data scientists really do at ad agencies?
Oct 10, 2023
Why Media Companies May Need to Act More Like Creators
Oct 04, 2023
"It's insane" Paramount's John Halley on keeping up with the changing TV ad market
Sep 26, 2023
How Sam's Club Built its Own Retail Ad Business- with some help from Walmart
Sep 19, 2023
Pinterest wants to use AI to help brands supercharge their creative output
Sep 13, 2023
Why Yahoo Blew Up its Own Ad Tech Business
Sep 05, 2023
"I do think you'll see some consolidation" - former Xandr boss on the state of ad tech post MediaMath
Aug 29, 2023
Luma's Conor McKenna on the recent uptick in M&A, whether retail media shows any signs of slowing, and why ad tech is both consolidating and proliferating
Aug 22, 2023
Disney's Rita Ferro on the why the entertainment giant believes it can compete with the platforms in ad tech and data
Aug 10, 2023
Comcast ad boss on the double standards between TV and digital media
Aug 02, 2023
Microsoft's Ad Chief on the company's stealth retail media ambitions, and the latest on Bing and AI
Jul 18, 2023
Why Google may have just handed regulators a layup, and what Linda Yaccarino has to do to bring brands back to Twitter
Jul 11, 2023
Why consolidation in ad tech will be a major challenge when everything is an ad network
Jun 20, 2023
Why an electronics brand like LG may have a shot at controlling the TV OS
Jun 13, 2023
'Everyone's hair is on fire'
Jun 06, 2023
How brands are prepping for the would be AR revolution
May 30, 2023
Why it might be a rough summer for digital advertising
May 23, 2023
Horizon's Dave Campanelli on Nielsen frustrations, whether the JIC needs to exist, and why TIkTok hasn't joined YouTube at the TV table - yet
May 16, 2023
Jordan Levin, general manager of Rooster Teeth on surviving the streaming wars as niche player, reaching gamers, business model fluctuations and the future of traditional TV
May 09, 2023
"I think in sort of a crisis mode in digital advertising" - Sorin Patilinet, Senior Director Consumer Insights on why people block and skip ads - and what to do
May 02, 2023
How Instacart is trying to prove that retail media really drives incremental sales
Apr 25, 2023
Why Spotify is investing so heavily into ad tech
Apr 18, 2023
Roku's Miles Fisher on trying to train consumers to shop on their TVs
Apr 11, 2023
Why brands need to master short form video
Mar 28, 2023
The state of ad tech, Ryan Reynolds Marketing Prowess, and Hulu vs. Netflix
Mar 21, 2023
Why even the most traditional marketers need to act like DTC brands - even if the revenue is tiny
Mar 14, 2023
Why Havas wants to target your emotional state
Mar 07, 2023
"It's astonishing that the industry has managed to make television advertising worse in a digital age"
Mar 02, 2023
Part 1: "We saw a huge opportunity for currency correction" // Part II: "As a media owner, you don't' control the creative...you can't be held accountable"
Feb 21, 2023
Why the Financial Times is ultra conservative with programmatic ads and data
Feb 14, 2023
Jonah Goodhart thinks the ad business needs a complete do-over on measurement - and AI will lead the way
Feb 07, 2023
"Not everyone is going to succeed" - Why Retail Media is ripe for consolidation
Jan 26, 2023
Why so many big marketers still don't understand gaming
Jan 19, 2023
"It's a huge change...it's been a 20-year journey" - why Nielsen One has a shot at radically changing the TV business
Jan 12, 2023
The Trade Desk on fighting walled gardens and trying to keep Google honest
Jan 05, 2023
2022 in review - Brian Morrissey on what happened to BuzzFeed, and whether AI is coming for the ad creatives
Dec 22, 2022
Airbnb's marketing boss on why travel continues to roar -and may never be the same post Covid
Dec 13, 2022
'Performance is merit based more than anything else' - How brands can make sense of 800,000 TikTok creators
Dec 06, 2022
Why misinformation is the next battlefront in brand safety
Nov 29, 2022
YouTube wants credit for spending as much on content as Netflix - and getting more viewership
Nov 15, 2022
As Hershey moves its budgets from TV to digital, everything is getting harder
Nov 08, 2022
How Apple and TikTok Blew Up the Walled Gardens
Oct 31, 2022
How two media agency executives uncovered a big problem in CTV
Oct 10, 2022
Why Vox Media is going bigger into ad tech despite the skeptics
Sep 29, 2022
"Let's all push ourselves here" - OpenAP is only trying to bring together media companies, agencies, brands, measurement and data providers to advance data-driven TV advertising in a way that satisfies all parties - including consumers.
Sep 12, 2022
"Perhaps we've not been vocal enough" - why the TV industry undercounts over the air viewers - and maybe overstates cord-cutting
Aug 30, 2022
NBCUniversal and Paramount both want TV to be more accountable - the question is how
Aug 10, 2022
Why Molson Coors wants the big TV companies to get over themselves and collaborate more
Aug 02, 2022
"We need radical collaboration" - Why Doug Rozen, CEO of dentsu Media in the Americas, think media agencies may need to work together more
Jul 26, 2022
Why brands like Bolt don't care about TV's old metrics rules
Jul 20, 2022
"It's too soon" -Why Havas' Amy Ginsberg thinks the TV business needs to move slowly when it comes to changing currencies.
Jul 13, 2022
"It's the number pain point by far"- Ad agencies aren't dying. But they are dying for more talent.
Jul 06, 2022
'"Digitally led, technology enabled and data fueled" - How becoming an ad sales company is changing how Walgreens buys media
Jun 29, 2022
"I will be really sad" if brands go overboard in targeting consumers in Web3
Jun 22, 2022
Why 'legacy thinking' is holding back CTV's ad potential
Jun 15, 2022
TelevisaUnivision is pushing for more representative TV measurement
Jun 08, 2022
Why Twitch is Ready to Crash the Upfront
Mar 30, 2022
How The Dodo went from cute pet videos on Social platform to conquering all media
Mar 23, 2022
How YouTube Reruns May LIterally Help Change the World
Mar 09, 2022
How WarnerMedia is -very carefully - bringing advertising to HBO
Feb 23, 2022
The ad business is still sleeping on the end of cookies
Feb 16, 2022
How the Media JV Open AP. is looking to help TV advertising work faster and smarter by helping to break down data silos
Feb 09, 2022
Why Action Network Bets "Well in Excess" of Six Figures Every Weekend to Nab New Gambling Fans
Feb 02, 2022
Why the TV ad industry is unlikely to settle on new measurement in 2022
Jan 26, 2022
Why Kroger may be advertising's sleeping giant
Jan 13, 2022
'Where is this disaster I'm hearing about?' Why digital advertising is poised to thrive post cookie world
Dec 22, 2021
Why it's unlikely that any one company will unseat Nielsen in TV advertising
Dec 08, 2021
Why marketers need to start taking crypto seriously right now.
Dec 01, 2021
How Amazon is looking to quietly conquer every part of the advertising business
Nov 17, 2021
Why TV manufacturers are suddenly the most interesting companies in advertising
Nov 10, 2021
Why the ongoing changes in digital ad targeting are just the 'tip of the iceberg'
Nov 03, 2021
Roblox (and kids) are already building the metaverse
Oct 28, 2021
Why the digital newsletter boom could shake up digital ad targeting
Oct 20, 2021
Why Innovid sees old school measurement panels as a 'hack' that no longer make sense
Oct 13, 2021
Consumers still don't trust marketers on the web – so here's what brands need to do.
Sep 29, 2021
Why Traditional Marketers Like Mondelez Think They Can Build an Unassailable Advantage by Investing in Machine Learning Now
Sep 01, 2021
Why The Trade Desk Is Pushing the Ad Industry So Hard to Not Let the Walled Gardens Decide Its Fate
Aug 25, 2021
How Zillow Uses Data and Content to Figure Out if You Are Buying a New Home - Or Just Fantasizing
Aug 18, 2021
Why Marketers Need to Embrace Putting Their Messages in the Hands of Creators
Aug 11, 2021
McKinsey’s Ahuja on Why Brands Are Still Reeling From Pandemic-Driven ‘Loyalty Shock’ Despite the Ad Industry’s Big Bounce Back
Aug 04, 2021
Why Marketers Will Be Far Better Off in a Privacy-First, Post Cookie World According to HubSpot’s Brinker
Jul 21, 2021
NBCUniversal Believes It’s Time for Ad Agencies To Embrace Digital Measurement for TV
Jul 14, 2021
I Want My CTV - Why Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo Are Creating the New Prime Time - On Vevo
Jun 30, 2021
How the Pandemic Paved the Way for a More Sophisticated Generation of CMOs
Jun 23, 2021
"Brands Aren't Going To See It Coming" Why Marketers Are About To Be Rocked by the Creator Economy
Jun 16, 2021
"The Market Is Huge" - Spotify Wants To Transform Podcast Advertising Just Like It Did Music
Jun 02, 2021
Why Google Is Going Its Own Way in a Post-Cookie World
May 26, 2021
“Traditional TV Is No Longer Delivering Mass Reach" - Why Roku Is Poised to Own the Streaming Ad Boom
May 19, 2021
John Kosner Thinks Amazon May Hold the Future of Sports Broadcasting and Advertising in Its Hands
May 12, 2021
Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun: How the Pandemic Permanently Changed Restaurant Marketing
May 05, 2021
Why Global Ad Agencies Still Want Their Say in the Digital ID Wars
Apr 28, 2021
Bonin Bough wants every CMO to be obsessed with getting your cell phone number
Apr 21, 2021
Harry's Gabby Cohen Believes People Are Almost Ready to Get Dressed and Go Out Again - and That Brands Have a Chance to Reinvent Experiential Marketing This Summer
Apr 14, 2021
IBM's Bob Lord Welcomes Testing Google's Cookie Alternative, but Expresses Concern About "Attacks on the Open Web"
Apr 07, 2021
YouTube Wants to Get Really Personal Despite All the Big Changes in Ad Targeting
Mar 31, 2021
The News Industry is Battling a Misinformation Crisis Amid Ongoing Business Model Uncertainty
Mar 24, 2021
How Disney Fell Deeply in Love with Programmatic Advertising
Mar 17, 2021
Why TikTok May Soon Be Ready to Go After TV Ad Money
Mar 10, 2021
Pinterest Aspires to Be the "Connective Tissue Between Inspiration and Action"
Mar 03, 2021
David Jones Thinks Ad Holding Companies Are Hiding Behind Covid
Feb 17, 2021
Why Publishers Like Complex Can't Wait for Someone Else to Replace the Cookie
Feb 10, 2021
"The Battle for the Soul of the Internet" - Adweek's Ronan Shields on the Coming War Between Apple and Google Over the Future of Digital Advertising
Jan 27, 2021
Terence Kawaja and Dave Morgan are Bullish on the Ad Economy Bouncing Back Post-Covid, but Think Some Media Investors are ‘Whistling Past the Graveyard’
Jan 20, 2021
Advertising Disrupted: What User Privacy Means for Marketers
Dec 30, 2020
Brian Morrissey on Why We'll Never Escape Advertising and Why 2021 May Represent a Return to Sanity in Digital Publishing
Dec 16, 2020
American Express Believes Machine Learning is Going to Radically Reshape Just About Every Industry
Dec 02, 2020
Kiwoba Allaire is Pushing Silicon Valley to Move Outside of the Traditional Hiring Lanes
Nov 25, 2020
TikTok Says it Can Help Advertisers Reach Gen Z and Measure How Well Their Ads Work
Nov 18, 2020
Harold Klaje is on a Mission to Demystify Reddit for Brands
Nov 04, 2020
Crypt TV Wants to Build Marvel For Horror Fans By Scaring People on Their Mobile Phones
Oct 28, 2020
Big Brands Need To Reset Their Expectations Around Data, According to M&C Saatchi Performance's Guillaume Lelait
Oct 21, 2020
Why Netflix's Data Scientist Jeffrey Wong Wants the Digital Ad Industry to Make a Bigger Bet on Incrementality
Oct 07, 2020
How Magic Spoon Launched a Direct-to-Consumer Cereal Startup in the Middle of a Pandemic
Sep 23, 2020
HER’s Shana Sumers Wants Marketers to Move Beyond Catering to the Black Community in February & the LGTBQ Community in June
Sep 16, 2020
TV Advertising is Finally Becoming More Data Driven - Which Means Everything About the TV Ad Business Needs to Change
Sep 09, 2020
Visa’s Matt Story Thinks Madison Avenue is Making Big Strides on Privacy But Has a Ways to Go on Diversity
Sep 02, 2020
Tastemade Says Its Thriving During the Digital Media Apocalypse
Aug 19, 2020
Snap is Bringing Digital Ad Creative Out of the Dark Ages - Though Traditional Agencies May Not be Ready
Aug 05, 2020
Why It’s Becoming Much Tougher For Brands to Use Consumer Data for Marketing Purpose in the Shift Toward a Privacy Centric Ecosystem
Jul 22, 2020
Why MediaLink Believes the Streaming Wars will Inevitably have Some Major Casualties - and Why Brands are Facing an ‘Existential’ Challenge in this Era
Jul 08, 2020
How Digital Ad Veteran Sarah Hofstetter is Trying to Help Legacy Retailers Become E-commerce Juggernauts in the Age of Stay-at-Home Shopping
Jul 08, 2020
YouTube’s Debbie Weinstein Provides an Inside Look at Their Plan to Steal More Ad Dollars From TV - By Proving Its Ads Deliver Tangible Business Results
Jun 24, 2020
Activision Blizzard Knows The Video Game Industry Hasn't Done Enough to Cater to Big Brands, But Jonathan Stringfield is Working to Change That
Jun 10, 2020
Twitch’s CMO Doug Scott: Brands are Still Wrapping their Heads Around the Engagement Power of Live Streaming
May 27, 2020
NBCUniversal’s Chairman, Advertising & Client Partnerships, Linda Yaccarino Only Wants to Shake Up Measurement, the TV Ad Experience, and the Industry's Fundamental Business Model
May 27, 2020