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AdExchanger Talks is an advertising and marketing technology podcast from AdExchanger, the leading voice in ad tech. Listen in as AdExchanger's award-winning editorial team, led by Managing Editor Allison Schiff, interviews industry leaders and explores the issues and trends that matter to brand marketers, ad agencies, publishers, media companies and technology providers.

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  • Tuesday · 58 min

    Programmatic Gets An Agentic Brain

    Agentic AI just ran a CTV campaign end-to-end through a new, agent-driven buying workflow with far less manual optimization and a lot less waste. Butler/Till's Scott Ensign explains what that means for the future of programmatic.

  • August 18 · 51 min

    Google's Mass Arbitration Problem

    Thousands of advertisers are taking Google to arbitration over alleged ad overpayments. Attorney Ashley Keller of Keller Postman explains the legal strategy and what a positive outcome could mean for claimants.

  • August 11 · 51 min

    Murder Your Thirst And Measure Everything

    Liquid Death is all jokes and dark humor on the surface, but the canned water brand's chief media and digital commerce officer, Benoit Vatere, takes measurement deadly seriously. He's tackling one of the gnarliest problems in CPG: proving that media actually moves product off the shelves.

  • August 4 · 54 min

    'Models Built For Me'

    Chalice AI's COO and co-founder, Ali Manning, explains how the AI startup – don't call it a custom algorithm company – is helping brands like Bayer use advertiser-specific bidding models to drive real outcomes as opposed to poor proxies.

  • July 28 · 46 min

    The Hardest KPI In Advertising

    Marketing consumer products comes with plenty of challenges. But just try selling a political candidate in a hyper-polarized, 24-hour news environment, says Mark Jablonowski, CEO of DSPolitical, a political ad platform that caters to Democrats and progressive causes.

  • July 21 · 48 min

    Forget The Shiny Objects And Focus On Fundamentals

    Sharona Sankar-King, Havas Media's chief data and product officer, on why marketers should stop chasing shiny AI toys and get serious about the fundamentals, including truly understanding the customer and only collecting data that's "fit for purpose."

  • July 15 · 45 min

    Convincing Cat Parents To Buy A $600 Litter Box

    Most brands worry about competitors. Whisker is worried about complacency, says CMO Hew Loyd – specifically, the millions of cat owners who have decided that scooping an open box of poop in their home is just one of life's little chores.

  • July 8 · 39 min

    Reckitt's Digital Reckoning

    You wouldn't accept paying for a Big Mac and getting a single chicken nugget. But that's essentially what a lot of marketers are doing with their digital ad budgets, says Reckitt's Sameer Amin, on this week's episode of AdExchanger Talks recorded live in Cannes.

  • June 30 · 30 min

    Reddit Is Training The Robots

    Reddit is now one of the main data sources feeding LLMs and AI search. In this episode, recorded live in Cannes, COO Jen Wong talks data licensing deals, how people use Reddit to validate what they're about to buy and what it takes to stop bad actors from gaming its forums to sway AI results.

  • June 23 · 50 min

    Rethinking Vitamin Marketing, With Barrière

    Cleo Davis-Urman, CEO and co-founder of wearable vitamin brand Barrière, talks word-of-mouth, measurement, retail media and what it takes to build a new category around patches instead of pills.

  • June 16 · 41 min

    California Regulatin'

    Tom Kemp, executive director of CalPrivacy, unpacks the DELETE Act, his agency's enforcement priorities, the rules governing automated decision-making tech – and why ad tech should pay close attention to it all.

  • June 10 · 46 min

    The Gwyneth Effect, Measured

    You don't usually hear someone talk about peptide serums, CAC and customer lifetime value in the same breath. But that's a normal day for Alexa Raff, CMO of goop, the wellness and lifestyle brand co-founded and led by Gwyneth Paltrow.

  • June 3 · 50 min

    Don't Take Customers At Face Value

    Verizon Value President David "DK" Kim digs into the lingering stigma around prepaid wireless – and how reframing customers as "prepaid by need" versus "prepaid by choice" changes the way Verizon markets and measures its eight-brand portfolio of prepaid plans.

  • May 26 · 50 min

    How 'Wrapped' Insights Become Audience Segments

    How does Spotify translate quirky "Wrapped" labels, like "divorced dad hipster," into ad audiences? And is AI-generated content safe for brands? Spotify's Global Head of Ad Product Katie English weighs in.

  • May 19 · 50 min

    Influencer Marketing Grows

    Up If creators want brand dollars, they have to play by the rules of data-driven marketing and measurement, says Ryan Detert, CEO and co-founder of Publicis-owned influencer marketing platform Influential.

  • May 12 · 54 min

    Zoom's Next Act

    Zoom CMO Kim Storin has one of the rarer jobs in marketing: She's responsible for promoting and evolving a brand that's also become a verb.

  • May 5 · 1 hr 1 min

    Manscaped's Whole‑Body Media Strategy

    Behind the scenes with Manscaped CMO Marcelo Kertész on the brand's first Super Bowl spot – a musical ad starring singing hair balls (just watch it) – and how he's shifting Manscaped's marketing from performance-heavy DTC to a broader, brand-led strategy.

  • April 28 · 33 min

    Ready, Set, Upfront

    Amazon is gearing up for its third-ever upfront event next month in New York City – and programmatic is at the center of its pitch. "We're encouraging brands and agencies to consolidate into the Amazon DSP to drive better outcomes," says Sarah Iooss, head of agency partnerships at Amazon Ads.

  • April 21 · 50 min

    AI Is The New Ad Space

    AI isn't just a productivity tool, says Debra Aho Williamson, founder of Sonata Insights. It's a brand-new media environment that's reshaping how people decide what to buy and challenging marketers to completely rethink the funnel.

  • April 14 · 44 min

    Betterment's 'Anti‑Marketing' Machine

    Kim Rosenblum, CMO of investment app Betterment, unpacks her "anti‑marketing" playbook, which involves telling customers not to engage and shifting away from chasing cheap CAC to prioritizing lifetime value.

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