Sharon Palmer’s digital career spans over two decades. Currently Client Success Director at digital agency Idhl, she was key in the agency’s integration of nine businesses and eight separate brands into Idhl. She spent 27 years at McCann, starting as an exec, working up to MD, setting up the agency’s digital operations as digital marketing was born…

In this special episode of the NDA Meets podcast, in association with Hivestack by Perion, NDA Editor Justin Pearse is joined by Inés Armendáriz, International Sales Director, and Nigel Clarkson, Global Chief Revenue Officer at Taptap Digital. They discuss how programmatic has transformed out-of-home into a key part of an omnichannel strategy, the …

The Out of Home (OOH) advertising industry is evolving rapidly, driven by digitisation, growing scale across the globe, and the advanced targeting and measurement capabilities of programmatic media. In this time of change, how can the industry best deliver on the promise of programmatic OOH? In this special podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse is join…

NDA’s podcast series, Masters of Media talks to heads of media at brands to understand how advertisers are able to keep pace with the frenetic speed of development of media and its fragmentation across channels. In this episode we meet Peter Rowe, Head of Media at NatWest Group. On moving from procurement to marketing: In procurement, I looked at i…

n the latest in our NDA Meets podcast, Editor Justin Pearse sits down with James Hill, Chief Commercial Officer, Exte. With an industry career spanning twenty years, James is two months into the new job, with responsibility of driving growth in new markets as the Spanish-born adtech company embarks on ambitious global expansion. The conversation co…

In the latest NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sat down in Cannes with David Winstone, Trading Director UK, Channel Factory to discuss the future of the digital advertising industry. Topics covered included contextual alignment and how Channel Factory is helping brands align with the right content and using context as a proxy for perform…

At the year's Cannes Lions Festival, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sat down with Kumar Amrendra, Head of Digital Marketing, Planning & Data Science, Sky and Elizabeth Brennan, Manager Advertising, Permutive. In a wide-ranging discussion, we examine the stage of the nation for brands today as they prepare for a world post cookie.…

In the second of our special ‘An Audience With’ podcasts from Canne 2024, NDA editor sits down to chat with Sir Martin Sorrell, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital. One of the ad industry’s biggest names, Sorrell shares his thoughts on how Cannes has changed over the past two decades, considers whether brands are ready for a first-party…

In the first of our special 'An Audience With' podcasts from Cannes 2024, NDA editor Justin Pearse speaks with Terence 'Terry' Kawaja, founder and CEO of LUMA Partners. One of the most influential people in the industry, Kawaja tells why he still loves Cannes, explains why M&A activity is back with a bang and describes how ad industry has been been…

In this episode of the NDA Meets podcast, New Digital Age Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Theo Theodorou, UK Managing Director at Microsoft Advertising, to discuss the topic of digital transformation. Theodorou, in his second stint at the tech giant, talks about the role of AI in the new era of digital transformation, how the technology is impa…

In the latest episode of the NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse is joined in the studio by Hannah Walker, Head of Mid Market UK at Reddit. Reddit has been bolstering its advertising business in recent months to make the platform more attractive and effective for brands to communicate with its highly-engaged and passionate audience. Walker,…

In the latest It's Always Media Thursday podcast, Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back for another irreverent take on a a week in the digital media and marketing industry. After an unusual departure into a serious discussion on European regulation, it's back to more reliable ground for IAMT including WhatsApp industry communities,…

In the latest NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Jonny Whitehead, Strategy Director at Skyrise, an audience targeting platform powered by mobile network data. The conversation is focussed on how the digital media industry is shifting into a new era of media effectiveness, driven by regulatory shift and the huge issue of sign…

t's Always Media Thursday is back for Season Three. The new season is innovation free, returning with nothing new but Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes's weekly stroll through a week in digital media and marketing. This week's discussion touches on sustainability, diversity, the launch of NDA's Trinity Lunch Scotland, the second NDA IWD…

Marty Davies is Joint CEO, Outvertising and Co-Founder of Trans+ Adland, a community group of trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and intersex people in the marketing and advertising industry, and the founder of creative consultancy Smarty Pants. Marty is a force of nature, driving change across our industry. A columnist for Campaign magazine …

Incredibly, the volume of carbon emissions generated by the digital advertising industry now exceeds the emissions associated with the aviation sector. Here, NDA editor Justin Pearse talks to David Shaw, Co-founder and CEO of Cedara, a carbon intelligence platform for marketers. Shaw argues that while sustainability is a hot topic right now, too ma…

In the latest NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Alex Prouhet, VP of Advertising at Deliveroo. Eighteen months in the role, Alex discusses Deliveroo's focus for advertising in 2024, the future of retail media, how Deliveroo Media and Ecommerce has developed since its launch in 2002, Deliveroo's role in the omnichannel consum…

Joy Dean is Head of Attention UK, Tobii ATTEX, an attention data exchange. A self-described Startup Queen, for the last 18 years she's played a pivotal role in the growth of adtech including at Tribal Fusion before it became Widespace, helping launch InVibes, at Widespace before it was bought by Azerion, and launching the programmatic arm of Ogury.…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes return with yet another ramblng chat about a week in the digital media and marketing industry. This week we're joined by special guest Karan Singh, Head of International Advertiser Partnerships, Microsoft Advertising, who gives us his take on industry developments and reveals some shocking views on …

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back due to popular demand with series three of the It's Always Media Thursday podcast, taking a 'unique' look back on a week in the digital marketing and media industry. This week's high-level dose of insight includes discussion of Halloween, Christmas, Mariah Carey, boxing, and a deep dive int…

In the latest episode of the NDA Meets podcast, we sit down with Brian Morrissey, Founder, The Rebooting, and previously President and Editor in Chief of Digiday. The Rebooting is dedicated to exploring 'The mechanics of building sustainable media businesses' and there is no one better placed to discuss the future of the publishing industry. In a w…

Terence 'Terry' Kawaja, is the Founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm focussed on digital media and marketing. As famous for his parody videos featuring leading industry figures, and colourful on-stage appearances as for his deep knowledge of the digital sector and the $300 billion of deals he's been been behind, he is one of o…

Out of home (OOH) was traditionally seen as a standalone media channel, but digital screens are changing this perception. Now, thanks to the data-targeting and measurement of programmatic, brands can fully integrate digital out of home (DOOH) into their omnichannel campaigns. In this special video podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse is joined Will Br…

Paul Wright is a true digital veteran, with experience across companies like Apple, Amazon and Omnicom and many more He joined Uber six months ago to set up its advertising operations in London. The discussion explores how Uber is building its advertising business in the UK, part of the company's ambition to create a $1bn business in the next two y…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back for another essential trawl though a week in digital media and marketing. Reflecting on last week's Cannes Lions festival, this week's podcast turns out to be an events special. We're joined by good friend and Madfest Co-Founder Dan Brain who reveals the treats in store for attendees at nex…

The fast-moving nature of this industry means that even the most digitally experienced may well not be fully up to speed with sectors outside their day-to-day area of focus. Which is why NDA has launched our Media 101 podcast series. We'll be talking to experts across the industry for a deep dive into different sectors. Out of home is one the oldes…

In this podcast series, we’ll be talking to agency leaders to discover the stories behind their journey to the top of the industry and what lessons others can learn from them. Anne Stagg is the UK CEO of dentsu's Customer Experience Management Line of Business (CXM). Leading a business of 940 people, she was previously Head of Client Services at Me…

In this 'Cannes special' episode of It's Always Media Thursday we discuss the highlights of the opening day at Cannes 2023 with Charlie Crowe of Crowe Advisory. We talk about the ANA (The Association of National Advertisers) and transparency in advertising plus why Cannes is still really important despite sometimes being seen as solely a networking…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with yet another insightful discussion - or slightly-foggy chat - about a week in the digital media and marketing industry. This week we wonder why AI keeps dominating headlines in NDA and beyond, discuss the unfeasibly-large number of events beind run by ourselves and the industry ast larg…

CMO Confidential is a podcast series on NDA where we talk to CMOs who, while not digital in job title, have digital understanding and experience embedded in their DNA. In this episode, we sit down with Matt Barwell, CMO at Britvic. He talks about Britvic's fascinating digital in-housing journey. "If you can to our Infused studio, you wouldn't be ab…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with yet another unstructured and frankly often bewildering discussion of a week in the digital media and marketing industry. Alongside the unwelcome return of Andy's Train Chat, we talk about Justin's love for hotels over football, the retail media boom, the highs of thei year's London Adv…

NDA’s podcast series, Masters of Media talks to heads of media at brands to understand how advertisers are able to keep pace with the frenetic speed of development of media and its fragmentation across channels. In this episode we meet Teja Patel, Senior Director, Global Digital Media at Cisco. Teja Patel is a true digital veteran and is now bringi…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes return with another disorganised ramble through a week in the digital media and marketing industry. We discuss retail media, tacos, NDA and Newsworks' comedy quiz show in Manchester, time travel, and the success of the inaugural Possible industry event in Miami, where the likes of Elon Musk, Uber Ad…

Innovation is perhaps one of the most commonly-used words in our industry. But what does it really mean in an industry based on, and fuelled by, tecnical innovation? In a new podcast series, Innovation Leaders, we're sitting down with heads of innovation at agencies and brands to find out. To launch the series, we met with Sarah Salter, Head of App…

“I would rather do good work with great people than great work with assholes” is the personal motto of Beth Freedman, CEO, Dentsu X, who joins us in the inaugural episode of My Path to the Top, a new podcast series in partnership with Dentsu. In the series, we'll be talking to agency leaders to discover the stories behind their journey to the top o…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with another easy ramble through the streets of a week in the digital media and marketing industry. In this week's episode, we review the trade press, looking at how the sector is flourishing and the strength of titles like The Drum, Campaign Ad Week and Media Leader, and discuss the latest…

In the latest in our NDA Meets series, we sit down with Christian Muche, the Co-Founder of Beyond Ordinary Events which launches POSSIBLE in Miami Beach, on April 17th-19th. Christian has a track record of creating some of the biggest events in the industry including Dmexco. The conversation looks at what we can expect from Possible, the role of ev…

The NDA podcast It's Always Media Thursday has broken new ground by being published on an actual Thursday. NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes once again take a gentle stroll through a week in the digital marketing and media industry. This week we're joined by special guest Brand Advance CEO EMEA Deborah Gbadamosi, one of NDA's favour…

In the latest in our NDA Meets series, we sit down with Josh Hitchcock. Agency Account Director at Hawk. The discussion covers topics including sustainability in the digital advertising industry, "a topic all of us our learning about on a daily basis and is now front and centre of our industry", omnichannel marketing and the delivery of truly-cooki…

NDA’s podcast series Digital Leaders meets Heads of Digital, Digital Directors and Chief Digital Officers at brands to find out what the role means today and how they’re using digital to get closer to their customers. Next up is Adrian Harris, Head of Digital at VisitBritain. Adrian's career in digital spans almost two decades including senior role…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with another gentle ramble along the paths of a week in the digital media and marketing industry. We celebrate the end of January, the rare lack of illness on Andy's behalf and NDA's plans for Cannes Lions. This week we're joined by special guest industry veteran Charlie Crowe for an indept…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with another shuffling glance at this week's digital media and marketing industry.Oleh The New Digital Age Team

In the first It’s Always Media Thursday podcast of 2023, Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes kick off the year with another gentle ramble through a week in digital media and marketing. In another Andy's Illness special, we're joined by the irrepressible Rob Blake, MD of Channel Factory. We talk about the reasons to be cheerful in 2023, an…

In the latest It’s Always Media Thursday podcast, Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with their tradition shuffle through a week in digital media and marketing. This week we're joined by three of the driving forces behind some of our industry's best events to discuss the outlook for events in 2023. Stepping virtually into the ND…

In the latest It’s Always Media Thursday podcast, Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes return for festive take on their discussion of the ins and outs of a week in digital media and marketing, joined by special guest Ad Tech Personality of the Year, Index Exchange MD Sara Vincent. This week's conversation ranges from festive party season h…

For the latest in our NDA Meets podcast series, For the latest in our NDA Meets podcast series, we sit down with Richard Ottoy, GM, EMEA at Sharethrough and Harvin Gupta, Head Of Commercial Partnerships, Scope3. The discussion focuses on the potential environmental damage of digital advertising, the move to net zero campaigns and the critical role …

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NDA’s podcast series, Masters of Media talks to heads of media at brands to understand how advertisers are able to keep pace with the frenetic speed of development of media and its fragmentation across channels. In this episode we meet Richard Bettinson, Senior Director, Media & Insight at Hilton.Oleh The New Digital Age Team

NDA has launched a new podcast series, talking to CTOs at agencies to understand the meaning of the role today, especially how such individual's help select and maintaining the huge number of tech partners agencies now work with. First up is Ross Barnes, Global CTO at The&Partnership. We discuss how tech companies stand the best chance of getting R…

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes take their weekly-ish ramble through another week in digital media and marketing. We discuss NDA's arrival in Manchester with out Trinity Lunch North event, why Andy ran out of petrol on the sausage-roll fuelled journey to Manchester, and the brilliance of both the Alliance of Independent Publishers…