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The Ad Podcast
by Dylan Conroy
a podcast where host Dylan Conroy interviews the c suite of media companies, agencies, brands and thought leaders on his quest to build the worlds greatest sales culture
Episodes
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Why Follower Count is Destroying Your Influencer Strategy | Kurt Stadelman, Pearpop, VP of Talent and Influencers
The creator economy is plagued by administrative friction, unverified metrics, and an unregulated talent management landscape. In this episode, Kurt Stadelman, VP of Talent and Influencers at Pearpop, breaks down how modern agencies combine exclusive talent representation with enterprise-grade...
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Julie Haleluk - Global Head of Growth - Amazon Shopping Video
Julie Haleluk, Global Head of Growth for Amazon Shopping Video. Julie is a media and marketing executive who spent years managing media strategy at DIRECTV & AT&T before joining Amazon to scale one of the most exciting initiatives in e-commerce: shoppable video. Sitting right at the intersection…
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Can Vice Categories and Gambling Have Real Brand Purpose? | Jason Keehn, Accompany Creative, CEO & Founder
In this episode, Jason Keehn, CEO & Founder of Accompany Creative, breaks down how modern marketing leaders can unite authentic brand purpose with rigorous financial metrics to drive enterprise growth. Recorded live at Advertising Week in New York City, this conversation offers an unvarnished…
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Juan Andrés Elhazaz - Global CEO - SAMY
Juan Andrés Elhazaz, Global CEO of SAMY—one of the world's premier social-first agency networks, spanning 15+ countries and backing major global accounts like Unilever Foods and Barilla. Juan Andrés spent nearly 14 years driving brand strategy at L'Oréal before joining SAMY, where he served as...
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Why Digital Billboards and Creator Stunts Are Surging | Ryan Laul, Talon, North American CEO
In this episode of The AD Podcast, host Dylan Conroy sits down with Ryan Laul, North American CEO of Talon, to explore the rapid evolution of out-of-home (OOH) media, digital billboard automation, and retail media integration. Discover how brands are bypassing legacy print lead times with...
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Why Athletes Make the Ultimate Corporate CEOs | Chantell Preston, San Francisco Signal, Co-Founder & Owner
The commercial landscape of women's professional sports is undergoing an unprecedented operational evolution. In this episode, Chantell Preston, Co-Founder and Owner of the San Francisco Signal, breaks down the strategic economics of launching a franchise within League One Volleyball (LOVB)....
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Why Gen Z and Gen Alpha Are Gamified Consumers | Matt Edelman, Super League, CEO
Reaching modern consumers requires moving past passive video and into immersive, participatory gaming ecosystems. In this episode, Matt Edelman, CEO of Super League, breaks down how enterprise brands successfully navigate multi-platform advertising campaigns, leverage native ad tech, and build...
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Tom Telford - President of Digital Marketing and CDO - Clarity
Tom Telford, President of Digital Marketing and Chief Digital Officer at Clarity. Tom is a veteran agency leader who is actively reshaping how enterprise brands navigate the biggest shift in search and communications in two decades. Rather than treating PR, performance media, and SEO as separate...
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Eliminating Wasted Ad Spend Through AI Multi-Channel Attribution | Zack Dugow, The Cool Company, Founder and CEO
Enterprise marketing organizations waste millions of dollars annually by isolating performance budgets into rigid, channel-specific walled gardens. In this episode, Zack Dugow, Founder and CEO of The Cool Company, breaks down how merging search, social, and programmatic spend into a unified...
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How Custom AI Workflows Scale Agency Creative Output | Steve O'Connell, Modop, Co-CEO
In this episode, Modop Co-Chief Creative Officer Steve O'Connell sits down at Advertising Week in New York City to unpack how modern agencies are successfully integrating technology expertise with world-class brand creative strategy. Discover how building custom AI layers fine-tuned to client…
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Andrew Graff - CEO - Allen & Gerritsen
Andrew Graff is an agency leader, marketing innovator, and the long-standing Chief Executive Officer of Allen & Gerritsen (A&G), an independent, integrated agency with offices in Boston and Philadelphia. Under Graff’s leadership, A&G has expanded into a national powerhouse bringing together...
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The B2B-to-C Playbook Behind Agricultural Cooperatives | Pat Dunneback, Battery Agency, Managing Director
In this episode of The Ad Podcast, host Dylan Conroy sits down with Pat Dunneback, Managing Director of Battery Agency’s Chicago office, live from Advertising Week in New York. They unpack the intricacies of managing a multi-year enterprise relationship with Land O'Lakes, examining how legacy...
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The Future of Consumer Experience and Intentional AI Integration | Isabel Muñoz, Sounds Fun, CEO
In this episode of The AD Podcast, host Dylan Conroy sits down with Isabel Muñoz, CEO of Sounds Fun, live from Advertising Week in New York City. They unpack the critical intersection of emerging automation technology and authentic human connection, examining why brands that blindly replace human...
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Alexander Guerrero - Founder and CEO - Nextide Media
Alexander Guerrero, Founder and CEO of Nextide Media—the modern adtech network unlocking livestreaming for enterprise brands. Alexander started NexTide after experiencing firsthand how painful and unpredictable creator-led live activations could be. Today, he’s built the technology stack that...
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How AI Agents Are Transforming High-Consideration Buying Journeys | Gregg Johnson, Invoca, CEO
Enterprise brands navigating complex, high-consideration buyer journeys face a structural shift as consumer research moves toward LLM aggregation and agentic commerce. In this episode of The AD Podcast, Gregg Johnson, CEO of Invoca, joins host Dylan Conroy to break down why top-of-funnel web...
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Mastering Fan Intelligence vs. Social Media | Bethany Eppner, Fandom, Head of Business Marketing
Modern digital publishers and enterprise marketers face unprecedented disruption as AI answer engines transform traditional organic search discovery. In this episode of The AD Podcast, host Dylan Conroy sits down with Bethany Epner, Head of Business Marketing at Fandom, to explore how platforms...
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The 5-Part AI Framework for Marketers | George Khatatrian, Braze, VP of AI Decisioning
Enterprise marketing executives face severe operational bottlenecks when attempting to scale lifecycle personalization across fragmented customer touchpoints. In this episode of The AD Podcast, host Dylan Conroy sits down with George Khachatryan, Vice President of AI Decisioning at Braze, to…
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How Braze Uses Internal AI to Automate Workflows | Astha Malik, Braze, CBO
Managing enterprise marketing complexity often leaves strategy teams overwhelmed by manual tool administration and operational execution. In this live interview from Forge in Las Vegas, Astha Malik, Chief Business Officer at Braze, breaks down how leading organizations deploy internal AI...
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Solving Real-Time Messaging & System Automation | Sarah Reddington, Intuit, Manager of Growth Tech
How do enterprise brands move from batch segmentation to true 1-to-1 customer personalization? Sarah Reddington, Manager of Growth Tech at Intuit, joins the show to break down how engineering modern marketing stacks, Braze AI agents, and real-time data connectors unlock timely, relevant customer...
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Jason Notte - Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief - Game Changers News
Jason Notte is an award-winning sports business journalist and media executive serving as the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Game Changers News. With a career spanning over two decades as a columnist and editor for outlets including ADWEEK, TheStreet, MSN Money, MarketWatch, and Boston.com,...
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Chris Milone - CMO - A Place for Mom
Chris Milone is a seasoned, four-time Chief Marketing Officer and marketing executive currently serving as the CMO at A Place for Mom, North America's leading senior living advisory network. With a career spanning over two decades across fintech, financial services, and digital marketplaces…
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Nicholas Spiro - Chief Commercial Officer - Viral Nation
Nicholas Spiro, Chief Commercial Officer at Viral Nation—a global social-first transformation group that merges creator marketing, media buying, and AI-powered brand safety. Nicholas is a veteran platform leader who had a front-row seat to the evolution of digital ads during his tenure across…
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Multi-Channel Personalization at Enterprise Scale | Liron Biton, Elementor, Group Manager
As AI tools and vibe coding lower the technical entry barrier across digital platforms, enterprise marketing and product leaders face intense pressure to overhaul lifecycle engagement strategies. In this episode, Liron Biton, Group Manager of Lifecycle Marketing at Elementor, reveals how his team...
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Maggie Reznikoff - Chief Client Officer - Open Influence
Maggie Reznikoff is a creator economy executive, influencer marketing authority, and the Chief Client Officer at Open Influence. Starting her career in public relations at PR agencies including Ketchum, Reznikoff joined Open Influence in 2017. Over eight years and six promotions—culminating in…
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Proving Retail Media Incrementality Beyond ROAS | Dan Eisenberg, Blue Chip, CMO
As corporate leadership demands strict financial accountability, CPG brand marketers must move beyond surface-level ROAS to prove incremental sales impact. In this episode recorded live at Grocery Shop, host Dylan Conroy sits down with Dan Eisenberg, CMO of Blue Chip, to discuss the evolution of...
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Karim Leduc - Founder and CEO - DULCEDO Management
Karim Leduc, Founder and CEO of DULCEDO — a premier multidisciplinary talent management agency, representing over 600 top-tier content creators, professional athletes, actors, models, and esports stars. Karim is a pioneer of the creator economy who launched DULCEDO as a modeling agency in 2008...
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Mulenga Agley - Founder and CEO - Growthcurve | Global Integrated Creative Agency
Mulenga Agley is a London-based growth strategist, marketing technologist, and entrepreneur best known as the Founder and CEO of Growthcurve, a tech-enabled growth marketing and performance agency that scales venture-backed startups and modern brands.
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Erik Huberman - Founder and CEO - Hawke Media
Erik Huberman, Founder and CEO of Hawke Media—one of the fastest-growing digital marketing consultancies in North America. Erik is a serial e-commerce entrepreneur who built and sold two companies by the age of 26 before founding Hawke Media to solve a fundamental industry problem: how brands...
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Robb Fahrion - Co-Founder & Partner - Flying V Group
Robb Fahrion is an e-commerce growth strategist, performance marketing executive, and the Co-Founder & Partner at Flying V Group, a digital marketing and advertising agency headquartered in Irvine, California. Fahrion holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing and Finance...
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Jeffrey Matisoff - CEO & Managing Partner, North America - The Brandtech Group
Jeff Matisoff is a global media executive, growth strategist, and the CEO & Managing Partner, North America at The Brandtech Group. With over two decades of leadership in digital advertising, media transformation, and marketing technology, Matisoff previously served as a Partner at Jellyfish and...
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Ali Ugarte-Martinez - Co-Founder and COO - Foodie Tribe
Ali Ugarte-Martinez, Co-Founder and COO of Foodie Tribe and Camino Collective. Ali is an agency leader and creator economy expert who built a multi-million-dollar influencer network connecting over 3,000 food and beverage creators with global brands across the US and Europe. From negotiating...
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Dan Kabakov - Founder - Online Labs
Dan Kabakov is an e-commerce growth strategist, certified Google Partner, and the Founder & Lead Google Ads Specialist at Online Labs. With over a decade of experience managing paid search and Performance Max campaigns for 50+ e-commerce brands, Kabakov specializes in scaling direct-to-consumer...
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Libby Morgan - Chief Executive Officer - NOVUS Media LLC
Libby Morgan is an executive leader and the Chief Executive Officer at NOVUS Media LLC. She brings extensive international experience building and leading cross-disciplinary teams across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, driving omnichannel growth and media strategy for tier-one global...
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Scott Spencer - CEO and Co-founder - Rewarded Interest
Scott Spencer is the CEO and Co-founder of Rewarded Interest, a privacy-first identity platform and browser extension designed to eliminate cookie consent fatigue and restore consumer control over digital tracking. Before founding Rewarded Interest, Spencer spent over 25 years shaping the...
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James Donner - Founder & CEO - Adology
James Donner is a performance marketing executive, adtech strategist, and the Founder & CEO of Adology (getadology.com). Prior to founding Adology, Donner spent over a decade leading media investment and digital strategy at enterprise agencies. He served as a senior media investment lead at...
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Blake DeCola - EVP Performance Media - Merge
Blake DeCola is a digital media executive, precision marketing strategist, and the EVP of Performance Media at Merge. With over 15 years of experience across digital advertising, adtech, and precision marketing—including key strategic roles at enterprise platforms like Publicis' Epsilon, Rubicon...
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Arda Genç - Co-Founder and CEO - LIVAD Technologies
Arda Genç, Co-Founder and CEO of LIVAD Technologies. Arda is a tech entrepreneur and product strategist who studied Computer Science at Northwestern before founding LIVAD to solve one of the hardest problems in modern media: how to monetize live streaming without ruining the user experience....
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Alex Lloro- Founder & Managing Director - All Marketing Services
Alex Lloro is a digital marketing consultant, growth strategist, and the Founder & Managing Director of All Marketing Services.With over 25 years of experience bridging software engineering, IT, and performance marketing, Lloro specializes in full-funnel digital advertising, conversion rate...
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Douglas "Doug" Zarkin - Marketing Leader & Author of Moving Your Brand Out Of The Friend Zone
Douglas "Doug" Zarkin is an award-winning brand architect, executive marketing leader, speaker, and author. He was most recently the Chief Marketing Officer at Take 5 Oil Change (under Driven Brands), overseeing brand strategy, customer experience, and retail growth across hundreds of franchise...
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Chip Malt - Co-Founder & CEO - Made In Cookware
Chip Malt (Bradford "Chip" Malt) is an e-commerce entrepreneur, growth strategist, and the Co-Founder & CEO of Made In Cookware. Before founding Made In, Malt built his career in software engineering, data analytics, and performance marketing, leading digital strategy and customer acquisition...
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Shlomi Ron - Co-Founder & CMO - Decision Advantage AI
Shlomi Ron is an author, keynote speaker, and visual storytelling executive who operates at the intersection of brand narrative, cognitive AI, and strategic decision-making. He is the Co-Founder & CMO at Decision Advantage AI as well as the CEO & Founder of the Visual Storytelling Institute…
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Raymond 'Reigns' Tembo - Digital Marketing Executive - Simply Black Media
Raymond 'Reigns' Tembo, Digital Marketing Specalist, Simply Black Media—one of the premier independent media, data, and communications networks operating across sub-Saharan Africa. Raymond is a pan-African media leader who has spent over 15 years building integrated, data-driven advertising...
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Bill Harper - CEO and Chief Creative Officer - BrandBossHQ
Bill Harper, CEO and Chief Creative Officer at BrandBossHQ—a strategic branding and storytelling agency that has generated over $2.5 billion in net new revenue for more than 300 brands. Bill is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and built four successful agencies, winning over 100 industry...
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Jason Mitchell - Co-Founder & CEO - Movement Strategy
Jason Mitchell is a social media strategy pioneer, agency executive, and the Co-Founder & CEO of Movement Strategy. Starting the agency from a college dorm room, he has scaled Movement Strategy into a premier 150+ person social-first marketing agency with major hubs in New York, Denver, and Los...
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Jason Rhoads - CEO & Owner - Rhoads Creative
Jason Rhoads is a digital marketing executive, AI innovator, and the CEO & Owner of Rhoads Creative, a full-service digital agency focused on high-performance strategy for homebuilders, remodelers, and construction brands. Taking over the business originally founded by his parents nearly 35 years...
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Edwin Choi - Founder & CEO - Jetfuel Agency
Edwin Choi is an e-commerce growth strategist, entrepreneur, and the Founder & CEO of Jetfuel Agency (jetfuel.agency). Founded in 2017 after years of working in-house as a DTC operator, Choi built Jetfuel to eliminate the inefficiency, wasted ad spend, and surface-level tactics common in...
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Zero-Party Data, Tech Stack Audits & Ending Data Bloat | Emily Proctor, Managing Director at OMD
As corporate data storage costs soar and cookie deprecation reshapes digital media, enterprise brands must shift from hoarding volume-based data to activating decision-led zero-party data. Dylan Conroy sits down with Emily Proctor, Managing Director of Technology & Data Solutions at OMD, to break...
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Cindy Goodrich - Chief Marketing Officer - Empathy
Cindy Goodrich is an executive marketing leader, brand strategist, and the Chief Marketing Officer at Empathy—a technology platform dedicated to supporting families through the emotional and logistical burdens of loss, grief, and legacy planning. She holds a B.S. in Biomedical and Mechanical...
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Galina Shubik - Co-Founder - Affect Group
Galina Shubik, Co-Founder at Affect Group—an international digital marketing agency with over two decades of performance growth experience. Galina is an Effie and Shorty Award-winning strategist who has led digital growth and client service transformation for global powerhouses like PepsiCo,...
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Nikki Lindgren - CEO - Pennock
Nikki Lindgren is an e-commerce performance marketing leader, CEO, and the Founder & Managing Partner of Pennock (pennock.co). Starting her career in product development at Pottery Barn and joining the foundational e-commerce team at Cost Plus World Market, she moved agency-side to oversee…
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a podcast where host Dylan Conroy interviews the c suite of media companies, agencies, brands and thought leaders on his quest to build the worlds greatest sales culture
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