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Head of Advertising @quizlet Sports enthusiast. Still bad at golf.

new york
Joined August 2017
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anybody else getting an onslaught of cold calls to private phone from vendors in the past 2 weeks?
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Love this! Buzzfeed have the scale and data, but also the track record. Wish the fanfare would focus more on how Publishers have been solving this problem for the past few years, and delivering better performance whilst doing it.
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adexchanger.com/publishers/c… This what we've been building towards and it's baffling that Google's press is creating fanfare when we all knew it was coming. It's in our DNA and nothing net new. Ultimately, performance will be what 1P data is judged by, but that's where we'll win.
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Exciting news: @BuzzFeed is adding @HuffPost into the fold, in a strategic partnership with @VerizonMedia to create the largest digital media network, with four of the best known brands (hi @BuzzFeed, @BuzzFeedNews, @HuffPost and @Tasty) buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpress/b…
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Breaking: BuzzFeed is acquiring Verizon Media’s HuffPost, the companies said, uniting two of the larger digital media players in a sector looking to jumpstart growth on.wsj.com/3nRm7Iv
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I have been trying to get my colleagues to say fortnightly forever but it just never sticks...
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Add that content with the reach of our partnerships with influencers, Occupy Democrats, Buzzfeed, Conde Nast and many more and we were ready to rock and roll. By October, we were outperforming Trump on engagement. We'd beaten him at his own game. axios.com/joe-biden-twitter-…
But all of the publishers have branded data studios that are the best in the world at targeting!
The more I learn about the current state of targeting the less impressed I am. What am I missing? Who is, objectively, doing this well?
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WHAT HAPPENS IN ADTECH Unlock some "magic" w. us! + Dave Pond (Buzzfeed) "r we rec. yet?" fantastic convo on data+pubs, tired of voices, WATCH HERE Ryan McConaghy lnkd.in/eFGrUJD
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We're finalists for the @the_ARF David Ogilvy Awards for our @Petco Nutrition campaign! Thank you #ARFOgilvys for recognizing our work. Celebrate with us! 🏆🎉
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If I was a buyer, I'd just deem an arbitrary word as not brand safe like "the" and get my entire campaign for free at this goddamn point. How ridiculous is this technology @doubleverify
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the most culturally relevant sports post on the internet right now warmthebench.substack.com/p/…
50%+ of inventory bought (but not paid for) is absurd. imagine if buyers did this kind of thing in any other industry, it would likely border on criminality
I obtained internal data from a major global brand that shows how its decision to not place ads next to coronavirus content prevented tens of millions of ads from appearing on revenue-starved news sites in 14 countries so far this month: buzzfeednews.com/article/cra…
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.@peretti tells me he predicted tech platforms like Facebook and Google would consider paying for journalism when he was raising money for @BuzzFeed a decade ago. Now, he's been proven right. wsj.com/articles/google-in-t…
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When Google talks about transparency and balance in auctions, I wonder why we still have Unclassified buyers in the system. #IP2020 🤔 @SarahSluis "Transparency in the supply chain is a good thing" and "labeling things is a good thing" << Google just said that.
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Hi ad verification vendors @integralads @doubleverify! It's me, a human, reading brand safe and brand suitable content. I'm sure this was an honest mistake that will help publishers and brands in the long term :)
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So consolidation is a thing
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Eagles fans have no chill 😂 In the middle of an eyewitness describing how people were saving babies out of a burning building, this fan brings up Eagles drops on @NBCPhiladelphia
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