Digiday Media Buying Summit LIVE

Welcome to the Digiday Media Buying Summit LIVE. Please join us in our pre-event working session. This is an an open participatory discussion on the top challenges and opportunities currently facing media buyers.

At the top of our session content, tune in to hear our key trends in media buying.

In the era of big data, it’s more difficult than ever to separate the wheat from the chaff, especially when sifting through terabytes of information being generated across multiple platforms. Michael Murray of Wunderman Thompson will take us through how marketers can cut through the noise to find meaningful insights, and share actionable tips on how to ensure that your measurement tools are being deployed effectively.

Join CEO of Taboola, Adam Singolda, and Chief Strategy Officer of Digiday, David Amrani, for a conversation on the open web and its value for advertisers.

The state of retail as we know it is still undergoing a major shift, as e-commerce is more important than ever. In this session, hear from Jason Hartley of PMG as he discusses how this will continue to impact media buying, even as in-store shopping returns, and how to overcome some of the challenges it poses.

What happens when the largest U.S. grocery retailer shares data science with the largest OTT streaming service? Join 84.51°’s Agency Collaboration Liaison, Jill Smith, to discover how two unlikely companions – Kroger and Roku – created a powerful new way for CPGs to target households most likely to buy. Learn how this revolutionary partnership combines the best of brand and performance marketing to boost demand and produce measurable ROI.

The ongoing discussion surrounding DEI needs to keep momentum. Brands and agencies, alike, are forced to reckon with a new lens on brand safety: how can you appear genuine and honest when your teams are mostly white? Tune into this session to hear how buyers are authentically communicating in this space and showing up for an industry that has long ignored this overdue need for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Welcome to Day 2 of the Digiday Media Buying Summit LIVE.

2020 was a tumultuous year. While the United States faced social injustice and civil unrest, Havas Media recognized the need for equitable treatment of businesses that are traditionally underrepresented in the marketing industry. 

Join Havas Media’s EVP, Head of Digital Strategy & Investments, Sargi Mann as she discusses how brands can show up for underrepresented business and be a positive force for change.

Phasing out third-party cookies is creating interesting challenges to effectively target users for advertisers. Coupled with the existing and emerging laws, like GDPR and CCPA, there is increasing pressure for innovative ways of targeting user activity. With the right technology, contextual advertising can serve as an effective targeting tool in a post-cookie world.

As DTC brands grow, they are starting to diversify marketing initiatives away from just Facebook. In this session, hear from Duane Brown as he walks us through where that platform money is going, TikTok, Pinterest, even Snapchat — and what we should expect moving forward.

With the huge audience shift from linear TV to YouTube and CTV, brands are looking for ways to drive real value from streaming video advertising. Pixability, an industry leader in YouTube and CTV, will walk through 5 key things that every marketer should know about these platforms going into 2021.

In this session, JiYoung Kim, chief digital officer at Carat US will walk us through how they continually drive measurable results with performance marketing at the helm.

Welcome back to Day 3 of the Digiday Media Buying Summit LIVE.

Hear from John Nitti, chief media officer at Verizon, discuss how Verizon is leveraging a diverse ecosystem of partners, next-gen tech and 5G to enable experiences and create unique content to shape the future of media.

Cookies, IDFA, data and privacy. It’s a heady brew as we move further along 2021 and we know that there’s likely more disruption headed our way when it comes to identity and addressability. What can advertisers do to ensure they continue to build meaningful connections with consumers while optimizing ROI? What are the best approaches for partnering and testing privacy-centric ID solutions that add value to your advertising strategies? In this session, Chris Gurciullo, regional vice president of advertiser solutions at PubMatic, and Kayleen Ohneck, associate director, verified tech & contracts, data at Publicis Media, will discuss compelling strategies and concrete paths forward to help brands and agencies, prepare to thrive and optimize in the addressable future.

Brand Safety and Suitability have been top of mind for advertisers for years. Now, there’s a new concept called Brand Integrity, for which brands need to establish new standards that allow them to invest and make decisions with confidence. Marketers have always been cautious about media placements and appearing alongside content that could negatively affect their brand, but often look to short-term fixes when issues arise. In proactively focusing on brand integrity and following a new set of standards, they can feel confident their values are maintained throughout the entire campaign process without interruption, while also beginning on a journey to enhance their inclusiveness with new partners.  

4A’s President and CEO Marla Kaplowitz and Publicis Media’s EVP of Global Digital Standards Yale Cohen discuss the difference between brand integrity, brand safety and brand suitability and how our industry can move forward to benchmark success in these core areas and new ones.

Audiences are easy to find. But the right ones that produce successful marketing campaign results use a highly determinative combination of AI-driven response prediction and data science. In this session, you’ll learn how the Analytics and Sales teams at Wiland work together to create data-driven, custom marketing audiences that can target prospects with the highest likelihood of response and long-term value.

Ad serving is easy. It connects the creative with the media. But what comes before, after and in between that connection is not so simple. Join this session to learn how a connected workflow, purpose built for every team involved in launching a campaign, is a simple solution to the everyday problems of video advertising. And that means you and your team can focus on what you do best.

As live events begin making their way back into society in 2021, how are these companies looking at targeting the right audience? Hear from Gupta Media’s Founder Gogi Gupta in conjunction with Tom Russell,founder of Founders Entertainment — the company that brings NYC’s largest music festival, The Governer’s Ball — in conversation around the media and marketing strategy for their upcoming fall festival.

To close out the Digiday Media Buying Summit LIVE, we will go over the key trends that emerged over 3 days of content.