Ahead of AI-themed Engage on 25 May, our CMO James Chandler sits down with Contagious’ David Beresford to cover the agencies and advertisers using AI right and what Contagious are getting asked the most when it comes to artificial intelligence. Think of this episode as a taster of what to expect from David at Engage as he distils the hyperbole from the useful and gives an expert view on the science, the ethics, the re-framing of creativity and the heady disruption that AI is bringing to advertis...
May 02, 2023•26 min•Season 12Ep. 10
Regular listeners will be familiar with our regular visits to the world of Policy & Regulatory Affairs, when we invite our IAB UK experts onto the show to share the latest news from the world of Westminster and its impact on digital advertising. In this episode, our Head of Policy & Regs, Christie Dennehy-Neil is joined by Public Affairs Lead, Becky Wirth, to give an overview of the latest government shufflings after the creation of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology...
Mar 27, 2023•19 min•Season 12Ep. 9
IAB UK's annual Leadership Summit returned to Sopwell House last week, bringing together leaders from across digital advertising to debate key challenges, share ideas to move our industry forward and hear from a raft of inspiring speakers. From the shape of the political landscape to building a happier, more productive workforce, sessions focused on the most important subjects of the day with speakers including Dr Julie Smith, Kay Cossington, Lewis Goodall and many more. Away from the main stage...
Mar 15, 2023•28 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Four years ago, Jacquie Duckworth co-founded Uninvisibility - a company with a singular mission to get midlife women back into work after extended career breaks. She joins James to explain how the company’s eight-week training course, Visible Start, is empowering women aged 45 and over to build a new narrative when it comes to their careers. The course, which was set up in partnership with Brixton Finishing School and sponsored by WPP, has so far been taken by 100 women with 18 going on to land ...
Mar 08, 2023•32 min•Season 12Ep. 7
In 2022, Spotify Advertising published the first volume of 'Sonic Science' to demonstrate the power of audio by developing a deeper understanding of how audio content connects emotionally and physically with listeners. Last year’s research, which many listeners will have seen presented at IAB Engage 2022, explored how sound impacts the brain by measuring neural activity in real-time. In this episode of The IAB UK Podcast, James speaks to Spotify's Global Thought Leadership Lead, Marion Boeri, to...
Mar 01, 2023•23 min•Season 12Ep. 6
In the fourth episode of our 'Diversity Unlocks Discovery' mini-series in partnership with Meta, IAB UK's Director of Transformation Sophia Haynes is joined by Meta's Miriam Faber and Muslim creator Basma Khalifa as the conversation turns to Ramadan, which this year starts in late March and will be marked by 2.6 million Muslims in the UK. Miriam and Basma are no stranger to The IAB UK Podcast, having been guests during Ramadan in 2021 , so two years on they explore the progress in the way brands...
Feb 20, 2023•27 min•Season 12Ep. 5
To kick off another week in digital advertising, IAB UK's CMO James Chandler is joined by two big names from media company, Global - DAX Strategy Director, Julia Connaughton and Commercial Platform and Product Director for Outdoor, Mungo Knott. From the early days of DAX's creation in 2014 and the critical acclaim it received, to the huge moment when Global bought three leading out of home businesses, James, Julia and Mungo talk about the things that make this media owner unique: the data, the ...
Feb 13, 2023•27 min•Season 12Ep. 4
In a particularly global episode of The IAB UK Podcast, James is joined by Josje van den Bos, dentsu international’s Head of Addressable Media and Jessica Breslav, Chief Customer Officer at Index Exchange. Following Jessica's trip to CES back in January, the conversation covers all the innovations to emerge from this year's show in Vegas, as well as looking forward to 2023 and whether video will continue to be such a huge driver of digital ad spend. James also gets Jessica and Josje's sense of w...
Feb 06, 2023•24 min•Season 12Ep. 3
Ahead of next week's launch of IAB Compass, our brand new report to help the industry navigate the future of digital advertising, James is joined live at IAB HQ by Mediaocean’s Director of Marketing for EMEA and APAC, Rachel Lyall; the7stars’ Head of Big Tech Activations, Adam Chugg; and OMD UK's Chief Planning Officer and Campaign’s number one media planner for the second year running, Vicky Fox. Their conversation, recorded in front of a live audience of 50 IAB members at The Last Thursday Clu...
Jan 30, 2023•28 min•Season 12Ep. 2
In the third episode of our Diversity Unlocks Discovery mini-series with Meta, host Sophia Haynes is joined by Meta’s Carrie Timms, Director of Global Customer Marketing EMEA, and creator and model Clara Holmes - otherwise known as @rollinfunky, who has worked with brands including Boots, Bravissimo and Tesco. They discuss the reality of living with both visible and invisible disabilities, the value of working with creators that can authentically connect with this audience, and why so often it i...
Jan 23, 2023•33 min•Season 12Ep. 1
In this final episode of 2022, James is joined by the IAB's Head of Ad Tech, Chloe Nicholls; Head of Marketing, Tom Stevens; and a familiar voice to regular listeners, Head of Policy & Regulatory Affairs, Christie Dennehy-Neil. Their chat covers all the latest legislative news from the year, explores how businesses have spent their time prepping for 2024’s deprecation of third party cookies, and looks back on the joyful return of IRL events. In digital advertising-unrelated news, you can als...
Dec 13, 2022•31 min•Season 11Ep. 10
With 2023 mere weeks away, we’ve got media trends extraordinaire Dan Calladine on The IAB UK Podcast to give us his expert take on the trends set to shape the year ahead. As James explains, it’s IAB etiquette now that Dan, who is Head of Media Futures at dentsu International, joins us on the podcast at this time of year just as he’s putting the finishing touches to his annual predictions. James and Dan delve into 10 significant media trends for 2023. Some you would expect, such as retail media a...
Nov 27, 2022•32 min•Season 11Ep. 9
This episode is the latest in our 'Meet the Founder' series, and this week it's two founders for the price of one as James talks to Kit Chilvers and Iyrah Williams, Co-Founders of Gen Z sensation, Pubity Group. From starting out as Instagram influencers aged 14, their audiences grew in their millions, and after a stint working at LADBible they eventually left to set up Pubity Group. In the episode, James, Kit and Iyrah talk about building a business from scratch, leadership, what it is about Man...
Nov 14, 2022•26 min•Season 11Ep. 8
Welcome to the first ever live episode of The IAB UK Podcast, recorded at IAB UK HQ in front of an audience of members at our second Last Thursday Club . The theme was a trusty favourite of this podcast - attention - and for this live episode we assembled three of the sharpest thinkers when it comes to this ever-changing conversation. At the mics, we had Arunan Senathirajah, Product Partner at Dentsu; Jackie Lyons, Head of Planning at Havas Media; and Ashley Bateman, Group Sales Director at Doub...
Nov 03, 2022•34 min•Season 11Ep. 7
In the second episode of our 'Diversity Unlocks Discovery' mini-series in partnership with Meta, host Sophia Haynes speaks to Fik Woldegiorgis, Meta's Country Marketing Director for EMEA. Through the lens of Black History Month, Sophia and Fik talk about how Black representation in advertising can be improved, explore the wide range of resources already available through BRiM to help companies, and discuss whether spotlighting cultural moments, such as Black History Month, is indeed the best way...
Oct 20, 2022•23 min•Season 11Ep. 6
This week’s episode comes slap bang in the middle of 2022's Digital Upfronts, IAB UK's month long series of unmissable events with some of the biggest players in digital advertising: Twitter, Amazon Ads, TikTok, Meta, YouTube, Snap - and of course BBC News. As the corporation marks its 100th birthday, James talks to Lori Suchcicki, SVP for Advertising & Commercial Partnerships EMEA at BBC Studios to reflect on the BBC News Upfront which took place at the world famous Broadcasting House on 12...
Oct 13, 2022•17 min•Season 11Ep. 5
This week's episode of the IAB UK podcast is about the topic on the lips of everyone in digital advertising: attention. To tackle this topic du jour head on, James speaks to Irina Dzyubinsky, Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle Advertising, about how the industry’s interest in attention has ebbed and flowed, how the terms attention and engagement shouldn’t be conflated, and why, controversially, not everyone sees the importance of attention as a metric. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Oct 03, 2022•20 min•Season 11Ep. 4
The Government’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill was introduced to parliament in July 2022 and includes changes to both UK GDPR and amends to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), including cutting down on ‘user consent’ cookie pop-ups and banners that people encounter when browsing the internet. In this special episode of the IAB UK podcast, James speaks to Eduardo Ustaran, Global Co-Head of Hogan Lovells Privacy and Cybersecurity practice to unpick the deta...
Sep 29, 2022•19 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Welcome back to Season 11 of the IAB UK Podcast. We’re kicking things off with a discussion about ad-supported streaming, the value exchange and how the cost-of-living crisis could impact streaming subscription models. To get deep into this hot topic, IAB UK's CMO James Chandler is joined by Vevo’s Senior Research Manager Cass McDonald and friend of the IAB, Omar Oakes, editor of The Media Leader. Their conversation covers the very fundamental issue of what defines TV and whether we’re using the...
Sep 26, 2022•24 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Welcome to 'Diversity Unlocks Discovery', a new IAB UK podcast mini-series in partnership with Meta, hosted by the IAB's Director of Transformation, Sophia Haynes. In six episodes over the course of the next year, we’ll surface some of the obstacles that are currently preventing digital advertising from being more inclusive and diverse, and explore how we go about changing things for the better. In this first episode, Sophia speaks to Meta’s Zehra Chatoo, Head of Connection Planning, Retail for ...
Sep 22, 2022•22 min•Season 11Ep. 1
This episode explores how Gousto and Spotify used data to match recipe ideas with your favourite tunes. Alongside media agency, the7stars, you’ll hear the team explain how Gousto leveraged the power of audio and mood to reach their audience in the moments that matter most, how innovation requires a bit of science and a lot of collaboration, and how to make the most of partnerships. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 02, 2022•16 min•Season 10Ep. 12
James Chandler, IAB UK’s CMO, takes a meme-focused look at the fortunes and fallacies of online advertising in its 27-year history. Join James as he looks at how it started, how it’s going for the internet - from “a passing fad” in 2000 to record online ad spend. He also breaks down some of the unintended consequences of digital advertising over the past three decades and what we can learn for the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 26, 2022•20 min•Season 10Ep. 11
How does the industry need to change in order to stop letting down parents? Emily Roberts, Co-Founder of The Women in Programmatic Network and Senior Associate at PwC, is joined by Louise Watson, Practice Director at Propeller Group to dig into the findings from the 'Exploring Parents in Media and Advertising’ survey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 19, 2022•20 min•Season 10Ep. 10
The ad world can be a bit like swiping through your favourite dating app. Consumers pass on brands every day due to confusing messaging or bad creative. Join host, Tyrone Stewart from New Digital Age, as he navigates the tricky world of brand and consumer connections with expert advice from leading matchmakers: Octave Audio, Permutive, Number Eight and A Million Ads. What's the recipe for the perfect match?' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 12, 2022•17 min•Season 10Ep. 9
Magnite’s Demand & Publisher team leads host an honest discussion about the future of omnichannel media buying including focusing on the growth of the CTV market and the rise of AVOD, the deprecation of the third-party cookies and the focus on measurement and audience identity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 05, 2022•30 min•Season 10Ep. 8
Frameplay's Cary Tilds will share her personal story of how taking a leap from big roles like Chief Innovation Officer at GroupM and SVP, Coporate Strategy at FordDirect, into a gaming ad tech start up, reshaped her understanding of the future of virtual experiences found in gaming and the metaverse. What is the "walk" between where the advertising world is today and where it needs to be in order to meet the consumer? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 28, 2022•25 min•Season 10Ep. 7
Do you remember when searching the web meant navigating a minefield of unwelcome pop-ups promising to cure your belly fat? While this may still ring true for some sites, it’s time to recognise that digital advertising has come a long way. But what has driven this change? Yes, targeting and attribution have played their part – but they have not been the only driving force. This session will dive into the vital, yet overlooked, role that user experience has played in the evolution of digital adver...
Jun 21, 2022•21 min•Season 10Ep. 6
Consumer habits are changing everywhere, whether you’re in Dubai, Singapore, New York or London. As we look to the future, our mission must be to strive for global digital standards that meet consumers needs and work for our digital futures. In this conversation, NBCUniversal’s Hayley Cochrane and former host of CNBC’s Marketing Media Money, James Wright discuss why the industry needs a unified response to digital identity and why it’s time for us all to take leadership on measurement. Hosted on...
Jun 14, 2022•22 min•Season 10Ep. 5
We live in a complex world, and no we don’t just mean ad tech (but, good point). Leila Sheridan - Head of Brand & Agency at Criteo - is here to discuss why creating meaningful human connection is the key to navigating this. Leila isn’t your typical Head of Brand & Agency. Over the last seven years she has also worked in refugee camps across Europe and has acquired some beautiful truths along the way. In a time when we are all searching for meaning and connection, Leila talks to us about ...
Jun 07, 2022•19 min•Season 10Ep. 4
AdTonos share the latest smart technologies that allow consumers to interact using speech to order goods and services and ask for help. How do these technologies incorporate machine learning and AI to communicate using NLP techniques and identify speech and language differences that target and support diversity such as race and disability? In this session, learn how social media, retail, health, business and leisure are now using audio and voice - and the huge opportunities this brings the adver...
May 31, 2022•21 min•Season 10Ep. 3
