‘Mr. Kate’ Pursues ‘Office Goals’ Series With Staples Product Integrations

What do you get when you combine the office habitats of entrepreneurs with interior design? For a company called Mr. Kate, it’s a video series deal with Entrepreneur magazine and Staples. What started in 2011 as a simple blog with the goal of celebrating life through a more creative lens has blossomed into Mr. Kate, […]

 
 

Conagra’s Hughes: Everyone’s Gone Live At The Digital Content NewFronts

Conagra Brands is looking to partner on more content integrations this year. It’s one of the reasons why Media Manager Erica Hughes is at the Digital Content NewFronts and why the food giant has attended for the last four years. “We come here because we like to learn what the partners are doing in the […]

 
 

Publicis Media’s Shlachter Looking For The Actionable And Impactful At NewFronts

Not quite a decade old, the Digital Content NewFronts “have matured quite a bit” in the past few years, providing a bigger platform for the raft of digital content and tech providers to mingle with agencies and brands. It’s a gathering where agencies and their clients size up trends in consumer technology, content consumption and […]

 
 

Brand Safety is Front and Center at NewFronts: OMD’s Winkler

Brand safety up, virtual reality down. To Ben Winkler, these are the two biggest changes year-over-year in the magnitude of discourse at the Digital Content NewFronts. “I haven’t seen a single presentation that didn’t begin, have a middle and end with brand safety,” says the Chief Investment Officer at OMD. “I’ve seen the biggest rise […]

 
 

Condé Nast’s Norton: Video ‘Our Core Medium’ For Storytelling

Condé Nast has decided that while text and images will remain at its roots, video storytelling is the publisher’s path to the future. “Video has to be the core medium by which we tell our stories,” says Jim Norton, Chief Business Officer and President of Revenue. Given its significant investments in premium video to date […]