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Pfizer’s Josh Palau: In-House Media Teams Create Speedy ‘Goal Alignment’
MIAMI – Building an in-house media operation isn’t anything special anymore. But when a major pharmaceutical company boasts of such an enterprise within its walls, it’s always worth paying more than a little attention. After all, as an advertising category, pharma is huge, as Kantar notes the industry spends roughly $18 billion a year on […]
Icon Media Direct’s Minnie Dimesa: Independence at The ‘Speed of Innovation’
MIAMI – “Bigness” is generally considered the ultimate endgame for independent agencies after a decade or so. A period of ad shop consolidation is always around one corner or the next. But some agencies do find value in retaining their stand alone status. Icon Media Direct is one of them. Among the prized values of […]
‘Programmatic Is Not Just For Performance’: Magna Global’s Brunick
SAN FRANCISCO — Data-driven buying processes beget data-centric advertising. At least, that’s how the evolution of the collection of automated and algorithm-heavy trading techniques dubbed “programmatic” has played out so far. But are things changing? “We’ve put it in to a box of it only being performance-driven – that was a mistake,” says programmatic SVP […]