Jessica Pels, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan
In October of last year, at just 32 Jessica Pels was named the youngest-ever editor in chief at Cosmopolitan. Now exactly one year into the gig, web traffic is through the roof, even as single issue p...
17 Okt 201936min
Barak Moffit, Universal Music Group
A producer, composer and technologist, Barak Moffat heads UMG's content and strategy. UMG's massive catalog includes 40 percent of all of the world's music. He discusses that, and what it means to be ...
10 Okt 201935min
Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker, and David Littlejohn, founder of Humanaut
It's been 15 years since "Super Size Me" came out. Today Spurlock is back with a sequel. With "Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken" Spurlock asks whether fast food has gotten any healthier in the intervenin...
3 Okt 201942min
Mark Penn, chairman and CEO of MDC Partners
Mark Penn, the president and managing partner of Stagwell Group, raised industry eyebrows six months ago when he plonked $100 million into the flailing agency holding company MDC Partners—and became i...
26 Sep 201935min
Jen Wong, COO, reddit
Reddit is on a roll. The self-styled "front page of the internet" is on target to double its ad revenue in the U.S. from $100 million in 2019 to $200 million in 2021, according to eMarketer. This grow...
19 Sep 201936min
Andrew Essex, co-founder and CEO, Plan A
What do you do after writing a book called "The End of Advertising?" If you're Andrew Essex, you co-found an advertising company. But Plan A, he says, is built on a different model than the traditiona...
12 Sep 201923min
Ad lawyer Jeffrey Greenbaum, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
With a trade war brewing, there's a lot more focus on products Made in the USA—but don't believe everything you see. There are some cases of marketers blurring the lines when it comes to products actu...
6 Sep 201922min
Why Ryan Kutscher joined the circus
Ryan Kutscher may have been a noted chef if he didn't decide to go into advertising. Today he is chief creative officer and founder of Circus Maximus, a New York shop which has won its fair share of A...
23 Aug 201946min
