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
Kai Devereaux Lawson, advocate, agitator and associate operations director at Essence
An associate operations director at the GroupM shop Essence by day, Lawson writes and podcasts extensively and candidly about diversity and inclusion issues on the side—on the Mixed Company podcast an...
16 Aug 201940min
David Droga, founder & creative chairman, Droga5
The industry's collective mind was blown when David Droga announced in April that his namesake agency, Droga5, would be acquired by Accenture Interactive. The consultants are coming for the creatives,...
8 Aug 201926min
Lindsey Slaby, founder, Sunday Dinner
Lindsey Slaby is a one woman three ring circus: In one ring is her brand consultancy, Sunday Dinner, which coaches clients through various stages of organizational transformation. The second ring is n...
1 Aug 201941min
