Larry Rubin, Exec Chairman of Thnks, shares insight on the power of gratitude in the workplace and the importance of developing a company-wide culture of appreciation.

The TV industry is on the verge of a game-changing advancement: full addressable capabilities on all 16 minutes of ad inventory within the live linear broadcast hour. By enabling more relevant advertising and interactivity on the smart TV glass, we have a golden opportunity to maximize the value of 36 billion hours per month of premium audience time while pushing TV advertising effectiveness to unprecedented levels.

This is the story of how an independent agency called Terri & Sandy crashed Cannes and captured the attention of the entire advertising world. All for only $20,000.

When it comes to live streaming, brands have embraced the idea that you can offer audiences something of entertainment value and connect it to the brand in a more oblique way. As brands become increasingly savvy at utilizing live video, they are also beginning to ask themselves how to quantify results beyond the view. How can you turn a viewer into a customer?

Marketers are in need of more comprehensive, privacy-safe cross-media measurement. Increasing efficiency, reducing waste, and understanding effectiveness of media spend will facilitate better media planning, budget allocation and in-flight campaign optimization. Leading advertisers, publishers, and industry bodies are coming together to address this complex challenge. This panel will explore key advertiser use cases and guiding principles needed to serve as a foundation for progress in this...

In a world of uncertain growth in many sectors, marketing excellence is not a casual matter, nor a task for the faint of heart. Good marketing takes you through the short term, better marketing can put you above the rest, but excellent marketing can be the engine that drives long term sustainable growth. In this honest conversation, we will hear from three leading marketers who have defined their ‘Marketing Excellence’ - lived the battle, learnt the lessons and delivered real impact.

Despite decades of martech advances, consumers are still left annoyed by the ads they are shown. As marketers, we put a lot of effort and budget into securing the attention of our consumers on mobile. But how effective is this investment? It’s time to get a real understanding of how these consumers feel about your advertising.

The paradigm of People, Process and Technology has given way to Data. Data is one of the most valuable assets of every organization. As the data-driven apparatus around automated advertising and real-time targeting penetrates every aspect of media and marketing, the challenge is mastering the data. It all starts with owning the data. Join this panel discussion to learn more about the new data imperative and how organizations can plan and prepare to own, control and use their own data.

Understand the critical metrics that viewability alone doesn't measure. And uncover new ideas about visibility as a performance indicator as Kargo explores various digital platforms to understand which types of ad units capture visual attention in its latest research study, 'Viewability vs Visibility'.

Inspiration is at the heart of Disney and Pinterest. It’s also at the heart of the most effective ads in history. In this session, Pinterest and Disney Parks, Experiences & Products share how they’re helping customers get inspired—and how dreams are driving purchase decisions. Join us and find out what happens when the happiest place on earth meets the most positive corner of the internet.

The best ads do more than help customers decide what to buy. They help customers decide who to be. As our industry focuses on intent and the bottom of the funnel, we’re forgetting about the magic of deciding. Inspired ads can help people turn their dreams into decisions. Join Pinterest's Jon Kaplan alongside leading brands to learn how the most effective ads don’t interrupt—they inspire.

One of the longstanding industry challenges is to provide marketers the ability to run advertising effectiveness measurement at will, on demand. Instead, there is a material lag from when you commission the study to when you can read the campaign. Why is this material? Because, if your objective is to maximize return on ad spend then in-flight optimization (IFO) is critical and on-demand measurement is key to timely IFO. IRI, Google, Sam’s Club, Nestle-Starbucks and Annalect will discuss...