The Digital Hollywood Experience
Jason Bolles, Managing Director, Video Personalization, Gracenote, a Nielsen Company
Mary Hamilton, Managing Director, Global Digital Experiences, Accenture
Peg Jackson, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners
Brian Benedik, Vice President and Global Head of Advertising, Spotify
Simon Kelly, Co-CEO and Chief Enthusiasm Officer, Story Worldwide
Jason Jercinovic, Global Head of Marketing Innovation, Havas
Dan Levi, EVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Clear Channel Outdoor
Monday, January 7th, 2019
11:30 – 12:30 PM
Session II
LVCC, North Hall, N253
Transforming Contextual Advertising and Media
Media and the information they deliver are increasingly contextual. Some refine messaging more precisely than others, but the personalization of news, commentary, programming, advertising and commerce is plowing ahead. It is a fascinating mix of analytics, content, media and advertising.
Brian Benedik, Vice President and Global Head of Advertising, Spotify
Mary Hamilton, Managing Director, Global Digital Experiences, Accenture
Simon Kelly, Co-CEO and Chief Enthusiasm Officer, Story Worldwide
Jason Jercinovic, Global Head of Marketing Innovation, Havas
Jason Bolles, Managing Director, Video Personalization, Gracenote, a Nielsen Company
Dan Levi, EVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Clear Channel Outdoor
Moderator - Peg Jackson, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners
Brian Benedik, Vice President and Global Head of Advertising, Spotify: As Vice President and Global Head of Advertising at Spotify, Brian Benedik oversees more than 500 employees in 65 global markets across Direct Sales, Programmatic, Partner Channels, Self-Serve and Ad Operations. With 180 million active users, Spotify’s ad revenue plays a formidable role in fueling the engine of the popular Free Tier service. This requires collaborating with top tier brand marketers and offering unique opportunities to activate the platforms highly engaged audience. Brian began his career in media management at iHeartMedia’s flagship radio station, Z100, in New York City. He later oversaw Christal Radio’s, part of the Katz Media Group, $400 million annual advertising business. During his tenure, he created and launched the Katz 360 digital unit of Katz Media Group. His experience transitioning from legacy media to the digital space has equipped Brian with a nuanced understanding of the global music industry and puts me at the center of its future.
Mary Hamilton is the Managing Director of the Accenture Technology Labs in Silicon Valley. Within Technology Labs, she leads the Global Digital Experiences research and development agenda focused on applying emerging digital technologies to address key business challenges of Accenture’s clients. Her multidisciplinary team develops differentiated technology concepts and solutions that create new opportunities for both clients and Accenture to grow their capabilities in new areas such as Digital Customer, Digital Workforce, and Digital Operations. These capabilities are based on new advances in experience-driven technologies including virtual, immersive, and augmented reality, wearables, 3D printing, connected car, customer analytics and lifestyle services, social media and collaboration, gamification, augmented workforce, and crowdsourcing. Since joining Accenture in 1997, Mary has brought innovative technology solutions to both Accenture and clients across a variety of industries, running technology innovation projects from incubation to large-scale implementation. She received her SB degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mary is originally from Toledo, Ohio, spent several years of her career in Chicago, IL, and now lives in San Francisco, CA. She enjoys traveling whenever possible, especially with her one year old son.
Jason Bolles, Managing Director, Video Personalization, Gracenote: Jason is Managing Director of Video Personalization for Gracenote responsible for setting the product vision and inspiring new products that leverage the company’s core media recognition and personalization technologies. Previously, Jason was Vice President of Product Leadership for Nielsen. In this role, he was responsible for defining product strategies and roadmaps around content identification for Nielsen’s Total Audience Measurement, developing global partnerships, assessing acquisitions, and executing beta programs of early-stage Nielsen products and services. Earlier in his career, Jason worked in Strategy and Corporate Development at Nielsen Audio where he led M&A activities, evaluated growth potential of new markets and supported the development of corporate strategic objectives. Jason earned a BS degree in Economics from Gettysburg College.
Simon Kelly, Co-CEO Story Worldwide: Simon Kelly has been recognized as a pioneer of the branded content industry and is credited with introducing the first integrated approach for custom content providers in the US. Since then Kelly and his partners at Story Worldwide have evolved that audience-first approach to create a brand narrative practice that he believes will replace traditional advertising. Kelly began his career with IDG, then went on to co-found TPD, one of the leading independent custom publishers in the UK at the time. In 1995, Kelly moved to Seattle to launch the company’s US operation with the launch of Microsoft Magazine – incidentally its companion web-site also marked the launch of one of the world’s first web-zines. In 1997 he spearheaded the launch of the Custom Publishing Council and in 1999 he was named in the Folio: 40 for his work integrating print and web content. Kelly was the first recipient of the John Caldwell Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the content marketing industry. In 2001 TPD became part of Interpublic. In 2005 Kelly and his partners bought it back and rebranded the company Story Worldwide. (www.storyworldwide.com). Since then, they have transformed a custom content company into a global, multi-channel content advertising and branding agency. Story Worldwide’s signature approaches, storyfinding and making, help turn their clients’ brands into engaging media channels. Today, with over 100 employees and offices in New York and Seattle, Story is leading the post-advertising revolution. Story’s clients include FX Network, Lexus, Unilever, USVI, RCI, Pernod Ricard, Criteo and SEI. Most recently Story led the world record-breaking twitter marathon for every Simpsons episode ever. Simon regularly addresses marketing, advertising and media professionals about the rapidly-changing advertising landscape and why it is that brands that tell the best stories will win in the post-advertising age.
Jason Jercinovic, Global Head of Marketing Innovation & Global Brand Director, Havas: Jason' s a veteran digital marketer with a diverse career in advertising and marketing. Jason has been involved in marketing on a variety of levels: from agency to client, spend to buy, as well as from startup to established global engagements. Jason's career has spanned the development of the Internet as a premiere marketing tool. With an energetic obsession in all things digital, Jason has most recently focused on successfully applying social and mobile trends to brand engagement, his work running the gamut from global marketer (Nike) to media super star (Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber). Earlier in his career Jason headed up Havas Worldwide Digital in Australia, working on Global accounts (Intel & Dell) as well as helping to establish success with local clients (Sony Australia, Northern Territory Tourism Commission, Tourism Australia). Also while living in Australia, Jason ran the Asia Pacific-based mobile connectivity and integrated marketing services provider Communicator, funded by Australia's leading private equity/VC firm Allen and Buckridge (A-B.com.au). Prior to re-joining Havas Worldwide Digital in 2011 as the President of Havas Worldwide Digital, Jason was running the Nike Global Brand business at R/GA. Jason currently manages the Global Social Agency of Record business for IBM at Havas Worldwide. Jason is also active in preaching the Digital word to the next generation as a regular on the speaking circuit.
Dan Levi – As Clear Channel Outdoor Americas EVP & CMO, Dan Levi oversees CCOA’s commitment to more transparent, data-driven advertising solutions. Dan’s embrace of mobile analytics and programmatic buying is delivering on the organization’s promise of bringing to the customer the integrated and sophisticated media buying platforms they’ve come to expect from their media partners. In just under two years at CCOA, Dan has guided the organization to the forefront of the rapidly evolving digital media landscape. He’s shepherded first-to-market innovations like Clear Channel Outdoor RADAR to establish CCOA as a major out of home (OOH) industry trailblazer that’s pioneering advanced advertising methods of planning, buying and measuring the effectiveness of its clients’ OOH campaigns. Named as one of Adweek’s “15 Mobile Innovators” in 2016, Dan continues to explore new avenues of integration and engagement between marketers and audiences in the campaign planning space. Dan has served as chair of the Creative Standards Committee and as a member of the Mobile Integration Committee for the Digital Place-based Advertising Association in addition to serving as a member of the Technology & Innovations Committee for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Penn State and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Peg Jackson, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners: Peg is a Managing Director in Mooreland Partner’s Greenwich office. She brings more than 20 years of investment banking, venture capital and operating management experience within the media technology sector. At Mooreland, she focuses on the digital media, marketing software and e-commerce industries. Prior to joining Mooreland Partners, she was a Managing Director at Gridley & Co, where she worked on transactions within the digital media sector. Prior to joining Gridley, Peg worked in venture capital as a Managing Director at NeoCarta Ventures investing in media technology companies such as Silverpop and Myrio (acquired by Siemens). Prior to working at NeoCarta, Peg held corporate development and operational roles at NBC and Reuters. Peg holds a BA in Economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University.