Media Roundtable

Media Roundtable’s “Insider Edition” Returns to discuss the hot topics of the day, including more on how the advertising industry is responding to the economic downturn, the future of podcast discoverability, how advertisers may be ruining America’s pastime, and much more.  This week, Jennifer Laine (Head of Marketing) hosts the show alongside fellow Oxford “Roadies,” Stew Redwine (VP Creative Ser...

The Influencer presents our first ever Media Roundtable “Industry Edition” where industry insiders discuss recent industry news in true roundtable fashion. This week, host Dan Granger is joined by fellow Oxford Road team members, Jennifer Laine Vanbeek (Head of Marketing), Stew Redwine (VP Creative Services), and Kyle Jelinek (Senior Account Lead Director). Together, these four “Roadies” discuss t...

The Media Roundtable takes a bit of a turn this week with guest host Stew Redwine (Oxford Road VP, Creative Services) taking the mic to discuss the art of sound with fellow audiophile Dallas Taylor, Creative Director of Defacto Sound, the sonic source for the world’s most thoughtful brands, and the host and creator of the award-winning podcast, Twenty Thousand Hertz. See Privacy Policy at https://...

Gillie Da King and his cousin Wallo267 co-host the hit podcast Million Dollaz Worth of Game from Barstool Sports, and today they take a seat at the Media Roundtable. Gillie and Wallo have an ability to be genuine and non judgemental, creating a show where guests like Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Mike Tyson, Alicia Keys, and Swizz Beatz can open up and speak honestly, producing must-listen episodes. This...

Matt Belloni, former top dog at The Hollywood Reporter, current co-founding partner at Puck News, joins us to discuss his recently new podcast The Town, from The Ringer, where he takes you inside Hollywood with exclusive reporting about the business of show business. Marketers concerned with the implications of the latest changes and challenges facing media will find this conversation meaningful....

In a world where, according to Edelman’s Trust Barometer, corporations are more trusted than the government and media, what do you do with that trust? At SXSW, we assembled a powerhouse panel to answer that question. This week, Oxford Road’s Founder and CEO, Dan Granger joins media veterans, Jory Des Jardins (CMO, Countable) and Natasha Simko Morgan, Ph. D. (Head of Enterprise Marketing, Indeed) t...

This week we’re serving up a panel discussion with some of the leading minds of the industry, from last month’s SXSW for you to feast upon. Oxford Road’s Jennifer Laine sits down with industry experts Bryan Barletta founder of Sounds Profitable, iHeart Radio’s Chief Creative Officer, and self-proclaimed recovering Creative, Rahul Sabnis, and Ph. D., Engineer, and Polarization Expert, Kevin Kells t...

If you look back at the history of our newsletter, The Influencer, you’ll oftentimes find articles and insights sourced from Morning Brew. Morning Brew is many things we want The Influencer to be; a witty, to-the-point, take on media trends. You owe it to yourself to subscribe to Morning Brew, the self-proclaimed “world’s wittiest business insights newsletter” and its sister newsletter, Marketing...

Retired San Francisco Ad Man Joey Dumont knows the power of engaging with uncomfortable truths when it comes to working with brands. While a former Questus managing director, Dumont wrote his memoir so his sons would have a record of the messiness of their father’s previous transgressions as an executive in Media. A self-proclaimed recovering douchebag, Dumont’s new journalistic platform, True Thi...

The term Renaissance man doesn’t do Baratunde Thurston justice. He’s an Emmy-nominated host who’s worked at The Onion and The Daily Show, advised the Obama White House, and wrote the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black. “Everything we know is becoming something we don’t know—constantly.” -Baratunde Thurston Currently, he’s the creator and host of one of Apple’s favorite podcasts of 2020, “Ho...

Lisa Carmen Wang knows about resilience. Despite achieving national success as a gymnast in her teens, the never-ending pursuit of success left her feeling hollow. It wasn’t until she stepped into her full power that she realized, “A woman steps into her full power NOT when she is finally given permission to do so, but when she realizes she never needed it in the first place.” Wang is now a serial...

This panel will get real about responsible media and our culture, breaking down the shifting responsibilities of consumers, brands and media. We will discuss: Is it now up to you as a media consumer to determine what's true and what isn't? Everyone says they want just the facts from news media. What does that mean? What is the responsibility of brands to align themselves with truthful content, We...

Tackling tough social issues while being funny at the same time is a tall order, few can do well. This week’s Media Roundtable guests are one of the few. Kulap Vilaysack and SuChin Pak produce the hit podcast Add to Cart where they share physical and metaphorical items they’re adding to their carts in tangential, honest conversations. Apple Podcasts spotlighted the show and fan reviews say it’s “L...

Oinounou is that incredibly rare thing–a voice of reason. To listen to him is to feel calmer and more informed. After seeing how the incentive structure of the media landscape rewards the most opinionated and click-baity news coverage, Oinounou is trying, and succeeding with a different approach. Oinounou has created his own curated and well-sourced news channel, Mo News, on Instagram where he sho...

No one sees the truth and the Internet like Virginia Heffernan. Online since she was a child in the ‘70s, Heffernan is a Harvard Ph. D. whose book examining digital culture, “ Magic and Loss: The Internet As Art ” was called “An illuminating guide to the internet” by the Wall Street Journal. Heffernan’s a contributing editor for Wired, frequently writes for The LA Times, The Atlantic, and the NY T...

This episode of Media Roundtable is a little different than the norm. Last Sunday, over 100M viewers tuned in to watch the best of the best collide to establish dominance in America’s greatest showdown. We’re not talking about the Rams and Bengals; we’re talking about the commercials, and in true Media Roundtable fashion, the impact they have on the world. This week, latter-day madmen, Stew Redwin...

If you want to understand the future of podcast advertising, spend 5 minutes with Bryan Barletta. This week, The Media Roundtable gives you almost an hour with the self-described “Podcast ad-tech by day, dungeon master by night.” Barletta is a towering authority when it comes to podcast ads. With an ad-tech background from Claritas and Megaphone, he founded Sounds Profitable, a weekly podcast ad-t...

It’s Black History Month and if you want to learn from someone who has been on the front lines of advancing underrepresented Black voices over the past 3+ decades, you may want to tune into this week’s episode. This week’s guest, Kierna Mayo has played Queen and Kingmaker since the ’80s, in equal parts as a cultural critic, curator, and contributor. This conversation goes deep and offers levity at...

Serial entrepreneur Michael Bosstick has done it all. He’s sold beds for private jets and overcame his fear of public speaking to launch a hit podcast with his superstar wife, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick. But the reason we asked him to join us on the Media Roundtable is because of his tireless work as CEO of the podcast network, Dear Media, where he has created a platform for female podcasters to domin...

Media Roundtable returns with our 2022 season debut featuring an interview with a podcast host who is the walking embodiment of our values. Bari Weiss is an award-winning journalist and the author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism. Weiss worked as a staff writer and opinion editor for The New York Times until her 2020 principle-driven resignation letter (a must-read) sent her on a path toward independ...

In this season of gratitude, Jennifer Laine, Head of Marketing at Oxford Road and Executive Director for Media Roundtable, joins Dan for this single episode recap of our Fall Season of Media Roundtable. Together, they look back at the changes we've made to the series, how we're living out the Media Roundtable Values within the Ad Industry, and debate/recap/highlight all ten guests from the last se...

“Life is not about paper.” - Metta Sandiford-Artest Metta Sandiford-Artest, aka Metta World Peace, aka Ron Artest, is ahead of every curve. He was canceled before you could get canceled. He’s been a passionate advocate for mental health for over a decade. And it sure seems like Facebook’s rebrand is following in his footsteps. How did he do it? Maybe it’s because Metta embraces transformation. He’...

“If you’re not advertising in the Latino space now... in twenty years you’re just not going to be relevant.” - Julio Ricardo Valera Growing up bilingual and bicultural in Puerto Rico and the Bronx, Julio Ricardo Valera didn’t see media that was made for him by people who looked like him. Establishment media (and big advertisers) have long misunderstood that the Latino community is far from a monol...

If Media were Politics, Walk-Ins Welcome would be a viable third-party option for Brands. Host, Bridget Phetasy is a walking masterclass in branding, who has pioneered a new, balanced approach to politics and culture. Comedian, writer (Playboy, The Atlantic, Newsweek), podcaster (Walk-ins Welcome), and YouTube star (Dumpster Fire), Phetasy invented the word phetasy to mean “when reality becomes pa...

When Dave Mays was a sophomore at Harvard, he started a single-page newsletter to serve the hip-hop community he loved with a pipe dream of becoming hip-hop’s answer to Rolling Stone. With millions of readers, a notorious annual awards ceremony, a nationally syndicated radio show, a clothing line, as well as being the first entrepreneur to introduce hip-hop to Madison Avenue, Mays’ fanzine The Sou...