New Digital Age

In the last of NDA’s exclusive interviews from this year’s Cannes Festival, Justin Pearse chats with ad industry legend Sir Martin Sorrell. Sir Martin is a British business leader and founder of WPP and S4 Capital, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the global advertising industry. He built WPP into the world’s largest marketing services group and now leads S4 Capital (Monks...

In the latest of our exclusive interviews from this year’s Cannes Festival, NDA’s editor-in-chief Justin Pearse meets Lori Goode, Chief Marketing Officer at Index Exchange. With more than 20 years in digital advertising, Goode has held senior leadership roles at Amazon Ads, Meta (formerly Facebook), and Microsoft. Beyond Index, Lori is an active industry leader, serving on the Leadership Group for...

In the latest of NDA’s exclusive interviews from this year’s Cannes Festival, Justin Pearse chats with Benjamin Masse, Chief Product Officer at Triton Digital and President of the AgenticAdvertising.org . Masse shares his thoughts on topics including the creation of fair standards for agentic AI and the importance of collaboration between CMOs and CIOs for successful adoption…

In our latest interview from this year's Cannes Festival, New Digital Age's editor-in-chief Justin Pearse meets social media influencer and entrepreneur Brandon B. Brandon is the Founder and CEO of Studio B, an independent creative studio. As one of Europe’s most-watched digital creators, he has built a global audience of more than 28 million followers and generated over 18 billion views...

In the latest 'An Audience with' interview from this year's Cannes Festival, Justin Pearse meets adtech veteran Brian O'Kelley, CEO of Scope3, to discuss the rise of AI and agentic systems, the market domination of major platforms, and the increasing  importance of creativity and wisdom...

Terence Kawaja is a media and technology investment banker and the founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, specialising in digital media, advertising, and M&A advisory. With over three decades of experience, he has advised on hundreds of high-value transactions and is one of the most influential voices in adtech and media investment. In the first of our ‘Audience with’ interviews from this year’s Ca...

With MAD//Fest just weeks away, in this episode of the NDA podcast Editor in chief Justin Pearse and publisher Andy Oakes are joined by MAD//Fest co-founder Dan Brain for a wide-ranging chat covering this year's event, the state of the industry, and why we all need a human touch. This year's MAD//Fest, for which NDA is a long-time partner, theme is "the human touch", a delibera...

In the latest episode of the NDA podcast, Retail Media Age Editor sits down with Meredith O'Brien, Group Agency Director at MiQ, and Paul McGee, Head of Video at Goodstuff, to unpack exactly how programmatic advertising can meet the challenges posed by rapidly-shifting consumer behaviour. O'Brien and McGee dive into the complexity of the current media landscape, how advertiser outcomes a...

In the latest episode of the NDA Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Justin Pearse and Retail Media Age Editor Rebecca Sentance are joined by Lydia Oakes, MD of Bluestripe Communications, for a wide-ranging discussion on how B2B PR is evolving in an era shaped by AI, fragmented media and growing pressure to prove performance. The episode opens with Rebecca sharing some of the latest developments from the ret...

In the latest episode of the NDA Podcast, Justin Pearse, Editor-in-Chief of New Digital Age (NDA), is joined by Andy Oakes, Publisher of NDA, dialling in from a Miami hotel bathroom after three days at Possible, and Rebecca Sentance, Editor of Retail Media Age. And we take a deep dive into the impact of AI on publishers with Ezoic's John Cole. The conversation kicks off with a debrief from Po...

In this week's NDA Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are joined by Adtech Personality of The Year, and MD at Mantis, Reach, Fi Salmon. *Sound warning: Tech issues mean Justin's audio quality is very poor but luckily Fi and Andy's is crystal clear. The discussion includes: AI's Impact on Publishing: Exploring how artificial intelligence is currently...

In the latest edition of the NDA podcast, Justin Pearse, Editor-in-Chief, is joined by Rebecca Sentance, Editor of Retail Media Age, and Andy Oakes, Publisher of New Digital Age, to discuss optimism in the UK media landscape.  The team kicks off with the positive news from the latest IPA Bellwether report, which shows UK ad spend is up by 7.3. This positive shift is mirrored by the return of sever...

In the latest episode of the NDA podcast, Justin Pearce, Editor-in-Chief, is joined by Andy Oakes, Publisher of New Digital Age, and Rebecca Sentance, Editor of Retail Media Age, for a  discussion on the pulse of the media and advertising industry.  The discussion touched on the growing intersection of retail data and audio advertising through major tie-ups like Amazon’s partnership with Global an...

The latest episode of the NDA Podcast, our weekly ramble through digital media and marketing, sees the debut of our newest editorial star, Rebecca Sentance . Rebecca joins us from Econsultancy to take the helm at Retail Media Age (RMA), a title that is going from strength to strength as the sector booms. Rebecca began her career in radio before she transitioned into digital journalism with foundat...

The transition from "event" to "essential platform" is how Christian Muche, Founder and Global President of Possible, describes the evolution of Possible, taking place in Miami this April. In the latest of our NDA Meets podcasts, Muche outlines how POSSIBLE has grown from a high-potential debut into what he calls the "Davos of the marketing world." But this isn't...

We discuss our launch of PitchLab and the continued rise of indie agencies, the looming presence of Cannes, and the creativity challenges in retail media and CTV advertising.  This week's special guest is Joe Evea, SVP Advertising and Retail Media EMEA at Titan OS, which this week announced it had raised €50 million in Series A funding, in a round led by Highland Europe. We discuss the creati...

The It's Always Media Thursday podcast returns for its 10th series, with guests Zuzanna Gierlinska and Fi Salmon.  The podcast is an irreverent take on a week in digital media and marketing, hosted by NDA Editor-in-Chief Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes. To kickstart the news series we are joined by not only Fiona Salmon, MD, Mantis, in her guise as the newly-crowned Adtech Personality...

In the latest episode of the New Digital Age Podcast , Editor-in-Chief Justin Pearce sits down with Will Jones , Head of Omnichannel Activation at Adform , to discuss the evolution of omnichannel marketing, the challenges of measurement and fragmentation, and how Adform is helping brands and agencies navigate the fast-changing programmatic landscape. Will’s media journey began almost 20 years ago...

New Digital Age’s editor-in-chief Justin Pearse recently welcomed ad tech veteran Brian O’Kelley to our Cannes Hub (Maison NDA) for an in depth chat about the future of the industry. Having helped to develop many of the technologies that underpin programmatic media trading, O’Kelley is now the co-founder and CEO of Scope3 , on a mission to to decarbonize the global economy, thus reducing the negat...

New Digital Age's editor-in-chief chats with Sir Martin Sorrell, one of the leading names in the global advertising industry, in at the 2025 Cannes Lions festival...

Terrence ‘Terry’ Kawaja, founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, joins New Digital Age’s editor-in-chief Justin Pearse in Cannes for an in-depth one-to-one on the state of the global marketing industry. One of the most respected tech advisers in the industry, Kawaja talks through the key events of the past year and addresses the “confusing world” facing agency leaders in 2025.  The podcast was sponsored...

In the latest episode of the NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Travis Clinger, Chief Connectivity & Ecosystem Officer and GM, International at LiveRamp. In this episode, we discuss Travis’s dual role leading global connectivity and international growth for LiveRamp, roles that have him clocking thousands of air miles while shaping the future of data collaboration acros...

​In the latest episode of the NDA Meets podcast, Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Richard Davis, Co-Founder & CEO at 51toCarbonZero . We discuss how companies in the media and markerting industry continue to make huge stides towards decarbonistion on the path to net zero, despite recent moves in the US. "There is distinction between news headlines and what real people think. In the US...

In the latest episode of the NDA Meets podcast, Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Katie Ingram , Director of Advertising Week Europe . A relatively new appointment to the role, Katie brings with her a wealth of experience across out-of-home, publishing, and industry events, having worked at companies such as CBS Outdoor, Outsmart, and the Evening Standard. With Advertising Week Europe 2025 , for...

In the latest episode of the NDA Meets podcast, Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Christian Muche, founder of Possible , one of the industry’s fastest-growing events. Muche, who also co-founded DMEXCO, shares insights into the rapid evolution of Possible, its recent acquisition by Hive Group, and its ambitions to become the Davos of the marketing world. The Rise of Possible Launched in 2023, Pos...