New Digital Age

It's Always Media Thursday, NDA's regular podcast taking an irreverent look at the digital media and marketing industry, is back for 2025. Hosted by NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes, It's Always Media Thursday takes a sideways look at a week in digital media. In this week's welcome-back episode, we discuss how industry event speaking needs a dose of authenticit...

Sharon Palmer’s digital career spans over two decades. Currently Client Success Director at digital agency  Idhl, she was key in the agency’s integration of nine businesses and eight separate brands into Idhl. She spent 27 years at McCann, starting as an exec, working up to MD, setting up the agency’s digital operations as digital marketing was born. In a wide-ranging and honest interview she disc...

In this special episode of the NDA Meets podcast, in association with Hivestack by Perion, NDA Editor Justin Pearse is joined by Inés Armendáriz, International Sales Director, and Nigel Clarkson, Global Chief Revenue Officer at Taptap Digital. They discuss how programmatic has transformed out-of-home into a key part of an omnichannel strategy, the challenges this presents, the lessons that have be...

The Out of Home (OOH) advertising industry is evolving rapidly, driven by digitisation, growing scale across the globe, and the advanced targeting and measurement capabilities of programmatic media. In this time of change, how can the industry best deliver on the promise of programmatic OOH? In this special podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse is joined by OOH experts Lee Cutter, VP, UK & Emergin...

NDA’s podcast series, Masters of Media talks to heads of media at brands to understand how advertisers are able to keep pace with the frenetic speed of development of media and its fragmentation across channels. In this episode we meet Peter Rowe, Head of Media at NatWest Group. On moving from procurement to marketing: In procurement, I looked at inputs, such as how many agencies you need, and at...

n the latest in our NDA Meets podcast, Editor Justin Pearse sits down with James Hill, Chief Commercial Officer, Exte. With an industry career spanning twenty years, James is two months into the new job, with responsibility of driving growth in new markets as the Spanish-born adtech company embarks on ambitious global expansion.  The conversation covers subjects including: how Exte is planning to...

In the latest NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sat down in Cannes with David Winstone, Trading Director  UK, Channel Factory to discuss the future of the digital advertising industry. Topics covered included contextual alignment and how Channel Factory is helping brands align with the right content and using context as a proxy for performance.  “Context is one of the main strategies in...

At the year's Cannes Lions Festival, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sat down with Kumar Amrendra, Head of Digital Marketing, Planning & Data Science, Sky and Elizabeth Brennan, Manager Advertising, Permutive. In a wide-ranging discussion, we examine the stage of the nation for brands today as they prepare for a world post cookie.

In the second of our special ‘An Audience With’ podcasts from Canne 2024, NDA editor sits down to chat with Sir Martin Sorrell, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital.  One of the ad industry’s biggest names, Sorrell shares his thoughts on how Cannes has changed over the past two decades, considers whether brands are ready for a first-party future and offers his take on the current market...

In the first of our special 'An Audience With' podcasts from Cannes 2024, NDA editor Justin Pearse speaks with Terence 'Terry' Kawaja, founder and CEO of LUMA Partners.  One of the most influential people in the industry, Kawaja tells why he still loves Cannes, explains why M&A activity is back with a bang and describes how ad industry has been been transformed from an art...

In this episode of the NDA Meets podcast, New Digital Age Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Theo Theodorou, UK Managing Director at Microsoft Advertising, to discuss the topic of digital transformation. Theodorou, in his second stint at the tech giant, talks about the role of AI in the new era of digital transformation, how the technology is impacting the different stakeholders within the advert...

In the latest episode of the NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse is joined in the studio by Hannah Walker, Head of Mid Market UK at Reddit. Reddit has been bolstering its advertising business in recent months to make the platform more attractive and effective for brands to communicate with its highly-engaged and passionate audience. Walker, previously at Snap, discusses how she is driving...

In the latest It's Always Media Thursday podcast, Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back for another irreverent take on a a week in the digital media and marketing industry. After an unusual departure into a serious discussion on European regulation, it's back to more reliable ground for IAMT including WhatsApp industry communities, Digital Leading Ladies, preparations fo...

In the latest NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Jonny Whitehead, Strategy Director at Skyrise , an audience targeting platform powered by mobile network data. The conversation is focussed on how the digital media industry is shifting into a new era of media effectiveness, driven by regulatory shift and the huge issue of signal loss, throwing up challenges to the digital ad...

t's Always Media Thursday is back for Season Three. The new season is innovation free, returning with nothing new but Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes's weekly stroll through a week in digital media and marketing.  This week's discussion touches on sustainability, diversity, the launch of NDA's Trinity Lunch Scotland, the second NDA IWD lunch, the importance of lun...

Marty Davies is Joint CEO, Outvertising and Co-Founder of Trans+ Adland, a community group of trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and intersex people in the marketing and advertising industry, and the founder of creative consultancy Smarty Pants. Marty is a force of nature, driving change across our industry. A columnist for Campaign magazine and industry campaigner and thought leader, she le...

Incredibly, the volume of carbon emissions generated by the digital advertising industry now exceeds the emissions associated with the aviation sector. Here, NDA editor Justin Pearse talks to David Shaw, Co-founder and CEO of Cedara , a carbon intelligence platform for marketers.  Shaw argues that while sustainability is a hot topic right now, too many carbon calculator solutions are based on esti...

In the latest NDA Meets podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse sits down with Alex Prouhet, VP of Advertising at Deliveroo. Eighteen months in the role, Alex discusses Deliveroo's focus for advertising in 2024, the future of retail media, how Deliveroo Media and Ecommerce has developed since its launch in 2002, Deliveroo's role in the omnichannel consumer journey, the power of partnerships su...

Joy Dean is Head of Attention UK, Tobii ATTEX , an attention data exchange. A self-described Startup Queen, for the last 18 years she's played a pivotal role in the growth of adtech including at Tribal Fusion before it became Widespace, helping launch InVibes, at Widespace before it was bought by Azerion, and launching the programmatic arm of Ogury.  The conversation covers subjects such as t...

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes return with yet another ramblng chat about a week in the digital media and marketing industry. This week we're joined by special guest Karan Singh, Head of International Advertiser Partnerships, Microsoft Advertising, who gives us his take on industry developments and reveals some shocking views on mince pies. With advertiser desertion of X in...

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back due to popular demand with series three of the It's Always Media Thursday podcast, taking a 'unique' look back on a week in the digital marketing and media industry. This week's high-level dose of insight includes discussion of Halloween, Christmas, Mariah Carey, boxing, and a deep dive into Peppa Pig. We also touch on...

In the latest episode of the NDA Meets podcast, we sit down with Brian Morrissey, Founder, The Rebooting, and previously President and Editor in Chief of Digiday. The Rebooting is dedicated to exploring 'The mechanics of building sustainable media businesses' and there is no one better placed to discuss the future of the publishing industry. In a wide-ranging interview, we discuss subjec...

Terence 'Terry' Kawaja, is the Founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm focussed on digital media and marketing. As famous for his parody videos featuring leading industry figures, and colourful on-stage appearances as for his deep knowledge of the digital sector and the $300 billion of deals he's been been behind, he is one of our industry's most influential...

Out of home (OOH) was traditionally seen as a standalone media channel, but digital screens are changing this perception. Now, thanks to the data-targeting and measurement of programmatic, brands can fully integrate digital out of home (DOOH) into their omnichannel campaigns.  In this special video podcast, NDA Editor Justin Pearse is joined Will Brownsdon, Managing Director, EMEA, Hivestack, and...

Paul Wright is a true digital veteran, with experience across companies like Apple, Amazon and Omnicom and many more He joined Uber six months ago to set up its advertising operations in London. The discussion explores how Uber is building its advertising business in the UK, part of the company's ambition to create a $1bn business in the next two years. We discuss the value of Uber's uni...