New Digital Age

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back for another essential trawl though a week in digital media and marketing. Reflecting on last week's Cannes Lions festival, this week's podcast turns out to be an events special. We're joined by good friend and Madfest Co-Founder Dan Brain who reveals the treats in store for attendees at next week's festival and we discu...

The fast-moving nature of this industry means that even the most digitally experienced may well not be fully up to speed with sectors outside their day-to-day area of focus.  Which is why NDA has launched our Media 101 podcast series. We'll be talking to experts across the industry for a deep dive into different sectors. Out of home is one the oldest ad mediums but it's being supercharge...

In this podcast series , we’ll be talking to agency leaders to discover the stories behind their journey to the top of the industry and what lessons others can learn from them. Anne Stagg is the UK CEO of dentsu's Customer Experience Management Line of Business (CXM). Leading a business of 940 people, she was previously Head of Client Services at Merkle UK.  "I started in the engine room...

In this 'Cannes special' episode of It's Always Media Thursday we discuss the highlights of the opening day at Cannes 2023 with Charlie Crowe of Crowe Advisory. We talk about the ANA (The Association of National Advertisers) and transparency in advertising plus why Cannes is still really important despite sometimes being seen as solely a networking event.  Andy, Justin and Charlie d...

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with yet another insightful discussion - or slightly-foggy chat - about a week in the digital media and marketing industry. This week we wonder why AI keeps dominating headlines in NDA and beyond, discuss the unfeasibly-large number of events beind run by ourselves and the industry ast large.  We're joined by special guest Paul Coggin...

CMO Confidential is a podcast series on NDA where we talk to CMOs who, while not digital in job title, have digital understanding and experience embedded in their DNA. In this episode, we sit down with Matt Barwell, CMO at Britvic.  He talks about Britvic's fascinating digital in-housing journey. "If you can to our Infused studio, you wouldn't be able to tell who's a Britvic em...

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with yet another unstructured and frankly often bewildering discussion of a week in the digital media and marketing industry. Alongside the unwelcome return of Andy's Train Chat, we talk about Justin's love for hotels over football, the retail media boom, the highs of thei year's London Advertising Week, and the rising excit...

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 Teja Patel, Senior Director, Global Digital Media at Cisco. Teja Patel is a true digital veteran and is now bringing her years of experience to help the IT giant&ap...

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes return with another disorganised ramble through a week in the digital media and marketing industry. We discuss retail media, tacos, NDA and Newsworks' comedy quiz show in Manchester, time travel, and the success of the inaugural Possible industry event in Miami, where the likes of Elon Musk, Uber Advertising and Jon Bon Jovi wowed the crowds....

Innovation is perhaps one of the most commonly-used words in our industry. But what does it really mean in an industry based on, and fuelled by, tecnical innovation? In a new podcast series, Innovation Leaders, we're sitting down with heads of innovation at agencies and brands to find out.  To launch the series, we met with Sarah Salter, Head of Applied Innovation, Wavemaker to discuss why an...

“I would rather do good work with great people than great work with assholes” is the personal motto of Beth Freedman, CEO, Dentsu X, who joins us in the inaugural episode of My Path to the Top, a new podcast series in partnership with Dentsu. In the series, we'll be talking to agency leaders to discover the stories behind their journey to the top of the industry and what lessons others can le...

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with another easy ramble through the streets of a week in the digital media and marketing industry. In this week's episode, we review the trade press, looking at how the sector is flourishing and the strength of titles like The Drum, Campaign Ad Week and Media Leader, and discuss the latest developments in AI and attention.  This week...

In the latest in our NDA Meets series, we sit down with Christian Muche, the Co-Founder of Beyond Ordinary Events which launches POSSIBLE in Miami Beach, on April 17th-19th. Christian has a track record of creating some of the biggest events in the industry including Dmexco. The conversation looks at what we can expect from Possible, the role of events in the post-pandemic world and the value of b...

The NDA podcast It's Always Media Thursday has broken new ground by being published on an actual Thursday. NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes once again take a gentle stroll through a week in the digital marketing and media industry. This week we're joined by special guest Brand Advance CEO EMEA Deborah Gbadamosi, one of NDA's favourite people at one of our favourite...

In the latest in our NDA Meets series, we sit down with Josh Hitchcock. Agency Account Director at Hawk.  The discussion covers topics including sustainability in the digital advertising industry, "a topic all of us our learning about on a daily basis and is now front and centre of our industry", omnichannel marketing and the delivery of truly-cookieless digital marketing. 

NDA’s podcast series Digital Leaders meets Heads of Digital, Digital Directors and Chief Digital Officers at brands to find out what the role means today and how they’re using digital to get closer to their customers. Next up is Adrian Harris, Head of Digital at VisitBritain.  Adrian's career in digital spans almost two decades including senior roles at companies including Bupa, Tesco, The Co...

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with another gentle ramble along the paths of a week in the digital media and marketing industry. We celebrate the end of January, the rare lack of illness on Andy's behalf and NDA's plans for Cannes Lions.  This week we're joined by special guest industry veteran Charlie Crowe for an indepth discussion on the ups and downs...

NDA Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with another shuffling glance at this week's digital media and marketing industry. 

In the first It’s Always Media Thursday podcast of 2023, Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes kick off the year with another gentle ramble through a week in digital media and marketing. In another Andy's Illness special, we're joined by the irrepressible Rob Blake, MD of Channel Factory.  We talk about the reasons to be cheerful in 2023, another brilliant event from Mediatel and...

In the latest It’s Always Media Thursday podcast, Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes are back with their tradition shuffle through  a week in digital media and marketing. This week we're joined by three of the driving forces behind some of our industry's best events to discuss the outlook for events in 2023. Stepping virtually into the NDA podcast studio are Madfest  Co-Founde...

In the latest It’s Always Media Thursday podcast, Editor Justin Pearse and Publisher Andy Oakes return for festive take on their discussion of the ins and outs of a week in digital media and marketing, joined by special guest Ad Tech Personality of the Year, Index Exchange MD Sara Vincent. This week's conversation ranges from festive party season hitting the digital industry, the increased fo...

For the latest in our NDA Meets podcast series, For the latest in our NDA Meets podcast series, we sit down with Richard Ottoy, GM, EMEA at Sharethrough and Harvin Gupta, Head Of Commercial Partnerships, Scope3. The discussion focuses on the potential environmental damage of digital advertising, the move to net zero campaigns and the critical role of Green Media products.  "There are a large...

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 Richard Bettinson, Senior Director, Media & Insight at Hilton.

NDA has launched a new podcast series, talking to CTOs at agencies to understand the meaning of the role today, especially how such individual's help select and maintaining the huge number of tech partners agencies now work with.  First up is Ross Barnes, Global CTO at The&Partnership.  We discuss how tech companies stand the best chance of getting Ross's attention to get their tech...