John Gentry, a longtime advertising executive and the chief executive officer of supply-side platform OpenX, died Wednesday evening after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. A post to Gentry’s LinkedIn profile Thursday evening read: “If you are reading this, it means that I’m no longer around and lost my fight with cancer. While ..
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What if the most powerful career advice is to stop listening to everyone else? In this episode of Adspeak by Adweek, recorded live at Brandweek, host Ryan Joe sits down with marketing powerhouse Bozoma Saint John to unpack how intuition and not approval has guided her career across Apple, Uber, Netflix, and beyond. Bozoma shares ..
This week has been another revolving door of hires and promotions at brands, from marketing reshuffles to high-profile appointments. We’re rounding up the U.S. and global marketing leadership moves you should know about for the week ending Jan. 16. – The Walt Disney Company announced that it is creating a new enterprise marketing and brand organization to ..
Higgsfield, an AI video startup positioning itself at the center of advertising’s shift toward synthetic media, has hired former Perplexity ad executive Taz Patel as vice president of platform partnerships, ADWEEK has learned. Patel began the role this week and will report directly to CEO Alex Mashrabov. He is tasked with turning widespread adoption of ..
Marketing no longer runs on broadcast thinking. Modern brands win by behaving like participants in culture, not distributors of messages. In this episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Matt Britton sits with Selina Sykes, VP of beauty & wellbeing and global head of digital marketing and social at Unilever, for a deep look at ..
Seven Bucks Companies, the business founded by Dwayne Johnson, has hired former Unilever and SheaMoisture exec Cara Robinson as its first chief brand officer. In the new role, Robinson will oversee growth, brand strategy, and creative direction across the company’s brand portfolio, which includes Teremana tequila, men’s grooming brand Papatui, energy drink business Zoa and ..
Nvidia is formalizing its marketing leadership for the first time as the company’s role at the center of the AI economy continues to expand. The chipmaker has hired longtime Google executive Alison Wagonfeld as its first chief marketing officer. In a LinkedIn post announcing the move on Thursday, Wagonfeld called the decision a transition “from ..
This week has been another revolving door of hires, departures, and promotions at brands, from chief marketing officer (CMO) exits to high-profile appointments. We’re rounding up the U.S. and global marketing leadership moves you should know about for the week ending Jan. 9. – AI chipmaker Nvidia has hired Google marketing executive Alison Wagonfeld as its first CMO. She’ll start ..
Creative scrappiness can take brands where no one else has ever gone before — that’s BodyArmor’s story, and we’re diving deep into it on the latest episode of the Marketing Vanguard podcast. Tune in as the brand’s CMO, Tom Gargiulo, opens up his playbook on succeeding as a challenger brand, from how to build winning ..
Pinterest’s first global chief marketing officer, Andréa Mallard, is leaving after more than seven years with the business. Mallard joined Pinterest in 2018 from Gap Inc. brand Athleta. The company confirmed her departure to ADWEEK but did not yet share plans for her replacement. “We are grateful for Andrea’s contributions and impact at Pinterest,” said ..