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Rio Longacre Channel

Rio Longacre: AdTech and MarTech executive

Rio is an advertising & marketing technology executive with more than twenty years of experience across media, data & digital transformation. He is a Partner and Head of AdTech at Omnicom’s Credera, where he helps organizations modernize customer experience, MarTech and AdTech systems & commercial strategy in an AI driven world.

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The AI Winners Will Have the Strongest Data Foundation

The AI Race Isn’t About Models Anymore. It’s About Data.

As enterprises race to deploy AI, many are discovering that the biggest challenge isn’t choosing the right model—it’s building a trusted, consented, real-time data foundation. In this article, we explore why data quality, identity, and consent are becoming the true competitive advantage in enterprise AI, and how companies like Tealium are helping organizations prepare for this next era of intelligent, customer-centric experiences.

Rio Longacre

Jul 11

Cannes Lions 2026 | Day 4 With Rio Longacre, Krish Raja & Brett House

Day 4 closes out Signal & Noise’s first Cannes Lions with conversations that capture where marketing is headed next. From AI agents and ad fraud to transparency, identity, enterprise transformation, and publisher innovation, Rio Longacre, Brett House, and Krish Raja speak with leaders from Dstillery, CHEQ, Stagwell Marketing Cloud, Chili Piper, Credera, and more to wrap up an unforgettable week at Cannes Lions 2026.

Brett House

Jun 29

Signal & Noise at Cannes Lions 2026 – Day 3 Compilation With Rio Longacre, Brett House & Krish Raja

Day 3 at Cannes Lions 2026 brought some of the week's most insightful conversations from Hearst House. Signal & Noise sat down with leaders from Experian, Klarna, Zeta Global, Hearst, ID5, Real Chemistry, Omnicom Media Group Health, and MediaRadar to explore AI deployment, identity, healthcare innovation, measurement, and why trusted data and premium content are becoming more valuable as the industry moves from AI experimentation to real-world execution.

Brett House

Jun 26

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Brett House Channel

Brett House: Product GTM and growth executive

Brett is a product and go-to-market executive with 25 years in B2B SaaS across AdTech, MarTech, and AI-driven platforms. He is the Founder and CEO of HighSignals, a GTM Intelligence company that helps B2B SaaS and AI companies turn product truth into clearer positioning, stronger differentiation, and more credible execution in competitive markets. Previously, he led GTM at MediaRadar and helped scale and exit category-defining platforms at Neustar, acquired by TransUnion, and eXelate, acquired by Nielsen.

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Cannes Lions 2026 | Day 4 With Rio Longacre, Krish Raja & Brett House

Brett House

Jun 29

Signal & Noise at Cannes Lions 2026 – Day 3 Compilation With Rio Longacre, Brett House & Krish Raja

Brett House

Jun 26

POSSIBLE 2026 Day 3: The AI Endgame, Agentic Media, and Rebuilding the Ad Stack

Final day of POSSIBLE 2026 in Miami shifts from hype to clarity. Leaders highlight AI’s move from tools to systems—driving agentic workflows, orchestration, and infrastructure. Key themes: control layers, governance, multichannel gaps, composable CDPs, and the fall of legacy AdTech. The takeaway: this isn’t future-state—AI transformation is already here, and the industry is racing to catch up.

Brett House

May 11

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Sarah Caputo Channel

Sarah Caputo: Media optimization strategist

Sarah Caputo is a marketing strategist focused on eliminating waste and connecting spend to real business outcomes. She led the in-housing of paid media at Allstate, managing $200M+, and now advises brands and technology companies on media optimization and GTM strategy.

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Possible 2026 Day 1: AI, AdTech, CTV & the Future of Media | Signal & Noise Compilation

Recorded live at POSSIBLE 2026 in Miami, this Signal & Noise episode features top leaders in advertising, media, data, and AI. Through rapid interviews, experts explore AI monetization, CTV, ad quality, creator ecosystems, and brand trust. Key takeaway: innovation isn’t the problem—execution is. Watch full interviews on YouTube.

Brett House

May 5

The Cost of Keeping Quiet: Ad Fraud, Incentives & The Silence Protecting Billions, with Sarah Caputo & David Nyurenberg

The marketing industry spends more than $4,000 per U.S. household every year. Analysts estimate that 20–30% of that spend may be lost to waste, inefficiency, and outright fraud — tens of billions of dollars annually. So here’s the uncomfortable question: If everyone knows the plumbing is broken… Why does the system keep running? In this episode of Signal & Noise, Rio Longacre and Brett House sit down with ⁠Sarah Caputo⁠ & ⁠David Nyurenberg⁠ to unpack what rarely gets said out

David Nyurenberg & Sarah Caputo

Feb 20

The Cost of Keeping Quiet

The Cost of Keeping Quiet exposes how silence enables billions in media waste and fraud. Drawing on firsthand experience, Sarah Caputo and David Nyurenberg reveal how incentives, platform dependency, and industry opacity discourage scrutiny. Their message is clear: until buyers and tech leaders challenge the system, hidden costs will persist—and consumers will keep paying the price.

David Nyurenberg & Sarah Caputo

Feb 17

David Nyurenberg Channel

David Nyurenberg: Award-winning digital media leader

David is an award-winning digital media and growth leader with experience across publisher, ad tech, and agency ecosystems. He leads Digital at Intermedia Advertising and founded Valor, a digital media data consultancy.

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TV Was Never Built to Behave Like Meta

Connected TV is increasingly being sold as though it should perform like Google and Meta. But television was never designed to capture intent in the moment. Its power lies in building familiarity, emotional resonance, and mental availability over time. In this essay, David Nyurenberg argues that forcing CTV into performance marketing frameworks misunderstands what makes television uniquely valuable—and risks undermining the very qualities that make it effective.

David Nyurenberg

May 17

POSSIBLE 2026 Day 2: Where AI Meets the Real Operating System of Marketing

Day 2 of POSSIBLE 2026 features Signal & Noise live from Miami, with top voices across adtech, martech, and AI. Topics include agentic media buying, first-party data, AI-driven measurement, identity, and infrastructure. Key themes: AI as decisioning systems, data bottlenecks, stack consolidation, and rebuilding measurement—showing how marketing is being re-architected for a data-native future.

Brett House

May 6

The Cost of Keeping Quiet: Ad Fraud, Incentives & The Silence Protecting Billions, with Sarah Caputo & David Nyurenberg

David Nyurenberg & Sarah Caputo

Feb 20

Mike Vicenzino Channel

Michael Vicenzino: Data and AI analytics leader

Michael is a data and AI–driven product and analytics leader with 15+ years of experience turning customer and operational signals into strategic advantage. He previously led CX Analytics at Snowflake, building and scaling an 18-person analytics organization and launching AI-powered customer intelligence systems. Today, he partners with executive and product leaders to design intuitive, decision-ready data platforms that bridge strategy and execution in fast-moving, AI-driven environments.

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AI as an Operating System for the Sandwich Generation

The Family Operating System Doesn’t Exist. That’s the Problem.

Mike Vincenzino shares the story behind building Kindora, a family operating system inspired by caring for his mother with dementia. This piece reframes caregiving as a systems problem—and argues that while we’ve built powerful tools for companies, families are still left managing chaos with fragmented, inadequate tech.

Michael Vicenzino

Apr 3

Everyone’s Talking About Vibe Coding.

The Shift: The most valuable skill in 2026 isn’t writing code — it’s describing what you want clearly enough that AI can build it for you. The Proof: MIT named “generative coding” one of its 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026. AI now writes 30% of Microsoft’s code and over 25% of Google’s. The Catch: The “just vibe it” takes are dangerously incomplete. The real skill behind AI-assisted building is something nobody’s talking about — and it’s something you can learn.

Michael Vicenzino

Mar 9

Krish Raja Channel

Krish Raja: Founder and AI strategy leader

Krish Raja is a founder and AI strategy leader with experience across adtech, martech, data, and automation. He helps organizations and leaders turn AI into real products, growth engines, and operating leverage.

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Dan Pratl: A World Where Your Expertise & Judgement is an Asset You Control

We're entering an economy where expertise may matter more than information. In this episode of Signal & Noise, Krish Raja and Quadran CEO Dan Pratl explore how AI could help people preserve, verify, and monetize their judgment—and what that means for careers, organizations, and the future of knowledge work.

Brett House

24 hours ago

Alanna Laforet: Developing a Hacker Mentality to Take Control Of Your Career Journey.

What if the best way to future-proof your career isn't learning another AI tool—but learning to think like a hacker? Executive Voice Krish Raja sits down with technology executive and startup operator Alanna Laforet to explore career reinvention, curiosity, AI, and why adaptability is becoming every professional's greatest advantage. From startup failures to portfolio careers, this conversation offers practical advice for staying resilient in a rapidly changing world.

Brett House

Jul 22

Justin Kramm: Finding Your Tribe by Finding Your Authentic Voice

What happens when being yourself becomes your biggest competitive advantage? In his first solo Signal & Noise episode, Krish Raja sits down with Justin Kramm, Founder & Creative Director of Shit Show Creative, for a conversation that blends humor with genuine insight. They explore authenticity, creativity, AI, LinkedIn, Cannes Lions, and why embracing your unique voice can open doors, build community, and create opportunities no polished corporate persona ever could.

Brett House

Jul 2

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Evgeny Popov Channel

Evgeny Popov is the Co-Founder & CEO of No Fluff Advisory and a New York-based global commercial and product executive with 25+ years across AdTech, MarTech, enterprise data, AI workflow products, and SaaS — spanning APAC, LATAM, MENA, EMEA, and the Americas. He has built P&Ls, products, and teams across SaaS, DaaS, IaaS, and PaaS businesses — from early-stage startups to global organizations of 1,500+. His work spans the sell side, buy side, agency, and vendor ecosystem, with a focus on US market entry, commercial growth, product strategy, agentic-advertising infrastructure, enterprise data collaboration, and organizational design. Three exits. AdCP founding member.

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Vectors Won't Save You From GDPR. They Just Move The Problem.

As AI-driven advertising shifts from cookies and IDs to embeddings and vectors, many in AdTech are treating abstraction as a privacy loophole. In this Signal & Noise Executive Voices piece, Evgeny Popov argues that embeddings do not eliminate GDPR risk — they simply move it into a more opaque layer of the system. The architecture changed. The regulatory reality did not.

Evgeny Popov

Jun 2

From Publishers to Platforms: Evgeny Popov on CTV, Career Exits, and the Future of Television

Careers in AdTech follow the market—not a straight path. In this Signal & Noise episode, Evgeny Popov shares a full-stack view across publishers, agencies, DSPs, and CTV. From acquisitions to ACR data and measurement challenges, we explore how TV is becoming a data-driven channel—and why those who understand the entire ecosystem are best positioned to win.

Brett House

Apr 13

Quinn Harrington Channel

Quinn Harrington doesn’t just operate in the world of AdTech—she works beneath it, where brands are actually built. As CEO & Chief Brand Concierge of Harrington Design Company, her focus is on the foundation most people never see: brand strategy, video production, and the defining moments when a company has to show up and fully embody who it claims to be.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Our Algorithmic Overlords (With Conditions)

The Salt & Vinegar Donut Problem: Why AI Music Labels Still Need Humans With Taste

AI won’t kill music—it will redefine it. As AI-generated artists and labels emerge, the competitive advantage shifts from creating songs to orchestrating stories, communities, and cultural moments. Algorithms can optimize for engagement, but they can’t replace human judgment, taste, or restraint. The future belongs to creative directors who know when to embrace AI—and when to say no before every idea becomes the musical equivalent of a Salt & Vinegar donut.

Quinn Harrington

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Stylized retro illustration of Bobby Flay as a cartoon mascot on a vintage soup can label reading "Bobby-O's" — a commentary on chefs who become brands

She Called Him a Brand. She Wasn’t Wrong. She Still Lost.

A chef, a po' boy, and one unexpected ingredient become a lesson in strategy. In this guest essay, Quinn Harrington explores why great work fails when it's created for the wrong audience. From Beat Bobby Flay to a career-defining branding mistake, she argues that success isn't just about craft—it's about context. The best competitors don't simply express themselves; they understand the people making the decision.

Quinn Harrington

Jul 20

Lucas Longacre Channel

Lucas is a product and AI leader with more than fifteen years of experience across software, media technology, and emerging platforms. He is Head of Product at Inlightened, where he builds responsible AI systems that translate complex data into clear, usable products, modernizing expert intelligence and search in an increasingly AI-driven world.

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Beyond the Stack with Lucas Longacre & Viktor Williamson

What does “full stack” mean in the age of AI? In *Signal & Noise*, Lucas Longacre and Viktor Williamson explore modern software engineering—from frameworks like Next.js to agentic coding and AI-assisted development. They unpack evolving roles, performance, security, and human-centered design, plus why engineers are shifting from builders to orchestrators in a rapidly changing, AI-driven landscape.

Brett House

May 4

Structure the Ambiguity: Lucas Longacre & Zach Grumet on Product, AI, and the Real Work of Building

Lucas Longacre joins Signal & Noise and debuts with Zach Grumet to explore product management, leadership, and “structuring ambiguity.” They cover unclear problems, team friction, decision-making, and how AI is reshaping product development. Featuring insights from FinTech, HealthTech, and SaaS, this episode highlights why strong product leaders focus on clarity—not just shipping features—in an increasingly complex landscape.

Lucas Longacre

Mar 25

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Jennifer Borchardt Channel

Jennifer Borchardt bridges the gap between innovation and the human systems it affects. Based in Charlotte, she brings twenty-five years of leadership experience in regulated environments like FinTech and Health Tech, specializing in building the operating models that translate emerging technology into functional reality.

Her perspective, informed by a background in Neuroscience and Information Science, provides a rigorous framework for navigating AI's impact on work, the economy, and the broader social landscape. As a practitioner who scales global design teams and architects product strategy for the Fortune 100 and fintechs, Jennifer addresses the friction between automation and human labor every day. A holder of three U.S. patents, she is a pragmatic, direct voice on the necessity of grounding technological shifts in human behavior and ethical design.

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When AI Rewrites Work: Jennifer Borchardt on Jobs, Power, and the Human Cost

What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts redefining work? In this Signal & Noise episode, Brett House and Rio Longacre speak with Jennifer Borchardt on how AI is reshaping jobs, careers, and identity. They explore the decline of specialization, the rise of “hyphenate” workers, and the risks of inequality as AI transforms the labor economy and challenges the future of purpose.

Brett House

May 11

When AI stops being a tool and becomes the environment, resilience—not productivity—becomes the only metric that matters

Architecting Resilience in the Intelligence Age

We’re entering a post-labor economy where value shifts from human effort to compute ownership. As AI becomes the operating environment—not just a tool—the real work moves from creation to verification. Specialists give way to “hyphenate” orchestrators who audit, guide, and stress-test intelligent systems. In this world, resilience—not productivity—is the metric that defines winners.

Jennifer Borchardt

May 10

George Musi Channel

George Musi is a seasoned marketing and business leader with 20+ years of experience driving global growth and transformation. He has held leadership roles at major firms including Publicis, WPP, IPG, and Horizon, helping organizations scale through disciplined execution and measurable outcomes.

Specializing in go-to-market strategy, strategic partnerships, and AI-driven operations, George advises Fortune 500 and high-growth companies across industries. Known for bridging strategy and execution, he partners with executive teams to accelerate growth, improve performance, and navigate critical inflection points.

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From Strategy to Scale: George Musi on What Actually Drives Growth Inside Agencies

Everyone says they want growth. Few organizations are actually built to deliver it. In this episode of Signal & Noise, former agency exec George Musi — across Publicis, WPP, IPG, and Horizon — breaks down why growth keeps breaking inside large organizations. Strategy isn't the problem. Execution systems are. And AI doesn't fix broken systems — it amplifies them.

Brett House

Apr 22

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