The Complete Feed

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.

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.

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.

Signal & Noise is live from Cannes Lions 2026 with Rio Longacre, Krish Raja, and Brett House. Recorded at Hearst House, this special compilation features conversations with leaders across media, advertising, and marketing on the biggest trends shaping the industry—from agency transformation and premium TV to creativity, measurement, healthcare marketing, and the future of brand building.

For weeks, reports suggested Publicis was exploring a relationship with Hightouch following its acquisition of LiveRamp. In this special Signal & Noise Signal Break, Hightouch CEO Tejas Manohar publicly confirms those discussions for the first time. Brett House, Rio Longacre, and Tejas explore what it could mean for identity, composable CDPs, AI, activation, and the future of marketing infrastructure.

Publishers create the content, build the audiences, and bear the costs—yet often capture only a fraction of the value they generate. In this Signal & Noise exclusive, Rio Longacre and Brett House sit down with Keith Petri and Rich Hyden of Viant to explore the future of publisher monetization, identity, CTV, signal quality, and programmatic advertising. The conversation examines how publishers can strengthen their position in the digital advertising ecosystem and reclaim econ

What happens when an AdTech engineer decides software isn’t ambitious enough? In this episode of Signal & Noise, Brett House and Rio Longacre speak with Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, about reviving supersonic flight, lessons from Amazon and Groupon, the future of AI, and why the biggest breakthroughs come from building hard things the world stopped believing in.

What happens when AI stops assisting consumers and starts acting on their behalf? In this episode of Signal & Noise, Rio Longacre and Brett House speak with industry analyst Karsten Weide about the future of AI-powered advertising, agentic commerce, and autonomous media buying. The conversation explores how OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Meta, and emerging AI platforms could fundamentally reshape the digital economy and the future of the open web.

The future of marketing isn't about managing more software—it's about connecting data, intelligence, and decision-making. Scott Brinker explains how AI is dissolving the boundaries between MarTech, AdTech, and enterprise operations, creating a new operating model built around context, automation, and orchestration.

In this episode of Signal & Noise, Scott McKinley joins hosts Brett House and Rio Longacre to unpack the hidden data quality crisis inside Connected TV. From identity graphs and audience targeting to authenticated users and trust in advertising, the conversation explores why bad data may be wasting billions in media spend.

The independent infrastructure era may be ending. In this "Signal Break," we unpack one of the most consequential AdTech deals in years: Publicis Groupe acquiring LiveRamp. Joined by Bob Walczak and Krish Raja, we break down what this deal really means for identity, clean rooms, publishers, UID2, systems integrators, and the future of the open internet.

What if marketing’s real problem isn’t data—but discipline? In this Signal & Noise episode, Greg Stuart (CEO, MMA) breaks down why marketing struggles to earn trust and how to fix it. From weak measurement and flawed attribution to AI’s limits, this conversation challenges the industry to shift from opinion to evidence—and finally prove real business impact.