Check It Out: Arielle Garcia Is The New Director Of Intelligence At Check My Ads
Garcia made waves last year when she publicly resigned her role as UM Worldwide’s chief privacy and responsibility officer.
Garcia made waves last year when she publicly resigned her role as UM Worldwide’s chief privacy and responsibility officer.
If you weren’t able to tune in to the FTC’s PrivacyCon event last week – it was a seven-hour affair, after all – then worry not. We gotchoo.
“Standard advertising services” shouldn’t include recording intimate patient-doctor conversations to help drug companies guide doctors on how to push opioids.
From clear-eyed looks at the industry’s shortcomings and conflicts of interest to prognostications that presage the next batch of conference panel talking points, you can count on these astute industry voices to drive the conversation.
How would you describe the state of privacy in the ad tech industry? “In one word: fragmented,” says Tony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab.
“It’s an open secret that the industry has challenges, and not just the challenges people talk about publicly,” says Joshua Lowcock, who recently left IPG’s UM for a role at Quad Media.
IPG is floundering. The agency holding company was roughed up in the first two quarters of 2023, and its organic revenue growth declined by 0.4%, with a 1.2% decrease in the US, according to an earnings report on Friday.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-tagonists Joshua Lowcock, a longtime leader at agency UM Worldwide, where he most recently served as global chief media officer, exited on Friday. His departure comes only a few weeks after UM’s chief privacy and responsibility officer, Arielle Garcia, left the agency, […]
When the MRC revoked its seal of approval for Nielsen’s TV ratings in 2021, it spurred a hunt for alternatives. Now, media and tech companies are debating whether MRC accreditation is even necessary.
The widening “trust gap” between consumers and the ad industry is enough to make a chief privacy officer quit. So Arielle Garcia did. She explains why.