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The Future of the Connected Customer Stack | Zack Wenthe & Adrian Bolosan | Signal & Noise LIVE at Advertising Week 2026

What happens to the enterprise marketing stack when AI becomes more than another feature—and starts changing how data, technology, people, and decisions actually work tog

AI Intelligence and Competitive Advantage | Matt Krepsik & Vas Bakopoulos | Signal & Noise LIVE at Advertising Week 2026

What happens when everyone has access to the same AI? In this special live episode of Signal & Noise, recorded in front of an audience at MCM Creative Studios during Adv

Building the Agency Operating System | Adam Woods & Amy Crowther | Signal & Noise LIVE at Advertising Week 2026

If AI can execute in seconds what agencies once billed for in hours, what should clients pay for next? Filmed live at Advertising Week 2026 at MCM Studios in New York Ci

Creative Judgment in the AI Era | Brandon Mikolaski | Signal & Noise LIVE at Advertising Week 2026

Creative Judgment in the AI Era | Brandon Mikolaski | Signal & Noise LIVE at Advertising Week 2026 As AI makes content faster and easier to produce, what makes creative

The Bid Request Has Receipts: Eric Tilbury on Clean Supply, ID-Free Buying, and the Craft of Programmatic

Programmatic advertising has spent years getting smarter about audiences. But what if the bigger problem is that buyers still don’t fully understand what they’re actually

Who Replaces Switzerland? Mathieu Roche on Rebuilding the Identity Commons

For years, LiveRamp played the role of “Switzerland” in digital advertising: a neutral identity layer connecting brands, agencies, publishers, platforms, data providers,

Wyoming's Data Center Boom: Dawson Kluesner on Economic Opportunity, Public Backlash, and the Infrastructure Behind AI

AI may live in the cloud, but the infrastructure behind it is very physical: land, power plants, transmission lines, water systems, construction crews—and communities dec

The Meme Is The Message: Gregory Kennedy on Vibes. Attention, and Building a Business After Silicon Valley

AI makes it easier to create content. Getting people to care is still the hard part. On this episode of Signal & Noise, host Rio Longacre and guest host Krish Raja sit d

Can the Open Web Survive the Al Age? Kurt Donnell on Publisher Economics, Radical Transparency, and pubOS

The open web has survived search, social media, programmatic advertising, privacy regulation, and the rise of the walled gardens. But does generative AI represent a funda

Companies Don’t Transform, People Do: Rishad Tobaccowala on Work, Agencies, and Reinvention

Few people have had a better vantage point on the transformation of advertising, technology, and work than Rishad Tobaccowala. Over a 37-year career at Publicis Groupe,

From Cash Back to Outcomes: Bryan Leach on Building Ibotta, Going Public, and Betting on Denver

What does it take to walk away from a prestigious legal career, build a technology company from scratch, take it public—and then reinvent the business along the way? In

When Content Becomes Infinite: Alex Collmer on Creative Intelligence in the AI Advertising Era

Generative AI has made it radically easier—and cheaper—to create advertising. But if every brand can suddenly produce infinite variations using the same models, what crea

The Operating System for Commerce Media: Jeffrey Cohen on Amazon Ads’ Rise, Retail Media’s Measurement Reckoning, and the Shift from Dashboards to Agents

Retail media was built on a powerful promise: connect advertising directly to transactions and finally show marketers what their media dollars produced. But as the catego

The Permission Layer: Who Told the Al It Could Do That? Richy Glassberg on Data Privacy, Consent, and Al Innovation

AI agents can retrieve, combine, analyze, infer from, and act on enormous amounts of data—often at a speed no human compliance team can match. But access to data does not

AI That People Actually Use: Zoher Karu on Personalization, Trust, and Building AI at Scale

Everyone is talking about AI. Far fewer people have spent decades actually building AI and data systems inside some of the world’s largest organizations. In this episode

AI Isn’t the Strategy: Fern Potter on Intelligent Assistance, Human Judgment, and the Future of Work

Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our generation—but according to Fern Potter, AI alone is not a strategy.In this episode of Signal & N

The Homepage Is No Longer the Front Door: Leah Nurik on AI Visibility, GEO, and the Future of Brand Discovery

For more than two decades, digital marketing revolved around a familiar goal: get people to your website. Rank higher. Earn the click. Drive the traffic. Convert the vis

The Trust Economy: Nirav Tolia on Communitas, AI, and Rebuilding the Internet Around Human Connection

What becomes valuable when artificial intelligence makes information—and misinformation—nearly limitless? According to Nextdoor CEO and Co-Founder Nirav Tolia, the answer

Austin Leonard: Awakening America’s Secret Retail Media Giant in an AI World

Dollar General might be one of the most underestimated media businesses in America. With more than 21,000 stores, over two billion transactions annually, and 75% of Amer

When Publishers Get AI Agents: Andrew Mole on Agentic Trading and the Future of Media

Programmatic advertising automated the transaction. AI may automate the negotiation. In this episode of Signal & Noise, Brett House and Rio Longacre sit down with Andrew