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Modern TV Strategy in Practice: A Conversation with Paul Her-Sturm of Hawthorne Advertising

I’m joined today by the Senior Vice President of Digital Media at Hawthorne Advertising, Paul Her-Sturm. We discuss blending linear and connected TV with smart measurement and localized targeting. Paul breaks down how his team approaches multi-market complexity, why CTV has become a true performance driver, and how layered attribution, smart geo-targeting, and the strategic use of AI are reshaping how marketers plan and optimize.

Mario Diez, CEO & Co-Founder, Peer39

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Dani Mariano, CEO, RAZORFISH

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Jay Wolff, CRO, Kerv

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Iain Thomas, Co-Founder, Sounds Fun

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Purva Gupta, CEO, Lily AI

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Michon Martin, CEO, R&R Partners

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Marco Matos, CEO & Co-Founder, Adora

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Main Character Energy: Building Brands’ Gen Z Follows

With over half of the Gen Z population now shopping inside social apps — and Gen Alpha, raised on ad-free streaming and algorithmic curation, rarely encountering traditional ads at all — the rules of brand engagement are due for a reset.

The Next Wave of Performance: Redefining CTV, AI, and Cross-Screen Advertising

As TV, digital, and mobile continue to converge, performance marketing is entering a new era — one powered by CTV, AI, and cross-screen connectivity. In this conversation, Jay Freedman, VP of Sales at Viant, explores how connected TV has evolved from a branding play to a measurable performance channel and what this shift means for marketers building strategies across every screen.

Jim Daily, CEO, OpenWeb

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Leveraging Moments to Create Moments

This panel will share lessons from a Panera, Digitas, and Variety influencer-driven campaign around one of pop culture’s biggest nights with fashion, style, and croissants.

The Checkout Moment: Where Trust Meets Transaction

This interview explores how the most overlooked part of the consumer journey — the point of payment — can become a powerful lever for building trust and loyalty through seamless, secure experiences consumers can count on.

Glenn Ginsburg, President, QYOU Media

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Creative Risk Meets Real Results: Fidium’s Journey

Join the senior marketers from Fidium and creative hot-shop Bray & Co as they share how their partnership has in a short time produced record results for the Fidium business, all centered around a creative approach that broke the category mold and produced one of the most effective campaigns of the year.

From Oops to OMG; How a TikTok Mishap Sparked Sweet Loren’s Success

Join Loren Brill Castle, founder and CEO of Sweet Loren’s, in conversation with digital media coordinator Ryan Weitz to explore the brand’s swift pivots and creative approach to a recent TikTok naming mishap that resulted in millions of views, a massive sales jump and huge increase in followers. It’s a Sweet Loren’s + RYAN collab.

A Conversation With Hit-Boy

Grammy-winning producer Hit-Boy opens up about his newfound creative freedom, the upcoming projects, and how artists can stay ahead as music and culture evolve.

Building a Hospitality Brand for the Long Haul

Today’s dining and hospitality space sees thinner profit margins, decreased diner presence, and skyrocketing costs, making it more challenging to not only establish a standout presence, but build a noteworthy brand for the long haul.

Brand Performance: The Future of Advertising

Smart brand marketers know that in today’s data-driven landscape, emerging platforms such as mobile apps and new AI tools are becoming essential for modern advertisers– and will only be more prevalent in the future.

October 9, 2030

The media landscape is evolving faster than ever, reshaping how audiences discover, consume, and interact with content.

Unveiling: The Creator Economy Map

Media Cartographer / provocateur Evan Shapiro and Creator Pied Piper Shira Lazar are joined on stage by one of the founders of creator platform and film distributor, FilmHub, to unveil their Map of The Creator Economy – sizing the landscape of the next generation of Media.

Billy Hartman, Head of Revenue, ART19

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Building Real-Time Brands with Data-Driven Precision

In today’s real-time world, driving long-term brand perception shifts requires designing creative campaigns for media optimization – where every new act of creation becomes an act of data insight creation.

Scott Klass, CMO, SoundStack

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Elizabeth Maxson, CMO, Contentful

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Katy Hornaday, CEO, BarkleyOKRP

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Justin Thomas-Copeland, CEO, 4As

Recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2025 and Powered by ART19, AW360 Live features interviews with today’s changemakers across marketing, media, tech, and culture.

Media Revolution: Redefining Growth Through Channel Diversification

Scott Kramer, VP of Growth at AS Beauty, and Edward Benedito, VP of Growth Marketing at Upside, join AppLovin’s Meagan Martino to discuss how and why brands and apps alike are expanding their media horizons and exploring new channels such as in-app advertising.

Terry Crews: All About Super Serious

Known for standout roles like Terry Jeffords in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, President Camacho in Idiocracy and Hale Caesar in The Expendables, Terry Crews will take to the stage to dive into details surrounding one of his newest ventures — Super Serious, an innovative creative agency — as well as discussing his distinctive fusion of entertainment and advertising across media platforms. Don’t miss it!

Curiosity, Creativity, and Optimism with Yara Shahidi

Join producer and actress Yara Shahidi, host of SiriusXM’s “The Optimist Project,” and co-founder of 7th Sun Productions, for an insightful conversation on the power of authentic voices and building trust and personal connections with diverse audiences.

Rock Your Profile with LinkedIn

At LinkedIn, we want to connect more people to opportunities by empowering them to use LinkedIn to tell their unique stories.

Industry Journalists Tell All…

Want to know how journalists decide which stories or byline articles to run and how you should shape a ‘pitch’ to give you a shot at success?

How Soundtracking is Changing the Game for Brands

With content moving from images to video, horizontal to vertical, in native and social environments — soundtracking is now changing the game for brands whose content strategy is central to their marketing plans.

Are We All Media Owners?

Today, traditional ads are easier than ever to escape, but advertising itself isn’t going away.

What Broadcasters Want

With the TV commissioning landscape changing, broadcasters are increasingly turning to advertisers to fund original, editorially led content. What content are they looking for in 2024?

Audio Marketing Learning Path

This learning path is designed to help you learn directly from the people currently working in the AI and automation industry.

Strategic Storytelling With .dash

Watch Danielle Dardashti, Founder of .dash Branded Content giving an AWLearn Masterclass on reaching business goals through the science, art and craft of strategic storytelling.

The Phoenix Economy With Axios

Felix Salmon talks about how the business landscape has changed for good and why embracing a new, unpredictable and often volatile world can be good for business.

Brand x Community With Brandon B

Brandon B, the UK’s biggest viral content creator, shares his advice on building relationships between brands and creator communities and how it can lead to business growth…when done right!

AI For Marketers With Google

Google’s Managing Director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, talks AI for marketers including top tips on harnessing the power of AI in your marketing activity today.