Five Ways to Win in Advertising’s Outcomes Era

By focusing on these five areas, advertisers can unlock the full potential of the open internet. In so doing, they can make every impression, every signal, and every dollar deliver real business value. 

Publicis on Shaping the Sports-Culture Connection at the AWPlaymaker Awards

In this Q&A, part of the AWPlaymaker Awards spotlight series, Publicis shares how it’s guiding brands to find their authentic voice within culture — from aligning with the right athletes and creators to measuring impact beyond impressions, and shaping the future of modern fandom in a rapidly evolving media landscape.

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.

Do you know the REAL Gen Z?

Gen Z is rewriting the rules of brand engagement, yet many marketers continue to rely on stereotypes.

Nicolas Marullo, President & CEO, Cinco

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.

How to Capture & Engage In-Market Buyers Before Competitors

The MQL isn’t dead – it’s just incomplete. Today’s most effective B2B marketers are supplementing traditional inbound with proactive ABM motions, reading a richer mix of buying signals to reach prospects before they raise their hand.

October 9, 2030

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

Under the Spotlight

In our ‘Under the Spotlight’ series we invite top business leaders for an honest, no holds barred conversation in a relaxed and intimate setting.

Creators, Culture, and the AI Challenge

In this fireside chat, we’ll explore the intersection of creators, brands, and AI, unpacking what authenticity looks like when technology can mimic creativity, how cultural movements are sparked in the digital age, and why the future of brand building depends on collaborating with creators who can turn audiences into communities.

I am Different

An open and honest conversation that pushes past surface-level inclusion and explores how we can truly shift narratives when we question what we show, how we show it and who gets to tell the story.

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.

Social Media for Social Good: Can Kindness Scale?

Hunter Prosper, the storyteller behind Stories from a Stranger, joins fellow creators and brand leaders to explore how emotionally resonant, human-centered content can break through the noise—and why advertisers should take notice.

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.

AI Founder Interview: Vivek Vaidya

The Rise of Agentic Marketing: Learn about the future of agentic AI and how it will transform marketing from a pioneer in enterprise data & AI – Vivek Vaidya.

The AI Reality Check

A journalist, an AI lawyer, a PwC partner, and an AI startup founder walk into Advertising Week — and cut through the noise.

CMO Corner: How to Capture Consumer Attention in a Cost-Conscious Economy

In today’s volatile economic climate marked by inflation, rising interest rates, and tariffs, consumer behaviors are rapidly evolving. Shoppers are seeking more value, and they’re increasingly selective about where they spend their money. Learn how these leading brands attract customers, drive sales, and build long-lasting loyalty, and how you can too.

Beyond Spanish: the transcultural power of Top Creators

Join digital stars Chingu Amiga, Paco de Miguel, and Nico Botero from “Los Chicaneros”, alongside Pati Giemza (CEO of StayOnSocial, a leading talent management agency for creators in LATAM), for a dynamic conversation on creating content that speaks to the heart of Latin America and captivates the Hispanic market in the U.S. Discover how their cultural authenticity, bold storytelling, and savvy content strategies are breaking borders, building loyal communities, and inspiring cross-cultural connections.

How agencies can thrive in the age of generative AI

Generative AI allows agencies and advertisers to amplify their creative vision like never before. In this session, industry experts will discuss how agencies can leverage generative AI in their daily workflows to maximize results, and how they can become leaders in the space while building toward the future.

Changemaker: From Advertising Change to World Change

Transformational change isn’t just possible—it’s probable according to Jacqueline Corbelli—pioneering AdTech founder, UN changemaker, and author of Changemaker: A Modern Playbook for Creating Personal Impact and Transformational Change.

From a Patterned Past toward a Modern Future: How to Reintroduce a Heritage Brand

With roots tracing back to an initial investment of $500 back in 1982, Vera Bradley has long been known for its iconic patterns and deeply loyal fanbase. But in a rapidly shifting cultural landscape, how does a heritage brand evolve to remain relevant and still resonate with its original generation of fandom perennially?

The Agency Model of the Future

As the advertising industry continues to evolve, brands are increasingly looking for ways to push creative boundaries while achieving measurable business growth. Creative and media agencies have operated separately and together. What works best??

The State and Future of Media

A discussion on the state and future of journalism, during a time of unprecedented disruption from political shifts, funding challenges, and the growing impact of AI.

Gen Alpha: the secret to unlocking the next generation

Born entirely in the 21st century, Gen Alpha is the largest generation ever and the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital technology, interactive media, and connection via social media from day one.

Leading Transformation at the Speed of Culture: CMOs on What Actually Works

Modern consumer expectations don’t wait for enterprise transformation timelines. While traditional change management moves in years and quarters, cultural shifts happen in weeks and hours, creating an unprecedented challenge for today’s most iconic brands. A conversation with marketing executives from Alaska Airlines, General Motors, Brooks Running, and goop, all of whom are rewriting the playbook for enterprise transformation in the AI era.

Byron Allen in Conversation with Bill Carter

As the traditional players decamp from late-night television, comedian turned media mogul Byron Allen is seizing the opportunity, forging a new business model for the time period–one that promises to be a win-win for all involved.

Beyond Buzz: Immersive Storytelling and The Lyft Effect

Lyft Ads isn’t just connecting top brands with relevant moments – we’re creating them with exclusive, buzz-generating solutions that bridge digital to IRL, deliver product innovation to reach the right audiences and can only be found on Lyft.

Game On: The Future of Fandom

In this conversation, Adrian Sutherland and Jeremi Gorman will unpack how displaced fans, shifting loyalties, women’s sports, and even the rise of athletes over celebrities are changing the playbook for marketers.

Moments That Matter: Building Brand Trust Across Every Touchpoint

Connection today is built in the moments that matter—across screens, shelves, and shared culture. This conversation explores how brands are creating emotionally resonant, consistent experiences that inspire trust and loyalty, meeting consumers where they are—from retail shelves to digital screens.

Doja Cat: The Business Behind The Brand

Today, the world’s bigger stars are no longer just entertainers, but multimillion or even billion dollar brands themselves, as meticulously managed as the media conglomerates that power them.

Transformation With Integrity

A candid, future-forward session where Horizon Media’s founder and visionary Bill Koenigsberg and Bob Lord, President of Horizon Media Holdings, unpack the future of media, technology, and business transformation.

The ROI Revolution: Moving B2B Marketing from Vanity to Value

78% of CMOs state proving ROI has become more important in the last two years. But as sales cycles grow more complex, traditional attribution models built for B2C often miss the mark. Faced with mounting pressure to show the impact of every campaign, marketers need clarity on where and how to invest to drive tangible revenue impact.

Passion to Performance: Unlocking the Power of Sports, Fandom, and Measurement

Sports are a key stronghold for engaged, appointment-based viewing —and with that comes unmatched opportunities for brands. We’ll unpack how advertisers are tapping into the emotional intensity of fandom, using advanced measurement tools to quantify impact across platforms for full-funnel outcomes. From real-time engagement metrics to breakthrough attribution strategies, discover how sports marketing is evolving to deliver both cultural relevance and business results.

State of the CTV: The Intersection of Platforms & Performance

From shifting audience behaviors to the latest advancements in measurement, this session will explore how streaming, social, and data are shaping the way brands connect with viewers — and how success is being defined in this new era.

The Ochocinco Brand Playbook

From electrifying fans on the field to building a powerful presence as a creator and media brand, Chad Ochocinco has redefined what it means to be an athlete in today’s sports economy.

Woj on the Future of College Sports

St. Bonaventure’s GM Adrian Wojnarowski sits down with Pat O’Toole, CMO of Unleashed Brands, to unpack the future of college sports in this era defined by NIL, athlete creators, and the ever-changing collegiate landscape.

Unrivaled Partnerships That Move Culture

Success in today’s crowded sports economy is about more than logos on jerseys, it’s about tapping into cultural moments that deepen fan connections and drive business growth.

Take Control: Steer Automation to Performance Outcomes

Right now, marketing is in the midst of a seismic shift driven by AI. Executives overwhelmingly see automation as the key to future growth, and most marketers believe it will make them better at their jobs.

Private Equity View of Media, Advertising, MarTech

Join us for an illuminating discussion on the Private Equity view of the state of the media and advertising deal market, current investment themes, and AI’s impact on the industry with two of the industry’s leading investors, Lucy Dobrin from Providence Equity and Eric Franchi from Aperium Ventures moderated by Richard McDermott Managing Director Rosenblatt Securities media and advertising investment banking group.

Brand Building in the New Sports Economy

From creator-led ventures to breakthrough performance products and established household names, the business of sports has never been more diverse—or more dynamic.

Announcing The Future is Female Award Winners! 

Announcing The Future is Female Award Winners!  Introducing Advertising Week New York’s 2025 Future is Female Award recipients! In partnership with Adform, we are humbled to be able to recognize and honor…

Built for What’s Next: Inside Horizon’s AI-Native Marketing Engine

As AI transforms marketing, Horizon Media is building, not buying, the future.
In this conversation, Domenic Venuto unveils how Blu, Horizon’s proprietary AI-native connected marketing platform, is redefining how brands plan, optimize, and measure campaigns in real time.

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.

Stacy Newhuis, VP of Demand, 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.

Bringing Audiences to Life

A huge challenge in modern advertising is truly understanding your audience beyond static data.

Making Women’s Sports Easier to Buy

In this session, Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment will unveil their newest solution to alleviate women’s sports growth challenges: a business intelligence tool powered by Precise and Mondo Metrics to support brands and buyers in making informed investment decisions in the category.

From Startup to Super Bowl: How Cirkul Delivered Winning Results

In 2025, Cirkul, a rapidly growing company that transforms how beverages are developed, distributed and enjoyed, leveraged its debut Super Bowl commercial as an opportunity to elevate the brand to a new national level after staying purposely quiet the past few years while the company focused on keeping up with growing demand.

Worldbuilding That Scales

Most rebrands die in the handoff. Stunning decks get approved — then fall apart in the wild.

AI Needs a Human Layer

AI is rapidly reshaping marketing, but without human grounding it risks sameness, eroded trust, and poor decisions.

Making Experiences Go Viral

Meet the extraordinary community builders and creators of viral event sensations that have broken through the noise, garnering global attention with billions of views and millions of event attendees.

How to Perform in the Performance Era with Brand

Marketers and brand leaders know the industry has become addicted to short-term performance metrics like Last Click and ROAS — but those numbers rarely capture the full story. In this session, Mike Menkes, Group SVP at Analytic Partners, will share ROI Genome® insights that reveal why the most successful brands are rebalancing toward strategies that connect brand in order to drive performance.

How Brands Grow on Reddit over Time

In today’s challenging market, brand success depends on investing in meaningful conversations with consumers to shape your message and understand the consumer’s needs.

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.

Insight to Impact: Storytelling, Scale & AI at Apply Digital

Most brands struggle with storytelling not because they lack creativity, but because they skip the step that matters most: insight. In this conversation, Lauren Milne of Apply Digital will dive into how true storytelling begins with digging deep, understanding audience needs (sometimes before they even know them).

Building World-Class Brand Experiences

Adam Charles has spent 30 years bringing some of the world’s most ambitious events to life — from fashion shows and live broadcasts to global sporting ceremonies and brand experiences for top companies.

Beyond Influence: Building Cultural Capital

Discover how creator-led content is driving more than inspiration, it’s delivering real business results. Sarah Bachman and Stacy Carpenter reveal how culturally relevant storytelling and interactive ad experiences are transforming audience connection into sales growth. Don’t miss the live social activation that brings it all to life on stage.

The Peripheral Vision: See What’s Next for Local Advertising

Amazon Ads reveals new research on how local streaming trends align with purchase intent across the U.S. Unpack how neighborhood-level data—from what shows are trending to what people are shopping for—can inform smarter targeting and creative for SMB campaigns.

The Business of Funny: Smosh’s 20-Year Evolution in Digital Media

Creator-led with a loyal global audience, Smosh’s ability to expand to new platforms, meet its audience where it is, foster the new generation of comedic talent, and tap into cultural trends has made it one of the most enduring names in digital entertainment.

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.

Brand Values Must Be Unshakable

From divestment to investment, from boycotts to unwavering support, one thing is clear: consumers are tired of trying to deduce what brands stand for and just want clarity so they can make their own decisions.

Beyond Retail: Innovation in Commerce Media with Marriott, Publicis and Adobe

In this session, Marriott, Adobe and Publicis Sapient will unpack how their combined strengths—Real-Time CDP Collaboration, Adobe’s clean room solution and part of its wider customer data management offering, Marriott’s Travel Media Network and the services and strategy expertise from Publicis Sapient empower companies to activate commerce media in a simple yet differentiated way that drives business growth and sustained value.

Creative that Lasts: Making the Most of Every Impression

In a time of shrinking budgets and sky-high expectations, marketers are under pressure to deliver better creative that goes the distance — breaking through with impact, clicks, and sustaining them over longer periods of time.

The AI Dividend

Join us to hear how NVIDIA and media leaders are driving real business success with data-driven AI.

Lift and Mix: What Happens When Sales Lift Meets Market Mix?

Walk away with practical tips for weaving publisher-level insights into your own MMM strategy and learn how greater transparency in measurement can build stronger brand-publisher relationships that lead to real, quicker, measurable impact.

Beyond the Cart: Retail Media Goes Omnichannel

Retail media networks are maturing from single-channel advertising solutions to comprehensive marketing platforms, fundamentally transforming how brands connect with consumers.

Hollywood & Mind: Unbothered Mondays Live With Omarion

Join Cathy Applefeld Olson, founder of Hollywood & Mind and entertainment industry journalist, in conversation with Omarion, Grammy-nominated multiplatinum singer, songwriter, actor, author and pop culture phenomenon.

NextGen Video: Where Attention Fuels Growth

As Carat prepares to bring to market the industry’s largest ever attention study measuring NextGen Video advertising, join us for a conversation on the short and long-term brand and sales impact of video advertising, alongside IKEA.

Sports and Streaming: Industry Leaders Share Their Playbooks

With the race to own more sports rights and the most coveted match-ups, streaming has become the new battleground for attention in the television landscape. Top leaders in this space share their gameplans and perspectives on the landscape, ad tech, brand opportunities and future.

Independence, Creativity and Innovation: A Masterclass on Modern Leadership

In this candid conversation, hosted by Advertising Week partner podcast creator, Katie Kempner (Perspectives with Katie Kempner), top CEOs from across brands, advertising and media will share the most important lessons they’ve learned about leading through a lens of creativity, innovation and independence.

Announcing the AWNewYork 2025 Future is Female Shortlist

The Future is Female Shortlist 2025 is here!   In partnership with Adform, we’re proud to unveil the remarkable women who made this year’s Advertising Week New York shortlist. These trailblazers were recognized…

Meet Ollie, the OtterBox Mascot

OtterBox announced their brand mascot Ollie, a fun-loving otter, had gone missing. The brand put out an SOS on Instagram and encouraged OtterBox fans to join in the search via social media in the “Find Ollie” sweepstakes.

Why SPO Is the Next Big Opportunity in CTV

Remember that SPO is an ongoing process – you’ll want to regularly review performance metrics, adjust bids and budgets based on performance, and test new inventory sources and partners.

Announcing the AWNewYork 2025 Future is Female Judges!

Future is Female Judges Are Here—And They’re Absolutely Incredible! We’re beyond thrilled to reveal this year’s powerhouse panel of Future is Female judges! In partnership with Adform, we’ve assembled an extraordinary group…

Your New Favorite Show is on YouTube

This era won’t be defined by commercial breaks or rented space alongside this new wave of entertainment — it will be about helping co-create it.

Creative Ambition is a Business Strategy

Instead of asking “what’s the minimum we can do to get this out the door?”—ask “what’s the sharpest, most emotionally resonant idea we can build a world around for our brand?”

The Attention Advantage: How Smarter Measurement Drives Results

Advertisers today are navigating changes. The explosion of short-form video and Connected TV (CTV), the rise of AI-generated content and the fragmentation of platforms have made it harder to build reach, ensure quality and prove media value.

Agentic AI Is Reshaping SaaS—and Marketers Need a Game Plan

SaaS isn’t going away tomorrow, but its dominance is already under pressure. What’s coming next isn’t a new app. It’s a new paradigm. And the companies that embrace it early won’t just stay competitive. They’ll redefine what it means to compete.