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We are excited to announce that we made it onto Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in the US list again!   Ad Age Best Places to Work 2019—produced in partnership with Latitude Research—identifies 50 workplaces that get the job done: 25 companies with 200 or fewer employees and 25 companies with more than 200 employees. Find out more. At Unruly we pride ourselves on having a unique, nurturing and inclusive company culture that celebrates both personal and professional growth across all our global offices. To celebrate this huge achievement we spoke to Unrulies from across the world to find out what Unruly’s culture means to them. “Unruly’s culture is like nothing I have ever experienced and it’s really great to see how it continues today. People gravitate

Listen to the ‘Identity, the quest for an open & alternative ID continues’ panel from our Trust Talks event in London. Moderated by our Programmatic Lead, Paul Gubbins, the panel looks at where we are as an industry in the quest for an alternative and open ID. The panelists challenge the idea that life post-cookie will challenge visibility for both buyers and sellers, unless they operate within walled gardens. They also explore ID portability, and how initiatives from bodies such as the IAB Tech Lab will tackle areas of concern such as digital ID management, privacy legislation and the explosive growth of connected devices. Check out recordings from the other Trust Talks panels by clicking here.

Our Futurist, Elena Corchero, highlights what she’s looking forward to seeing next month at CES 2019! Every year the biggest and most innovative tech companies from across the globe descend on Las Vegas for CES. This global stage has hosted new tech breakthroughs for the past 50 years and CES 2019 is going to be no different.  I’ll be heading to Las Vegas with some of the Unruly team to investigate what’s happening, and hunt down those new technologies that are set to change consumer behaviour and disrupt the advertising industry. Voices with screens, screens with voices At CES 2019 I’m expecting to see the relationship between voice assistants and displays continue to grow. This is a trend that emerged in 2018 with the launch of the Google

In our next A-Z of adtech we are looking at how culture plays heavily on how ads are received by audiences around the world. Our Insights team have analyzed this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert to find out how it resonated with viewers in the UK. Check out the advert below if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet. Emotional Analysis Portraying Sir Elton John’s career in reverse drove a strong emotional response amongst UK viewers, led by remarkable warmth, happiness and nostalgia. Allowing viewers to follow Elton’s journey touched many. This was linked back to Christmas by reaching the origin of a young boy receiving a piano from his mother on Christmas day, giving new meaning to how much a gift can do for someone; ‘Some

Fancy yourself an Adtech whizz? Prove it with Unruly’s Adtech Quiz of the Year! Make your way through 10 gruelling adtech questions and see if you can beat the high score! Ready? On your marks, get set, go! [interaction id=”5c055d86f0a9048cc9646b87″]   Need to brush up on your adtech knowledge? Head to our blog.

This week we sat down with Tom Johnson to find out what it takes to be a Senior Software Developer at Unruly. Q: Hi Tom, introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what you do at Unruly. I’m Tom, and I’m a Senior Software Developer at Unruly. It’s a wider role than it is at many places, and covers a number of steps. Firstly I find out what people ‘really’ want when they ask for something. I then work out how to make it work most effectively within our systems. Next I write the code to make it happen, and finally I check that it does both what we intended, and what our users need. I like to think of my role as being a software developer