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The Brand Safety Institute (BSI) recently named Unruly’s Jess King as one of the industry leaders chosen as founding members of the BSI Editorial Board. The board will help design the brand safety curriculum for BSI’s accreditation program for corporate executives. In the Unrulyverse, King is Senior Product Manager and heads up the dedicated brand safety team behind UnrulyX Shield. Talking about her appointment, King said: “I am thrilled to be joining the BSI Editorial Board as a founding member alongside a group of incredible industry experts. I am excited to see how we can work together to help design the BSI brand safety curriculum and accelerate how we share knowledge and expertise.” The BSI editorial board includes senior executives focusing on brand safety and related issues from

At ATS Singapore 2018, Unruly CCO Phil Townend took part in a panel focussed on how the industry can embrace programmatic and thrive. The panel discussed what the industry needs to do to support and encourage independent technology solutions, in a bid to promote a healthy and diverse ecosystem. They spoke about how possible this is, in the current industry environment, and what spaces will we begin see opportunities and innovations emerge. Phil was joined by Russell Young, Managing Director, APAC, Sojern, Mitch Waters, GM, AU/NZ, The Trade Desk and Yean Cheong, Head of Programmatic Asia Pacific, Cadreon. The panel was moderated by Jodie Collins, MD, RE/digital. Check out the original article here.

Unruly, the video marketplace owned by News Corp, has today announced the appointment of Christina Van Tassell to its board as a Director. Van Tassell is the Chief Financial Officer of Dow Jones. She joined the company in November 2017 and is responsible for the preparation and reporting of the company’s financial performance, providing strategic guidance and analytical insight to support business performance, forecasting, treasury, taxation and governance. Commenting on this appointment, Norm Johnston, Global CEO, Unruly, said: “I’m thrilled that Christina is joining the Unruly board. We worked together closely during my time at GroupM. Her experience at Dow Jones and Xaxis brings some formidable premium programmatic industry experience to the table, and I look forward to seeing how her expertise can help guide Unruly through its

Unruly will support the ‘One for One’ initiative by baby food brand Piccolo; donating media across its marketplace of premium publishers to raise awareness of the campaign. Last year 15,000 refugees and asylum seekers experienced destitution, including pregnant women and new mothers. Piccolo supports the amazing work that the British Red Cross do across the UK to help feed these families over the Christmas period with its ‘One for One’ food donation campaign. Throughout December, Piccolo will donate one infant meal to the British Red Cross for every Piccolo product bought in Tesco stores nationwide, to support BRC’s work with destitute refugee families across the country. Commenting on the campaign, Cat Gazzoli, Piccolo founder, said “As a mother who has the luxury of not needing to worry about

Continuing the tradition of Unrulies writing books, Unruly Data Scientist Alberto Boschetti has recently re-published his 2015 book Python Data Science Essentials. This practitioner’s guide covering essential data science principles, tools and techniques, written by Boschetti and his co-writer Luca Massaron has just seen its third edition hit the shelves. Perfect for data scientists, data analysts or anyone who wants to grasp what data science is, the book provides practical examples to help readers succeed in data science operations. It also covers detailed examples and large hybrid datasets to help you grasp essential statistical techniques for data collection, data munging and analysis, visualisation and reporting activities. Readers will also gain an understanding of advanced data science topics such as machine learning algorithms, distributed computing, tuning predictive models, and