Unruly’s Jess King ‘thrilled’ to advise Brand Safety Institute’s new curriculum
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
Unruly’s CCO, Phil Townend, on embracing programmatic at ATS
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 announces Christina Van Tassell to its board as Director
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
Sarah Wood makes the 2018 Tech 500 Power List
The tech PR agency Tyto recently announced their Tech 500 Power List 2018, revealing the most influential individuals in the UK tech sector. The list aims to highlight the fact that small company leaders and independent tech evangelists are outranking representatives of large tech firms when it comes to being heard. Tyto compiled the list by collaborating with a communications research firm to develop a methodology that identifies and tracks tech influencers across twenty sub-sectors and nine influencer groups in the UK. Unruly’s co-founder Sarah Wood made the list alongside influencers from TechCrunch, Blogger, Twitter, The BBC and Facebook. Head here to see the full list.
Unruly shortlisted for 3 GroupM awards
We’re excited to announce that we have been shortlisted in three categories at the upcoming GroupM awards. The awards we are up for are: Best Media Sales Person Most Innovative Media Best Engagement Media The awards are set to take place in Singapore during GroupM’s year end party on the evening of the 14th of December. Last week our Singapore team had a great time at the GroupM Malaysia Supply Summit, where our MD of Asia, Vijay Anand Kunduri, spoke about the value of context, and how premium media drives engagement and action. Best of luck to everyone who has been nominated and fingers crossed!
Elena Corchero is a TechWomen100 winner!
We are excited to announce that Elena Corchero has made it into the TechWomen100 list . The Techwomen100 awards aim to showcase remarkable women within the technology sector covering a wide range of roles. Each year they publish a list of the top 100 women working in tech in the UK. Not only did Elena make it into the TechWomen100 list, but we also had three other Unrulies who were shortlisted; Gel Goldsby, Jade Vincent and Mariya Petkova. We’d like to say a huge congratulations to all the women who were shortlisted, and to Elena who made the list alongside innovative women from companies including Deloitte, Barclays, BP, IBM, Paypal and TFL. Check out the full list here.
Unruly helps Piccolo feed refugee families over Christmas
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
Mikael Englund joins Unruly as Nordics Commercial Director
Unruly is excited to announce the appointment of Mikael Englund in the role of Nordics Commercial Director. Englund will report to Jason Trout, EMEA MD and be responsible for heading up sales teams and build relationships with agency partners across the Nordics. Commenting on his new role, Englund said: “I’m so excited to join Unruly. It has such a great story for advertisers, from its unique emotional testing and targeting capabilities, to its exclusive relationships with premium publishers. My mission is clear: we’re aiming to become the leading video marketplace for advertisers and agencies by delivering awesome campaign results, superb service and an easy to buy solution.” Englund joins Unruly from mobile advertising specialists, Widespace, where he was Chief Growth Officer. During his time at Widespace he held
Python Data Science Essentials republished
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
