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Moment Maker: Abbey Thomas's Mission to Give Premium Content the Justice It Deserves 🤩
Abbey Thomas evolved from MTV's first web video to Anoki AI, revolutionizing ad breaks with multimodal analysis. She champions female mentorship while missing daughter Vali's "woo woo Friday" calls from Canada—balancing cutting-edge tech with motherhood.
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Moment Maker: Little Mouths, Big Truths👄
ATM parents reveal their kids' innocent take on careers: fancy dressing, world saving, email answering, and Lego bringing. Children's adorable misunderstandings show the charming gap between complex jobs and simplified childhood perspectives.
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Moment Maker: Tamon George's Decade-Long Journey from Startup to Award-Winning Agency 🏆
Tamon George grew his creative agency from two people to landing Google, Meta, and YouTube through cultural participation without appropriation. He debunks Cannes yacht deal myths, finds small agencies face big agency problems, and would decree universal free water.
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Merging Moment: OMG's PHd & DIRECTV Advertising
Mike Piner and Drew Groner dish on media fragmentation, DIRECTV's programmatic prowess, and the most strategic zombie apocalypse survival plan ever conceived - proving that even serious industry conversations can take delightfully unexpected detours.
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Moment Maker: Rick Gomez's Insight Behind the Future of Episodic Storytelling 📺
Rick Gomez discusses his 8-episode project "You Belong Here," exploring Kentucky through chef Rita Michael's lens. Recently back from the Austin Film Festival, he reflects on independent TV distribution challenges and the need for new mechanisms to share episodic content with audiences.
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Moment Maker: How Ami Badani Makes the Invisible Technology Behind Everything Relatable 🔌
Ami Badani journeyed from NYC investment banking to Silicon Valley tech storytelling, landing at Arm as CMO during the AI revolution. She champions the invisible computer chips powering everything humans touch while believing AI will create unprecedented societal good for the next generation.
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Moment Maker: Gary Williams Jr.'s Formula for Marketing That Includes Instead of Excludes 🫂
Gary Williams Jr. built Creative Theory Agency on truth-telling storytelling and marketing WITH communities instead of FOR them. After 10 years, he believes AI will make humanity the most valuable commodity while championing universal creativity and responsible innovation that preserves our soul.
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Inside Moment: How Empathy Created a Movement in Women's Athletics👟
Women's sports leaders challenge brands to seize the massive opportunity they're missing. This movement, driven by wealth transfer and empathy from shared friction experiences, demonstrates why investing in safe community spaces unlocks unlimited growth potential.
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Moment Maker: Craig Chinn's Philosophy on the Right Ad at the Right Time⏰
Craig Chinn's accidental digital advertising career spans automotive to Microsoft to Samsung to TiVo, evolving with programmatic since the late 90s. He challenges industry cord-cutting bias and believes that assuming positive intent could make the world better.
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Moment Maker: Gina Grillo's Journey from MTV Junior to Ad Club Community Builder 🛠️
Gina Grillo journeyed from MTV to Y&R to the Ad Club, building NYC's advertising community while balancing AI innovation with creativity-first values. She believes the industry has a short memory about people and finds her best relaxation at beach parties.
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Moment Maker: Raja Rajamannar's Blueprint for Creating Experiences Money Can't Buy 💳
MasterCard's Raja Rajamannar went from accidental marketer to revolutionary CMO, shifting from storytelling to "story making," where consumers experience the story themselves. He creates passion-point experiences money can't buy.
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