This year The Media Leader launched the Fishbowl interview series, posing 10 revealing questions every week to the media industry’s top salespeople. The questions are drawn at random from our bank and contain some tricky posers set by the commercial chiefs themselves, but no one knows which question comes from who until the article is published.
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Emma Newman, chief revenue officer for EMEA at PubMatic, tells The Media Leader what has changed in conversations with clients over the last year and how quickly she can touch type.
Davina Barker tells The Media Leader what she would change about the industry and reveals who is the best salesperson she knows.
Jem Djemal reveals what is coming up in conversations with clients and what he hopes to be doing 10 years from now.
Richard Costa-D’sa, head of industry, media agency at Meta, tells The Media Leader about his most insightful mistake and what the business is planning to do differently in 2023.
Parul Goel tells The Media Leader what he would do if he were not in media and what he would change about the industry.
Ed Couchman reveals his musical side hustle, three qualities that make a good salesperson, and what is keeping clients up at night.
Ocean Outdoor’s chief revenue officer talks about the bravest thing he has ever done and which advertiser he would love to work with.
Dave Randall, commercial director at Future, talks about what clients are talking about this year they were not last year and what he would tell his younger self.
James Cornish, VP of international sales at Vevo explains why he thinks selling media has got harder and what he is doing about the biggest challenges facing the business this year.