Carl Fremont is Global Media Director for Digitas, where he leads a department that has become one of the top buyers and strategists of digital media responsible for developing and executing the media, events, sponsorships, and partnerships that drive clients' acquisition and branding efforts. He oversees clients that include American Express, Delta, Mead Johnson, Mars, Kraft, Sears, Aflac, Goodyear and AstraZeneca.
Julie Bailey Blanche is Associate Director, Marketing, at Digitas, where she has worked with Aflac, AT&T, Stop & Shop, and others, specializing in the digital and B2B space. She has extensive expertise in strategic planning skills and leads work across all capabilities: marketing, creative, technology, account planning and media. Recently, Bailey Blanche was named by DMNews as one of the top 30 under 30 marketers for her work within the direct, database and interactive marketing industry.
Description
Television viewership and direct response television commercials are far from dead. However advances in online video production and distribution, and the ability to embed interactivity into it is taking Direct Response Interactive Video from strategic experiment to strategic imperative for advertisers. Join Julie Blanche and Carl Fremont from Digitas as they provide an overview of the trends behind this evolution and the requirements for making it work - including content development and production, media planning and content distribution, technology to enable interactivity and analytics, etc. They will also provide the latest learning in the space by bringing forth real case studies and the latest learnings from the Vivaki Pool.