Cosplaying Cassandra at the Mindshare global conference in Valencia (at least I think it was there anyway) circa 2015. My choice of images left a lot to be desired but I think the predictions have held up pretty well.
Introducing the last website I'll ever make... again
I was talking to Gemini the other day. My eldest overheard me and said 'God, dad, it sounded like you were trying to raise yet another Modha child...'
Delighted to be on the ASI podcast again, in the run up to the conference in Copenhagen where lots of lovely research people will meet up to discuss what they've been up to. Lively debate on statistical vs machine modelling, and some great deadpan moments from the legendary Josh Chasin.
Why selling eyeballs was OK. Until it wasn't.
Not a Metal band, but an attempt to explain why Team Coax and Team IP are going to have to work closer together, and understand each other better, if we are to help TV make its transition from selling audiences to delivering outcomes.
First ever appearance on the Media Leader podcast, talking about how Lantern will bring outcome measurement to TV. Was quite nervous but had fun in the end.
Me being interviewed on Beet.TV about TV Outcome measurement in the UK - where it's going and why we're doing it.
Me trying to explain the basics of outcome measurement for broadcasters in two minutes.
Presentation on why TV needs outcome measurement, what we're doing about it in the UK with Lantern, and some pointers on how other markets can do the same.
Kate Waters and I presenting the Pricing Power work we've been developing with a range of people including the brilliant Simeon Duckworth.
Explaining why the UK broadcasters have been working together on outcome measurement, and why they needed a Lantern to do it.
This is meant to be a demo of how to get slide presentations embedded in my site, using a template that invokes Reveal.js
Demonstration of building slides from Markdown - this is an example of the text you would actually write, where the other link shows you how that renders as a slide presentation.
Over Christmas I decided to dig out old articles and speeches etc and put them online. For fun, I did it in Quarto, with an automated CI/CD pipeline. Here's a description of how...
My first visit to, and first presentation at the ASI Conference, in 2023.
Presentation at the Entertainment Data Science conference in 2022
The lemniscate. That funny infinity symbol on Apple Music, hides a model that feels like it's tuned just right. But how do you engineer for empathy?
Paying to advertise is now as much about buying the targeting signal as it is the space in front of someone's eyeballs. But how will that play out over the next few years and what's a content owner to do?
Explanation of how I built a version of my website in 2021 using Hugo.
Piece on how I used systematically to scan various sites/podcasts to gather useful information on the industry.
Snippets from Tim Harford's book on the perils of intellectual tidiness.
Notes on and snippets from Ben Horowitz' book about management and orgs.
Somewhat telegraphic notes about 'Black Box Thinking'
Once you're locked-in to using an app, it can be a miserable place to be.
No-one cares about dishwasher content online, but some people pretend to.
Short piece on the how Facebook will always put the use of user emotions like guilt ahead of the needs of content owners.
How much of a hypocrite am I really?
How much should you bundle targeting signals, and how?
Early ruminations on the 'openness' of AMP
Speech for the WPP Fellowship Twentieth Anniversary Dinner at the Tower of London
