Paul Bannister (Raptive)

In this episode, we speak with Paul Bannister, Chief Strategy Officer of CafeMedia—the world's largest ad management service that reaches 195M US unique visitors every month. Many in the industry follow Paul for his thought leadership, clarity, insight, and yes... some highly fun and topical tweets.

Tune in as Paul shares his thoughts on:

• How he got started in the ad tech industry
• The future of publishing beyond the third-party cookie
• His centrist approach to user privacy on the web
• Whether ChatGPT is going to put us out of work (tl;dr: probably not)
• Things publishers should learn from the retail industry
• What the "perfect browser" looks like
• What CafeMedia is doing to support creators

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