Lindsay Rowntree

Chief Operating Officer
Lindsay Rowntree joined ExchangeWire in 2016 as Head of Content, and after growing the team to include three full-time editorial staff, became Director of Operations in 2021. Her role includes managing the day-to-day operations of ExchangeWire's business functions, as well as the content and marketing teams, across ExchangeWire's suite of products, including its global conference series, ATS. Lindsay also features on stage at ATS events, as well as in ExchangeWire's audiovisual products, including The MadTech Podcast and TraderTalkTV. She previously held the role of director of search, UK at Starcom MediaVest Group, where she spent six years, providing her with extensive experience in digital advertising, performance marketing, data, technology, client servicing and media planning/buying.Articles by Lindsay
2017: The Year Your CEO Learns to Love Data & Luddite Industries Open Up to the Data Promise
2016 saw the mainstream adoption of data analytics for business use. Gartner reported that over 1,000 large enterprises have a chief data officer, or chief analytics officer, and predicted that 90% of large organisations will have the position by the [...]
The Age of Misinformation: Don’t Obsess Over Fake News
Fake news: hoaxes, propaganda, and misinformation deliberately published to mislead, rather than entertain audiences, has caused fear and confusion across the world, from news publishers accused of promoting it, to readers who have been duped by it. As Claudia Collu (pictured [...]
An Expensive Game: How Brands Can Reach The Bombarded Consumer
In 2016, the average consumer was bombarded with brand messages on a level never seen before. With an ever growing number of different communications channels like email, text, messaging apps, social media, and more, consumers are often bombarded by messages. [...]
The New ePrivacy-Regulation: The Most Important Changes
A draft of a new ePrivacy regulation from the European Commission was leaked in December 2016. The final version (10/01/2017) has now been published as an official proposal from the EU Commission. The new regulation should replace the ePrivacy Directive [...]
Providing Context: How Intent Data Leads to Better Marketing
Ask a consumer to define ‘SPAM’ and ‘Marketing’, and the likely answer will be SPAM is anything they don’t deem personally relevant and marketing anything that they do. In other words, writes Suzanna Chaplin (pictured below), commercial director, ESBConnect, it [...]
Instant App Access Changes the Paradigm of User Acquisition: Q&A with Raheel Hasan, CEO, 1APP
There’s no shortage of mobile apps to cater to every single possible thing a consumer could want or need. As of June 2016, there were 2.2 million apps available on the Google Play Store and 140 billion on the Apple [...]
European Video Market Map Shows Growing Video Footprint Across the Region
Ecosystem maps are a popular navigational tool in the digital advertising industry, with one in particular being synonymous with the state of the industry. With the popularity of the LUMA landscape in the US market, it was noted that a [...]
What Marketers Should Know About Programmatic Ad Buying in 2017
2016 saw some powerful new trends begin to emerge for programmatic marketers, presenting both new opportunities and obstacles. While data continues to be the cornerstone of transacting programmatically, most buyers are still too reliant on commoditised third-party data and need [...]
What to Look for in 2017 Across Mobile, Video & AI
All eyes are on mobile, video, and artificial intelligence (AI) as we enter 2017, with growth and innovation in abundance across the three sectors. What does growth and innovation look like and how will it further enhance the digital marketing [...]
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