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
Can Programmatic Work with Upper-Funnel Metrics?
At ATS New York on 3 November, ExchangeWire’s CEO, Ciaran O’Kane moderated a panel between Dom Joseph, co-founder and CEO, Captify; Tyler Pietz, VP, programmatic, Cadreon; and Adam Heimlich, SVP programmatic, managing director of HX, Horizon Media on the topic [...]
Programmatic in DACH is Happening, Slowly But Surely: Q&A with Frederike Voss, CEO, orbyd
The DACH region, made up of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland tends to play by its own rules when it comes to programmatic. ExchangeWire speak exclusively with Frederike Voss (pictured below), CEO and co-founder, orbyd, about the challenges publishers face in the [...]
NYC: The Brave New World of Data, Connectivity & DOOH
Digital Out Of Home has experienced incredible growth and no less in the vibrant, connected, and visual city of NYC. However, writes Ben Putland (pictured below), COO & MD USA, Grand Visual, exclusively for ExchangeWire, the medium is still lacking in [...]
Publishers Are Still Struggling to get a Fair Deal in the Programmatic Environment
At IAB Engage in October, the IAB's Display Trading Council released their latest programmatic handbook, featuring trends and insights from experts across the programmatic industry, providing an update to how the industry has evolved since IAB UK launched the previous [...]
The Sales Director & the CMO: A Special Relationship
The relationship between the sales director and CMO should be among the most cohesive parts of a business. The importance of creating a seamless digital experience for consumers ought to be driving the departments together. However, as Conor Shaw (pictured [...]
Programmatic: The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same?
In the latest column from the IAB's Display Trading Council, council members give their views on what has changed in the programmatic space over the last two years. To borrow from John Hughes’ 1986 American teen comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – [...]
'Everything Bot' the Kitchen Sink – The Shifting Social Media Landscape
Social media in the Western world has experienced some remarkable growth, but, as Chris Constantine (pictured below), head of UX, Syzygy explains, it is still playing catch up to China’s all-singing, all-dancing Tencent model. Constantine explains why he fears copycatting is [...]
Ad Quality Takes Centre Stage in the Ad-Blocking Debate
With over a fifth of the UK’s adults (28%) now using ad blockers, action must be taken to reduce the impact on publisher revenues — a fact the industry knows all too well, writes Ben Barokas (pictured below), founder and CEO, [...]
Act Smarter to Win in a World of Reduced Visibility
A growing number of advertisers and their agencies are looking for 100% guaranteed viewability, as latest research confirms millions of pounds-worth of ad spend is being wasted because less than half of online ads in the UK are viewable. But, [...]
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