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
Algorithms Can Teach Us About Ourselves: The Power of Automation
3 November, 2016 marks the third year of the Xaxies Awards in the UK – the annual awards held by Xaxis to celebrate the best of programmatic technology and advertisers’ campaigns. This year, Simone Giertz, 25-year-old inventor, robotics enthusiast, and YouTube [...]
A Behemoth's Birthday: Why We All Owe Google a Drink
With Google recently turning 18 years old, Darren Fullerton, head of SEO, Forward3D, reflects on the journey the advertising giant has been on and believes, despite the controversy it brings to the digital advertising industry, a world with Google is far [...]
Lack of Industry Standardisation for Programmatic TV: Q&A with Tore Tellefsen, DataXu
In January this year, DataXu received USD$10m (£8.2m) investment from Sky, signifying the growing importance of and focus on programmatic TV. Tore Tellefsen, vice president of TV solutions, DataXu explains to ExchangeWire how programmatic TV is evolving, the opportunities to scale, and [...]
Cross Device & Tomorrow’s Customer Journey: A Blueprint
In his latest column for ExchangeWire, Gareth Davies (pictured below), founder and CEO, Adbrain, keeps us informed of the evolving trends of cross device and what the future holds for people-based identity. In a recent post for ExchangeWire, I argued the strategic [...]
Redefining Transparency in Digital Media
The rapidly expanding influence of technology in the media and advertising space has promised to usher in a new age of transparency from all those involved in media and data execution: agencies, media, and tech partners. As Ryan Kangisser (pictured [...]
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