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Sean Rameswaram Joins Vox To Host Daily News Explainer Podcast
The podcast veteran will join Vox’s Washington D.C. team later this month.

Eater and PBS Announce New Series Hosted by Chef Marcus Samuelsson- No Passport Required
Eater’s first network television expansion will premiere in 2018 on PBS

Vox Creative expands its video offering for advertisers with The Explainer Studio
Vox Media’s in-house branded content practice evolves and accelerates its fastest-growing content offering

Announcing Divided States of Women — A New Video Series, Podcast, and Digital Platform
Divided States of Women will be hosted by award-winning reporter and executive producer Liz Plank

The Verge and Polygon launch new video programming with weekly live shows on Twitter
Both shows will premiere exclusively on Twitter in October

It’s Time for Programmatic to Grow Up
By Ryan Pauley, VP, Revenue Operations & GM, Concert

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Concert Launches New Premium Programmatic Offering for Advertisers
The Leading Publisher-Led Marketplace Redefines Programmatic

Watch: Hillary Clinton explains What Happened
Clinton sat down with Vox’s Ezra Klein to talk about her new book and what comes next

SB Nation & Verizon’s go90 Team Up to Produce New Original True-Crime Sports Anthology
Produced by Vox Entertainment, the new investigative video docu-series, Foul Play, will debut later this year

SB Nation’s The MMA Hour to Stream Live from Las Vegas Exclusively on Twitter
Watch special episodes of The MMA Hour leading up to the Mayweather – McGregor fight and The MMA Beat each week, live on Twitter

Vox nominated for 4 Emmys
Here’s some exciting news: Vox has been nominated for 4 News and Documentary Emmys. The nominations were announced today by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and mark Vox’s first Emmy nominations. Estelle Caswell’s Vox Pop series was nominated twice, for “Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment Report” and for “Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction.” Johnny Harris’s piece “What Rio doesn’t want the world to see” was nominated for “Outstanding News Special.” And Joshua Seftel and Seftel Productions’ “Secret Life of Muslims” series was nominated for “Outstanding Short Documentary.” Vox editor Joss Fong, animator Gina Barton and executive producer Joe Posner were also credited in the nominations. “At Vox, excellent, innovative, and passionate work thrives – awards or not,” said Posner. “These nominations are a testament to the talents of the entire Vox team – our editors, writers, producers, researchers – who are truly unlike any other group of journalists and creators out there.” “Vox’s video programming proves that audiences are hungry for world class journalism video across any platform,” said Melissa Bell, Vox Media’s Publisher. “Vox’s videos are deep and beautiful, thoughtfully crafted and wildly entertaining. They are setting the standard for the entire industry.” Watch all of Vox’s videos on Vox’s website, Facebook, and YouTube, and be sure to catch the premiere of season two of the now Emmy-nominated series Vox Pop on August 4. To align your brand with an Emmy-nominated video series and team of creators, contact Vox Media here.

SB Nation’s The MMA Hour to Stream Live on Twitter
Beginning on June 26th, MMA fans have a new way to enjoy SB Nation’s longest-running show

A note on my way to Cannes
Earlier this morning, as he heads to Cannes Lions, Chairman & CEO Jim Bankoff sent a candid letter to our clients about the digital advertising landscape and Vox Media's place. We're pleased to share his thoughts here. It’s not difficult to read the mood going into this year’s Cannes Lions. Brand-builders are focused on quality, trust and safety, but refuse to sacrifice performance, data and scale – and in the current digital landscape, these priorities can feel mutually exclusive. But marketers who care about brand identity can no longer afford to ignore context or presentation. The best work too often appears for a split second in a feed alongside fake news, shallow viral videos, and disposable memes – or, worse, haphazardly ahead of unsafe extremist videos. To fulfill the industry’s collective desire for more scale, planners are being pressured to choose between ad units that either annoy audiences or are ignored completely. No wonder media mixes still disproportionately favor broadcast and cable despite consumer attention migrating to digital. Until recently, all digital advertising was considered the same, intentionally. We became drunk on data (not rosé), completely ignoring the higher values that have created the kind of magic that Madison Avenue was once known for. The desire to target, buy programmatically, and achieve scale seemed to obviate the focus on the foundational ingredients of brand-building: depth, creativity, emotion, adjacency, and trust. To me, it frustratingly seems that the digital ecosystem has deemed itself incompatible with that pursuit. But I refuse to accept it. Nearly a decade ago when we started what would later become Vox Media, it became my personal mission to figure out a better way to build a big, high-quality, ad-supported media company. Five years ago, that meant rejecting the IAB standards and developing our own in-house ad platform

Vox Media and Bill Simmons Media Group Form a Strategic Partnership
Vox Media will lead sales efforts for The Ringer which will operate on Vox Media’s advertising and technology platform
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Polygon Takes the Stage at the Cynopsis World eSports Summit
Editor-in-Chief Chris Grant interviews publishers about the future of the industry

Vox Media, NBCUniversal and Condé Nast Announce New, Unified Advertising Offering Reaching Over 200 Million Consumers
Today, Vox Media, Condé Nast, and NBCUniversal announced a new partnership to deliver an unprecedented, unified offering to advertisers. Condé Nast brings its industry-leading data capabilities — Spire — and digital audiences to partner with Vox Media and NBCUniversal’s Concert advertising platform, which will now reach over 200 million consumers and 99% of millennials in the U.S. across the three companies’ digital networks. As Ad Age reported, “the pitch to the marketplace from these entertainment companies is that they can give advertisers the reach promised by some other digital platforms but in a safer environment where click fraud and ad viewability problems aren't running rampant.” "When brand marketers choose Concert, they now gain access to the most trusted environment available in digital advertising today; the largest, most valuable audiences; and the best data insights from Condé Nast's Spire capabilities," said Jim Bankoff, CEO and Chairman of Vox Media. "The performance of video content distributed through Concert is unparalleled, visually stunning, and in the context of dozens of the most trusted, authoritative media brands." To learn more about the new partnership and Concert, visit https://www.voxmedia.com/pages/concert.

You’re Invited: See Vox Media at SXSW
Join us as Kara Swisher is inducted into the SXSW Hall of Fame, Recode and The Verge host live podcasts, and experts from across Vox Media take the stage.

Vox Media names Trei Brundrett company’s first COO
Joe Alicata is promoted to CPO to drive major product initiatives

New Appointments at Vox Media: Lindsay Nelson named first Chief Marketing Officer
Armando Turco joins to lead Vox Creative as first General Manager


