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Just launched Greg Stuart Speaker website to support my speaker business.  In the last year, spoken in Jakarta, Edinburgh, Florida and NYC.  Available to host events too.

Producer & Host for The Winning Pitch, reality TV show, focused on the Advertising business.  Shopping around to the TV networks now. 

Comments via Vator.TV on the application of Semantic Technology to Advertising.  Exec summary: Semantics today is like giving a computer to a caveman.  Seems like a good  idea but ad industry is just not ready. 

Joined the Board of Directors of

Zimbio is an interactive magazine focused on popular culture - including style, entertainment and current events.  Launched in 2006, Zimbio already has over 22 million unique readers each month and is in top 100 on QuantCastIt uses proprietary technology to combine the best of traditional media with participatory journalism to cover thousands of stories each day.

Funded by Menlo Ventures (John Jarve) and Draper Richards (Howard Hartenbaum, now @ August Capital) 

Currently conducting due diligence on a number of new Operating roles within a Digital Media or Advertising Technology company.  Follow me on @ gregstuart

 

Column last year in on whether this is Mobile Advertising's year (preview: probably not but it could be)
              Survey results here [pdf]
      Previous Adweek column on the disastrous Ad Avoidance issue. Full survey here [pdf]

                      A blogger responds: 
Scatterbox by Steven Silvers

      Previous Editorial in Adweek.com regarding the future of Mobile Advertising Market

Just launched, Greg Stuart's blog @ ManSavesDog.wordpress.com
    A compilation of public articles and points of view on advertising and the industry

Greg Stuart is former CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau 
     Worldwide Trade Group for Online Media & Advertising industry serving AOL, Google, MSN, NYTimes.com, Yahoo! & others. 
      Announced 8/15/06 to
step down January '07 to return to private sector.

 

Also, co-author of What Sticks: Why Most Advertising Fails and How to Guarantee Yours Succeeds
  AdAge said it was the number one book to have read in 2006
  Also, What Sticks is available in Japanese See cover to right 

Past Recognition
      Ad Age names Greg Stuart  "One of Ten who Made Their Mark in 2006"

Board Activities:
  Still seeking another Board of Director role

  Former & current Angel Investment and Advisory roles [Venture Funder]:
     Newest BOA roles:
        DataXu -
Real-time ad optimization platform for advertisers using MIT technology [Atlas, Flybridge]
        United Sample - Online Sample for Market Researchers [GreyCroft]

     Adify - Tools for Brands to build Ad Networks [USVP, Time Warner, GE] SOLD to COX
     AdInfuse - Mobile Ad Serving technology and Network [Softbank, ComVentures, Spark]  SOLD to Velti
     AdGent007 - Solutions for publishers to monetize their International Traffic [CM Capital-Australia]
     Anchor Intelligence - Pioneering solution for identifying click fraud [Ron Conway, Baseline, Mike Maples, JK&B Cap]
     Buddy Media - Supports brands engaging their audiences into the social world. [Conway, Theil, Softbank, Greycroft, Pincus]
     Clickable - Online solution that makes creating & managing online advertising simple & effective [Union, Peter Thiel. Jonathan Miller, Monster, Schoffstall]
     MyYearbook
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Online community for teens that connects a network of trusted friends [USVP, First Round, Conway]
     Komli / Pubmatic - India Ad Network and PubMatic maximizes publisher revenue while reducing complexity. [Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Helion, Nexus India]
     Modiv Media - Orchestrates relevant retail messages within the grocery shopping experiences. [Oak, Ignition, Sea Point]
     Total Beauty - Unbiased and comprehensive beauty expert available to 24/7 [USVP, Wallington]
     Tremor Media - Full service solution providing tools for advertisers & publishers to conduct video advertising [Canaan, Masthead]
     
Veoh - Unique system for distributing television and video content [TimeWarner, Spark, Michael Eisner, Goldman Sachs,  Intel, Tom Freston]
     
VIZU - Allows businesses and individuals to create and distribute online polls [DFJ, Greylock, WR Hambrecht, Conway, Esther Dyson, Mike Maples]
     
Zumobi (ZenZui) -
Revolutionary Mobile content and marketing company-more to come [OakVC, Hunt]

  Previous Board of Director roles [Venture Firm]:
     
Rapt Inc. - leading provider of pricing and profitability management solutions [Accel, Levensohn]
            Sold to Microsoft [MSFT] for undisclosed amount 4/2008
     Allyes - Leading interactive marketing services provider in China - Former Board Observer [OakVC IDG/Accel]
            Focus Media [FMCN] acquired Allyes for $300M (3/1/07) -
BusinessWeek

Selected Suggested Reading:

   Mobile Advertising: Supercharge Your Brand in the Exploding Wireless Market
   Authored by Chetan Sharma 
Foreword [pdf] by Greg Stuart
                   Buy on Amazon

Best of all, even my wife now is building a website for her Real Estate business. My how the world has changed. 

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