What Happened?
New York, NY-based TargetSpot has Promoted to Co-Chief Executive Officer at TargetSpot
About the Company
TargetSpot is the largest most advanced digital audio advertising platform, connecting top national brands and local advertisers to highly engaged Internet and mobile audiences. Advertisers work with TargetSpot to deliver high-impact audio, display and pre-roll video advertising to millions of listeners. TargetSpot advertisers can target consumers by demographics, listening preferences, psychographic segmentation, and geography down to postcode level, while benefitting from real-time reporting and analytics, as well as access to its more than 85 content partners.
About the Person
Leigh Newsome is a senior technology executive with over 15 years of experience innovating products in the digital media industry. Most recently, Leigh was SVP, Technology for Kantar Video, a division of WPP, focusing on video analytics and audience measurement. Prior to that he was SVP, Product at a mobile video company and CTO/Co-founder of Airspun Inc, an online audio company syndicating content to radio networks. Leigh also held senior technical management positions at Digidesign (Avid Technology), an Academy Award winning hardware and software manufacturer in the audio and video industry.
Leigh is a lead inventor/co-inventor on five pending mobile video patents and was a former consultant to Apple, for whom he developed a streaming media web application for the first generation iPhone. As an Adjunct Professor at New York University, he teaches a graduate course on application development and delivery of audio and multimedia content for web and mobile devices. Leigh holds a BA in Psychology from San Jose State University.
Listens to: Thievery Corporation, Arcade Fire, Massive Attack, Blonde Redhead, Amy Winehouse, U2, Pink Floyd, Brad Mehldau, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and The Beatles.
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