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Industry veterans bring a wealth of experience, best practices, and real-world scenarios that can help you learn media planning and media buying.

7Jan 2016

A look back at 2015

What do Digiday, Sean Cotton, John Wanamaker, Programmatic Direct, media planning, iMedia, marketing performance management, Ian McDougald, emoji, Vicki Parker, advertising flowcharts, Puma, Peter Platt, Chinese walls, pacing, Argyle Executive Forum, True Media, and 32 advertising agencies all have in common?

6Nov 2015

How to Get Crazy Productive in Media Planning

In media planning, it’s critical to get yourself into the right state of mind before making investment decisions for your media plans. The average person has 70,000 thoughts each day, and if you don’t learn to organize them, they have the potential to wreak havoc on your productivity.

16Feb 2015

Interview with True Media’s Sean Cotton

Sean Cotton, Vice President of Digital and Social Media for True Media, shares his experiences struggling to keep up with triple-digit growth at his media agency, searching for a media planning and buying solution, and eventually finding Bionic Media Planner. This 26-minute interview was conducted on February 13, 2015 via web conference by Hollis Thomases, Digital Ad-Marketing Consultant, ROI Diva, LLC. Here are the highlights from the interview: Struggling with agency growing pains (located at 4:49) “Our agency is 10 years old and has been very successful from day one. Each year has been triple digit growth that we've been in business. A couple years in and I could see that we were going to have to become better and more efficient at planning and buying to accommodate all this growth. I started talking to various companies that were just starting out in the space of programmatic planning and buying with some success, but it seems like there [...]