Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Last week at the OBIE Awards held in Nashville, as part of #OOH2023, Yahoo’s Global Head of DOOH Stephanie Gutnik was honored with another Rising Star Award (she was last honored by FEPE back in 2017), this time by the OAAA.
She was honored alongside another worthy individual, namely Ross Reilly, Vice President at Lamar Advertising Company. There’s an esteemed list of previous winners; inclding Ian Dallimore (Lamar), Michael Provenzano (Vistar Media), Liz Rave (OUTFRONT) and Candice Simons (Brooklyn Outdoor).
2023 is proving to be another busy year for Stephanie, together with her day job she serves on a number of prominent industry committees, is studying for a PhD and is chairing not one, not two but three (3) AdTECH: OOH Conferences this year in North America.
First up is Miami which will take place Wednesday April 19 during the #OOHMiami specific week (April 17-21**) of #MiamiTech Month (i.e, the conference runs alongside two DPAA events, including their DPAA Latam DOOH event which kicks the week off, the MMA PossibleEvent, an OAAA networking breakfast and of course, eMerge Americas.
Toronto will follow on May 24, the day before the new COMMB awards. We worked hard at persuading the Digital Signage Federation to move their Toronto, May 4th Meet ‘n Mingle to join COMMB and ourselves that week but to no avail. You can after all lead a horse to water but not make it drink.
.. and of course AdTECH: OOH – New York will take place as usual during Out of Home New which takes place October 9-13, 2023.
Stephanie leads Yahoo’s DOOH team, and is responsible for defining overall strategy, product feature set and go-to-market plans for all DOOH efforts globally. Before joining Yahoo she spent two years as Vice President, Digital Strategy and Programmatic Sales at OUTFRONT Media and before that she was with Broadsign for six and a half years, rising to the position of Vice President, Business Development.
Since 2016, Stephanie has been instrumental in helping us formulate an incredibly successful series of AdTECH: OOH Conference around the world.
These now take place annually in Miami (April), Toronto (May), Sydney (August), New York (October), Amsterdam (December) and Singapore (March, 2024).
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