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Gurbaksh Chahal on ClickAgents, BlueLithium and RadiumOne

Number 9 in our Pioneer series reveal is Gurbaksh Chahal who has pioneered performance-based advertising three times over, learning valuable lessons on the way. His consistent successes with new technology make him an undisputed digital role-model. Chahal quit school to start his first company ClickAgents, a performance-based ad network which was sold after two years […]

Kyle McDonald and the Red Paperclip Trade Up

Next up in our Pioneer series reveal is Kyle McDonald who is an unconventional Pioneer. The mark he has made on Digital resulted from real-time split decisions and a belief in ‘the journey’ rather than pre-ordained objectives.  He became world-renowned as the ‘trade-up’ guy, who worked his way from one red paperclip (traded on Craig’s […]

Malcolm Poynton and Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty

The 6th Pioneer in our reveal series is Malcolm Poynton, the inspirational Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy One (London) who brought the massive digital vision for Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty to life. The project’s global ambition required an approach to digital that had never been achieved before. Poynton, a New Zealander with plenty of […]

Zhang Minhui from China’s Sohu.cn on Advertising to Half a Billion Users

Zhang Minhui is number five in our series….. Sohu.cn in China has the largest combined search, social and entertainment portals in the world. With over 505 million internet users – more than the entire population of the USA – Sohu contains many of the world’s most populated sites. Zhang Minhui managed Sohu’s brand advertising and commercial […]

Denzyl Feigelson – Apple iTunes Visionary & Artists Without a Label Founder

Number 4 in our series is Denzyl Feigelson, the iTunes Store music visionary who came up with the 99c download and devised a way for Artists Without A Label to drive their own careers . In earlier careers, he helped African artists working with singer-songwriter Paul Simon to break the US and became the first […]

Avinash Kaushik from Google “A Magnificent Opportunity”

As we promised last week, from now until the book’s launch, we’ll be giving you a more detailed sneak peek into the Pioneers of Digital we chose to profile and why their contributions to digital have been so important. Today we kick off with Avinash Kaushik, Google’s Digital Marketing Evangelist and author of hugely successful […]

Proofs Are In For The Book!

Almost literally hot off the press! Kogan Page have been going great guns and Paul and I have received the proofs already after just two months of some poor soul going through our manuscript line by line! The text has now been to the typesetter who has been adding the words, pictures, tables and various […]