Alessandro De Zanche

Selbstständig, Independent consultant - Media, advertising and marketing, Independent consultant

London, Vereinigtes Königreich

Über mich

I am a multilingual senior executive with over 18 years of experience at the junction of advertising, marketing, and media, with specific focus on data, audience, monetisation strategies and products. I have covered international management roles in global companies (News Corp, Yahoo!, Telefonica, Hutchison 3G, Sizmek, GfK). Currently consulting (among clients: Financial Times Strategies, Dentsu International, DPG Media Group, UKOM, etc.). Having been involved in different areas of the advertising and media sectors, each with different yet complementary needs (ad tech, media, mobile, research, agency), I bring a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities during the current, largest disruption time ever in the industry. I am a strong advocate of audience-centric / privacy-first products and strategies as the main foundation of the first-party web.

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Sport Marketing
Internet
Product Management
Project Management
Media
Communication
Online
Prince 2
online publishing.
Digital Strategy
Digital Advertising
Digital Marketing
Mobile Advertising
Mobile Marketing
Big Data
Audience
Consumer Behaviour

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Alessandro De Zanche

  • Bis heute 2 Jahre und 10 Monate, seit Juli 2021

    Member

    OdiseIA

    OdiseIA is an independent observatory of the societal and ethical impacts of Artificial Intelligence.

  • Bis heute 3 Jahre und 8 Monate, seit Sep. 2020

    Freelance consultant

    Financial Times Strategies

    • Creation and delivery of ad-hoc programmes on monetisation, digital readiness and transformation, subscription and membership strategies, solution prototyping and testing, with and on behalf of Financial Times Strategies and supported by Google Digital News Initiative. The content is aimed at small- and medium-sized media owners. • 1 to 1 consulting with the programmes’ participants.

  • Bis heute 5 Jahre und 2 Monate, seit März 2019

    Independent consultant - Media, advertising and marketing

    Independent consultant

    • Among clients: Financial Times Strategies, Dentsu Aegis Network, DPG Media Group. • Supporting consumer brands and media owners in developing an audience-centric strategy built on a data framework, improving monetisation through the creation of meaningful engagement and differentiated revenue streams. • Empowering clients to maximise the impact of their most valuable marketing and advertising assets and relationships, and to translate them into revenue.

  • Bis heute 6 Jahre und 4 Monate, seit Jan. 2018

    Guest columnist

    Adexchanger, Adweek

    • Writing about the state of advertising and marketing, the current role of media, data, audiences and monetisation (link to archives: https://adexchanger.com/tag/alessandro-de-zanche/; https://www.adweek.com/contributor/alessandro-de-zanche/). • 2019 and 2020 AdExchanger Awards Judge: https://adexchangerawards.com

  • Bis heute 14 Jahre und 10 Monate, seit Juli 2009

    Founder/Director

    Fastbreak Digital

    Fastbreak Digital supports sport organisations, brands and athletes in developing data-driven, bespoke long term digital strategies focused on their audiences and, as a result, creating the right environment for successful sponsorships.

  • 2 Jahre, Feb. 2016 - Jan. 2018

    Global Product & Strategy Lead - Data Activation

    GfK

    Developing a strategy and the capabilities to bridge GfK’s market research traditional set of products with the digital marketing and advertising ecosystems, enabling GfK and its clients to develop end to end strategies focused on digital audiences and to engage with customers and users on a individual, personalised basis on any marketing and advertising channel. GfK’s core USPs: high quality data sources, 170+ global data science team, focus on transparency and independence.

  • 2 Jahre und 6 Monate, Aug. 2013 - Jan. 2016

    Head of Audience and Advertising Systems

    News UK

    Responsible for News UK Audiences (The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun). • Deployment and integration of new DMP. • Integration of DMP within existing Ad tech stack (from Ad Server to Programmatic platform). • Creation and/or integration of complementary 1st and ad-hoc 3rd party data sources. • Creation of bespoke models to profile Audiences. • Developing a better analysis of content with the objective of achieving a more granular taxonomy and deeper audience segmentation as a result.

  • 10 Monate, Mai 2012 - Feb. 2013

    Global New Development Manager, Advertising Products & Platforms

    Telefonica Digital

    • Envisioning new future ad tech opportunities. • Developing and managing the Mobile data strategy: o Consistency and scalability. o Data activation for Advertising and 3rd party data enrichment. o Cross Device Identity Management. • Developing the Mobile Display strategy: o Supporting local countries. o Covering all the local objectives: • Own mobile advertising campaigns. • Publishers' sales house strategy. • Build local mobile ad network.

  • 6 Monate, Nov. 2011 - Apr. 2012

    Cross platform user experience/monetisation projects - Digital Producer

    Hutchison 3G UK Ltd

    Short contract leveraging previous experience in audience data and targeting and focusing on driving cross-platform (web, mobile, apps) user journey/experience related projects: • Evaluating behaviours through analytics, and users surveys, leading to cross-platform enhancements. • Developing insights. • Developing new monetisation opportunities. • User experience optimisation

  • 3 Jahre, Jan. 2006 - Dez. 2008

    Head of Operations, Targeting Products, Europe - Senior Product/Project Manager

    Yahoo! Inc.

    • Partnering with US to define EU products roadmap and launch. • Creation and management of the Targeting Products EU team. Key responsibilities of the Targeting team: 1) Project managing product launches. 2) Product management,. 3) Sales Support (training, reference). 4) Client Support (solutions). 5) Campaign monitoring & troubleshooting. 6) Post campaign analysis. 7) Behavioural categories benchmarking and performance analysis. • Product manager of analytics products (Buzz Index, Snapshot).

  • 1 Jahr und 9 Monate, Mai 2004 - Jan. 2006

    European Accounts Manager, Europe

    Eyeblaster Ltd

    • Account managing the biggest European clients . • Managing multiple online campaigns simultaneously, coordinating media, creative agencies and publishers. • Analysing and managing clients' needs and expectations. • Co-ordinating action plans with Business Development targeting potential clients. • Supporting the Development team with Product improvement. • Managing training for new clients. • Researching and developing a business plan for opening an office in Italy.

  • 2 Jahre und 9 Monate, Sep. 2001 - Mai 2004

    Intranet Manager - Web Development/Design

    Grey Global Group

    • Project managing the EMEA intranet development and updates. • Holding regular meetings with internal clients to negotiate branding implementation and design of the website. • Overviewing the implementation of the basic/prototype design. • Coordinating the building of new sections of the site, improving the existing ones, aiming to better the user experience and to attract new users.

  • 1 Jahr und 5 Monate, Mai 2000 - Sep. 2001

    Project Manager/Web development/Web design

    Grey Interactive UK

    • Liaison between creative and technical teams, organising the development process for maximum productivity. • Site building. • Application testing.

  • 3 Jahre und 9 Monate, Jan. 1996 - Sep. 1999

    Commercial Representative

    Self Employed - exYugoslavia (SLO, HR, BIH, SER, MK)

    • Establishing the business operations of several Italian companies in the Former Yugoslavia. • Helping generate and manage revenue, through careful analysis of the political and economical situation of the different Republics. • Building relationships with key clients, commercial and political bodies involved in the post war reconstruction.

  • 1 Jahr, Juni 1998 - Mai 1999

    Official representative for ex-Yugoslavia (SLO, HR, BIH, SER, MK)

    Padua City Fair, Italy

    • Creating communication and institutional relationships between the Fair and several political and economic institutions from the different markets of the former Yugoslavia. • Planning and managing the visits of delegations from ex-Yugoslavia to the events of the Padua Fair. • Providing figures and analysis on Balkan countries, advising on new strategies. • Selling and managing promotional stands for the Padua Fair at the most popular fairs in Former Yugoslavia.

Ausbildung von Alessandro De Zanche

  • 1 Jahr, Jan. 2009 - Dez. 2009

    Sport, Marketing and COmmunication

    Ca' Foscari University of Venice / Euroleague Basketball

Sprachen

  • Englisch

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  • Spanisch

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  • Italienisch

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