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Photos by Ken Cedeno.
Ad Council Annual Public Service Award
Dinner Host Seth Meyers of NBC’s DAILY SECRET
Saturday Night Live poses with (left to TAKES MANHATTAN
right) Ad Council President and CEO
PeggyConlon; BET Networks Chairman DAILY SECRET’s Nikos
and CEO and Ad Council Board Chair
Debra L. Lee;Ad Council Annual Public Kakavoulis, Founder
Service Award Honoree and AOL
Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong.
& CEO, and Christine
(Engelbrechtsen) Rocchio,

THE AD COUNCIL Chief Revenue Oficer,
CELEBRATES
are pictured against New
60 YEARS OF York’s skyline as their fast-

PUBLIC SERVICE
growing digital media brand

New York’s Waldorf Astoria hosted hosted ad:tech participants at a trendy New York nightspot.
a record number of supporters— DAILY SECRET is a fast-growing digital media brand for

over 1300—for the Ad Council’s
internationally-minded afluent young professionals. Global

60th Annual Public Service and hyper-local, it covers over 40 of the world’s most desirable
Award Dinner. The event raised destinations, a network of correspondents reveal coveted

an unprecedented $3.4 million
bars, restaurants, shops, hidden gems and local “secrets,”

to support the organization’s while integrating brands around passion points. Backed by

communications efforts through Greycroft Partners, eVentures and industry experts and with
public service advertising. Seth
ofices in Athens and New York, DAILY SECRET is widely

Meyers of NBC’s Saturday Night Live served as the evening’s considered an innovator in premium content production

celebrity master of ceremonies, while AOL Chairman and while helping its audience to “Live Like an Insider.” Since its
CEO Tim Armstrong was honored for his contributions to launch in 2010, DAILY SECRET has organically grown to over

the industry.
1.5 million subscribers.

YOMIURI SHIMBUN HOSTS NEW

YORK LUNCHEON.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s largest-circulation

newspaper, has a long-standing annual traditional of

an autumn luncheon in New York to share some of the

latest developments in the Japanese market with the

international advertising community. This year’s event

was hosted by Yozo Matsuda, Corporate Oficer and

Chief Oficer of Advertising from the company’s Tokyo

headquarters, pictured here, along with Nori Inoue,

the Yomiuri’s Advertising Sales Director, based in

New York. Held at the Parker Meridien Hotel Penthouse,

this year’s guest speaker was G̈nter Schumacher, the

Worldwide President & COO of Ogilvy One, a long-time

internationalist, native of Germany and now New York

resident. (He is pictured here with Yomiuri’s General

Counsel for the Americas, Jacob Margolies, in the center,

and with Eiji Hirose, New York Bureau Chief of The Yomiuri

Shimbun, at the far right.) Schumacher’s presentation

focused on “Engaging Stories.”

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