The Aperiam Podcast

About The Aperiam Podcast

Advertising is everywhere and the technology that drives it is ever changing. The Aperiam Podcast is a weekly discussion diving deep on key topics driving the Adtech and Martech industry and is hosted by Aperiam Founder Joe Zawadzki and Partner Corey Ferengul.

Publisher

Corey Ferengul, Joe Zawadzki

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Mar 2025

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

66 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Minerva's Quant Playbook for AI Marketing

   Daniel Saedi, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Minerva, explains how two former quants are building an AI-powered unified media platform for brands. Daniel joins Corey Ferengul and Joe Zawadzki to discuss bringing Bridgewater and Citadel discipline to marketing, Minerva's 250 million-record consumer file spanning consumer and professional data, the data-leakage problem that undermines marketing models, fast decision models crossing over from finance, background agents that unify customer data without a chat box, the shift from selling data to selling AI, and why B2B marketers remain underinvested in digital channels.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Erik Hovanec on Ad Tech M&A

   Erik Hovanec, former Chief Strategy Officer of Magnite, on how header bidding pushed Rubicon Project into eight acquisitions and why integration is harder than the deal. Erik joins Corey Ferengul and Joe Zawadzki to explain the chief strategy officer role, how to tell a pan fire from a house fire, and how to build consensus by leading from behind. He walks through the SpotX and SpringServe deals, his view of ad tech as an intermediary business that wins on transparency and scale, and why extractive margins invite competition. For founders, he covers what kills deals, why acquirers buy execution rather than vision, and what AI does and does not change about pricing, margins, and cap tables.

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Hiring Gigi, Your AI Media Manager

   Adam Epstein, co-founder and CEO of Gigi, on building an AI media manager for the Amazon DSP and why agencies now hire software rather than buy it. Adam explains how Amazon's ad business grew from about $5 billion to almost $80 billion, why only an estimated 1,000 people globally have four-plus years of Amazon DSP experience, and how Amazon is turning categories like auto into pseudo-endemic ones. Corey Ferengul and Joe Zawadzki dig into Amazon's API-first partner model, Gigi's "learned context" contract term that lets customers own the IP their agent builds, why agents should go deep in one channel before going wide, and the road to outcome-based pricing.

Who has been a guest on The Aperiam Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Iván Markman
• Matt Byrne
• Brian Wiener
• Jonathan Kroopf
• Anna Stepura

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

93

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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