The FPC Podcast
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<p>The FPC podcast covers the latest financial news in the ad tech sector, diving into the latest funding rounds, M&A transactions and economic trends.</p><br><p>Each week we bring you the latest hot takes and interviews with leading entrepreneurs and investors.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
July 8, 2026
Episode 37: Josef Najm, Thomson Reuters Ventures: Fiduciary-Grade AI and the Economics of the Agentic Web
<p><strong>SUMMARY</strong></p><p>How is AI rewiring the economics of content, advertising and audience growth, and what does it mean for the founders and investors building what comes next?</p><p>This week Rich Ashton is joined by Josef Najm, Principal at Thomson Reuters Ventures, the $250M corporate venture arm investing across legal, tax, risk and compliance, and media and ad tech. Josef's path into venture is anything but linear. It starts, genuinely, with selling Christmas trees, and runs through MediaMath, L'Oréal, Diageo and six years at Reuters, which gives him a rare operator's read on where value is really moving.</p><br><p>At the centre of the conversation is Thomson Reuters' trademarked concept of Fiduciary-Grade AI™: the idea that the professionals these tools serve, from lawyers to marketers deploying hundreds of millions in media, are fiduciaries, so the AI serving them has to meet that bar, with clean proprietary data, no hallucinations, and real accountability.</p><br><p>From there, Rich and Josef get into the shift from the ad-funded web to the agentic web, and the infrastructure that has to exist for it to work: data licensing marketplaces and attribution (TollBit, ProRata), the coming proliferation of enterprise and open-source model buyers beyond the frontier labs, and the missing quality-scoring and verification layer for content, on the basis that not all data is created equal. Along the way they cover agent-to-agent transactions and the challenge of verifying agents, the LiveRamp/Publicis deal and the future of neutral middleware, the Fox/Roku move and CTV, and why the smartest founders build for outcomes rather than for a specific acquirer.</p><br><p>Companies and threads referenced include AudioShake, Blaze AI, Bedrock, Index Exchange, Skyfire, TollBit, ProRata, LiveRamp, Roku and Fox.</p><br><p><strong>CHAPTERS</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>00:00 — Intro: how AI is rewiring the economics of content</li><li>01:54 — From Christmas tree sales to venture: Josef's story</li><li>05:17 — Inside Thomson Reuters Ventures: a $250M single-LP fund</li><li>07:49 — Fiduciary-Grade AI: the through-line</li><li>10:05 — What "Series A" means now, and how the goalposts move</li><li>15:16 — AudioShake: reinventing archival content</li><li>19:44 — Audio as the next media frontier</li><li>21:55 — Agentic workflows for SMBs and the AI-native agency (Blaze AI)</li><li>25:26 — Picks, shovels and the transaction gap</li><li>29:35 — Monetising content in the agentic web: marketplaces, attribution and the quality layer</li><li>33:29 — Bots, tolls and copyright: how agents meet content</li><li>35:07 — Market sentiment, liquidity and M&A</li><li>38:31 — LiveRamp, neutral middleware and the Fox/Roku play</li><li>42:05 — Build for outcomes, not for an acquirer</li></ul><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 25, 2026
Episode 36: Cannes Lions special with Bedrock, Evorra and Sabre
<p>Recorded live at Cannes Lions 2026, this episode of the FPC Podcast brings together some of the industry’s leading operators to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming advertising, media and marketing technology.</p><br><p>The conversation covers why AI is raising expectations across the industry, the growing importance of independent infrastructure, containerisation, first-party data, transparency, interoperability and the changing relationship between publishers, agencies and technology platforms.</p><br><p>The panel also discusses how businesses can prepare for an increasingly automated future, what advertisers should be investing in today, and why neutral technology providers may become even more valuable as AI agents begin making decisions on behalf of marketers.</p><br><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 19, 2026
Episode 35: Founder interview with Ollie Deane, CEO of The GoodNet
<h2>Chapters</h2><p><br></p><p>00:00 Introduction to the FPC Podcast and Guests</p><p>05:38 Transitioning from Corporate to Entrepreneurship</p><p>15:08 Current Scale and Growth of GoodNet</p><p>21:45 The Performance-Driven Approach to Sustainability</p><p>27:30 The Evolution of Sustainability in Advertising</p><p>37:11 Future Directions: Omnichannel and Data Licensing</p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is The FPC Podcast?
<p>The FPC podcast covers the latest financial news in the ad tech sector, diving into the latest funding rounds, M&A transactions and economic trends.</p><br><p>Each week we bring you the latest hot takes and interviews with leading entrepreneurs and investors.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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