{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"To Lead Is Human","title":"Joy and Leadership: What Drives Success at Seedtag (Brian Danzis)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2432,"description":"Sharon returns with a new preface to this hidden gem featuring Brian Danzis, President of North America at Seedtag. He shares how joy, consistency, and team accountability drive leadership—and how he builds trust and optimism in high-pressure, fast-moving environments.\nThis is To Lead Is Human — listen to learn how you can uplevel your leadership and shape cultures of accountability, respect, and candor.\n“Joy is very different than happiness. Happiness can be fleeting. Happiness can be just very simply having fun, where joy is more eternal and more everlasting.”— Brian Danzis\n\nGuest Bio:\nBrian Danzis is the President, North America for Seedtag, the global leader in contextual advertising. His responsibilities include revenue, publisher partnerships, and management of all on-the-ground operations.\nPrior to joining Seedtag, Brian served as EVP, Agency Solutions for VideoAmp where he was responsible for managing the national sales team. Previously, he was Global Head of Video & Live Event Sales at Spotify, in which he was charged with developing and aligning strategies across Spotify’s 70+ markets. Under his leadership, Spotify’s video ads business grew to represent more than one-third of the free business unit’s revenue.\nBefore Spotify, he served as Global CRO for the programmatic video platform Virool. At Virool he helped expand the self-service platform, originally built for musicians and SMBs, to deliver earned media solutions for Fortune 100 brands.\nBefore Virool, he was Head of Sales & Sales Strategy for Videology in the Americas. As the company’s first sales person hired in 2008, he spent the next 6 years building a multi-faceted sales organization that pivoted three times: first, from destination site to video network, then from video network to platform, and again to a multi-channel SaaS focusing on\naddressable video convergence.\nEarlier in his career, Brian was VP of National Sales for the MCN Ripe Entertainment; East Coast Director for the launch of the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/r48xUhDVRnC-sMcoaDkUqvCi14j34CeiUtXUf8Yq9GE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zNGZi/YzU3ZTc3OWNkYmM0/ZGFiZDQ2NzBjNTRl/NTg1Yy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}