Glam Media leverages the vertical media model around the world to connect approx. 200 million unique users (comScore) around the globe. Advertisers can access this huge audience directly in the US, Canada, Asia Pacific (including Japan and South Korea) and Europe (including Germany, France and the United Kingdom). By pairing 2000+ publishers worldwide with own flagship properties, Glam Media boasts 4000+ total authors that create, curate and monetize premium content. With more than 1 million articles, posts and videos, Glam has assembled one of the world’s largest collections of quality content. The presentation will allow attendees to better understand both global dynamics as well as local participation.

About Ralf Hirt

Ralf Hirt is the Vice President International at Glam Media Inc., New York. Ralf oversees Glam’s international expansion. He is also the CEO of Glam Media GmbH in Germany. Previously Ralf held various management positions during a nine years career at DoubleClick (Google) in New York, Hong Kong, Sydney and London, including Vice President of Operations, Sr. Dir. Publishers and Managing Director Asia Pacific. He also served as a director of the board of the ADMA, Asian Digital Marketing Association, and DoubleClick Japan KK, listed at Hercules in Tokyo.

The combination of working with web publishers, advertisers and agencies from all over the world as well as circling the globe innumerable times he developed a desire to make the invisible global and local developments visible and to maximize that knowledge, putting it into perspective and understandable context. The result is 8W8, the New World Modeling Engine, which he has introduced in his fiction work “8W8 – Global Space Tribes”, www.8W8.com , an Amazon category bestseller. Ralf also co-authored Infrastructure & Productivity in Asia, Palgrave Press.