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Katherine Hays, Co-Founder of Massive Inc., Joins Bidstack as Strategic Adviser

Katherine will bring the wisdom, network and experience she acquired when creating the first generation of native in-game advertising.


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Katherine Hays, Co-Founder of Massive Inc., Joins Bidstack as Strategic Adviser
Katherine Hays, Co-Founder of Massive Inc., Joins Bidstack as Strategic Adviser

LONDON, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Bidstack, the leading gaming monetization and advertising platform, is pleased to announce the appointment of Katherine Hays, the Co-Founder and former COO of Massive Inc., as a Strategic Adviser.

With her proven track record in advertising, media, entertainment and gaming, Katherine will take a seat on Bidstack's Advisory Board, but will also play an active role giving Bidstack the benefit of her experience and success from the first generation of in-game advertising.

"I am delighted to be working together with the Bidstack team,” said Hays. “They are passionate and committed to delivering value equitably to gamers, game publishers, developers, and the brands who want to reach this incredible community."

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In 2003, Katherine recommended to Massive that it should pivot into in-game advertising and subsequently led the company in building the market for real-time advertising in video games. Massive recognized that young males aged 18 to 34 were becoming increasingly hard to reach through traditional advertising and that video game usage by this market segment had sky-rocketed. Massive built the technology, sales team, back-end operations and ad-serving infrastructure to enable dynamic delivery of advertising into video games for internet enabled PCs and video game consoles providing the first full solution for games publishers and advertisers. Massive was sold to Microsoft in 2006 for $300 million according to published estimates.

Katherine is an entrepreneur, inventor, global business leader, adviser and board director. She has spent her career at the intersection of media, advertising, and technology, first in equity research at Goldman Sachs before joining Massive.

After the sale of Massive, she served as CEO and Board member of GenArts, an Insight Partners portfolio company, where she grew the company into the leading global provider of special effects software for the professional market, which included customers such as Disney / Pixar, Sony Pictures, NBC Universal and BBC. GenArts was acquired by Boris FX in 2016.

She was most recently Founder and CEO of Vivoom where she developed a vision for helping brands strategically infuse social engagement into their own products and experiences and turn their existing customers into a top performing digital channel for new customer acquisition and existing customer engagement. Clients using Vivoom's software platform included: Capital One, L'Oréal, Costco, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, The Clorox Company and Johnson & Johnson.

Katherine currently serves as adviser and board member to early-stage companies in the sports and media, travel, esports and video gaming industry. She is a mentor to hundreds of entrepreneurs and is a regular guest speaker at the Harvard Business School, Columbia University, Princeton University, Stanford's Graduate School of Business and MIT's Sloan School of Management. She is also a member of the Alumni Advisory Board for the Princeton University Entrepreneurship Council.

"I am delighted to be working together with the Bidstack team," said Hays. "They are passionate and committed to delivering value equitably to gamers, game publishers, developers, and the brands who want to reach this incredible community. I believe Bidstack's leadership is setting high standards that will create tremendous value as the gaming ecosystem continues to expand and mature. Digital activities such as social, shopping, live events and search are increasingly taking place inside of games. Gaming has the potential to be consumers' true and enduring "third place" - you have home, work/school, and gaming. I'm thrilled by the opportunity to help Bidstack define how brands can authentically participate in this future while delivering meaningful value to all of the ecosystem's other key stakeholders."

"I am very excited that we will have input going forward from Katherine," said James Draper, CEO of Bidstack. "In Bidstack's journey into in-game advertising, I have always been aware that there are a very few people who have been down this path before. As co-founder and COO of Massive Inc., Katherine is one of the few. After joining Massive Inc. in 2003, she led the company in building a market for real-time dynamic advertising in video games. Since then the video games market has evolved tremendously with developments such as the soaring consumption of gaming content fueled by smartphone penetration, the rise of cloud gaming, the evolution of the secondary viewing market and the advent of programmatic advertising. I am looking forward to working with Katherine enormously and having the business benefit from her active advocacy and input. Her presence and influence in the market bodes well for the future of the second generation of in-game advertising."

Media Contact

Lauren Meckstroth, Bidstack, 775-446-4678, [email protected]

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