Stars Align For Advertising Week XI

NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Advertising Week, the world's largest annual gathering of advertising, entertainment, marketing, media and technology industry leaders, kicks off on Monday, September 29 with an expanded roster of daytime thought leadership seminars and evening special events. Delegates may attend more than 240 Seminars, all located in Advertising Week's Times Square hub which includes BB King's, the Hard Rock, Liberty Theater, Microsoft Stage, NASDAQ MarketSite and the Times Center.

Among those on the 2014 thought leadership agenda are:

Jessica Alba
Tim Armstrong
Irving Azoff
Mario Batali
Yannick Bollore
Daniel Boulud
Wayne Brady
Pete Cashmore
George Clinton
Andy Cohen
Joanna Coles
Katie Couric
James Dolan
David Droga
David Fincher
Gillian Flynn
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Elizabeth Harz
Ethan Hawke
Sir John Hegarty
Perez Hilton
Arianna Huffington
Jon Kamen
Kaskade
Paul Lavoie
Sugar Ray Leonard
Marissa Mayer
Debra Messing
Nigel Morris
Jamie Oliver
Jonah Peretti
Chuck Porter
Nile Rodgers
Michael Roth
Sheryl Sandberg
Kathleen Saxton
Sir Martin Sorrell
Kevin Spacey
Morgan Spurlock
Gloria Steinem
T.I.
Damon Wayans
Harvey Weinstein

The Week's signature live music and comedy events also return with a talent roster that is set to include Hannibal Buress, T.I., Wiz Khalifa and more. Advertising Week is also slated to make its debut at the Upright Citizens Brigade and returns to the iconic Friars Club.

Extended thought leadership content tracks dig deep into industry hot buttons including: Programmatic, Mobile, Data, Video, Innovation, Local, Health, Fitness & Wearables, Retail Innovation, Sports, Native Ads, Cross-Screen and Social Influence. The Advertising Week Experience (AWE) also returns featuring nearly 100 start-ups that represent the front lines of technological innovation, which is re-shaping the industry, in real time.

Additional highlights:

• Grand Central Terminal hosts the Opening Gala, in partnership with Amazon Media Group
• The Wall Street Journal launches Disruption, a new evening event
• Fortune stages a special edition of Brainstorm TECH
• Randall Rothenberg leads IAB's annual MIXX Conference
• CMOs and CEOs take center stage throughout The Week along with a "State of the Industry" series featuring more than a dozen major trade associations
• The Pandora Battle of the Ad Bands returns to the Highline Ballroom
• Rovio's Angry Birds Transformers Party, returns to Arena

New and returning corporate and media partners for Advertising Week 2014 include: AARP, Acxiom, Adara, Adobe, Amazon Media Group, Amobee, AOL, AT&T AdWorks, BuzzFeed, Centaur, Exponential, Facebook, Fast Company, Fortune, Getty Images, Google, Keek, LinkedIn, Marketo, Mashable, Mediaocean, Microsoft, Millennial Media, MLB Advanced Media, NBCUniversal, NCC Media, New York Market Radio, The New York Times, Nielsen, OpenX, Pandora, Precision Marketing Insights from Verizon, Purch, PwC, RadiumOne, Rovio, Rubicon Project, Tasting Table, The Wall Street Journal, The Weather Channel, true[X], Turn, Quiver, Univision, USA Today, WebMD, Yahoo, yp, and many more.

Registration for Advertising Week XI is open at www.advertisingweek.com. Advertising Week's Official App is available in the iTunes and Google Play stores. All Seminars are streamed, in partnership with MLB Advanced Media, and are free to watch on www.advertisingweek.com. To join the conversation year-round, visit The Advertising Week Social Club, which delivers unique content, insights and perspective at www.theawsc.com.

About Advertising Week:

Since its creation in 2004, Advertising Week has drawn more than 1.2 million participants from around the world to New York City for a weeklong hybrid of events built on thought leadership. Evening events celebrate the ties of advertising and popular culture. Beyond enlightenment & entertainment, the mission of The Week is to inspire young people to join the craft; focus on the social impacts of advertising; and to shine a bright light on the business and economic influence of the advertising, media and marketing industries. In 2013, the New York City flagship edition was joined by Advertising Week Europe in London. In just two years, Advertising Week Europe has grown into the continent's largest annual gathering of advertising, marketing and media leaders. The Week returns to London March 23-27, 2015.

Advertising Week is produced globally by Stillwell Partners.

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