Providing targeted digital + TV advertising and marketing solutions to local, regional and national partners, driving awareness, retail traffic, acquisition, recruitment and more. Our suite of solutions includes traditional cable TV, digital display, mobile, social media platforms, video (OTT, CTV, YouTube, long-form), streaming audio, addressable, SEM and email marketing. Every partner is unique and consulted with accordingly, delivering optimal solutions and results.

Took some time off to help care for my wife after major medical incident with ongoing care and rehabilitation/therapy.

As a member of Brandshare (acquired by Advantage), I consulted with brands and agency partners on scaleable sampling solutions coupled with programmatic Click2Cart retail media, driving trial plus carted product at key retailers and pureplay e-commerce partners. In my 1.5 years, I generated over $1.1M in net new business and managed existing enterprise brand partnerships, generating over $1M by successfully expanding business to new brands across the enterprise. Brandshare was acquired by Advantage Solutions in 2022, resulting in a reorg and layoffs in 2023.

Ripple Street is a leading consumer influencer marketing platform for connecting brands and retailers with their biggest fans. They build communities of authentic consumer influencers and give them the tools they need to experience and share the brands they love. The platform enables brands to easily identify influential advocates, engage them with in-person brand experiences, and amplify their advocacy through social media and offline word of mouth. Ripple Street provided brands the opportunity to drive actionable results such as trial/sampling, lifts in purchase intent, trips to retail and e-commerce, UGC, product reviews (which were syndicated via Bazaarvoice and Power Reviews), social sharing, 1st party data collection and more. Brands received a positive ongoing "ripple effect."https://about.ripplestreet.com

8tracks.com was an internet radio and social networking website revolving around the concept of streaming user-curated playlists consisting of at least 8 tracks. Users create free accounts and can either browse the site and listen to other user-created mixes, and/or they can create their own mixes. 8tracks was recognized on Time magazine's 2011 incarnation of its "50 Best Websites" List.I consulted with brands on 8tracks digital advertising solutions, including native, display, audio, video, keyword search and programmatic. Check out three custom native playlists that I created:Austin City Limits 2016: http://8tracks.com/doughoenig/austin-city-limits-fest-2016Happy Birthday Natalie: http://8tracks.com/doughoenig/happy-birthday-honeyFreaky Deaky Halloween http://8tracks.com/doughoenig/freaky-deaky-2016

SFX Entertainment, Inc. was the largest global producer of live events and digital entertainment content focused exclusively on electronic music culture (EMC) and other world-class festivals. The mission was to provide electronic music fans with the best possible live experiences, music discovery, media and digital connectivity. SFX was born out of the technology revolution and producesd and promoted a portfolio of live events that included leading brands such as Tomorrowland, TomorrowWorld, Mysteryland, Sensation, Stereosonic, Electric Zoo, Disco Donnie Presents, Life in Color, Rock in Rio, Nature One, Mayday, Decibel, Q-Dance and React Presents, as well as the innovative ticketing service Flavorus. SFX also operated Beatport, the principal online resource for EMC DJs and a trusted destination for the growing EMC community to discover and stream music, follow DJs and keep abreast of news, information and events, in addition to offering year-round entertainment to EMC fans around the globe through other digital assets.

Hipcricket Mobile provided a fully unified mobile marketing and advertising platform that empowered brands, agencies and media properties to engage customers, drive loyalty and increase sales. Brands leveraged Hipcricket's platform to engage with consumers across every mobile channel, including SMS/MMS, QR codes, mobile websites, programmatic advertising, rich media, social media and branded apps. Hipcricket’s proven technology, strategic marketing services and experienced account management teams provided measurable success to a broad range of national and regional brand-name leaders including Anheuser-Busch, Macy’s, Ford, Kroger, Mondelez, Nestle, iHeart (Clear Channel) and Arby's. Surpassing an industry leading 400,000 campaigns, Hipcricket has also created a comprehensive mobile ad network that taps into the buying power of the mass market with capabilities to target customers via location and highly specific demographic information across SMS, display, rich media and video.

Crisp helped brands activate with their proprietary mobile display rich media advertising creative!!!Crisp delivers mobile rich media coupled with our very own PREMIUM mobile inventory network across multiple demographic channels, on both smartphone and tablet. Key features include both in-app and mobile web, platform/device agnostic. Check out our work at http://www.crispmedia.comCrisp's proprietary Adhesion ad placement technology has been recognized by the IAB as a Mobile Rising Star. Click link for more. http://www.iab.net/risingstarsmobile#3

CBS Interactive Music Group - Last.FM, Last.FM on XBox, CBS Streaming Radio (Radio.com, AOL Radio, Yahoo Radio, CBS Radio sites, MP3.com. Beyond standard online sites, we're building new music experiences/franchises for music fans - Live on Letterman, Nashville in New York, Last.fm PresentsLast.fm is the only global music discovery platform, reaching 40MM+ uniques, providing music fans web-based streaming music, recommendations for new music, live events and social networking around people's passion for music. Through our proprietary "scrobbling" (aka tracking of user's listening habits), we have a wealth of data that we can use in powering unique experiences around music and also to more effectively target advertising programs.MP3.com - the definitive source for FREE LEGAL MUSIC downloads, featuring up an coming/emerging artists as well as free promotional track downloads. Relaunched June'11 with refreshed focus and resourcesCBS Streaming Radio - featuring Radio.com, AoL Radio, Yahoo Radio, all providing access to over 600 stations including CBS Radio OTA stations as well as professionally curated stations such as 80s Rock, 90s Hip Hop, GleeMobile - Over 20MM downloads to date of our mobile apps (iOS, Android) including Radio.com, Yahoo Radio, AoL Radio, Last.fm. Summer 2011 we are introducing a new Last.fm Festivals app, allowing music fans access to our large live events/festivals database on the go. CBS Local - Partnership between CBS Local TV and Radio to build out a network of local market-hubs in the top DMAs across the country. The sites super-serve the local markets with news, weather/traffic, sports, city guides, entertainment, and more. CBS Local Offers is our own group/social buying platform providing daily deals for restaurants, entertainment, health/beauty, and more. Working with Midwest advertisers on developing integrated cross-platform solutions across our properties as well as in collaboration with other CBS media outlets

Managed and developed online/digital ad sales for Comcast Networks...now NBCU (E! Online, MyStyle.com, G4TV.com, Versus.com) in the Midwest territory. Worked both independently with online agencies and also in conjunction with broadcast colleagues on cross-platform (Online, Broadcast, VOD, Podcasting, Mobile) initiatives. Key accounts included Target, Nationwide Insurance, Pepsico, Anheuser Busch, Sara Lee, GM, Ford, Unilever, Kraft, Applebees, Hanes, McDonald's

Worked closely with Midwest Online AE and broadcast counterparts on delivering and managing online and cross-platform advertising campaigns. Responsibilities included building proposals, research, competitive reports, responding to RFPs, monitoring/optimizing campaigns.

Supported and helped train local spot cable tv advertising team of 12. Worked directly with sales team leadership to develop sales materials, execute events and support the sales team. Worked directly with National Sales team supporting NCC sales efforts. Built network of contacts with each cable network we sold advertising on and acted as liason between networks and sales team. Served as head of promotions team leader on building promotions for local advertisers to be a part of. Trained new AEs on using Nielsen data (Strata) and various research to build more effective proposals. Managed all 3rd party (qualitative & quantitative) research and resources. Monitored competitors (broadcast, radio, newspapers, online) for prospects.

Redesigned and improved web presence of Penguin's Comedy Club. Site served both Penguin's locations - Davenport and Cedar Rapids, IA. Primary goals of site were to offer schedule of events/comedians online, online ticketing, e-newsletter, and build customer database to market the comedy clubs.