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XR’s Jo Kinsella On Why Creative Is The New KPI

  • Lorenzo Chiodo

Lorenzo Chiodo

Feb 28, 2024 • 1 min read
XR’s Jo Kinsella On Why Creative Is The New KPI

In this interview from CES 2024, President of XR Extreme Research Jo Kinsella shares how it’s going to change the industry with creative metadata.

Jo Kinsella: People think of us as a traffic delivery company. I don't want to talk about delivery. It's a utility. I want to talk about data and analytics, and insights for advertisers. To put that into context, last year alone we served 600 million unique assets to 19,000 endpoints in 130 countries. Did you know that? Did not know that. So what we're doing with XR is, XR is the creative network. At XR, we have all of this creative metadata that we're going to be putting out into the industry and we're going to change the world with it. KPI—Creative is the new KPI.

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