Scott Spencer isn’t a recognizable name in the consumer tech industry, but he’s one of the executives most likely to shape the future of advertising across the web.
The veteran Googler is dead center in the battle between publishers and website visitors over ad blocking. Millions of people are using ad-blocking software, a response to the rise of increasingly intrusive and sometimes malicious ads. That’s bad both for websites that sell ads and for Google, which brokers their sale.
