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What moved you this week? For Jesse Waldele, senior vice president of digital operations and client success at Dow Jones, it was something Jim McKelvey, the co-founder of Square, said. Q: What do you do? A: I lead our planning, programmatic and operations teams internationally, while also overseeing the teams delivering premium client service for our high-touch solutions (content, events, ad innovation). Q: What’s one fact you’ve learned this week from Custom Content from WSJ? A: As part of my job, I think a lot about how we can use our first-party data to deliver bespoke, insight-driven recommendations across our media plans, product suite and performance narratives. A recent Amazon Ads article with insights for marketers to drive deeper engagement with audiences highlighted that consumers are 63% more likely to buy a product if it’s coupled with relevant, valuable content. This stat underlines why our audience insights, rooted in first-party data, are a true differentiator to our clients and the partnerships we produce together. Q: What’s your favorite quote of the week from work we’ve produced? A: In partnership with Unlikely Collaborators, The Trust, which makes our custom content, produced Perception Box: Corner Office, a short form digital series that features intimate video interviews with a few executives. In one, Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square, describes how difficult it is to do something that has never been done before. He says, “The first time any human does anything, that person is unqualified… So, don’t think that qualification is your excuse for quitting, because if you’re really doing innovation correctly, meaningful innovation, you will not be qualified.” That really resonated with me. Our industry is evolving so quickly, there is not one right way to do something and there’s no way one person has all the answers. Embracing sitting in the discomfort that comes from that experience is something I’ll remember. Q: What makes you most proud of the job you do? A: I've spent my career at premium publishers—I see it as a unique privilege to represent this incredible brand every day in the work we do, in the conversations we have and in the individuals we get to work shoulder to shoulder with. Q: What’s one word that sums up The Trust? A: Exceptional.

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Take a peek behind the scenes at our video shoot with Hyundai Motor America. Our crew traveled to a plant in sunny Georgia—the automaker’s first plant dedicated to producing electrified vehicles. This flagship operation is expected to employ 8,500 workers on site, including military veterans Hyundai is specifically recruiting and training for roles. You can meet some of these hires in an upcoming installment of Miles That Define Us, our multiyear content partnership with Hyundai, where we dive into the automaker’s decades-long mission to progress humanity forward. Custom videos, articles and photography created around this cohort will join 13 profiles we have already produced that illustrate Hyundai’s: - Groundbreaking advancements in the field of electric and hybrid vehicles - Lifesaving investments in pediatric cancer research through Hyundai Hope On Wheels - Dedication to American prosperity through smart innovation Watch and listen to these compelling stories at Miles That Define Us.

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Missing Davos this year doesn’t mean missing out entirely. At this year’s WSJ Journal House Davos, leaders in finance, tech, business and government shared their exclusive insights and ideas with The Wall Street Journal—and you can watch it all without the flight to Switzerland. The theme: Navigating a polarized world. With global crises creating a world increasingly at odds, how do we forge a path ahead? The leaders: Jacek Olczak, CEO of Philip Morris International, Matthew Griffin ● المستقبلي, futurist and founder of 311 Institute, and Phillipa Leighton-Jones, SVP at The Trust, The Wall Street Journal | Barron's Group, talked detecting and combating misinformation in the digital age in a session entitled “The Future of Truth.” Phillipa also moderated a roundtable on the opportunities to be found in forward-thinking economies, with Sheikh Ali Alwaleed Al-Thani, CEO of Investment Promotion Agency Qatar (Invest Qatar), Christophe Catoir, president of Adecco, and Caspar Herzberg, CEO of AVEVA. Yutaka Sasaki, CEO of NTT DATA Group Corporation, the world’s sixth largest IT provider and third largest data center provider, shared the power of collaboration with Aisha Speirs, executive director of international content at The Trust. "Deko" Hisayuki Idekoba, president and CEO of Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. and Phillipa discussed the future of work leveraging AI and data from Recruit’s job platforms, which include Indeed and Glassdoor. Jay Chaudhry, CEO, chairman and founder of Zscaler, talked cybersecurity with Phillipa in “Cyber 2025: Are You Prepared?” You can watch videos of these and other conversations held at WSJ Journal House Davos 2025 below.

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