{"id":150401,"date":"2025-10-02T11:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/insights\/contributing-experts\/jenna-watson-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:28:27","slug":"jenna-watson","status":"publish","type":"contributing_experts","link":"https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/en-gb\/insights\/contributing-experts\/jenna-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Watson has worked in media agencies since the wild west days of digital, when \u201cstrategy\u201d meant making it up as you went, best practices were invented on the fly, and none of it would pass muster today. Starting as an email marketer (yes, the spammy kind), she moved through paid search, account management, and media strategy, and never looked back. 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