50 women to follow in paid media.

Dara Denney

Dara Denney is an advertising educator and creative strategist whose work connects storytelling with performance marketing. Her public teaching covers Facebook advertising, creative strategy and building performance creative teams. Drawing on experience as a media buyer and agency director, she shares guidance through videos, courses and other resources for marketers developing and evaluating advertising creative.

Juliana Jackson

Juliana Jackson is an enterprise strategist at Jellyfish whose work connects AI, data science and digital experience. She writes Beyond the Mean and hosts the Standard Deviation Podcast, examining marketing measurement, experimentation and organisational decision-making. Her recent writing explores creative intelligence: how teams can understand the contribution of individual creative components and use that knowledge to improve advertising decisions.

Karen Nelson-Field

Karen Nelson-Field researches attention and its role in advertising effectiveness. As the founder of Amplified, she writes about how attention data can inform media measurement and planning. Her published work examines active and passive attention, the limits of conventional media metrics and how advertisers can connect measurement with business decisions.

Akvile DeFazio

Akvile DeFazio is the president and founder of AKvertise and the founder of Social Ad AKademy. She works across paid social strategy, creative testing and advertiser development, offering consulting, workshops and coaching. Her published work and speaking explore Meta advertising, cross-platform creative and the practical decisions involved in running brands and advertising agencies.

Amy Hebdon

Amy Hebdon is the founder and managing director of Paid Search Magic, with a focus on Google Ads and conversion improvement. Her experience spans agency, in-house and independent account management. She writes for search and marketing publications including Search Engine Land, CXL and Copyhackers, and co-runs the Google Ads for Savvy Digital Marketers community with James Hebdon.

Joanna Wiebe

Joanna Wiebe founded Copyhackers to teach conversion copywriting. Her work helps marketers turn customer research into messages for landing pages, emails and other conversion journeys. Through Copy School, articles, books and the Money Words newsletter, she shares methods for researching audience language, developing persuasive copy and deciding what to test.

Sarah Sal

Sarah Sal works on paid social campaigns and advertising copy, with a particular interest in long-term strategy and long-form messages. Her portfolio and articles examine creative approaches to Facebook advertising. She shares case studies and educational material through her own site and contributions to industry publications, including Copyhackers.

Savannah Sanchez

Savannah Sanchez works with brands on advertising creative for Meta and TikTok. Through The Social Savannah, she coordinates creators, actors and editors to develop new video ads, then uses performance reporting to guide further iterations. Her work connects creator selection, production and creative analysis within an ongoing paid social programme.