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Sabine Jünger Named Managing Director Europe at Front Row

Effective January 1, 2027, Sabine Jünger will become Managing Director Europe of the Front Row Group, joining the existing leadership team of Daniel Andrlik, Benjamin Weyrich and Niall Donohoe. Founders Jan Bechler, Tim Nedden and Björn Sjut will step down from the management team in spring 2027 but will remain with the company as Founding Partners and shareholders, focusing on strategic development, M&A and AI implementation. Front Row (founded in 2014 as Finc3) operates ecommerce management, a global software product business (Catapult), B2B digital marketing and D2C store development, and reported strong double-digit growth with over 600 employees worldwide. Jünger previously led OTTO's retail media business and was Head of Agency for Amazon (2015–2020).

• Sabine Jünger will become Managing Director Europe of the Front Row Group effective 2027-01-01.
• Founders Jan Bechler, Tim Nedden, and Björn Sjut will leave the management team in spring 2027 but remain as Founding Partners and shareholders.
• Front Row was founded in 2014 as Finc3 and rebranded to Front Row in 2023 after joining forces with Fortress Brand in 2022.

Sabine Jünger joins Front Row as Europe Head

Sabine Jünger, currently Vice President at Otto Advertising, will become Managing Director Europe of e‑commerce agency group Front Row, effective 1 January 2027. Jünger has served at Otto since 2021 and previously was Head of Agency at Amazon (2015–2020). At Front Row she will join a four‑person European management team alongside Daniel Andrlik (e‑commerce), Chief Product Officer Benjamin Weyrich and Niall Donohoe (B2B marketing). The company—formed in 2022 from the merger of Hamburg’s Finc3 and US marketplace accelerator Fortress Brand—employs more than 600 people worldwide and counts clients such as Unilever, Bosch, Tesa, Sennheiser and Wella. Founders Jan Bechler, Tim Nedden and Björn Sjut will step back from the management team in spring 2027 but remain founding partners and shareholders. Reported by Horizont on 20 August 2026.

• Sabine Jünger will become Managing Director Europe of Front Row, effective 1 January 2027.
• Jünger has served as Vice President at Otto Advertising since 2021 and was Head of Agency at Amazon (2015–2020).
• She will join a four‑person European management team with Daniel Andrlik (e‑commerce), Benjamin Weyrich (Chief Product Officer) and Niall Donohoe (B2B marketing).

Strategus Launches Blueprint™, Democratizing Enterprise-Grade Planning Intelligence for Programmatic Advertising

Strategus announced the launch of Blueprint™, a new tool that uses historical data to predict marketers' future performance, as covered by Business Insider and AdExchanger. Additionally, the company appointed Elisa Crutchfield as Vice President of Marketing. The website also updated its navigation and featured new blog posts and case studies.

Strategus Launches Blueprint Campaign-Planning Tool

Strategus, a CTV-focused managed service provider, announced the launch of Blueprint, a campaign-planning tool built on over a decade of historical campaign data. Strategus contracted enterprise AI company Convey to develop the tool and to pull cross-platform campaign data from partners including The Trade Desk and Resonate. Jackson Spalding participated in a six-month beta and used Blueprint to inform targeting and creative decisions for a large energy-client campaign. Strategus intends Blueprint as an internal part of its managed-service offering, combining proprietary historical data with third-party inputs and its own 'AI personas' to produce human-reviewed, bespoke media-mix recommendations for clients.

• Strategus announced the launch of Blueprint, a campaign-planning tool built on more than a decade of past campaign data.
• Strategus contracted enterprise AI company Convey to develop Blueprint and to aggregate cross-platform campaign data.
• Convey integrates data from platforms including The Trade Desk and Resonate to provide vertical-, agency- and advertiser-level insights.