Biographical Information
Cody Coleman
Founder & CEO, Coactive AI
Dr. Cody Coleman is the Founder and CEO of Coactive AI, an AI infrastructure company helping enterprises search, understand, and activate large-scale content libraries using multimodal AI. In addition to his work at Coactive, he serves on the CTA Board of Industry Leaders and the CTA AI Council. He is also a co-creator of DAWNBench and MLPerf, and a founding member of MLCommons. Cody earned his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he worked closely with Matei Zaharia and Fei-Fei Li, and received his MEng and BS in EECS from MIT. His personal story is featured in Grit & Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best by Angela Duckworth.
Articles for Cody Coleman
Ad Tech Is Still Buying Video by Its Description
26 Oct 2026
Most ad tech still describes video the way it did ten years ago: a title, a category, a daypart, and maybe a few metadata tags. Those signals were built for scheduling and rights management, not for understanding what is happening on screen. When nobody can prove what is laid out in a scene, the industry reaches for its bluntest tool: avoidance. Brands block whole categories, not because the inventory is unsuitable, but because no one can show them which moments are. Publishers lose revenue on some of their most distinctive content.