Phillip Thune

E-Commerce & Tech Expert

Phillip Thune is the CEO of Adthena, the search intelligence platform that provides competitive analysis, strategic insights and a team of experts to help brands, marketers and agencies dominate their competitive landscape. Thune has been involved in the tech startup and online search sectors for 20+ years and is a proven leader in the ad-tech and digital media space. Since 2010, Thune served as Global CEO of Textbroker, a German-based VC-backed SEO content writing company, where he grew revenue and headcount by more than 7X during his tenure. In another previous leadership role, Thune was president of FindWhat.com (later MIVA) an online advertising company offering pay-per-click search listings before Google Ads. There he helped grow the business from less than $1M in revenue to approximately $200M with a market cap of more than $700M.

How Google’s A.I. Overviews Are Rewriting the Rules of Digital Commerce

By Phillip Thune

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