Ben Jones is the founder of Sundogs, who provide creative diagnostics for video of all forms. He spent 10 years as Google's Global Creative Director, looking at the billion-and-a-half hours a day of watchtime on YouTube to identify patterns in culture and storytelling through AI and human review. His team generated the creative guidance for Google at scale. Sundogs works with the most creative brands in the world, including Apple, Disney, L'Oreal and Nissan.

Prior to that, he was a creative director at ad agencies including Hill Holliday and Digitas, working on clients like Holiday Inn, Major League Baseball, SAP and others, including providing the voice of the Aflac Duck in social media. He's also been a venture capitalist, a Dean of Admissions, a high school teacher, and author of the highly regarded novel The Rope Eater. His new novel, Abide with Hunger, is forthcoming, well, when it is.