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Sergey Fogelson (VP of Data Science, Televisa Univision) joins High Signal to reveal how the world’s largest Spanish-language media company built a sophisticated data engine from the ground up. This transformation fueled a tenfold expansion of its digital streaming business by redefining how the company connects with 300 million viewers worldwide. At the heart of this success is a proprietary household graph that creates a single, privacy-first view of a massive and culturally diverse audience.
We dig into the journey from basic data unification to building production-ready recommendation engines, how his team uses embeddings on user behavior to uncover surprising connections in content consumption, and the trade-offs between investing in internal data tools versus direct revenue-driving products. The conversation also explores a pragmatic framework for AI adoption, showing how foundational machine learning often outperforms chasing the latest trends and where LLMs can deliver real, measurable value.
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