Driving Performance Season S3E10: Featuring Brian Rappaport, Founder & CEO of Quan Media Group

Driving Performance Season S3E10: Featuring Brian Rappaport, Founder & CEO of Quan Media Group

From Driving Performance by Adgile Media Group

January 12, 2026 · 52 min · Season 3 · Episode 10

About this episode

Brian Rappaport discusses his journey in out-of-home advertising and the founding of Quan Media Group.

He needs no introduction — Brian Rappaport. Founder & CEO of Quan Media, Brian has become one of the most respected minds in out-of-home advertising, helping brands like Away, Banza, and Dagne Dover rethink how OOH can be highly targeted, measurable, and accessible — even without massive budgets. But Brian’s journey didn’t start in media. A native Long Islander who grew up in Jericho and attended Towson University, Brian originally set his sights on a career in sports. A lover of basketball and diehard Knicks fan, he dreamed of becoming a sports broadcaster before realizing the grind of the industry would likely mean starting in the middle of nowhere. So he pivoted to sports PR — and began cold-emailing everyone he could find. After graduating, Brian spent a year without a job in his field, working at an Italian restaurant on Long Island while trying to break into the industry. Eventually, he landed at Zenith Media, where he cut his teeth in the newspaper department and spent seven years learning the agency world from the inside. In 2018, he took the leap and founded Quan Media with a simple but powerful belief: out-of-home advertising shouldn’t be reserved for brands with…

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