James MacDonald
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Sep 2, 2026
#349 - Ink at the Centre: James MacDonald on Why Partnerships Will Define the Future of Industrial Inkjet
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Marcus TimsonHOST
How do you kind of establish your priorities when an OEM presents to you a complex development brief?
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12:03James MacDonaldGUEST
Yes, it falls into the last sort of question as well about scale up and choosing these projects.
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12:09James MacDonaldGUEST
We have a very rigorous new product development process with a good stage gate process that helps us prioritize these projects from the outset.
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12:21James MacDonaldGUEST
Again, we assess the commercial and both, both commercial and technical feasibility before we even embark on a project.
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12:34James MacDonaldGUEST
It does help us to say, well, is this a project that is, even though it is a bespoke project, is the potential there for volume? And we all want to have that revenue stream.

Marcus TimsonHOST
But how do you position yourself as that sort of strategic development partner rather than simply any vendor? And what additional kind of capabilities does that require from you as the OEM lead, I guess?
TWICM 204: Why Simplicity Wins in Ad Tech with Limelight Founder James MacDonald
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19:04James MacDonaldGUEST
Or you come to a company like Limelight who will provide you with your own branded tools that are absolutely up to the minute, unlimited in terms of capacity, um, modeled on a partnership model, so the better you do, the better we do.
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19:21James MacDonaldGUEST
Um, uh, and that's really what we do, you know? So many of the ad networks, many publishers, many, many, you know, SSPs and many people in between, you wouldn't realize, but are working with Limelight's product and working with Limelight team.
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19:36James MacDonaldGUEST
And so, you know, the thing about that is that, um, it's not really the technology itself per se, it's how you stack it, it's how you execute it, and then how you apply it to the challenge that you have in your business.
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24:05James MacDonaldGUEST
Because if you provide, if you make AI do it, choose it, do it, choose it, do it, choose it, do it, suddenly you're in a situation where the guardrails and the precipices are extremely concerning.
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24:17James MacDonaldGUEST
So our approach is we've been using AI in one form or another for many years in terms of our technology.
