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The Digiday Podcast — 490 episodes
Why Duluth trusts AI agents with bidding, but not brand storytelling
WTF are brand health metrics?
The Netflix playbook: JBPs, programmatic power, and the future of the upfront deal
Why OpenAI is moving fast to build an ads business
Inside The Trade Desk's programmatic power struggle
Mondelez overhauls its $3.5 billion digital commerce strategy in era of AI search
Why The Guardian’s first reader-facing AI product isn’t a chatbot
How to sell an influencer agency: Lessons from Digital Voices founder Jennifer Quigley-Jones
After WPP reckoning: The case for and against principal media
TikTok after the legal fight: Why it’s coming for Meta’s ad dollars
OpenAI's ad push begins, and The Knot is co-piloting
Why some creators are now back auditing their brand deals
ChatGPT enters the ad game. Now what?
Digiday ranks the best and worst Super Bowl ads of 2026
Inside NBCUniversal’s test to use AI agents to sell ads against a live NFL game
Creators vs. influencers: Inside the divide
The top AI platforms for publishers, ranked
CES 2026: Agentic AI hype vs. media buyers' pragmatism
'The year where the dust settles': Digiday editors share 2026 predictions
‘A year of loose ends’: Digiday editors share top takeaways from 2025
The Disney-OpenAI deal and generative AI copyright concerns
The case against AI agents for programmatic ad buying
Can a new CEO and massive AI bet turn WPP's sinking ship around?
How Black Friday could 'fast track' OpenAI's ad plan
The ‘is a hot dog a sandwich’ problem in AI advertising
How to build an AI-generated focus group
How Kalen Allen navigates brand safety and cultural polarization in the creator economy
How brand-creator deal dynamics need to evolve
The Sora-TikTok U.S. era of short-form video
The Trade Desk under pressure
OpenAI’s ad plan, Meta’s Vibes + a day in the life of Eater’s Stephanie Wu
TikTok U.S., Disney-Kimmel + WTF is a chief AI officer with The Washington Post’s Sam Han
Ferrero's Danielle Sporkin breaks down the reality behind retail media’s full-funnel promise
How AI rewrites search for publishers
The Summer Things Turned Messy
Why AI is agencies’ frenemy
Retail Media Godmother Kristi Argyilan: "It's going to be a reset"
Streaming reshuffling, Omnicom-IPGs's second green light + inside Reddit's bet on becoming a search engine
Meta’s superintelligence, Amazon’s NYT deal, upfronts + publishers’ & IAB Tech Lab’s AI summit
Who’s winning the creator economy—and what the paramount merger & AI action plan signal next
Late night TV's shakeup, OpenAI's agentic AI tool, plus Walton Isaacson’s Albert Thompson on CTV’s ad product predicament
Creator longevity with Brandon Edelman, Plus Linda Yaccarino's exit, WPP's Leadership shake up and the AI browser wars
Inside Michelle Khare's creator playbook, plus Paramount lawsuit, Google faces EU heat and TikTok plots a backup plan
Meta, Netflix & FTC’s Omnicom-IPG approval + “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives”’ Danielle Pistotnik
Digiday at Cannes: AI hype, data overload and other takeaways from Cannes Lions 2025
Digiday at Cannes: Former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay makes the case for creators
Digiday at Cannes: From center stage to closed doors, inside X’s quiet Cannes strategy
Digiday at Cannes: Ad networks take center stage — are buyers buying in?
Kimberly-Clark’s Patricia Corsi on the AI hype, Cannes jargon
Cannes survival tips, WBD split, ad spend outlook and WPP’s big AI bet
AI’s big moves at NYT, Business Insider and Meta + A Day in the Life of Marie Claire’s EIC Nikki Ogunnaike
Google’s AI Mode, OpenAI’s io buy, Publicis’s Capitv8 capture + Google’s AI ads era with Dan Taylor
Upfront Week recap, Charter-Cox merger, Microsoft’s DSP shutdown + Horizon Media’s David Campanelli on the upfront market ahead
How Digitas is navigating search’s shift to the AI era, OpenAI's latest talent poach and Netflix's push for personalization
Big Tech earnings, AI ads, Roku’s FrndlyTV acquisition + what’s in & out in this year’s upfront
Google’s Third-Party Cookie U-Turn + WTF are JBPs with Exverus Media’s Hillary Kupferberg
Google’s antitrust ruling, Netflix’s latest earnings + Digiday Reporters on Tariff Ripple Effects on Market & Advertising
Tariffs, a retail media reckoning, Meta v. FTC + TikTok creator Alyssa McKay on the latest ban delay
Why retail media is still grappling with definition and spending uncertainties
A gloomy ad outlook, Apple’s ATT troubles, bot blind sports and Dotdash Meredith’s Lindsay Van Kirk on D/Cipher’s OpenAI assist
AI-powered paywalls and the Trump Bump: A look inside the state of the publishing business
TikTok ban looms closer, leaving more questions than answers in its wake
How Pinterest went from selling views to selling clicks and conversions, with CRO Bill Watkins
How to grow a creator-based newsletter business, with Puck’s Sarah Personette
What this year’s COPPA update means for marketers, with privacy expert Debbie Reynolds
How Sundial Media Group CEO Kirk McDonald is navigating the DEI backlash
If Google's cookie phase-out ever comes, here's what a cookie-less future looks like for Mars' chief brand officer Rankin Carroll
How publishers pull YouTube viewers to shop on their sites, with Architectural Digest’s Amy Astley
What happened to the post-cookie era, with IAB Tech Lab’s Anthony Katsur
Verizon revamps sports strategy, works with Paige Bueckers and NIL athletes
What the agentic AI era means for ad agencies, with Omnicom’s Jonathan Nelson
How Domino’s CMO Kate Trumbull navigates inflation and reviving the brand
2025: The year of Twinkies, cockroaches, and chaos — Digiday Podcast looks ahead to a tumultuous year
2024 in review: From AI boom to election frenzy, Digiday editors look back
Inside e.l.f. made, e.l.f. Beauty's new entertainment arm
How to expand programmatic advertising up the funnel, with Tripadvisor’s Matteo Balzani
How news publishers are adapting post-election, with Yahoo News’s Kat Downs Mulder
How 'Love Is Blind' stars Lauren and Cameron turned reality TV fame into lasting careers
Digiday editors on Trump administration picks and the impact on the ad industry
Digiday editors discuss how publishers are navigating Trump ripple effects
Inside Dow Jones’s AI governance strategy, with Ingrid Verschuren
What Rich Lehrfeld’s media buying background means for Walmart RMN business
How to manage an actual online community platform, with Oprah Daily’s Pilar Guzmán
A postmortem on this year’s TV and streaming upfront ad market with UM Worldwide’s Marcy Greenberger
In data obsessed marketing landscape, Hinge CMO Jackie Jantos talks brand building
How Disney is nearing its goal to automate 75% of ad sales by 2027
New York Liberty's Shana Stephenson on building basketball team's brand and keeping fans in the game
How long-form production company Long Lead is investing in the art of journalism
How Babylist's chief growth officer Lee Anne Grant navigates the AI roadmap
Why Sam’s Club's ad platform is banking on member data to attract advertisers
Amid layoffs and cost cutting, Time CEO Jessica Sibley is expecting a 'very strong second half'
Future's Jon Steinberg shares his philosophy on AI content licensing deals
How Baked by Melissa's CEO and co-founder Melissa Ben-Ishay went from founder to influencer
How Twitch CMO Rachel Delphin works to woo livestream creators in a fragmented digital marketplace
Third-party cookies are hanging on, but Epsilon says brand marketers should still focus on first-party data
GoDaddy shifts gears: CMO Fara Howard talks about-face from provocative Super Bowl ads to focus on small businesses
'We're watching the war': Tubi hits growth spurt, but isn't part of the streaming wars, CMO Nicole Parlapiano says
Jamila Robinson explains why Bon Appétit is getting into sports, relationships and subscription boxes
'A joint effort': How Wells Fargo sets expectations for how it works with influencers
GARM’s lead sheds light on new standards for sustainability measurement in media
Digiday Podcast at Cannes: Inside Instacart's plans to make every surface shoppable with CMO Laura Jones
Digiday Podcast at Cannes: What Spotify's push into video could mean for its ad business
Digiday Podcast at Cannes: How Uber Ads is tackling programmatic challenges and AI innovations
Digiday Podcast at Cannes: Why Dow Jones CMO Sherry Weiss is focused on AI
Digiday Podcast at Cannes: Why Hilton CMO Mark Weinstein says the 'hot air' AI hype cycle isn't over yet
How creators Molly Burke and Tyler Oakley grew online communities through advocacy
How Hunter Harris and Caroline Chambers have extended their Substack subscribers into monetizable communities
How the Martin family went from part-time vloggers to a family of social media mavens
How one content creator thrives on X, despite Elon Musk's shakeup
How FootballCo’s Jason Wagenheim is appealing to ‘soccer curious’ advertisers in the U.S.
Canva's CMO Zach Kitschke talks taking the Australian design platform's user base
How Nuuly plans to retain customer subscriptions, data after its first growth spurt
How Newsweek is plotting for audience and revenue growth this election year
Digiday Media Presents: The Return Season Three
Why Nylon is bringing back print
How Linktree vp Lara Cohen is championing for creators to get a bigger piece of the pie
Inside Olipop's growth strategy with Chad Wilson, head of marketing
How Janice Min is selling entertainment advertisers on The Ankler
‘It's not just about the results': How Vox Media’s CRO Geoff Schiller is strategizing for ad sales in 2024
'There's no e-commerce point-of-sale': Farmer's Fridge's marketing director Liz Mella hones in on non-traditional tactics
How Zola CMO Victoria Vaynberg has introduced a new brand to expand its audience
My Code’s CEO says a floor, not a ceiling, has been set by advertisers for multicultural marketing
How Group Black’s Kerel Cooper is trying to solve programmatic’s bias problem at the industry level
Magic Spoon co-founder Gabi Lewis talks cereal brand's expanded retail footprint and marketing strategy
PepsiCo Beverages on testing and learning its strategy in a fragmented media landscape
How British GQ's Adam Baidawi reimagined the legacy men's luxury publication for a modern, global audience
How social-centric Gallery Media is taking on events, TikTok Shop and ever-changing algorithms
Xerox CMO Deena LaMarque Piquion: Embracing AI, targeting the next generation and keeping a legacy brand relevant in 2024
Bloomberg Media’s Christine Cook on strengthening advertiser relationships in 2024
Duolingo's head of global social strategy, Katherine Chan, talks about making unhinged content work and learning from mistakes
‘More volatile now’: Digiday editors share top takeaways from 2023
Digiday’s History of Ad Tech: Episode 4 with Ana Milicevic
Justin Smith explains how Semafor achieved profitable months in its first full year
Digiday’s History of Ad Tech: Episode 3 with Joanna O'Connell
Airbnb’s global head of marketing Hiroki Asai talks returning to big, bold campaigns and owning the brand narrative
Digiday’s History of Ad Tech: Episode 2 with Ari Paparo
Spill co-founder Alphonzo Terrell on attracting advertisers to marginalized social communities
Digiday’s History of Ad Tech: Episode 1 with Brian O’Kelley
Google’s 2024 cookie deprecation deadline is still on, says vp of global advertising Dan Taylor
From AI voice cloning to personalized playlists, how SiriusXM Media’s Lizzie Widhelm is automating audio ad sales
Thrive Market's CMO Amina Pasha credits marketing on TikTok for membership surge
Why Chobani's new CMO Thomas Ranese is taking a tech-driven approach to CPG marketing
Joy Robins on how she's steering The New York Times' ad business into the wave of change
Why Bleacher Report’s Bennett Spector is going all-in on live video
IPG's Channing Martin on stalled DE&I efforts and why conversations must continue
Introducing The Return Season Two
Martin Pagh Ludvigsen, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners' director of creative technology, on the 'philosophy' of the fediverse
The Digiday Podcast welcomes Kimeko McCoy as its new co-host
The Independent’s Blair Tapper & Thomson Reuters’ Josef Najm are trying to break down advertisers’ news blocks
Hearst Magazines’ Lisa Howard says advertiser requests for 2024 are on the upswing
Georgia-Pacific’s Laura Knebusch breaks down CPG giant’s spending shift away from traditional TV
Reuters' CRO discusses the role of political advertising and AI within the news organization
Digiday editors discuss the top trends from summer 2023
Ad agency Pereira O’Dell budgets for contingencies in clients' 2024 campaign strategies
Digitas North America’s Ariel Sims assesses the Threads and X era of the social ad market
Privacy expert Raashee Gupta Erry educated the FTC on advertising
How BDG is threading together communities on its social media platforms
How Wirecutter’s social strategy led to increased Prime Day affiliate revenue
Ray Chao explains how Vox Media is building up a podcast subscription business
Emerson Collective’s Raffi Krikorian explains why he’s technically optimistic about AI’s societal implications
What’s going on with the media and advertising industries at 2023’s midway point
How Salon, TVTropes and Snopes improved programmatic CPMs with traffic shaping
From Cannes: Why emissions need to be taken seriously today, not tomorrow
From Cannes: Analyzing the ad-tech firms along Yacht Row with Tom Triscari
From Cannes: How PMG plans to keep building its tech (with AI) to blend media and creative
As Twitch backpedals rev share policy, UTA’s Damon Lau thinks creators are poised to win
From Cannes: How to deal with the reaction to 'woke' culture
From Cannes: Sir Martin Sorrell and HP's Tara Agen on the power and influence of AI
Spotify’s Lee Brown talks up the platform’s latest advertiser pitch
Project X Entertainment’s Paul Neinstein breaks down the writers’ strike and its implications for Hollywood productions
How chef influencer Tue Nguyen works with the BuzzFeed Creator Network
How the digital ad industry is creating standards for sustainability
TelevisaUnivision’s Donna Speciale sees TV’s measurement shift shoring up underrepresentation issue
Content creator Sarah Palmyra says influencers want more affiliate options on short-form vertical video
Why creator Jorge Soto prioritizes YouTube Shorts over TikTok
How creator Alyssa McKay made $1M from Snapchat mid-roll ads
Why creator Kat Stickler isn't worried about a possible TikTok ban
How VentureBeat's new chief strategy officer is focusing on diversity, innovation to grow events and ad revenue
How Leaf Group is selling advertisers on larger event sponsorships
Fubo’s Lynette Kaylor typifies the modern TV ad sales exec
How The Guardian’s Luis Romero is selling the legacy U.K. publication in the U.S.
Digiday editors expect AI, programmatic and privacy to be top trends at the Digiday Publishing Summit
How NBC News’ Devan Joseph and Stephanie Scrafano cover the news on TikTok
Revolt’s Detavio Samuels says advertisers have fallen short on commitments to Black-owned media companies
How Reset Digital's new programmatic marketplace aims to help Black-owned newspapers sustainably grow
As display ad revenue falls flat in the media industry, Blavity Inc diversifies revenue with new commerce-first vertical ‘Home & Texture’
The Athletic's Sebastian Tomich is looking beyond ads and subscriptions to reach profitability
Why TheSoul Publishing’s Victor Potrel isn’t overthinking how YouTube Shorts will share ad revenue with creators and publishers
Why entertainment expert Eunice Shin is watching streamers’ subscriber churn rates
How Betches Media is using short form, vertical video to continue growing in 2023
How Geoff Schiller is pitching Vice Media Group to the ad market amidst an economic downturn
Digiday's top media trends to watch in 2023
'The shine has definitely come off': Digiday's top takeaways from 2022
Group Black’s Travis Montaque outlines company’s media M&A ambitions
IAB’s David Cohen teases updates to trade group’s standard terms and conditions
How Fandom's first-party data, FanDNA, is expanding to improve recommendations for advertisers and audiences
How Apartment Therapy's Riva Syrop is pivoting its events business around the economic climate
Privacy expert Sarah Bruno breaks down how the California Privacy Rights Act will affect the U.S. privacy landscape
Essence Global's Therran Oliphant assesses the development of data clean rooms in 2022
Condé Nast's Craig Kostelic credits 2022 revenue growth to global ad sales, despite operational hiccups
Why Semafor's CRO Rachel Oppenheim is putting clients first while building an entirely ad-based revenue model
UM Worldwide’s Stacey Stewart assesses the state of the advertising market
Why LinkedIn is stepping up its original video and audio content ambitions
'Do whatever it takes': How the NewsGuild of New York is training journalists to create strong unions
A year after coming under Axel Springer's control, Politico's Europe and North American businesses are closer than ever
Why Hearst is building a commerce marketplace
Why Wonder Media Network won't sell its podcast ad inventory programmatically
The season of change: Digiday's editors recap summer 2022's top trends in media
How CBS News’ co-presidents Neeraj Khemlani and Wendy McMahon are stepping up their streaming news outlet
Dentsu Media’s Mark Prince is pushing advertisers to diversify their media mixes to support minority-owned publishers
How BuzzFeed Inc.’s Edgar Hernandez is preparing for a recession while seeing signs of recovery
How The Washington Post's Joy Robins is using lessons from 2020 to handle the current economic slowdown
Vox Media's Ryan Pauley explains how expanding the CRO role beyond ad sales improves ad sales
'It takes ingenuity to survive': How The Daily Beast's Mia Libby is bracing for an economic slowdown
How Slate's Charlie Krammerer is prioritizing frequency to boost podcast revenue
A 2022 privacy regulation primer with Mayer Brown’s Dominique Shelton Leipzig
Introducing The Return
Why The Wall Street Journal is centering personal finance on its new commerce site Buy Side
GroupM’s Bharad Ramesh explains why TV advertising’s measurement shift is only getting started
Bustle’s Charlotte Owen is on a mission to turn around Elite Daily
From Cannes: Jellyfish CEO Rob Pierre believes in prioritizing platform partners as much as clients
From Cannes: IPG's data chief Arun Kumar wishes there was a Hippocratic oath for marketers
From Cannes: Forrester's Joanna O'Connell on fraud, data, walled gardens and networking again
From Cannes: PHD's Philippa Brown on transforming the media agency to serve clients more effectively
Magnet’s Danielle Johnsen Karr explains why Team Whistle’s social content agency is not a branded content studio
Google’s David Temkin sheds light on the company’s preparations for disabling third-party cookies
How Front Office Sports is leveling up its branded content business through educational courses
Future plc’s Jason Webby says U.K. publisher wants to be a dominant player in the U.S.
Inside Hearst UK’s multi-pronged approach to third-party cookie replacements
With the return of travel, Condé Nast Traveler puts its new global team to the test
With commerce at the center, how an Instagram influencer turned Amazon Live host
How Twitch streamer Blizzb3ar quit his job to become a full-time creator
Why TikTok creator Kris Collins takes a scripted approach to content and doesn't rely on popular trends to gain followers
How YouTube stars Colin and Samir went from nearly quitting to creating their own media company
How Refinery29’s Simone Oliver is complementing content with commerce
‘Hell’s Kitchen’ producer Arthur Smith reflects on how production has and hasn’t changed since the pandemic
'DAOs are the new institutions': Why Blockworks is training its sales team to pitch to crypto groups
Why Overtime's Elite basketball league is using social audience interest to find a live TV rights buyer
How A+E Networks’ Mark Garner is managing the TV network group’s programming library in the streaming era
Why Serotonin's CEO believes brands should be taking a 'Web2.5 approach'
In the age of ad tech mergers, IAS is prioritizing trust as it ads CTV sales to its business model
How ‘Close Up’ host Kelley Carter developed into a multi-hyphenate entertainment journalist
Why Lauren Williams left Vox to create news nonprofit Capital B
Vice Media Group’s Cory Haik aims for commerce, consumer to represent two-thirds of digital division’s revenue by 2024
How The Newsette’s founder earned $40M for the media company in 2021
How Leaf Group transitioned to being a commerce-dominant media company
In depth: How Digiday reporters are mapping the metaverse
Minute Media’s Rich Routman explains how B2B tech is becoming a bigger part of the media company’s overall business
Opportunity waits for publishers and marketers as cookie apocalypse looms: Digiday's top trends for 2022
BET’s Scott Mills shares plans for BET+ in 2022 and why the network has formed its own studio
Why Yang Adija gamified NFTs to encourage Turner Sports’ audience to embrace the blockchain
‘It’s too early to sell’: Why Axios is set on investing in internal growth, versus pursuing M&A in 2022
'Becoming a direct-to-consumer company': How Condé Nast's Pamela Drucker Mann is focusing on innovation in 2022 after the best revenue year in a decade
How 2021 taught Gallery Media to quickly adapt its TikTok playbook
How Vice Media Group’s Daisy Auger-Dominguez has put DE&I plans into practice
AMC Networks’ Kim Kelleher says the TV ad market is still speeding up
The Verge’s Nilay Patel talks about how Vox Media’s tech publication has and hasn’t changed after 10 years
Kill Your Algorithm Episode Two: The Vault of Power
How Agnes Chu and Helen Estabrook are breaking Condé Nast Entertainment further into Hollywood
Kill Your Algorithm Episode One: Shocking Data Stories
NBCUniversal News Group’s Chris Berend explains how streaming has become the centerpiece of the organization’s video strategy
How Well+Good is using its newsroom's knowledge to steer its commerce business
HuffPost’s Danielle Belton sees the editor-in-chief role as being ‘newsroom therapist’
‘It’s not going to be nice’: Leah Finnegan is rebuilding Gawker with her editorial vision front and center
‘A perfect time for someone like me to be in this role’: Maria Reeve is breaking barriers at the Houston Chronicle
'Journalism can only be as good as our newsroom culture': Vox Media's new editors-in-chief are redefining the roles
Women of Color Unite’s Cheryl L. Bedford is fighting ‘exclusion by familiarity’ in entertainment
LinkedIn’s Imani Dunbar is helping to build more equitable workplaces across industries
Jubilee Media’s Jason Y. Lee and investor Mike Su want to build the ‘Disney for empathy’
The delta of it all: Digiday’s top trends of 2021 so far
Atlas Obscura redefines ‘exploration’ after pandemic upturned coverage areas
Hearst UK wants all of its brands to have Good Housekeeping's authority in product testing
How Yahoo is experimenting with platforms and partnerships to grow its audience
How Rich Kleiman and NBA star Kevin Durant are building The Boardroom into a media business
How 100-year-old Architectural Digest is becoming a brand for a younger and more diverse audience
‘Meet the Press’ host Chuck Todd reports from the frontlines of TV news’s shift to streaming
Jonah Peretti and Rich Antoniello explain why BuzzFeed is buying Complex Networks
IPG’s Arun Kumar says the time has passed for the ad industry to regulate itself
How the Betches founders turned a blog into a multi-platform media company for young audiences
Vox Media’s Marty Moe and Preet Bharara are building a business that extends beyond podcasting
NTWRK is taking NFTs into the livestream shopping model
With a unique insight into e-commerce behavior, Klarna's marketing strategy focuses in on being a part of the cultural conversation
Why Hearst's digital-native food brand Delish is getting into print
How the Try Guys took their YouTube channel and turned it into a media company and a TV deal
How Sienna Mae Gomez turned into one of TikTok’s top stars
Heated founder Emily Atkin shows what it takes to make the transition from staff writer to Substacker
YouTube stars Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz show how creators have become their own class of media company
TikTok’s Khartoon Weiss wants brands to stop overthinking their platform strategy
How Turner Sports is using new platforms and content to widen its audience aperture
How Trusted Media Brands is using first-party data beyond advertising
How The Weather Channel is using weather patterns and AI to inform ad campaigns
GroupM’s Kieley Taylor and Amanda Grant are on the lookout for the future of identity in advertising
Social media ‘wild, wild west’: How Harper’s Bazaar follows digital trends to retain its authority in fashion
'We shouldn't have to go on so many first dates': How Bustle Digital Group is wooing advertisers
CBS News Digital’s Christy Tanner doesn’t expect to see a ‘Trump Slump’ in news consumption
'Proactive is the path': Group Nine's Geoff Schiller on his selling strategy
'Urgency around the community': How Pop-Up Magazine pivoted to (even more) experimental storytelling
The New York Times’ Ben Smith saw the alt-right’s rise and sees a new era for social platforms
'Convince the gatekeepers': How The Week Jr. is growing its U.S. subscriber base
‘You’ve got to earn that’: Mike Hume of The Washington Post’s Launcher on covering gaming and esports inside a mainstream publication
How Future PLC’s audience-first strategy grew revenue in 2020
Coronavirus-induced change and accelerations: Digiday’s top trends for 2021
'Using all parts of our business as innovation': Vox Media Publisher Melissa Bell on recent departures and future content
Google's Amy Adams Harding on why digital newsrooms should 'act like an e-commerce player'
'I believe enough in this to try to do it myself': CollegeHumor owner Sam Reich on the brand's future potential
'Profitability in the back half of next year': BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti (and Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan) on their big merger
'People give when they're excited about good things': Grist CEO Brady Piñero Walkinshaw on what drives member support
Shine co-founders Naomi Hirabayashi and Marah Lidey on how mental health went mainstream
Activision Blizzard Esports' Jack Harari on how the energy and pageantry of gaming is enduring the pandemic
The 74’s publisher Jim Roberts on bridging equality divides in education and making trust bonds with audiences
'Retention has been one of our best stories of the year': Bob Cohn on steering The Economist through the crisis
Diversity 'is a commercial imperative now': Brand Advance CEO Chris Kenna
'Scale for scale's sake is almost meaningless': Axios CEO Jim VandeHei
'All taking a chance on each other': Jasper Wang on Defector Media's collective ownership structure
'One beat in an ongoing movement': BET+ general manager Devin Griffin on the streamer's evolution
Fortune CEO Alan Murray on taking the conference business to a larger audience (and with a higher price tag)
Wonder Media Network CMO Shira Atkins on making (and selling) branded podcasts
Daily Maverick founder Branko Brkic on the hard-hitting journalism that sells memberships in South AfricaBranko Brkic
'We have to grow this responsibly': Tenderfoot TV co-founder Donald Albright on the podcasting's bright (but consolidated) future
'People want to take back their mind': Substack CEO Chris Best on the growing appetite for paid newsletters
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark on why he's donating millions to journalism
TikTok's Blake Chandlee on surviving a post-techlash world (and White House)
Hot Pod creator Nick Quah on the 'massive gap' between podcast monetization and engagement
'We need to be ready to help': Lion Publishers head Chris Krewson on assisting the local news industry
South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu on navigating a perilous time for Hong Kong
'I don't ever get the benefit of the doubt': Blavity founder Morgan DeBaun on running a Black media business in 2020
'Significant growth': Bloomberg Media Group CEO Justin Smith on the accelerated shift to subscriptions
The audience 'can make up their own mind': Fox News Digital editor-in-chief Porter Berry wants 'voices from all sides'
'We don't need your clicks': The Dispatch co-founder Steve Hayes on bucking the attention economy
Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner on 'long, sustainable change'
TheScore CEO John Levy on why sports betting is going mainstream
Telemundo's Romina Rosado on why the Hispanic network is betting on streaming
McClatchy CEO Craig Forman on local publishing's 'paradox': Audience up, ads down
'Diversify your revenue streams, period': IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg thinks relying on solely on advertising is 'wrong'
Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan: 'The ad market is not going away'
'It toughens you': Digital Trends' Ian Bell on the 'grittier' path of bootstrapped media
Guardian US CEO Evelyn Webster forecasts profit 'even in the most dire scenario'
How MIT Technology Review shifted its largest event to streaming
Mel Magazine co-founder Josh Schollmeyer on how the site's 'never been there to push razors'
Complex's Rich Antoniello's recipe for media in crisis: 'Brand plus brains plus balance sheet'
GroupM’s Brian Wieser: 'Every brand should figure out how to be useful'
Attention Capital's Joe Marchese on the crisis -- and opportunity -- in how we measure eyeballs on the internet
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti: 'We've transformed how BuzzFeed makes money'
Bleacher Report's Sam Toles on building franchises that last
Time's Keith Grossman on building the brand after '10 years of neglect'
Vox Media CRO Ryan Pauley on acquiring NY Mag: There is no trade-off between scale and quality
Protocol president Tammy Wincup on applying the Politico playbook to tech coverage
Josh Topolsky on why Bustle Digital Group and The Outline make strange (but good) bedfellows
Goop's Elise Loehnen on the benefits (and challenges) of a 'polarizing' brand
Flighthouse CEO Jacob Pace on building a media company on TikTok
Group Nine's Geoff Schiller: Legacy media organizations have caught up
Gear Patrol founder Eric Yang: 'You've got to pick a lane' between media and e-commerce
Digiday's reporters on what 2020 holds for the publishing industry, from the streaming wars to the end of the cookie
Axios media reporter Sara Fischer on what 2020 holds for local news, big tech and the streaming wars
FaZe Clan CEO Lee Trink: 'There's nothing a young male cares about more than gaming'
New York Times Style editor Choire Sicha
Washington Post CRO Joy Robins on working directly with ad agencies
Conde Nast Entertainment's Oren Katzeff on Conde's pivot to IP
Food52's Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs on their community media model
HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen on the risk the pivot to paid could create an 'unequal news ecosystem'
Hearst Magazines' Zuri Rice on how to get 1 billion video views a month: 'It always comes back to our audience'
Dow Jones CRO Josh Stinchcomb: Platforms are finally valuing (and paying) newsrooms
The Athletic co-founder Adam Hansmann: 'We believe there is a $1b company to build here'
The New York Times' Sam Dolnick on why FX, not Netflix, was the right place for The Weekly
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith: Media is 'going through a process of slimming down'
Slate president Charlie Kammerer on podcast ad revenue climbing to half of revenue
Insider's Pete Spande on balancing subscriptions and advertising
USA Today’s Kris Barton on building publishing products that also make money
The Fader’s Andy Cohn: Being multiplatform is ‘the only way to stay alive’
Barron's Group's Almar Latour: Building community is key to subscriptions
Time Out's Julio Bruno: What readers want is community
The Atlantic's Taylor Lorenz: People like TikTok because it's free of toxicity
National Public Media's Gina Garrubbo: The golden age of audio is here
USAFacts' Poppy MacDonald: We need to bring facts back into the discussion
Great Big Story's Courtney Coupe: 'It's not about bulk and driving as many eyeballs as possible'
GQ's Will Welch: 'This culture really thrives on niche'
Newsy's Blake Sabatinelli: Consolidation is coming to streaming video
Recode’s Peter Kafka: 'Netflix is winning'
New York Times’ Sebastian Tomich: Subscriptions are becoming like a TV rating model
Twitter’s Sarah Parsonette: We want to contribute to publishers' bottom lines
Pinterest’s Andréa Mallard: We want credit for the full-funnel experience on Pinterest
Hearst's Troy Young: Access to data drives organizational change
Vice’s Dominique Delport: The new Vice has gone ‘beyond cultural change to fix what was wrong’
New York Times' Millie Tran: Platforms have become more about private sharing
Financial Times’ John Ridding: Publishers need to have a reader revenue component for a viable strategy
Awesomness' Rebecca Glashow: Go90 didn't have as clear an identity as Quibi
PinkNews’ Benjamin Cohen: We'll never be dependent on one platform
Forbes’ Mark Howard: Advertising is still a double digit growth business
Mobile Nations’ Kevin Michaluk: ‘We didn’t know what to spend VC money on’
Barstool Sports’ Erika Nardini: Barstool aims to hit $100m in revenue in 2020
The Daily Beast’s Noah Shachtman: We want to be an 'old school, scrappy and street-smart tabloid'
Courier's Jeff Taylor: Having a lot of VC money can leave you 'punch drunk'
Meredith's Jon Werther: Apple News+ is a growth opportunity
Hearst’s Mike Smith explains WTF is programmatic advertising
Group Nine’s Christa Carone: Consolidation has helped us be more efficient
IMGN Media’s Barak Shragai: You can build media brands on Instagram
Conde Nast CRO Pamela Drucker Mann: Not all brands are worth paying for
Columbia University's Emily Bell: Platforms need to pay for polluting the journalism environment
Dina Srinivasan: Facebook is a monopoly, but breaking it up isn't the answer
NewsGuard’s Steven Brill: A journalistic approach to digital misinformation can work
USA Today Network’s Michael Kuntz: In this industry, you’re either the consolidator or consolidated
New York Media's Pam Wasserstein: We have to diversify from an ad-driven model
Vox Media's Melissa Bell: The industry has given Facebook too much emphasis in the conversation
The Washington Post's Aram Zucker-Scharff: You can't solve transparency by adding more technology
The Atlantic's Taylor Lorenz: Facebook is irrelevant to Gen-Z
Action Network’s Patrick Keane: I want to turn all sports fans into bettors
Inside the Washington Post’s podcast strategy
Conde Nast International’s Wolfgang Blau: 'Paywalls need scale'
Bonus: Inside The Wall Street Journal's subscription strategy
The Hill’s Jimmy Finkelstein: Our priority is high-end video before subscriptions
Bonus: How to build great digital products
New York Times' David Rubin: Marketing has to win over the newsroom
Bonus: How The Atlantic built its events business
Bonus episode: Inside Quartz's email newsletter strategy
Pivoting from platforms to paid: The best of the Digiday Podcast in 2019
Vertical Networks’ Jesus Chavez on Snapchat: ‘It’s a great place for Gen Z’
Quartz's Jay Lauf: Being completely ad-dependent was never good for anybody
CNN's Andrew Morse: A paywall isn't the answer for us
BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman: Digital advertising's infrastructure has been weaponized
CBS Interactive’s Jim Lanzone: VC-funded digital media companies were sexy because they were new
Bauer Media Group's Steven Kotok: If we’re gonna make a big bet, it should be in women’s service
BBC’s Jim Egan: Ad-supported news operation is sustainable but not future-proof
Industry Dive's Sean Griffey on building a $22 million media business with no venture capital
PopSugar’s Brian Sugar on getting profitable and focusing on staying profitable
Bloomberg’s Justin Smith: We’re projecting 15-20 percent growth
Skift’s Rafat Ali: 'B2B has always been about diversifying revenue streams'
CoinDesk's Kevin Worth: In the GDPR era, crypto may help publishers rethink audience and revenue
The Guardian's David Pemsel: We can't be complacent
Roku’s Scott Rosenberg: Cable operators have to innovate
Martha Stewart Living's Elizabeth Graves: 'The brand will always be relevant with any demographic'
Insider Inc.’s Nicholas Carlson: Subscriptions make narrower, deeper journalism possible
Brit+Co’s Brit Morin: Modern media brands are human brands
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk: Brand safety concerns can be overblown
Hodinkee’s Ben Clymer: “Making the flip from 100 percent ads to a majority in commerce is difficult”
The Information’s Jessica Lessin on five years of subscription journalism
Architectural Digest’s Amy Astley: Architectural Digest isn't for 'old, rich people'
Mindbodygreen’s Jason and Colleen Wachob on the business of wellness
Google’s Richard Gingras: Platforms didn't destroy journalism's business model
BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: ‘We’ve proven we can be profitable’
LinkedIn’s Dan Roth: 'We don’t want to burn newsrooms'
NYT's head of ads Sebastian Tomich: The role of the publisher is to sell ideas
Complex's Rich Antoniello: Media is a game of musical chairs with too many players and too few chairs
FT’s Jon Slade: We stopped advertising on Facebook over political ads policy
CBS’ Christy Tanner: 'Platforms are absolutely not a synonym for Facebook'
Reddit’s Jen Wong: Ads will be a big business for us
The New York Post’s Jesse Angelo: Facebook is a national security threat
USA Today’s Nicole Carroll: 'We can’t be all things to all people'
Glamour’s Samantha Barry: Building habit trumps social hits
‘People who suck at media use the duopoly as an excuse’: Highlights from the Digiday+ member event with Dotdash and Bustle
Genius’ Ilan Zechory: YouTube, not Facebook, is our focus for video
The Telegraph's Robert Bridge on pivoting to a freemium model
Cheddar’s Jon Steinberg is betting big on OTT bundles
Hayley Romer: Advertisers must choose between publishers and platforms
Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall on making subscriptions half of revenue
HuffPost’s Jared Grusd: Subscriptions won't work for most publishers
Mic’s Chris Altchek: Facebook’s news feed is not the place to build a loyal audience
Time Out CEO Julio Bruno on making commerce core to a media model
‘You’re constantly building the plane while flying’: Digiday’s Nick Friese on the company’s first 10 years
Recode’s Kara Swisher: Facebook only pretends to care about the media
Axios’ Jim VandeHei: 'Don’t ever tether your business to the benevolence of another company'
The Daily Beast’s Heather Dietrick: 'Trust in platforms is down significantly'
Business of Fashion’s Imran Amed: Subscriptions work if you know your audience
TheSkimm founders: We want to be a routine like morning TV
Wired's Nick Thompson: Facebook needs to pivot news feed to quality
House of Highlights’ Omar Raja: 'Instagram is the young person’s television'
AwesomenessTV’s Brett Bouttier: YouTube Red is a data exercise for YouTube
Bleacher Report’s Howard Mittman: Better to be a 'need' publisher vs 'feed'
Upworthy’s Eli Pariser: Facebook is like gravity
CNN’s Meredith Artley: ‘We don’t put all of our eggs in the Facebook basket’
Hearst’s Kate Lewis: One-third of Hearst’s magazine content is video
Columbia University's Emily Bell: Facebook is reshaping newsrooms
Best of 2017: Facebook, subscriptions and commerce were the big themes for publishers this year
HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen: Trump is not 'topic A' for most Americans
Live Podcast with Vox Media’s Lindsay Nelson: ‘Digital media was drunk on scale’
Bustle’s Bryan Goldberg on digital media in 2018: ‘Consolidation has to happen’
News industry analyst Ken Doctor 'People will pay for quality content'
Al Jazeera's Yaser Bishr: Publishers are platform 'sweatshops'
Bloomberg Media's Keith Grossman on platforms: 'Be very wary'
Attn’s Matthew Segal: Directing audience to your own properties from Facebook is ‘a losing strategy’
Tasty’s Ashley McCollum: Big video view counts aren’t everything
Washington Post’s Jed Hartman: The industry needs to stop whining about the duopoly
Conde Nast's Craig Kostelic: 'We’re completely embracing programmatic'
The New York Times’ Meredith Kopit Levien on driving subs and the NYT as a lifestyle brand
Politico’s Poppy MacDonald: We’re not worried about the waning Trump bump
Spirited Media’s Jim Brady: Growing audience through display advertising is ‘not natural’
Quartz’s Kevin Delaney: Advertising is still a great business model for news
Turner’s Howard Shimmel: Facebook’s not competing with TV
Business Insider’s Henry Blodget: ‘We don’t want to aim for reach growth anymore’
ABC’s Colby Smith: Follow the audience to grow digital, social reach
The Onion’s Mike McAvoy: ‘There’s no money in news feed video’