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This podcast features the best sessions from Digiday events. Hear leading executives from publishers and brands discuss the modernization of media and marketing.
Kendra Scott is using data to better serve the brand’s customers, who want the best experience no matter where they’re shopping. By using the information the brand has gathered on customer behavior, Kendra Scott has built a multichannel strategy in stores and online that offers the right experience at the right time. In this session, hear from Kendra Scott’s vp of e-commerce discuss why listening to customers fuels the most powerful retail strategies.
Online-born brands are harnessing the power of in-store retail to different degrees. After launching with a series of temporary pop-ups, Allbirds is now building a global store network, with stores in the U.S., the U.K. and China. Travis Boyce, the footwear brand's head of global retail operations, will break down the steps Allbirds has taken to get to establish a mindfully made fleet of international stores.
How do you elevate the online shopping experience for customers? That’s what Matt Zisow, Wayfair’s head of product, is focused on. In this session, hear about the tech that powers Wayfair, from personalized product recommendations based on customers’ home décor styles, to helping customers figure out how a piece of furniture will look and fit in their homes.
Marketers need to think of ways of going beyond the 30-second spot in TV. And with an increasing number of ad-free options for consumers, brands need to get more creative in how they reach the masses. In this conversation with David Lang at Mindshare, we breakdown the opportunities for agencies and marketers to make true, branded TV.
OTT services, including a growing crop of virtual MVPDs, are clamoring for your ad dollars, and they have the eyeballs to warrant them. But this will not replace linear TV so fast. The content might look the same, but the dynamics of advertising on OTT are dramatically different and suggest this growing medium is going to evolve in interesting and unique ways. Kait Boulous of Varick discusses the role that challenger brands will play in shaping the future of OTT advertising.
As technology improves and as data strategies strengthen, what does that mean for the advertising wold of traditional TV and OTT platforms? Join Michael Piner from MullenLowe's Mediahub as he details advancements in targeting audiences and evaulating ads on TV screens.
Incredible sums of money are spent on creating engaging content how do we make sure that the audience really does engage? This session from the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe will consider how you act on insights and in an environment that is driven by campaign budgets, how you can act on engagement.
With media companies in a constant state of evolution, is there a path to sustainable media? Looking at News UK’s varied portfolio of media brands, hear what Dominic Carter thinks about the state of media and where we should be focusing efforts in order to be sustainable in the long run.
Younger generations are notoriously hard to reach and connect with for traditional media houses. This case study illustrates the process of how Schibsted identified and shaped a new digital news product for exactly this audience. Their User researcher, Ane Sharma will discuss how they identified the specific needs of this target group through iterative research and insights gathering, including how iteratively testing was done on the content, which was a crucial step to ensure that the presentation of the news is engaging to the correct extent. This led to the design and creation of the app Peil, a news destination for younger Norwegians.
Hear from Julian Childs, SVP of International and managing director, at Business Insider UK. He will talk about the ways in which Business Insider has succeeded in building an audience and business that keeps on growing, relying on a strategic approach built on shared revenue model, single tech platform and efficiency and scalable global advertising programs for clients.
A session from Digiday Publishing Summit, where Barstool CRO Deirdre Lester talks about how the strategized their subscription program.
At the Digiday Publishing Summit held in Vail, Colorado, Daniel Hallac, chief product officer at New York Media, talked about how their dynamic paywall came about.
In this fun session from the Digiday Publishing Summit, Neil Vogel, CEO of Dotdash, will dissect narratives about the digital media industry and give us his candid thoughts.
The debate over paywalls and merchandise has turned to a more nuanced discussion over how to supplement advertising revenue with new income sources, ranging from membership opportunities to e-commerce. Join Geoff Schiller of PopSugar as he discusses how publishers are going beyond advertising. This session is from the Digiday Publishing Summit held in Vail, Colorado.
Join Michael Finnegan, President of Atlantic Media, Inc as he discusses the ongoing evolution of the media business. Starting with looking at how its portfolio of legacy brands including The Atlantic and National Journal continue to innovate and diversify revenue sources to include a juggernaut events business, fast growing digital consultancy and other advisory services and pioneering branded content studios.
At the Digiday Hot Topic event in New York City, Jason Sylva talked about the flexible paywall at New York Magazine.
For local news, the chief selling point of a subscription is a broad range of coverage and content. But what if you started selling digital subscriptions to a small slice of content? Hear from Grant Belaire, vp, digital audience development at McClatchy, on how they've done it and what they've learned along the way.
At the Digiday Hot Top event on subscriptions and commerce in New York City, Ryan Brown, svp business development at Gizmodo, talks about how he is building a community around commerce content and the lessons his team has learned along the way.
In diversifying their revenue streams, many publishers are trying their hand at content studios. Jim Piercy, creative director for EMEA and Asia at The Wall Street Journal discussed the opportunities and challenges for being an in-house ad agency for the Journal’s clients at the Digiday Publishing Summit Japan.
At the Digiday Media Buying Summit, we quiz some agency executives on the tired and wired phrases in the industry today.
Programmatic's continued evolution means marketers need to get even smarter about how they collect data. At the Digiday Media Buying Summit held in Nashville, Tennesse from Feb. 20-22, Amanda Betsold, vp and head of programmatic at iCrossing, discussed the key elements of her conversation with clients on refining the programmatic approach, how agencies can help clients use data better, the in-housing trend, organizing teams to support programmatic transactions and more.
This is a session from the Digiday Media Buying Summit held in Nashville, Tennesse. Hear Steve Williams, CEO of Essence North America, speak about how they’re proving their worth to brands, how they’re navigating these changing client relationships and why cynicism around the future of media agencies is misplaced
Ali Plonchak, managing director of digital strategy and integration at Crossmedia, spoke at the Digiday Media Buying Summit held in Nashville, Tennessee. She believes the focus on transparency in media buying should be welcomed by agencies.
Despite the buzz about in-house agencies, Gerhard Louw, head of international media management and digital transformation at Deutsche Telekom, thinks that doing advertising 100 percent in-house doesn't reflect the reality of the business -- and remains far off in the future for the company. Louw discussed the need for more control, what the hybrid model looks like and more.
As influencer marketing has increased in popularity from brands looking to do more "authentic" marketing, it's come with its share of issues. Fraud is rampant, and it's hard to measure the success of content because traditional metrics don't apply. Joseph Harper, social media lead UK and Ireland at Kelloggs, discussed the up and downs of influencer marketing, compliance issues and more in this session from the Digiday Brand Summit Europe held in November 2018.
Brands are increasingly concerned with ad dollars being wasted in the supply chain. Swarovski’s material group manager for media and digital Henrik Schulte is now exploring alternative payment agreements to paying a fee on the media investment as a way to fix the problem.
In this session from the Digiday Brands Summit, we trade anonymity for honesty with a media executive of an agency holding company.
International expansion often means having to adjust strategies for new markets. Babbel, an 11-year-old language learning app based out of Germany learned that over seven years of failing in the U.S. market. With a revived focus on expanding to the U.S., it's trying a new playbook. Hansen discusses Babbel’s new data, agency and channel-driven marketing approach and more.
In this session from Digiday Brands Summit, Evan Parker, vp of content at NASCAR, will discuss how NASCAR tells stories at speed.
The Philadephia Eagles want to be a sports entertainment brand with no offseason. Social media plays a key role in how the team communicates with its fans year-round, according to Jennifer Kavanagh, senior vice president of media and marketing at the Philadephia Eagles.
n this session, we talk to Neil Vendetti, president of investments at Zenith US. He shares his thoughts on how we can bring rich video content to consumers, ensure brand safety, and how to make the most of the sea of insights we now have access to.
In this session, executives from Modi Media talk about improving tv advertising. it needs to pick up the advanced targeting capabilities available to marketers on digital platforms. But where does the addressable TV market sit right now? Who are the biggest players? Will this ever be a huge opportunity for advertisers, especially when some still view TV as a broadcast and branding medium?
In this session from the Digiday Video Marketing summit, SoulCycle's CCO Greg Gittrich talks about the company's ambitions to have a media business.
The stakeholders in the future of TV are watching the cord-cutting trends closely, and brand are now wondering if more of their ad spend should go to OTT and connected TV, according Nick Pappas, CEO at SwellShark. It’s a lucrative proposition as inventories have started opening up more broadly.
With the rise of programmatic, the New York Times had to completely rework the way it operations to grow revenue effective and efficiently. From launching new data ad products, to selecting top tier programmatic exchanges, to organizational changes. Hear from Jay Glogovsky, director of yeild and Programmatic at the Times talk about how the legacy publication deals with programmatic shifts.
Ads.txt is a heated topic of debate within the industry. But when the programmatic industry is struggling to create a transparent supply chain for every dollar spent, Jana Meron, svp of programmatic and data strategy at Insider, makes a strong case for ads.txt files. In our latest episode, Meron discusses Insider’s programmatic challenges, working with partners to solve these issues and how to trim your ad tech vendors.
The delicate, and complicated dance that is the exchange of ad space on the virtual market requires the perfect team, a true partnership between the buy and sell side of the business. This session with Chip Schenck, vp of programmatic strategy at Meredith, will provide an look into how the right collaboration can yield success on all sides and how a rocky relationship can mean the end of a program, especially as publishers are becoming platforms themselves.
Publishers were fast to adopt the ads.txt initiative from the Interactive Advertising Bureau but the demand hasn’t matched up. And according to Nicole Goksel, the senior director of digital revenue operations at Tribune Media, it needs a lot more work. In our latest episode, Goksel discusses how ad fraud remains hard to solve, how the news category is still suffering and more.
This session is with Kevin Reilly, CCO and President of TBS and TNT, both of which are Turner properties. He talks about how the entertainment ladnscape has shifted dramatically in the last 3 years.
The process of discovering and developing new talent is not just for new TV shows anymore. Networks are looking for internet sensations as well. Viacom head of talent Paula Kaplan discussed the ins and outs of working with digital talent at the Digiday Future of Entertainment event held in Los Angeles, California on October 25.
This session is with Rob Gellick, EVP & GM at CBS ENTERTAINMENT DIGITAL. He talks about making direct to consumer work with the subscription service that CBS offers.
As much as YouTube and other social platforms say they’re committed to brand safety, things end up going awry and campaigns can get caught in the middle. Enter the brand safety officer, a role that some agencies have created to get ahead of protecting media investment. Hear from Joe Barone, managing partner brand safety Americas for GroupM, about why establishing this role should be prioritized, and what the future looks like for the brand safety officer.
It’s becoming an ultimatum: clients are demanding transparency from agencies. Brands want to connect the dots and understand where their advertising dollars are going, so it’s time for agencies to step up. Hear Michael Nicholas, chief digital officer of Media Assembly, speak about how they’re ensuring transparency to cultivate better relationship with clients.
New technology may be expensive but testing it doesn’t need to be. Sarah Stringer, svp head of innovation for Carat USA, recently spoke at the Digiday Media Buying Summit held in Austin, Texas from October 16-17. She said new technology should be tested in the cheapest way possible. Stringer explores how to think about new technologies, how to budget for technology testing and more in this session.
CNN has responded to ever greater complexity in the advertising ecosystem by creating CNN Reach - a new unit within CNN International Commercial to specialize in smart targeting of audiences and campaign optimisation on CNN platforms and beyond. In this session from Digiday Publishing Summit Europe, CNN international executives Rob Bradley and Leo Urushibata go under the bonnet of how CNN Reach works, why it was created and why publishers need to evolve and offer more to clients by introducing such consultancy services.
The New York Times has made headlines in the past few years due to the unprecedented success of their subscription proposition, however ad revenue is still an important part of their revenue base. In this session from the Digiday Publishing Summit, Jean-Christophe Demarta shares how the Times is experimenting with new measurement techniques to calculate ROI on ad spend and to use this as a starting point for not only optimising their display offering, but also figuring out where they can diversify.
In this session from the Digiday Publishing Summit europe, Anna Bateson, chief customer officer at The Guardian, talks about how the publisher gets more revenue from consumers than from advertising.
Pink News, a 13-year-old LGBT-focused website, launched on Snapchat in July. Pink News reimagined their desktop content for mobile and made a bunch of new investments. Now it is seeing the gains come in strong. In this session from the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe, CEO Benjamin Cohen explains the approach to Snapchat.
In a session from the Digiday Publishing Summit, Angus Macaulay of Stat News underlines the challenges and solutions to the subscription business model.
The Washington Post is one of the publications who can tell a success story about their subscriptions strategy. At the Digiday Publishing Summit held in Key Biscayne, Florida, The Post’s CRO Jed Hartman said that the success is not all owed to the Trump bump. In this session, he talks more about The Post’s work on subscriptions, their relationship with platforms and what happened with Instant Articles.
At the Digiday Publishing Summit, Howard Mittman talks about staying relevant during and after sports season.
Nearly two years ago, About.com turned into Dotdash. Since then, they've made tweaks to their approach to platforms that have garnered over $100 million in revenue and almost 80 million uniques a month on comScore, which is twice the amount that they started out with. Dotdash, CEO Neil Vogel shared this change of approach and strategy for About.com's reinvention in a session from the Digiday Publishing Summit held in Key Biscayne, Florida.
In this session from Digiday Publishing Summit, Brian Morrissey quizzes Complex Network's Rich Antoniello on his deep thoughts in his deep tweets.
The majority of publishers may have turned on Facebook after the platform’s apocalyptic algorithm change early this year, which caused everyone’s big video views to dip. But Group Nine’s media brands did not feel the impact. In this session, Carone discusses how the publisher is approaching platforms and going from social video to linear long form programming.
Privé Revaux has achieved meteoric growth, acquiring over 100,000 customers in its first 10 months of business. With such rapid growth, making sense of a tidal wave of customer purchase data presented a challenge few 1-year old companies face. By taking a unique approach to customer lifecycle segmentation and conversion rate optimization, Privé was able to dramatically increase its customer retention and double its online conversion rate. Hear CMO Ned Macpherson discuss the core strategy of how it was done.
Creating good content is hard without the right people, and finding them is even harder. At the Digiday Content Marketing Summit recently held in Vail, Colorado, Babbel USA’s executive producer Jen Jordan discussed how she’s grown her team in New York City to 25 people and what she’s learned about hiring the right team. Here, she outlined some key guidelines to abide by while hiring.
Rent the Runway is disrupting the $1.7 trillion global fashion industry by introducing clothing rental as a utility in women’s everyday lives. As technology changes, so does customer behavior. Hear from Josh Builder, Rent the Runway’s Chief Technology Officer, on how he has pioneered Rent The Runway to leverage technology, data, and logistics to transform the way women think about getting dressed -- and what it means to have your closet truly in the cloud.
Shoppers are increasingly demanding transparency in all dimensions of their buying experience -- from supply chains to the customer service experience. Emme Grede, co-founder of the two-year-old denim brand Good American, says building trust with customers is about showing the good, bad and the ugly parts equally.
Express launched a new store concept in NYC dedicated to the modern worker. It’s a testing ground for a number of experiential activations the 38-year-old retailer could roll out to its 600-plus stores. Hear from Express CEO and president, David Kornberg, as he walks us through the store of the future.
When luggage maker Away launched, the marketing plan never included a retail store. But then they opened a pop-up store as a test. Due to the success they saw, Away opened stores in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, with more locations to come. In the latest episode of Digiday Live, Away's vp of brand marketing, Selena Kalvaria, said the customer interaction in store led to better marketing.
Curology's Fabian Seelbach talks about the layers of marketing that go into customizing skin care for customers in retail.
Calculating the lifetime value of the customers brands acquire and the money they spend on acquiring them is a difficult math problem, no matter how you look at it. But Eloquii vp of marketing Kelly Goldston says it’s a metric she advocated for because basing marketing spend decisions on “ROI is very 2008.”
Toni Jones, the Head of Content Strategy & Operations at GroupOn, talks about the hiring and learning challenges for a content newsroom at a brand.
Vitamin Shoppe wanted to move its brand forward, and it needed content to do that. Lisa Chudnofsky, its head of content and customer engagement at The Vitamin Shoppe, has solidified the brand messaging on social media. Her primary tool: Facebook.
In this session from the Digiday content marketing summit, listen to Roman's Rob Schutz on how to market taboo topics and work with digital and traditional advertising.
For Fandango's content marketing team, the post-Facebook era has meant an opportunity to distribute video more widely. The company, which produces up to 15 videos a week, ranging from 10 second clips to four minute videos, is now finding success with video content marketing on Instagram Stories, IGTV, YouTube and even Twitter. But more platforms means more work. At the Digiday Content Marketing Summit, held in August in Vail, Colorado, Eileen Rivera, senior director of production at Fandango, broke down the video production and strategy at the company.
In this session from the Digiday Video Summit Europe, The Player's Tribune's David Trencher speaks to senior reporter Sahil Patel on how the publisher is plotting its global expansion and the opportunities and challenges it sees in various markets.
Claire McArdle, vp of multi-platform at Comedy Central International, discussed the company's strategy for moving linear content to platforms at the Digiday Video Summit earlier this month in Amsterdam.
To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, companies like SAP have run email campaigns to get consent to continue contacting customers. People who consented are trusting the companies with their information, and marketers must “do no harm” in the way they use that information, Mika Yamamoto, SAP’s chief digital marketing officer, said at Digiday's recent Programmatic Marketing Summit in New Orleans. Yamamoto also said GDPR gave SAP an opportunity to clean up its customer data, given that data, whether collected firsthand or bought from a third party, is not always accurate.Yamamoto discusses correcting inaccurate customer data, the marketer's role in retaining customers and more.
At the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit in New Orleans, Louisiana, Bayer's head of programmatic and social Paul Gelb says marketing waste from fraud or viewability issues is nothing compared to what happens because of wrong processes, policies and tactics among trading desks. So, bring programmatic in-house.
At the Digiday Programmatic Summit, Rich Fulop gives a view from the trenches for marketing to the millennial customer through various touch points.
At the Digiday Video Summit held in Scottsdale, Arizona, president of Viacom's digital studios Kelly Day discusses how the team is rethinking the network's approach to digital and social platforms.
Vox Media has made an investment in producing shows for Netflix, TV networks and other big content buyers. At the Digiday Video Summit held in Scottsdale, Arizona, Vox Entertainment's Chad Mumm discusses how Vox is approaching the future of video from the smallest to the biggest screens.
Last year, Barstool broadcast Rough N Rowdy online and sold more than 12,000 pay-per-views at $4.99 each, convincing Barstool to acquire the event. The most recent Rough N Rowdy, in Charlotte, North Carolina, sold 40,000 pay-per-views at $19.99 each, Nardini said. Nardini discussed Rough N Rowdy, Barstool’s video strategy and more at the Digiday Video summit held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Nick Graham, Huawei's global head of digital marketing and media, said the industry’s ambition is to bring the creative and media sides of advertising closer together, but he has a word of caution. Graham discusses transparency and leading a global media team in an age of changing technology.
In this session from the Digiday Programmatic Summit Europe summit, Siemens' global senior online marketing manager Paulina Jamsa talks about the seven ways that help brands and agencies collaborate better.
A lot of companies fall short in their efforts to take their advertising in-house or clean up their supply chains. It’s a regular complaint among publishers, for example, that advertisers cry foul on issues of brand safety, but hardly change their budgets and spending to address the problems. At the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit recently held in Estoril, Portugal, Jellyfish digital strategy director Gawain Owen said the key is to think about people, processes and tools.
The definition of artificial intelligence and what technology constitutes it remains highly debatable. Michael Lawder, svp of customer care at Samsung Electronics in North America, said AI tech isn't advanced enough yet regardless. Lawder discusses AI's potential, integrating AI into customer service, data privacy and more in the session from the Digiday AI summit.
At the Digiday AI summit, Ecovas Robotics' Christopher Caen explains how AI can kill your brand or save it.
In this session from the Digiday AI marketing summit, Samir Desai talks through using AI to motivate fitness club members to stay on their fitness track.
At the Digiday Publishing Summit, Brandon Berger, chief business officer at TheSkimm, talks about the company's subscription business.
Insider, a publisher whose content and business model was seemingly built to thrive off Facebook, is weathering Facebook's news feed change. Spande discusses Insider's growth in a changed Facebook environment, the publisher's advertising business, its subscription offering and more in this session.
Clique Media Group combined editorial sites with consumer products. Launched by Katherine Power and Hillary Kerr, the company took off with the idea of making fashion and beauty content shoppable. Fast forward to 2016, and CMG launched their first apparel brand, Who What Wear, with Target. Power talks about CMG's initial business plan, how it has evolved and what the value offering for venture capitalists is in its model and more in the session.
At the Digiday Publishing Summit, Bobby Moran talks about the mistakes the publisher made while building out their subscription product and the factors that make the product stronger and more valuable.
Many publishers have struggled since Facebook's news feed change, but a loyal audience and brand recognition have helped New York Media weather the shift. Only 10 percent of the publisher's traffic came from Facebook in the first place, according to Avi Zimak, CRO and publisher at New York Media, who spoke last week at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado. Zimak discusses Facebook's role in New York Media's content distribution, the company's revenue streams, Apple News' potential and more in this session.
Data, platforms, return on investment and every other way in which agencies have justified and strategized marketing spend to clients is facing increased scrutiny. Clients want proof for everything. In this session from the Digiday Media Buying summit, Lisa Purpura, group director of media at VML, talked to Digiday’s Shareen Pathak and discusses lies, damned lies and statistics.
In this session from the Digiday Media Buying Summit, Erica Schmidt, global CEO at Cadreon, IPG’s ad tech unit, talks about how media agencies are cutting ad tech vendors.
Amazon is poised to become a major force in the media business, thanks in large part to its deep trove of customer buying data. But for now, Amazon's actually weak in metrics, according to Tod Harrick, vp of product at Marketplace Ignition, who spoke at the Digiday Media Buying Summit earlier this month.
A little over a year ago, News UK’s branded content arm, Bridge Studio, overhauled its operations and adopted an agency approach to working with brands. But it hasn't eliminated agencies from the picture. Mark Field, director of Bridge Studio, joined us at the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe in February. He discussed why the oublisher has adopted an agency approach, why publishers aren't aiming to take over from agencies, how brand content is different from advertising, and Bridge Studio's campaign for the Movember Foundation
At the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe, Conde Nast International CRO Jamie Jouning talks about how the brand has adapted to an international marketplace when the foundation of the publisher is in local market mentality.
For publishers diversifying their revenue streams, it’s all about embracing the marketer’s mentality. In this episode, Heart UK's Duncan Chater discusses the data, content and licensing arms of Hearst UK's business. Hearst UK's position as a legacy brand also sets it up for building a strong events business and playing into influencer marketing strategies.
At the Digiday Marketing Summit, Korrine Munson talked about how embracing digital with conventional marketing tactics.
At the Digiday Marketing Summit, Edlynne Laryea talked about how partnerships with platforms don't have to be one sided.
In the last year, McDonald's has aggressively pushed for a global digital identity and presence. A little over five months ago, Dana Strokovsky came on board as its global social media director, and as she worked across markets around the world, she realized a primary task for her was to make teams work and care beyond their silos. She discussed how different markets underneath the same brand can move differently, managing time between teams in different markets, social media strategies and more.
This episode is a session from the Digiday Programmatic Media Summit. Michael Hannon, VP of Yield and Revenue optimization at Purch, talks about how to make server-to-server work.
In this episode, Vox Media's Director of Programmatic Operations Dave Pond talks about the big bets they're making on the future of programmatic advertising.
The machines are not going to take over. That’s the message from Jana Meron, vp of programmatic & data strategy at Business Insider, who spoke at the Digiday Programmatic Media Summit last month. As publishers completely embrace programmatic Meron talked about some important shifts an organization and team will have to make to let programmatic advertising change their world, as she shows with Business Insider's example.
Turner president David Levy discussed the company's holistic approach to its properties and more at the Digiday Video Anywhere Summit.
In this episode, a session from the Digiday Video Anywhere Summit that we recently held in Laguna Beach, California. Digiday senior report Sahil Patel talks to Rob Gelick from CBS Interactive Entertainment about how CBS is adapting to the future of streaming.
At the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe in Berlin, Germany, The Guardian's Daniel Spears talked about why all publishers need to be involved in the programmatic transformation.
At the Digiday Publishing Suummit Europe held in Berlin, Germany Digiday editor-in-chief Brian Morrissey speaks to Highsnobiety founder David Fischer on how the modern publisher also acts as an agency.
At the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe held in Berlin, Germany, New York Times' Francesca Donner talks to Digiday UK editor Jess Davies about how the Times is building back trust in the media through Times Insider, a product that takes readers behind the scenes on how stories were reported.
At the French publication Le Monde, a team of 12 people called Les Décodeurs tackles the problem of fake news by fact-checking, hoax-busting, investigations and data journalism. Alongside, of the many initiatives they took in this direction, the team also decided to collaborate on regulating fake news content with Facebook. Even as the collaboration has been helpful, Samuel Laurent, deputy editor of Les Décodeurs, vocied his concern at the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe in Berlin. “My main fear is that Facebook has a billion people. How can you regulate a billion people every day?”
Digiday co-executive editor speaks to Essence CEO Christian Juhl on how the global media agency went on to be valued at $3 billion dollar while remaining true to its brand. The session was held at the Digiday Agency Summit in Charleston, South Carolina.
Accenture's Glen Hartman talks to Digiday Reporter Yuyu Chen about what's it like when agencies move into consultancies at the Digiday Agency Summit held in Charleston, South Carolina.
At the Digiday Agency Summit in Charleston, South Carolina, Bailey Lauerman CEO Greg Andersen discussed why Middle America deserves more attention from brands.
Complex Network's evp of product and business development Scott Cherkin took the stage during the Digiday Publishing Summit held in Key Biscayne, Florida to talk to Digiday senior reporter Sahil Patel about why media companies can't just dip their toe in the water when it comes to video and how it requires a company-wide investment.
Founder and President of Axios Roy Schwartz took the stage at the Digiday Publishing Summit to talk with Digiday editor-in-chief Brian Morrissey about why Axios is more than Politico 2.0, the new trust era in journalism, and delaying the launch of Axios' pricey subscription offering.