The Digiday Podcast

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The Digiday Podcast is a weekly show on the big stories and issues that matter to brands, agencies and publishers as they transition to the digital age.

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Oct 2, 2018 · 35 min
CoinDesk's Kevin Worth: In the GDPR era, crypto may help publishers rethink audience and revenue
CoinDesk CEO Kevin Worth discusses how they approach the coverage of crypto and where the road lies ahead.
Sep 25, 2018 · 46 min
The Guardian's David Pemsel: We can't be complacent
The Guardian has stuck to its “open” mantra by asking readers for donations instead of putting up a paywall. They have 800,000 paying members, putting The Guardian on the path to profitability. The Guardian CEO David Pemsel says while this model...
Sep 18, 2018 · 29 min
Roku’s Scott Rosenberg: Cable operators have to innovate
TV is changing in front of our eyes. From cord-cutters to cord-nevers, people are increasingly are getting their TV through streaming services like Apple TV or Roku. The future of cable TV has been in flux but Roku’s gm of Roku’s platform business...
Sep 11, 2018 · 28 min
Martha Stewart Living's Elizabeth Graves: 'The brand will always be relevant with any demographic'
Martha Stewart was an influencer before social media influencers existed. Elizabeth Graves, the editor in chief of Martha Stewart Living, says modernizing brand is work in progress but doesn’t need too much effort. In our latest podcast, Graves...
Sep 4, 2018 · 33 min
Insider Inc.’s Nicholas Carlson: Subscriptions make narrower, deeper journalism possible
Business Insider launched BI Prime in January 2018, and chief content officer Nicholas Carlson said it has a business as well as editorial incentive. Carlson also talked about their recent editorial reorganization between the BI and Insider brands,...
Aug 28, 2018 · 37 min
Brit+Co’s Brit Morin: Modern media brands are human brands
Publishers are coming up with a variety of ways to support content and encourage direct reader revenue. But it all starts with building a brand that people want to pay for. Brit Morin, founder of Brit+Co and a former Google employee, has been working...
Aug 21, 2018 · 41 min
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk: Brand safety concerns can be overblown
Hunter Walk, a partner at early stage venture firm Homebrew, says reactions around brand safety are overblown. He talks advertising, investing and the problem of platforms in this show.
Aug 14, 2018 · 28 min
Hodinkee’s Ben Clymer: “Making the flip from 100 percent ads to a majority in commerce is difficult”
Hodinkee has built a media brand around those passionate about watches. It started as a Tumblr page by Ben Clymer, who was working on Wall Street at the time. Clymer turned Hodinkee into a leading source of content related to watches and the...
Aug 7, 2018 · 31 min
The Information’s Jessica Lessin on five years of subscription journalism
When Jessica Lessin founded The Information in 2013 with subscriptions as its only revenue stream, people called the idea absurd. But fast-forward five years, and the model appears to be working. Over 90 percent of The Information’s revenue is now...
Jul 31, 2018 · 32 min
Architectural Digest’s Amy Astley: Architectural Digest isn't for 'old, rich people'
The mission for many legacy publishers is to reinvent and engage a younger demographic, including the Conde Nast title Architectural Digest, according to its editor-in-chief Amy Astley. She discusses reinventing the brand for a younger set,...
Jul 24, 2018 · 35 min
Mindbodygreen’s Jason and Colleen Wachob on the business of wellness
Wellness is an exploding industry, with some estimates putting it at $3.7 trillion in annual spending. On this week's episode of the Digiday Podcast, Mindbodygreen cofounders Jason and Colleen Wachob want to put what they call an accidental media...
Jul 17, 2018 · 44 min
Google’s Richard Gingras: Platforms didn't destroy journalism's business model
Richard Gingras, vp of news at Google, discusses working with publishers, local news, advertising, and more on this episode.
Jul 10, 2018 · 36 min
BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: ‘We’ve proven we can be profitable’
Buzzfeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti talks about profitability versus growth, his company's relationship with Facebook, and more.
Jul 4, 2018 · 33 min
LinkedIn’s Dan Roth: 'We don’t want to burn newsrooms'
The news industry has a love-hate relationship with platforms, but for LinkedIn, that doesn't need to be the case. Roth, a former editor at Fortune, discusses LinkedIn’s relationship with publishers, its differentiation from other social platforms,...
Jun 27, 2018 · 37 min
NYT's head of ads Sebastian Tomich: The role of the publisher is to sell ideas
In which NYT's global head of advertising Sebastian Tomich argues that publishers will change direction on their agency businesses. Native is not going to save publishers. Instead, agency services are sitting alongside subscriptions, display,...
Jun 22, 2018 · 32 min
Complex's Rich Antoniello: Media is a game of musical chairs with too many players and too few chairs
For Complex Networks CEO Rich Antoniello, the pivot to reality in digital media couldn't come soon enough. He joined Digiday for a live podcast at the Cannes Lions festival.
Jun 21, 2018 · 28 min
FT’s Jon Slade: We stopped advertising on Facebook over political ads policy
Facebook has rankled publishers with its political ads policy, which lumps promoted publisher content in with political advertising. For Jon Slade, the global chief commercial officer at the Financial Times, the policy was enough for the FT to pull...
Jun 20, 2018 · 19 min
CBS’ Christy Tanner: 'Platforms are absolutely not a synonym for Facebook'
The media industry’s struggle with Facebook is increasingly looking like a "Game of Thrones" episode to Christy Tanner, evp and gm of CBS News Digital. The focus is on the wall while other armies are amassing behind you. CBS works...
Jun 19, 2018 · 23 min
Reddit’s Jen Wong: Ads will be a big business for us
Reddit has 330 million monthly users on its platform but still struggles to woo advertisers. That’s why Jen Wong, its newly minted chief operating officer, is at Cannes. She talks about Reddit's advertising ambitions.
Jun 18, 2018 · 29 min
The New York Post’s Jesse Angelo: Facebook is a national security threat
Publishers are more vocal than ever about the threat of Facebook to their industry, but Facebook is also a looming national security threat, according to New York Post CEO and publisher Jesse Angelo. Facebook will have to create better artificial...