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Al Jazeera's Yaser Bishr: Publishers are platform 'sweatshops'
"Social media platforms are very bad to retain the audience."
8 years, 4 months ago
Bloomberg Media's Keith Grossman on platforms: 'Be very wary'
"Just putting all of our eggs in one basket because it’s the right short-term thing to do is not where we want to be."
8 years, 4 months ago
Attn’s Matthew Segal: Directing audience to your own properties from Facebook is ‘a losing strategy’
Attn, the 3-year-old media brand that distributes video stories through social platforms, built itself into a short-form video giant by taking a Face…
8 years, 4 months ago
Tasty’s Ashley McCollum: Big video view counts aren’t everything
BuzzFeed food brand Tasty has reached 1.8 billion views monthly on its Facebook videos, but it's looking increasingly beyond views to driving real-w…
8 years, 4 months ago
Washington Post’s Jed Hartman: The industry needs to stop whining about the duopoly
While Google and Facebook hamper publishers' efforts to grow digital ad dollars, The Washington Post CRO Jed Hartman said on this week’s Digiday Podc…
8 years, 4 months ago
Conde Nast's Craig Kostelic: 'We’re completely embracing programmatic'
The Food Innovation Group is home to legacy brands like Bon Appétit, but in the shift to digital, the magazine has become a complement to Bon Appétit…
8 years, 5 months ago
The New York Times’ Meredith Kopit Levien on driving subs and the NYT as a lifestyle brand
The New York Times is one of a few privileged publishers that have transitioned into a subscription business, and to do this, it started behaving lik…
8 years, 5 months ago
Politico’s Poppy MacDonald: We’re not worried about the waning Trump bump
Politico has successfully steered its business model from advertising to subscriptions. Today, with 25,000 Politico Pro subscribers and a 90 percent…
8 years, 5 months ago
Spirited Media’s Jim Brady: Growing audience through display advertising is ‘not natural’
On this week’s Digiday Podcast, Spirited Media’s Jim Brady talks about building a local news media business that's sustainable. The key to economic s…
8 years, 5 months ago
Quartz’s Kevin Delaney: Advertising is still a great business model for news
On this week’s Digiday Podcast, Quartz’s co-president and editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney defended the advertising business model and discussed the piv…
8 years, 6 months ago