Digiday+ Deep Dive podcast: Subscription publishers (still) have platform problems

The Digiday+ Deep Dive is a new podcast available exclusively to Digiday+ members. Digiday editors discuss the week’s biggest stories, and offer a glimpse into what’s being talked about in the newsroom.
This week, Digiday reporter Max Willens joins executive editor Lucia Moses to discuss the platform problems that subscription publishers still struggle with.
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