‘Race to the bottom’: Top publishing execs sound off on the biggest challenges in the industry
At the Digiday Publishing Summit last month, hundreds of industry leaders gathered to discuss building products to monetize audiences, sifting through data and incorporating insights. Here’s a quick look at five major takeaways from our most recent summit. The key hits:
- Publishers that are focused on the top line are depressing the entire business.
- To create effective subscription products, you have to constantly test, learn and iterate.
- Apple News+ puts publishers in the position of becoming production houses, and they lose their connection with the consumer.
- When trying to scale an events business, the key is partnerships.
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‘None of this is celebrity for celebrity’s sake’: How publishers are trying to scale virtual events with high-profile star power
Scale "matters when making a media buy" for virtual events, according to Barry Lowenthal, CEO of media agency the MediaKitchen, and celebrity appearances help to achieve that.
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‘An unprecedented period of Darwinian experimentation’: As sports return, Twitter eyes ad boost
The lack of match-day revenue has forced clubs to better understand the commercial value of platforms like Twitter.
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‘The more culture you own’: Condé Nast pursues more revenue growth with new brand-strength metric
Condé Nast is hoping its new advertising measurement framework can drive growth for its digital ad and commerce businesses.
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SponsoredThe race to frictionless consumer journeys is expanding beyond marketplaces
Compressing consumers’ path-to-purchase is the holy grail of advertising and marketing. When Jeff Bezos authored 1-Click in 2011, advertisers began to realize that in some cases — especially for consumables — awareness, consideration and purchase can all happen in seconds. Since then the rise of e-commerce marketplaces has forced a major shift in the design […]
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‘Permission to think long term’: The Atlantic digs for deeper, smarter client partnerships
Atlantic Brand Partners will account for all The Atlantic’s business-to-business revenue, which is currently two-thirds of The Atlantic's overall revenues.
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‘Re-architecting the entire process’: How Vice is preparing for life after the third-party cookie
Vice is working to bolster its first-party data strategy, improve its registration process and double down on contextual ads.
