Question of the Day: How did data shape content creation in a year of change?

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In 2021, Digiday and Connatix teamed up to ask experts at the Digiday Publishing Summit how the past year’s unprecedented online audience surge fundamentally changed the ways publishers use data to create content. In this installment of the Question of the Day, Joetta Gobell, vice president of Research and Insights at Dotdash, talks about what shifted within her teams’ data-driven approaches.

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