Question of the day: Platforms, friend or foe?

The role of platforms was a major topic for attendees at Digiday’s publishing summit in Vail. The relationship between publishers and major traffic drivers like Facebook and Google has never been more important so we sat down with a few publishers to ask them one single question about today’s biggest platforms: Friend or foe? Find out what industry leaders like Andrea Mazey, director of online and video partnerships at Bonnier, Jed Hartman, CRO of The Washington Post, Amanda Gomez, senior director of revenue operations at the New York Post, and Kurt Muller, COO of The Onion have to say about Snapchat, Twitter, and the Facebook-Google duopoly.

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