The Digiday Podcast

The Digiday Podcast is a weekly show on the big stories and issues that matter to brands, agencies and publishers as they transition to the digital age.

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Hodinkee’s Ben Clymer: “Making the flip from 10...
Hodinkee has built a media brand around those passionate about watches. It started as a Tumblr page by Ben Clymer, who was working on Wall Street at the time. Clymer turned Hodinkee into a leading source of content related to watches and the...
28 min
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The Information’s Jessica Lessin on five years ...
When Jessica Lessin founded The Information in 2013 with subscriptions as its only revenue stream, people called the idea absurd. But fast-forward five years, and the model appears to be working. Over 90 percent of The Information’s revenue is now...
31 min
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Architectural Digest’s Amy Astley: Architectura...
The mission for many legacy publishers is to reinvent and engage a younger demographic, including the Conde Nast title Architectural Digest, according to its editor-in-chief Amy Astley. She discusses reinventing the brand for a younger set,...
32 min
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Mindbodygreen’s Jason and Colleen Wachob on the...
Wellness is an exploding industry, with some estimates putting it at $3.7 trillion in annual spending. On this week's episode of the Digiday Podcast, Mindbodygreen cofounders Jason and Colleen Wachob want to put what they call an accidental media...
35 min
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Google’s Richard Gingras: Platforms didn't dest...
Richard Gingras, vp of news at Google, discusses working with publishers, local news, advertising, and more on this episode.
44 min
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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: ‘We’ve proven we can ...
Buzzfeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti talks about profitability versus growth, his company's relationship with Facebook, and more.
36 min
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LinkedIn’s Dan Roth: 'We don’t want to burn new...
The news industry has a love-hate relationship with platforms, but for LinkedIn, that doesn't need to be the case. Roth, a former editor at Fortune, discusses LinkedIn’s relationship with publishers, its differentiation from other social platforms,...
33 min
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NYT's head of ads Sebastian Tomich: The role of...
In which NYT's global head of advertising Sebastian Tomich argues that publishers will change direction on their agency businesses. Native is not going to save publishers. Instead, agency services are sitting alongside subscriptions, display,...
37 min
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Complex's Rich Antoniello: Media is a game of m...
For Complex Networks CEO Rich Antoniello, the pivot to reality in digital media couldn't come soon enough. He joined Digiday for a live podcast at the Cannes Lions festival.
32 min
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FT’s Jon Slade: We stopped advertising on Faceb...
Facebook has rankled publishers with its political ads policy, which lumps promoted publisher content in with political advertising. For Jon Slade, the global chief commercial officer at the Financial Times, the policy was enough for the FT to pull...
28 min
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CBS’ Christy Tanner: 'Platforms are absolutely ...
The media industry’s struggle with Facebook is increasingly looking like a "Game of Thrones" episode to Christy Tanner, evp and gm of CBS News Digital. The focus is on the wall while other armies are amassing behind you. CBS works...
19 min
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Reddit’s Jen Wong: Ads will be a big business f...
Reddit has 330 million monthly users on its platform but still struggles to woo advertisers. That’s why Jen Wong, its newly minted chief operating officer, is at Cannes. She talks about Reddit's advertising ambitions.
23 min
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The New York Post’s Jesse Angelo: Facebook is a...
Publishers are more vocal than ever about the threat of Facebook to their industry, but Facebook is also a looming national security threat, according to New York Post CEO and publisher Jesse Angelo. Facebook will have to create better artificial...
29 min
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USA Today’s Nicole Carroll: 'We can’t be all th...
USA Today is for “the entire United States,” but that does not mean it can be “all things to all people,” said Nicole Carroll, the publisher's new editor-in-chief, on this week’s Digiday Podcast. As local news publishers struggle to...
32 min
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Glamour’s Samantha Barry: Building habit trumps...
When Glamour tapped social and digital media aficionado Samantha Barry as its new editor-in-chief, she steered the team effort toward making Glamour a habit for readers online. She is building habit for Glamour among readers through differentiated...
30 min
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‘People who suck at media use the duopoly as an...
Digiday+ held an exclusive member event on May 23 featuring a rapid-fire discussion between Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel, Bustle CEO Bryan Goldberg and Digiday Editor-in-Chief Brian Morrissey. 
45 min
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Genius’ Ilan Zechory: YouTube, not Facebook, is...
Genius has spent the past two years expanding beyond being an annotations site to adding original video content, with series like "Verified" and "Deconstructed." But Genius is not betting on Facebook, once the go-to for publishers new to video....
50 min
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The Telegraph's Robert Bridge on pivoting to a ...
In the pivot to subscriptions, a variety of paywall and subscription models are emerging. The Telegraph chose a freemium model to make sure visitors to the site power its advertising business, and subscribers keep coming in for distinct...
34 min
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Cheddar’s Jon Steinberg is betting big on OTT b...
37 min
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Hayley Romer: Advertisers must choose between p...
It’s been about nine months since Emerson Collective, a philanthropic organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, acquired a majority stake in The Atlantic. On this week’s Digiday Podcast, The Atlantic’s svp Hayley Romer talks about the...
40 min
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Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall on making s...
Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall started the website as a personal blog in 2000. Today, TPM is a 25-person independent publisher that's moving from an ad-dependent model to over half of revenue coming from 26,000 subscribers. Marshall...
48 min
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HuffPost’s Jared Grusd: Subscriptions won't wor...
The New York Times has proved to be a success story for publishers contemplating a pivot to subscriptions. But HuffPost CEO Jared Grusd says a subscription business is not for everyone, particularly digital-first news media organizations. Grusd...
28 min
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Mic’s Chris Altchek: Facebook’s news feed is n...
This week's guest is Chris Altchek, the CEO and co-founder of Mic, a news publisher focused on young people. Mic has raised nearly $60 million -- and it was one of the first publishers to talk about the pivot to video. Chris discusses whether the...
44 min
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Time Out CEO Julio Bruno on making commerce cor...
When CEO Julio Bruno joined Time Out three years ago, it was a publishing guide for cities. Today, the company has diversified into commerce, events and operating branded food markets. Last year, the group drove 700,000 transactions, from restaurant...
36 min
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‘You’re constantly building the plane while fly...
For Digiday’s 10th anniversary, founder and CEO Nick Friese joined the Digiday Podcast to talk about the company's first 10 years and its diverse revenue streams.
26 min