The Digiday Podcast
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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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Jul 31, 2018 • 33min
Architectural Digest’s Amy Astley: Architectural Digest isn't for 'old, rich people'
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, building a digital presence, and dealing with shrinking editorial teams.
Jul 24, 2018 • 35min
Mindbodygreen’s Jason and Colleen Wachob on the business of wellness
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 brand in the middle of the growing cultural shift to putting a premium on health, mindfulness and sustainable living.
Jul 17, 2018 • 45min
Google’s Richard Gingras: Platforms didn't destroy journalism's business model
Richard Gingras, vp of news at Google, discusses working with publishers, local news, advertising, and more on this episode.
Jul 10, 2018 • 37min
BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: ‘We’ve proven we can be profitable’
Buzzfeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti talks about profitability versus growth, his company's relationship with Facebook, and more.
Jul 4, 2018 • 33min
LinkedIn’s Dan Roth: 'We don’t want to burn newsrooms'
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, video and more in the episode.
Jun 27, 2018 • 38min
NYT's head of ads Sebastian Tomich: The role of the publisher is to sell ideas
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, commerce, licensing and other business lines.
Jun 22, 2018 • 33min
Complex's Rich Antoniello: Media is a game of musical chairs with too many players and too few chairs
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.
Jun 21, 2018 • 28min
FT’s Jon Slade: We stopped advertising on Facebook over political ads policy
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 advertising from Facebook in the U.S.
Jun 20, 2018 • 20min
CBS’ Christy Tanner: 'Platforms are absolutely not a synonym for Facebook'
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 with various other platforms, and it's seeing positive results, Tanner said.
Jun 19, 2018 • 23min
Reddit’s Jen Wong: Ads will be a big business for us
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.
