The Digiday Podcast
Digiday
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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Aug 14, 2018 • 29min
Hodinkee’s Ben Clymer: “Making the flip from 100 percent ads to a majority in commerce is difficult”
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 business model has evolved from entirely depending on ad dollars to making 65 percent of its revenue from e-commerce.
Aug 7, 2018 • 32min
The Information’s Jessica Lessin on five years of subscription journalism
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 from subscriptions. It just had its most successful Q2 yet, expanded its team to 23 reporters and has pushed its coverage beyond tech.
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.
