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

Bonus: This March, the bootstrapped media company Mobile Nations, a digital publisher with a focus on consumer electronics, was acquired by...

Barstool Sports CEO Erika Nardini believes Barstool can be a $100 million revenue company "within the next year and a half." That will have...

This is a special four-episode series of the Digiday Podcast, where we invite executives from bootstrapped media companies to talk about how...

The Mueller Report confirmed a lot of reporting already done around the Trump administration and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. One...

In this special four-episode series of the Digiday Podcast, we invite executives from bootstrapped media companies to talk about how they ru...

Meredith, which acquired Time Inc in 2018, is home to a stable of female-focused media brands like People and Every Day with Rachel Ray. The...

Programmatic advertising is playing a larger role in the future of publishing. Recent Digiday research found that over half of publishers no...

The pivot to paid is not on the cards for Group Nine, the holding company founded in 2016 that houses brands including The Dodo, NowThis and...

IMGN Media, the digital media company that owns Daquan, the meme account with 12.3 million Instagram followers, is focused on creating conte...

2018 was a year of organizational restructuring at Condé Nast, followed by a decision to offset the decline in print business by focusing on...

Local journalism is in crisis. Emily Bell, director of Tow Center at Columbia University, sees hope in policy and regulation to provide a so...

Whether big tech platforms need to be broken up in order to rein them in is now a matter of public debate -- and will be a big topic during...

One-year-old startup NewsGuard is trying to turn the problem of unreliable and fake news into a real business. The company, which raised $6...

In the era of deep connections with passionate audiences, being in the middle is rough. That's why USA Today is focused on scale. USA Today...

Diversification is on most publishers' minds as they work to build sustainable businesses that can withstand massive shifts. Pam Wasserstein...

Digital media is going through a tumultuous period. Layoffs at publishers such as Buzzfeed, Gannett and Vice in recent weeks have become the...

For many, digital media's ills are down to the broken advertising technology that acts as the plumbing for the industry. Adam Zucker-Scharff...

Gen-Z is the latest object of marketer fascination. The teenage demographic has its own language and very different traits when it comes to...

If you're in sports media, you're likely familiar with the world of sports betting. Action Network, a subscription-based media company that...

Publisher interest in podcasts is at an all-time high. But figuring out exactly what kind of storytelling model is ideal for audiences, as w...

This week, it was reported that Conde Nast is going to put all its titles behind a paywall in the U.S. by the end of the year. International...

For most publishers, the pivot to paid has meant a whole new way of working. But the Wall Street Journal has had a paywall since 1997 and th...

At a time when subscriptions are the big topic in the media industry, The Hill is going big on video. Jimmy Finkelstein, chairman of The Hil...

As publishers focus on digital products -- from their sites to apps to newsletters to podcasts -- it's getting hard to operationalize the pr...

With The New York Times's shift to focus on audience revenue, it's also put more of an emphasis on brand building. David Rubin, the first-ev...

On this episode of the Digiday Podcast, as part of five-episode series where we invite guests to dive deep into the mechanics of making prod...

With publishers refocusing on direct connections with their audience, email newsletters are critical. Quartz has bet on email from its earli...

On this episode of the Digiday Podcast, we recap the big themes that emerged for publishers this year, from pivoting to a reader revenue str...

Most publishers see Snapchat as a nice-to-have but not a must-have platform. But Vertical Networks, a digital content company founded by Eli...

Quartz is onto its next big move to diversify reader revenue. The publisher, which originally launched as an ad-supported model, launched a...

The pivot to paid models is on. Next up: CNN, who is focusing its strategy on creating a variety of paid products for specific subsets of th...

Craig Silverman's stories have it all: lies, fraud and billions of stolen dollars. But they're far from a true crime podcast. The Toronto-ba...

Digital-only media brands with millions of dollars in venture capital funding have gotten a lot of attention. However, slowly but surely, th...

As the end of 2018 approaches, we're also coming to the end of an era of VC-funded media companies, perhaps because the industry was not con...

This year the buzz has been around subscriptions. At the most recent live podcast event for Digiday Plus members, BBC Global News CEO Jim Eg...

Industry Dive, an online-only B2B company based in Washington D.C., is a good proof point that the sky is not falling for all "ad-dependent"...

For female media brand PopSugar, the name of the game now is profits. The 12-year-old company has finally gotten into the black, and it inte...

Bloomberg is not immune to the pressures of old business models, but it does have a plan. It launched a subscription offering, struck a part...

Skift CEO Rafat Ali is vocal about his beliefs about building sustainable media businesses -- and the advantages of focusing on more narrow...

CoinDesk CEO Kevin Worth discusses how they approach the coverage of crypto and where the road lies ahead.

The Guardian has stuck to its "open" mantra by asking readers for donations instead of putting up a paywall. They have 800,000 paying member...

TV is changing in front of our eyes. From cord-cutters to cord-nevers, people are increasingly are getting their TV through streaming servic...

Martha Stewart was an influencer before social media influencers existed. Elizabeth Graves, the editor in chief of Martha Stewart Living, sa...

Business Insider launched BI Prime in January 2018, and chief content officer Nicholas Carlson said it has a business as well as editorial i...

Publishers are coming up with a variety of ways to support content and encourage direct reader revenue. But it all starts with building a br...

Hunter Walk, a partner at early stage venture firm Homebrew, says reactions around brand safety are overblown. He talks advertising, investi...

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 S...

When Jessica Lessin founded The Information in 2013 with subscriptions as its only revenue stream, people called the idea absurd. But fast-f...

The mission for many legacy publishers is to reinvent and engage a younger demographic, including the Conde Nast title Architectural Digest,...

Wellness is an exploding industry, with some estimates putting it at $3.7 trillion in annual spending . On this week's episode of the Digida...