Mobile Nations' Kevin Michaluk: 'We didn't know what to spend VC money on'
Bonus: This March, the bootstrapped media company Mobile Nations, a digital publisher with a focus on consumer electronics, was acquired by...
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The Digiday Podcast
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.
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Barstool Sports' Erika Nardini: Barstool aims to hit $100m in revenue in 2020
Barstool Sports CEO Erika Nardini believes Barstool can be a $100 million revenue company "within the next year and a half." That will have...
Morning Brew's Austin Rief: Bootstrapping a media company gives you focus
This is a special four-episode series of the Digiday Podcast, where we invite executives from bootstrapped media companies to talk about how...
The Daily Beast's Noah Shachtman: We want to be an 'old school, scrappy and street-smart tabloid'
The Mueller Report confirmed a lot of reporting already done around the Trump administration and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. One...
Courier's Jeff Taylor: Having a lot of VC money can leave you 'punch drunk'
In this special four-episode series of the Digiday Podcast, we invite executives from bootstrapped media companies to talk about how they ru...
Meredith's Jon Werther: Apple News+ is a growth opportunity
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...
Hearst's Mike Smith explains WTF is programmatic advertising
Programmatic advertising is playing a larger role in the future of publishing. Recent Digiday research found that over half of publishers no...
Group Nine's Christa Carone: Consolidation has helped us be more efficient
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's Barak Shragai: You can build media brands on Instagram
IMGN Media, the digital media company that owns Daquan, the meme account with 12.3 million Instagram followers, is focused on creating conte...
Conde Nast CRO Pamela Drucker Mann: Not all brands are worth paying for
2018 was a year of organizational restructuring at Condé Nast, followed by a decision to offset the decline in print business by focusing on...
Columbia University's Emily Bell: Platforms need to pay for polluting the journalism environment
Local journalism is in crisis. Emily Bell, director of Tow Center at Columbia University, sees hope in policy and regulation to provide a so...
Dina Srinivasan: Facebook is a monopoly, but breaking it up isn't the answer
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...
NewsGuard's Steven Brill: A journalistic approach to digital misinformation can work
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...
USA Today Network's Michael Kuntz: In this industry, you're either the consolidator or consolidated
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...
New York Media's Pam Wasserstein: We have to diversify from an ad-driven model
Diversification is on most publishers' minds as they work to build sustainable businesses that can withstand massive shifts. Pam Wasserstein...
Vox Media's Melissa Bell: The industry has given Facebook too much emphasis in the conversation
Digital media is going through a tumultuous period. Layoffs at publishers such as Buzzfeed, Gannett and Vice in recent weeks have become the...
The Washington Post's Aram Zucker-Scharff: You can't solve transparency by adding more technology
For many, digital media's ills are down to the broken advertising technology that acts as the plumbing for the industry. Adam Zucker-Scharff...
The Atlantic's Taylor Lorenz: Facebook is irrelevant to Gen-Z
Gen-Z is the latest object of marketer fascination. The teenage demographic has its own language and very different traits when it comes to...
Action Network's Patrick Keane: I want to turn all sports fans into bettors
If you're in sports media, you're likely familiar with the world of sports betting. Action Network, a subscription-based media company that...
Inside the Washington Post's podcast strategy
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...