Digiday Live

The process of discovering and developing new talent is not just for new TV shows anymore. Networks are looking for internet sensations as well. Viacom head of talent Paula Kaplan discussed the ins and outs of working with digital talent at the Digiday Future of Entertainment event held in Los Angeles, California on October 25.

As much as YouTube and other social platforms say they’re committed to brand safety, things end up going awry and campaigns can get caught in the middle. Enter the brand safety officer, a role that some agencies have created to get ahead of protecting media investment. Hear from Joe Barone, managing partner brand safety Americas for GroupM, about why establishing this role should be prioritized, and what the future looks like for the brand safety officer.

It’s becoming an ultimatum: clients are demanding transparency from agencies. Brands want to connect the dots and understand where their advertising dollars are going, so it’s time for agencies to step up. Hear Michael Nicholas, chief digital officer of Media Assembly, speak about how they’re ensuring transparency to cultivate better relationship with clients.

New technology may be expensive but testing it doesn’t need to be. Sarah Stringer, svp head of innovation for Carat USA, recently spoke at the Digiday Media Buying Summit held in Austin, Texas from October 16-17. She said new technology should be tested in the cheapest way possible. Stringer explores how to think about new technologies, how to budget for technology testing and more in this session.

CNN has responded to ever greater complexity in the advertising ecosystem by creating CNN Reach - a new unit within CNN International Commercial to specialize in smart targeting of audiences and campaign optimisation on CNN platforms and beyond. In this session from Digiday Publishing Summit Europe, CNN international executives Rob Bradley and Leo Urushibata go under the bonnet of how CNN Reach works, why it was created and why publishers need to evolve and offer more to clients by introducing such consultancy services.

The New York Times has made headlines in the past few years due to the unprecedented success of their subscription proposition, however ad revenue is still an important part of their revenue base. In this session from the Digiday Publishing Summit, Jean-Christophe Demarta shares how the Times is experimenting with new measurement techniques to calculate ROI on ad spend and to use this as a starting point for not only optimising their display offering, but also figuring out where they can diversify.

In this session from the Digiday Publishing Summit europe, Anna Bateson, chief customer officer at The Guardian, talks about how the publisher gets more revenue from consumers than from advertising.

Pink News, a 13-year-old LGBT-focused website, launched on Snapchat in July. Pink News reimagined their desktop content for mobile and made a bunch of new investments. Now it is seeing the gains come in strong. In this session from the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe, CEO Benjamin Cohen explains the approach to Snapchat.

In a session from the Digiday Publishing Summit, Angus Macaulay of Stat News underlines the challenges and solutions to the subscription business model.

The Washington Post is one of the publications who can tell a success story about their subscriptions strategy. At the Digiday Publishing Summit held in Key Biscayne, Florida, The Post’s CRO Jed Hartman said that the success is not all owed to the Trump bump. In this session, he talks more about The Post’s work on subscriptions, their relationship with platforms and what happened with Instant Articles.