Interviews and news

The last few years have been challenging ones for B2B media owners, but there are signs that revitalising old revenue sources as well as creating new ones have brought about new opportunities.

Evan Ratliff is the co-founder, CEO, and editor of Atavist, a media and software company that produces a digital storytelling platform and an award-winning magazine and e-singles publishing arm, The Atavist.

The publication of the report into ad blocking by Adobe and PageFair last summer, ignited a passionate online debate about how publishers should approach serving display ads especially to mobile readers...

When most people think about Los Angeles, beautiful beaches, sunny skies and Hollywood usually come to mind. While all of these are accurate representations of LA, when the FIPP/VDZ Digital Innovators Tour (17-22 April) to the West Coast visits in...

As we speed into 2016 some predictions for the year already feel old. But there's no doubt it will be another "interesting" year for publishers.

Just this week Digiday wrote, "The sunny day of hot growth for digital publishers are fading into memory...

Mark Cripps, The Economist’s EVP Brand and Digital Marketing, is convinced that marketing departments hold the key to the future of media companies. Tasked with among other things acquiring new subscribers for The Economist via digital channels, he...

FIPP and VDZ’s 3rd annual Digital Innovators' Tour (DI Tour) to the US, takes place from 17 to 22 April 2016 and will take you to media and tech hot spots in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. The DI Tour is an exclusive, highly valued...

The preliminary agenda for the Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS) in Berlin, Germany in March 2016 is now live with 36 confirmed speakers (and more to come).

Mic.com builds its business on quality journalism targeting a millennial audience. Here we hear about how they engage audiences, their approach to branded content and how they scored an interview with Barack Obama…

Robert Hernandez, an innovator in journalism education, focuses on exploring and developing the intersection of technology and reporting. Here he is with what's cooking in his 'mad scientist of journalism' lab.

Special offers, discounts and a chance to meet the people putting the content together are encouraging people to pay for digital content. Are membership schemes be the way forward for publishers to drive revenue?

The DIS pre-agenda rate expires today at midnight CET.

By booking for the Digital Innovators’ Summit today, you will not only save €800+ on your delegate ticket but you will buy yourself an immersive learning experience second to none. DIS takes place from 20-22 March 2016 (with the main Summit on the...

Join speakers such as Duncan Edwards (Hearst), Colin Bodell (Time Inc.), Mark Cripps (The Economist), Pierre-François Marteau (Schibsted), Kaylee King-Balentine (New York Times), Kate Ward (Refinery 29), Sam Olstein (GE) and many others at the...

The explosion of news and other types of content (from media players and user-generated, for example grassroots movements) has had a profound impact on content consumption habits.

Journalism professor Jake Batsell is an expert on media membership models. At DIS he will talk about best practices he studied at the Texas Tribune and other media, about which models are likely replicable by other media and how memberships will...

At the FIPP Congress 2015 Jacob Weisberg, chairman of Slate, talked about how publishers needed to think seriously about whether or not to work with integrated platforms like Snapchat Discover and Facebook Instant Articles. He described embracing...

Hubert Burda Media is continuing to eye international expansion through digital and recently brought in Martin Weiss, founder of the management consulting company Solon, as head of its Burda Digital Brands International group to develop strategies in...

One of the key changes in advertising in recent years has been the rise of programmatic buying. In many ways it has transformed the way that agencies and media companies view online display advertising.

Journalism technologist Ben Kreimer is one of the first fellows at Buzzfeed’s new Open Lab in San Francisco and will be a speaker at the upcoming Digital Innovators' Summit (DIS).