Interviews and news

Patrick Fischer, who joined the company in January 2019 as Chief Business Officer, is the man charged with taking Onefootball’s strategy forward in the coming years. At DIS 2020 he will focus on the company's monetisation methods.

Zetland is a Danish media company that aims to take its audience behind the news via the several longform stories and the podcast it issues each day to its 20,000 subscription paying members.

It has been a very busy 2019 for Wondery with a cash investment of $10 million arriving during a year in which many of the company’s high profile storytelling creations, including The Mysterious Mr Epstein and The Next Big Thing, have topped the...

The Amazon-owned livestreaming video platform has become an increasingly attractive option for both brands and media companies who want to engage with young audiences.

At DIS 2020, Timothy will be explaining why hate speech is increasing and what his company and its clients can do to identify and counter it. Here he outlines why companies use Hatebase’s services and how hate speech differs on the various online...

Facebook’s long promised olive branch to publishers has arrived in the US.

Live events are nothing new, but they are capturing consumers’ attention like never before.  From big festivals to pop-up events, consumers are seeking additional ways to engage with the media brands they like. In an age where 78 per cent of...

10 new(ish) companies that have all made great strides in their attempt to simplify the world of media.

In part two of our podcast masterclass, we turn our attention to repurposing your audio content, to help you squeeze every last drop of value out of each episode.

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Six months after its US launch Apple’s digital news and magazine subscription service, Apple News+, has arrived in the UK. The new service gives users access to more than 150 publications for a single monthly fee. The move, an attempt to build a...

The show started out as The Art of Charm Podcast, which was launched way back in 2006, and went on to become one of the most successful podcasts in the world. However, when “content creation, service, and integrity took a back seat” Jordan decided to...

The future of media will be fascinating? Will the robots take over basic content creation? Are social platforms on their way out? Can membership schemes become the most important revenue stream for news companies?

The teams at DIS/FIPP and VDZ have...

Charlotte Ricca outlines the unlikely revival of The Face, and asks whether we might see other magazine brands return.

Thinking about starting a podcast? Well, there are currently around 700,000 active podcasts and more than 29 million episodes for people to download. So the competition is pretty fierce. Yet don’t let the numbers put you off. As media companies have...

People in power should be held accountable through service journalism. To achieve this two innovations in journalism were highlighted at this year’s Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin: filling information gaps to supply communities with vital...

Perhaps the biggest issue surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular its use in the media, is that executives need to finally grasp what AI actually is. What jobs can it undertake, and how can it save publishers time and money and...

Each year one of the key themes of DIS is how technology has energised magazine publishers in markets across the globe. This year was no different with a quartet of presentations all looking in detail at how digital innovation has helped move...

“Machine learning has moved past the high-school sex phase (everyone talking about it, but no one doing it), to much broader implementations across industries including media.” 

Robin Govik digital strategy at Mittmedia and Sören Karlsson, CEO of...

At a live event on Monday afternoon, Apple launched its USD$9.99 per month news and magazine subscription platform, something like a Spotify for magazines. An important launch partner is The Wall Street Journal, one of only two major publications to...