Interviews and news

‘We still like to think of ourselves as a start-up’ - BuzzFeed’s VP International Scott Lamb tells DIS contributor Ashley Norris in this exclusive interview about the media company’s plans for news, video and advertising.

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One of the most significant announcements in advertising this year came not from a publisher or an ad agency but from a tech company.

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Contributed by Sadie Hale.

Innovation in publishing is invariably driven by technology as media brands create content for new devices like smartwatches or tablets.

Yet there are other ways publishers can innovate, whether it being in marrying...

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The Digital Innovators' Summit (DIS) presents the people from around the world who are shaping tomorrow's media, and these are just some of the many leading companies that have been on stage at the DIS before.

With media and technology innovation...

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Apart from the chance to save €1,000+ on the final delegate rate if you book today, there are several other reasons to join us for the Digital Innovators' Summit (DIS) in Berlin, Germany from 20-22 March 2016.

Here’s why you need to book today to...

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Digital media is evolving at an incredible pace. New platforms and business models are emerging all the time. Sometimes it is hard keeping up with the speed of all the changes.

That's why FIPP and VDZ's Digital Innovators' Summit (DIS), held in...

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One lasting impression from this year’s Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS) in Berlin, Germany was that multi-platform strategies for magazine media companies are starting to bear fruit. See why.

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The number of delegates at this year’s Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin, on 23-24 March, will be record for the event. They are from 32 countries (and counting) and include CEOs, other C-suite executives, digital, commercial and content managers...

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Matt Crystal, Head of International at Pinterest, shares what makes Pinterest so unique, why it’s not just for women and where he sees the platform headed in the future.

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Shane Wall, CTO of Hewlett-Packard, shares the concept of Blended Reality which combines our physical and digital worlds to create and enable richer experiences for people.

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Lutz Finger talks about how the promise of big data lies in making the wishes and habits of customers visible so they can be acted on.

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The DIS delegates will have the opportunity to experience Google House. To get a better sense of what it is, we interviewed Gerrit Rabenstein of Google.

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DIS 2015 will bring you many examples and case studies of others in media and content businesses who have innovated, but also teach about the process and the culture of innovation.

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Justin Ferrell of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school), talks about the value of multi-disciplinary approaches and some of the other principles of innovations that the d.school conveys.

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Alan South talks about the move from the physical to combined physical/digital world and what it means from an innovation perspective.

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Having been a pioneer in online services and new media for decades, Richard Gingras, Head of Google News, shares his thoughts on how publishers can innovate and thrive in times of dramatic change.

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EMAP has transformed from a declining advertising dependent print business to a growing multichannel subscription business.

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Jan Bechler is a serial entrepreneur and online evangelist. We talk to Jan about the value of hackathons to media owners, and about the topic for the next Media Hackday.

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David Nussbaum, CEO of F+W, shares his approaches and insights into transforming a 100 year old niche print publisher into a digital-first content and e-commerce company.

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