Legal and Legislative Committee Calls are webinars summarizing and commenting on important policy, law, and legislative news surrounding digital content.  Only Digital Content Next Publisher members may attend.  Contact DCN at [email protected] for a registration URL.

Meeting Agenda

• Analysis and Discussion of Recent Cases Re Publishers Embedding Social Media Posts
• Snapshot Review of Lawsuits Pending v Google and Facebook

The DCN Next: Summit brings together executives from Digital Content Next’s member companies – and select invited guests – to learn from insight-packed speakers.  We’ll meet virtually this year, but our program will, as always, be designed to inspire creativity and innovation.

Legal and Legislative Committee Calls are webinars summarizing and commenting on important policy, law, and legislative news surrounding digital content.  Only Digital Content Next Publisher members may attend.  Contact DCN at [email protected] for a registration URL.

Meeting Agenda

• Update re Copyright Directive Negotiations with Google in France
• Update re Digital Ads Tax in Maryland and other states
  

* Analysis of Legal Challenges Presented by Michael Kimberly, Partner at McDermott Will and Emery

Legal and Legislative Committee Calls are webinars summarizing and commenting on important policy, law, and legislative news surrounding digital content.  Only Digital Content Next Publisher members may attend.  Contact DCN at [email protected] for a registration URL.

Meeting Agenda

• Discussion re Section 230 Reform Legislation and Potential DCN Position
• Discussion re Australia News Media Bargaining Code

A DCN members-only Zoom video event designed to dig deeply into how DCN’s premium publisher members are managing their affiliate revenue businesses, with particular focus on the impact of COVID-19.

Designed to dig deeply into a few tactical areas important to publishers exploring audio for their businesses – from podcasting to digital audio to voice-activated technology. The agenda will feature DCN member speakers who will share their insight and expertise and facilitate room-wide discussions to help our members exchange practical, in-depth information valuable to understanding where audio makes sense for their businesses.

What the pandemic has taught us about podcasting and voice

In this session, Rachel Reed will dive into how audience behavior, listenership and engagement has shifted over the course of the pandemic, and how Meredith brands including Allrecipes, Travel + Leisure, PEOPLE, Southern Living, Entertainment Weekly and more adjusted in real time to meet consumer demand. We’ll also tackle questions including how to grow listenership, convert audiences to audio, and increase engagement on new platforms

Inside The Washington Post’s audio articles strategy

Delve into The Washington Post’s investment in audio articles and hear how they are using automation to unlock written journalism for users’ ears.

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into how DCN’s premium publisher members are managing various aspects of the technology and product areas of their businesses. DCN members will have time during the event to share their insights and expertise and to help each other with practical, in-depth information for their businesses.

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into how DCN’s premium publisher members are managing various aspects of the technology and product areas of their businesses. DCN members will have time during the event to share their insights and expertise and to help each other with practical, in-depth information for their businesses.  This session is sponsored by Algolia.

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into how DCN’s premium publisher members are managing various aspects of the technology and product areas of their businesses. DCN members will have time during the event to share their insights and expertise and to help each other with practical, in-depth information for their businesses.

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into how DCN’s premium publisher members are managing various aspects of the technology and product areas of their businesses. DCN members will have time during the event to share their insights and expertise and to help each other with practical, in-depth information for their businesses.  This session is sponsored by DanAds.

Bloomberg Media launched a digital subscriptions business with a paywall in May 2018. To drive subscriptions and maximize revenue, the Data Science and Engineering team applied machine learning techniques to model user behavior and build a subscription propensity model and a real-time paywall. In this talk, we will present details about the challenges we faced and approaches we considered to implement the subscription propensity model. We will also talk about how we combined this model with user’s engagement, lifetime value (LTV), and user’s content interests to build a real-time paywall. Finally, we will share some results that demonstrate the success of these approaches in increasing Bloomberg Media’s revenue.

Tech and Product Innovation Series is a DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into how DCN’s premium publisher members are managing various aspects of the technology and product areas of their businesses. DCN members will have time during the event to share their insights and expertise and to help each other with practical, in-depth information for their businesses.

Legal and Legislative Committee Calls are webinars summarizing and commenting on important policy, law, and legislative news surrounding digital content.  Only Digital Content Next Publisher members may attend.  Contact DCN at [email protected] for a registration URL.

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations of driving consumer revenue with subscriptions and memberships. Join us for these insightful presentations and open conversations with your DCN peers.

In this session, John Tierney, Senior Director, Ticketing for Major League Baseball (MLB) will take DCN members through the strategy behind the MLB’s ticketholder life cycle at this members-only, closed-door event. He’ll reveal how their data science and analytics team’s “fan avidity metric” – based on their fan’s digital interactions with MLB and its clubs – helps to quantify the strength of a fan’s relationship with each team and drives tactics in their subscription strategy.

Learn how analytics can help you design more relevant content and personalized experiences for your customers.

The Subscription Innovation Series is a DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations of driving consumer revenue with subscriptions and memberships. Join us for these insightful presentations and open conversations with your DCN peers

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations of driving consumer revenue with subscriptions and memberships. Join us for these insightful presentations and open conversations with your DCN peers

Marie Goddard is Director of Customer Relationships for the consumer subscription business at the Financial Times. Based in London, she leads the customer relationships team, responsible for driving engagement and retention, and increasing the overall life-time value of the customer base. Since joining the FT in 2018, Marie has introduced a new life-cycle approach across the customer base, with teams focused on creating customer-centric “centres of excellence”.

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations of driving consumer revenue with subscriptions and memberships. Join us for these insightful presentations and open conversations with your DCN peers.

Miriam Wugmeister, co-head of the privacy and data security group at Morrison Foerster, will lead a discussion about the new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and European Data Protection Board (EPDB) Recommendations. She will brief DCN members on the new requirements and obligations for publishers and facilitate a conversation about common approaches taken by DCN members and other companies.

Legal and Legislative Committee Calls are webinars summarizing and commenting on important policy, law, and legislative news surrounding digital content.  Only Digital Content Next Publisher members may attend.  Contact DCN at [email protected] for a registration URL.

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations of driving consumer revenue with subscriptions and memberships. Join us for these insightful presentations and open conversations with your DCN peers.

A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations of driving consumer revenue with subscriptions and memberships. Join us for these insightful presentations and open conversations with your DCN peers.

It’s a well-known fact: just 10% of online readers drive more than 74% of revenue[1]. So how do top publishers convert their audience into registered users – and incentivize them to return more often?

Andrew Sullivan, Chief Product Officer, OpenWeb and John Fiedler, EVP of Digital Product & Technology, FOX discussed how publishers can motivate registrations – and create stronger, more loyal relationships with their audience.

The DCN Legal and Legislative Committee’s monthly virtual meetings summarize and comment on important policy, legal, and legislative news surrounding digital content.

Agenda:

• 2022 Forecast for US Congress and Administration
• Review/Discuss Platform Definition