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A DCN members-only series of events to discuss some of the hottest topics for publishers around distributed content, from monetization strategies and building strong distribution teams, to negotiating with platforms, protecting your brand loyalty, smart measurement and more.

We are living in a golden age of audio, inspired by new technologies, new formats and new audience behaviors. As the leading producer of audio journalism in the U.S., as well as the #1 producer of podcasts, NPR together with its member stations is in a unique position to help lead this transformation.

Speaker:

• Thomas Hjelm, Chief Digital Officer, NPR

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A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations a more diversified revenue approach that includes subscriptions and memberships. But no one said change is easy. Join us for an open conversation about the opportunities and the challenges in building reader revenue and subscription businesses.

Speakers:

• Brian Lockhart, Vice President and Executive Producer, Original Content, ESPN+
• Libby Geist, Vice President & Executive Producer, ESPN Films and Original Content
• Flora Kelly, Senior Director Brand & Strategic Insights, ESPN Consumer Insights

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A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations a more diversified revenue approach that includes subscriptions and memberships. But no one said change is easy. Join us for an open conversation about the opportunities and the challenges in building reader revenue and subscription businesses.

Learn from Piano’s latest research on acquisition and retention, including the COVID-19 pandemic subscription surge. Michael Silberman, Piano’s SVP of Strategy will share data and insights from Piano’s subscription benchmarks.

Speaker:

• Michael Silberman, SVP, Strategy, Piano

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A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations a more diversified revenue approach that includes subscriptions and memberships. But no one said change is easy. Join us for an open conversation about the opportunities and the challenges in building reader revenue and subscription businesses.

An overview of how Insider Inc. is analyzing their subscription business with a journalist-based, data- informed, experiment-driven perspective. Selma will discuss what is driving challenging complexities at the moment and the vast opportunities within them.

Speaker

Selma Stern, SVP Consumer Subscriptions, Business Insider

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A DCN members-only series of events designed to dig deeply into the critical issues, challenges and innovations a more diversified revenue approach that includes subscriptions and memberships. But no one said change is easy. Join us for an open conversation about the opportunities and the challenges in building reader revenue and subscription businesses.

Publishers had a boost in subscription growth at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Now, months into the crisis, they are analyzing new subscriber behavior to formulate content strategies, and to understand on-going acquisition tactics and how to retain new audiences. This discussion will focus on current subscription trends and cover what’s next, as we move towards a post-COVID era.

Speakers

• Megha Garibaldi is Director, Consumer Strategy at The Guardian
• Lindsay Horrigan is the General Manager of Subscriptions and the Global Head of Consumer Marketing at Bloomberg Media

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In this series of interactive, DCN members-only events, participants – video content creators, technologists, sellers and marketers – will discuss the strategies, challenges and innovative approaches that are critical for successful digital video initiatives.

In February, as the realities of Covid-19’s impact on how business is done came into focus, Complex Networks’ content and sales teams took a hard look at its existing slate of content and began to envision what could be produced remotely. The content team also evaluated existing IP to develop new video series that would be optimized for remote production as well as existing and evolving audience expectations. At the same time, Complex Networks’ sales team worked with new and long-term advertisers to demonstrate its ongoing ability to deliver highly-engaged, targeted audiences. Learn how Complex leveraged creative content and business strategies to work through this time of crisis resulting in not only new brand partnerships, but also innovative, new-to-world IP and franchises.

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In this series of interactive, DCN members-only events, participants – video content creators, technologists, sellers and marketers – will discuss the strategies, challenges and innovative approaches that are critical for successful digital video initiatives.

News needs reinvention. While there are major shifts taking place with video storytelling and consumer streaming habits, the way news is delivered has not adapted to the cord-cutting, social-driven world we live in today. Jean Ellen Cowgill will share how Bloomberg QuickTake is building an innovative storytelling model for news for the next generation and how they are working with advertisers and data to drive revenue.

Speaker

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In this series of interactive Zoom-based events , DCN members – video content creators, technologists, sellers and marketers will discuss the strategies, challenges and innovative approaches that are critical for successful digital video initiatives.

Lots has been written about huge streaming audiences since the beginning of shelter-in-place. But we all know that big audiences don’t necessarily translate into healthy businesses anymore. So how did those big viewership numbers translate into business gains?

In this session, ANTENNA’s Co-founder & CEO Rameez Tase, will examine exactly how much COVID-19 boosted each service’s actual business. We’ll examine who the winners & losers were, what audiences did once they watched all of the content on a new service, and more. Rameez will use never-before-seen data to tell the story of new sign-ups, subscriber growth, churn rates, loyalty, and customer lifetime value as he analyzes who won and lost this episode the streaming wars.

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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.

The impending death of third party-cookies, advertisers are becoming data-poor and publisher’s first-party data is becoming the dominant currency in the digital ad market. Based upon Insider Inc.’s advanced advertising strategies, which led to the launch of their own ad targeting and reporting tool called Sága earlier this year, this interactive session will help publishers effectively leverage first party data to build direct relationships with media buyers.

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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 members@digitalcontentnext.org for a registration URL.

Meeting Agenda

• Review of the newly-qualified ballot initiative, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

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Content is everywhere. Now, more than ever, consumers crave content to stream, read, and consume across platforms. Media organizations are constantly searching for ways to innovate, cut through, and effectively monetize. Condé Nast’s influence is undeniable, and the ways in which its brands cover home through the lens of style, tech, culture, food and wellness sets it apart from the competition.

In this session, Condé Nast’s Head of Sales for Home Jeff Barish and Condé Nast Entertainment’s Head of Content Development for Branded Entertainment Lloyd D’Souza will discuss the changing video landscape, the launch of Conde Nast’s exclusive new “Home/Made” video network, and how they are creating opportunities for advertisers to co-create, integrate, and optimize as partners in real-time.

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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.

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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.

The Five Tech and Product Innovations Essential to Thrive in the Uncertain Future

The pandemic, combined with ongoing changes in ad tech, have created unprecedented uncertainty in the advertising climate for publishers. In this interactive discussion, Britepool CEO Dave Moore will discuss specific strategies for retaining and growing revenues with Craig Kostilec, Conde Nast’s Chief Business Officer for U.S. Advertising and Global Advertising Solutions. To provide insights to fellow DCN members, Kostilec will address the ways in which he is leveraging new technologies, and new ways of doing business, to capture greater fourth-quarter advertising revenues and succeed in the coming years

Speakers:  

Craig Kostelic, Chief Business Officer, U.S. Advertising Revenue and Head of Global Advertising Solutions, Conde Nast

David J. Moore, Chief Executive Officer, BritePool

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egal 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 members@digitalcontentnext.org for a registration URL.

Meeting Agenda

• Update on Congressional efforts related COVID recovery
• W3C Efforts to Develop Post-3rd Party Cookie Solutions

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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.

Building Ad Technology Products in a More Private World

A lot of people are concerned about the two-year deadline on third party cookies. This talk will focus on some of the engineering and product considerations around the end of third-party cookies. It will look at some of the proposed solutions being discussed by browser teams and then provide an opportunity for attendees to bring forward their concerns around use cases they currently are worried about maintaining in the post-3p cookie world for discussion.

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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.

Meeting Agenda

• Update on Congressional efforts to address COVID-19
• Current state of play on CCPA
• French and Australian Competition Authorities Require

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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.

Jason Fox, Chief Digital Officer and Carol Lappin, General Manager of Shopping and Business Development – Consumer Reports, spoke about the power of context, attribution challenges, coupons/codes, pricing strategies and team structure – much of which is changing or in flux in the current environment.

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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.

Meeting Agenda

• Outline of DCN comments on the FTC Endorsement Guidelines
• Update on CCPA Regulations
• Update on Maryland and New York Digital Advertising Tax Laws
• Discussion of How Public Policy Agenda Has Changed for Remainder of 2020

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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.

Meeting Agenda

• Review Results of DCN Survey re CCPA Compliance Strategies
• Update on Federal Consumer Privacy Legislation

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.

Meeting Agenda

• Review Newly Introduced Federal Privacy Legislation re: Children and Teens
• Discussion of Proposed DCN Survey re CCPA Compliance Strategies
• Review of Changes to Finalized CCPA Regulations

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.

Meeting Agenda

• CCPA Discussion
• Review of House Energy and Commerce Committee draft privacy legislation

At the 2020 DCN Next: Summit, our members gathered to hear from leaders in the digital media business and to network and learn from each other.  See the full agenda and speaker profiles here.

2020 had a diverse set of speakers who spoke about what media companies look like in the future, the value of brands and how to transform organizations beyond the expected. Read our key takeaways here.

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