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DCN Events Schedule 2021


DCN events are designed for members to roll up their sleeves and dig into discussions with their peers. Speakers provide insights into their businesses and share real-world examples of what’s working and what’s not. Why? Because these events are closed-door, no press or video and members feel safe sharing their expertise and their questions.
In addition, the content is noticeably different from the PR-approved, substance-light presentations you’ll find at events targeting more general audiences representing the entire digital ecosystem. Members attend because the agenda is focused exclusively on their current issues and there are no consultants or press in the room. There are countless industry events that cater to anyone and everyone – DCN member events are hyper-focused on what publishers need to know today.
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Gen Z Digital Media Attitudes, Values and Behavior
September 13, 2021Virtual Event
Subscription Innovation Series #5 – Exploring the impact of Covid on the WSJ’s membership strategy
September 21, 2021Virtual Events
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.
Christina Komporlis is the Senior Vice President of Professional Membership at The Wall Street Journal.
Subscription Innovation Series #6 – Subscriber growth through experience optimization
September 23, 2021Virtual Event
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.
Matt Cronin is a founding partner of House of Kaizen.
Completed 2021 Events
Subscription Innovation Series #4 – Enhancing subscriber engagement and growth through email newsletters
September 9, 2021Virtual Events
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.
Rachel Schindler is co-founder and VP growth and product of Punchbowl News.
Allison Mezzafonte is Media Advisor at Sailthru
Subscription Innovation Series #3 – Retention strategies from the Financial Times
September 2, 2021Virtual Event
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”.
Subscription Innovation Series #2 – Turbocharging personalization with analytics
August 26, 2021Virtual Event
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
Subscription Innovation Series #1 – Acquire, onboard, engage and retain: the MLB ticketholder customer lifecycle
August 19, 2021Virtual Event
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.
Fireside chat with Representative David Cicilline (D-RI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust
July 14, 2021Virtual Event
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.
Legal and Legislative Event Series – CPRA: Navigating the Next Privacy Frontier
June 29, 2021Virtual Event
Tech and Product Innovation Series #5 – User behavior modeling to maximize revenue at Bloomberg Media
June 10, 2021Virtual Events
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.
Tech and Product Innovation Series #4 – Zeus Prime: breaking new ground within self-serve advertising
June 3, 2021Virtual Event
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.
Tech and Product Innovation Series #3 – Categorization and context: Reuters’ AI powered computer vision application
May 27, 2021Virtual Event
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.
Tech and Product Innovation Series #2 – How Politico Europe modernized readers’ experience with an API-first approach
May 20, 2021Virtual Event
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.
Tech and Product Innovation Series #1 – Three approaches to post-cookie identity
May 13, 2021Virtual Event
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 Next Conversation: Digging Into Audio
May 6, 2021Virtual Event
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.
The Next Conversation: Affiliate Revenue
April 29, 2021Virtual Event
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.
Legal and Legislative Committee Call
March 9, 2021Legal 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
- Discussion re Section 230 Reform Legislation and Potential DCN Position
- Discussion re Australia News Media Bargaining Code
Legal and Legislative Committee Call
February 9, 2021Virtual Event
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
- 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
2021 DCN Next: Summit
February 1 - 5, 2021Virtual Event
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 Call
January 12, 2021Virtual Event
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
- Analysis and Discussion of Recent Cases Re Publishers Embedding Social Media Posts
- Snapshot Review of Lawsuits Pending v Google and Facebook







