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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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

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

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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

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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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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

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

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 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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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 [email protected] for a registration URL.

Meeting Agenda

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

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 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

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.

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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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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Please join us for this year’s DCN Legal and Legislative Virtual Event Series. This is an exclusive members-only event series designed for senior policy executives from our member companies to hear from their peers and outside experts on pressing regulatory issues facing publishers.

In this session, DCN’s SVP for Government Affairs, Chris Pedigo, will discuss with Seth Bloom the process by which antitrust cases are brought by the Department of Justice and state attorneys general. The discussion will examine the timing, successes and failures of past cases and how the current investigations of the big tech platforms are likely to play out.

This is an exclusive members-only event series designed for senior policy executives from our member companies to hear from their peers and outside experts on pressing regulatory issues facing publishers.

In this session, Dr. Ole Jani discussed the EU journey to the Publisher’s Right and the state of play with regard to platforms compensating publishers for content. Georgia-Kate Schubert  discussed how Australia’s competition authority ultimately developed a mandatory code requiring platforms to pay news publishers. The session closed with a guided discussion about whether and/or what changes are needed to the copyright landscape in the US for publishers to be more fairly compensated for original content.

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.

From short form videos to 24/7 streaming services learn how NBC news is programming their suite of video products.

In this session, senior executives from the McGuireWoods Federal Public Affairs practice will analyze the big issues at stake in the 2020 elections and the potential impact on issues of importance to publishers. How would a Biden Administration tackle tech issues like Section 230, consumer privacy and net neutrality? What would a Biden Administration mean for the FTC, FCC and Department of Justice? While the House of Representatives is likely to remain under Democratic control, the Senate could be in play. What does the agenda of the Senate Commerce Committee and Judiciary Committee look like under Democrat Chairmen versus Republican Chairmen?

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.

Anna and Claudio will describe how the audience department is structured at The New York Times and how they work with the newsroom. They’ll also talk about what tools they use to make data-driven decisions about coverage and their four key desk goals to achieve audience growth.

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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 [email protected] for a registration URL.

Meeting Agenda

• How Are Publishers Honoring the Global Privacy Control?
• Discussion re Coalition for App Fairness
• Review Election Results

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 on state efforts to tax digital advertising
• Review 4th Update to CCPA Regulations