Media Briefing: Publishers share their biggest challenges and opportunities at the Digiday Publishing Summit
This article is part of Digiday’s coverage of its Digiday Publishing Summit. More from the series →
This week’s Media Briefing uncovers some top takeaways from the Digiday Publishing Summit, which took place in Vail, Colorado earlier this week.
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Overheard at DPS
After a bleak start to 2023, publishers were ready to convene to compare notes to see just how bad their advertising businesses have been fairing over the past couple of quarters. And while Q1 ad revenue, sales cycles and payment windows appeared to be equally bad across the media industry, bright spots arose around consumer revenue streams, new tech experimentation and traffic patterns.
At the Digiday Publishing Summit, held in Vail, Colorado, from March 27 through 29, publishing executives worked together to figure out how to get through this economic downturn in closed-door sessions. The discussions were conducted under Chatham House rules so Digiday could share what was said while maintaining the executives’ anonymity. Here is a sampling of our conversations.
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