Letter from the Editor: Why this year's Digiday Publishing Summit matters

It’s a new era for the media industry. Eras, actually: There’s the AI era, the streaming era, the podcast era, the post-cookie era.

In other words, media companies are being forced to evolve, as ever. They are feeling pressure to adapt their search and social strategies to the next generation of content platforms a la ChatGPT and Perplexity, reimagine their podcast portfolios for video and their video programming for connected TV and to remodel their programmatic advertising businesses because of Google.

All of these will be major topics of conversation on and off stage throughout the Digiday Publishing Summit, being held in Vail, Colo. from March 24 through 26.

Executives from publishers including AMC Networks, Dotdash Meredith, Punchbowl News and Time will take the stage to provide behind-the-scenes looks at how they are adapting to these various eras, such as by developing AI-powered tools to bolster advertising and subscription products and devising new tactics for programmatic streaming ad sales.

Publishing attendees will also participate in closed-door sessions to compare notes on the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the media industry at the moment and share tips on how they are acclimating to them. At past Publishing Summits, publishers spoke out on the traffic increases they were seeing from Google Discover, the conversations they were having with OpenAI and the efforts they were making to understand alternative IDs’ impact on ad revenue.

Considering the new eras confronting the media industry, publishers will have plenty to talk about at the Spring 2025 edition of the Digiday Publishing Summit.

I hope to see you there,

Tim Peterson, 
executive editor, video and audio at Digiday

Attending Companies

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