Wrong conclusions will be drawn

Over the next few days, we’re going to have an amazing group of publishers and their partners to work the problems. From start to finish, it will be about what each person can bring back to their organization that will have a meaningful impact. That means we can’t just commiserate about the future of publishing; we can explore every angle for moving forward.

From dashboards to decisions: rethinking publisher revenue with Burt’s Shay Brog

Publishers are under relentless revenue pressure, and most respond by squeezing more out of each channel. Direct, programmatic, commerce and subscriptions all have their own tools, reports and KPIs. Yet few publishers have the connected data and decision-making infrastructure to see how those channels affect one another, what’s likely to happen next and what to do about it.

Webinar recap: Diagnose before you optimise (key takeaways for publishers)

In its latest webinar, Opti Digital brought together Olly Aulakh, Chief Revenue Officer at Opti Digital, and Rob Beeler, Founder & CEO of Beeler.Tech, to explore how publishers can move from seeing a change in revenue to understanding what is actually driving it, and deciding what action is worth taking.

Trust issues

So how do we move forward? I think the answer is to create the “Question Economy” as I’m calling it. We need to make people curious, then deliver and come with receipts. That means not taking shortcuts but instead showing your work when asked.

Building a video strategy publishers can own, with Minute’s Kyle Orr

Rob spoke to Kyle Orr, SVP of Business Development at Minute about where video economics break down, the categories opening up beyond sports, how publishers should split what they build from what they hand to a partner, which formats belong where, and where first-party data does the most for yield.