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Sara Jerde

Sara Jerde
DIGIDAY, MANAGING EDITOR

It’s our event season and today we kick off our Digiday Publishing Summit (DPS) from Vail. If you’ve not been to one, it’s a great place to meet IRL and, of course, talk trends but also be serious about the challenges we’re seeing in the industry. You can take a look at previous coverage from the event here to give you a sense of what to expect and a preview of this particular DPS here.

In other news:

  • The News/Media Alliance is testing a new path to AI revenue
  • Why Parker Thatch transformed its strip-mall storefront into a livestreaming studio
  • Cloudflare’s compliant crawler highlights tension

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AI REVENUE GENERATION

View previous coverage from Digiday's Publishing Summit

The Digiday Publishing Summit brings together decision-makers across media and technology to move the industry forward. Through interactive programming and meaningful connections, we address the biggest challenges in publishing head-on.

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

Media Briefing: What to expect at the Digiday Publishing Summit, March 2026 edition 

Execs from The Atlantic, Arena Group, Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Guardian, New York Post, People Inc., Washington Post, and more, will share their strategies on everything from zero-click audience strategy, to AI licensing deals and RAG readiness, to how they’re embracing creator strategies to help  boost engagement with younger audiences. 

PARTNER INSIGHTS FROM VIASAT ADS

Why marketers can’t count out the value of the in-flight audience

The in-flight audience offers the advantages of OOH and digital, delivering messages directly to a captive audience of real people who have time on their hands. It’s a digital channel, so marketers can accurately track performance — and bots can’t access these in-flight portals, so every click, view and impression is legitimate.

AI REVENUE GENERATION

News/Media Alliance signs AI licensing deal to unlock recurring RAG revenue for small and mid-sized publishers

The News/Media Alliance has signed an AI licensing deal that lets its 2,200 publisher members opt in to monetizing RAG-driven enterprise demand.

A MESSAGE FROM VIAFOURA

How participation takes publishers from rented audiences to engaged communities

Participation is how publishers compete in an increasingly unforgiving attention economy. Community and social experiences create reasons for audiences to show up on a publisher's site even when they aren’t actively seeking a specific article. This shifts the reader relationship from episodic consumption to ongoing engagement.

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CONTENT & COMMERCE

Why Parker Thatch transformed its strip-mall storefront into a livestreaming studio

Parker Thatch recently remodeled its store to serve as a hybrid customer-facing retail experience and broadcast studio.

AI REVENUE GENERATION

Cloudflare’s compliant crawler highlights tension – and opportunity – in the emerging AI content market 

Cloudflare faces tension  in its new role: sitting in the middle between publishers and AI companies while balancing trust, control and monetization.

PARTNER INSIGHTS FROM CINT

Why marketers turn to cross-platform measurement to optimize in real time

Marketers have immense opportunities for media exposure across devices and channels, but only if they reach users where they are engaging. An effective cross-platform measurement strategy enables optimizations in real time — from shifting creative and frequency to even publishers.

 

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PARTNER INSIGHTS FROM THE WEATHER COMPANY

Video: How weather universally drives consumer behavior

Weather impacts what people try, buy and how they feel. This powers targeting to predict the moments when weather shifts a consumer’s mindset toward purchase, driving sales and long-term growth. Learn more in this video.