This year is sure to be a critical one in media and marketing. Here are 18 ways you can get more out of Digiday and start 2018 on the right foot.

 

1. Join Digiday+, our premium membership community. As a member, you'll receive quarterly issues of Digiday Magazine, a steady stream of primary research, access to our Digiday+ Slack community, invitations to exclusive member events (the next one is a live podcast recording at Bleacher Report) and much more.

Make new connections by attending a Digiday event:

2. Apply to participate in our VIP program which brings qualified brand, retail, agency and publisher executives to our summits with a complimentary pass.

3. Generate new business. Wondering which of our events are right for you? Check out the Digiday Event Advisor, a tool that recommends events to meet your needs based on data collected from thousands of past attendees. 

4. Speaking opportunities: Submit your information, or nominate a client or colleague.

Subscribe to a podcast to hear from the people making change happen in media and marketing:

5. The Digiday Podcast: A weekly show in which editor-in-chief Brian Morrissey interviews the big names in the worlds of media, marketing and advertising. iTunes | Stitcher

6. Digiday Live: Featuring the best sessions from our global events. iTunes | Stitcher

7. Starting Out: We talk shop with leaders in the marketing industry to learn about their special powers, how they got to where they are in their careers and more. iTunes | Stitcher

Recognize your team by entering one of our awards programs:

8. Digiday Publishing Awards, recognizing the best global digital publishing innovation by publishers, brands, agencies and technology platforms. Last chance deadline: This Friday, January 12.

9. Digiday Content Marketing Awards, recognizing the content that connects brands to audiences across channels including mobile, social, video and more. Early deadline: February 2.

10. Two new European programs this year: The Digiday Media Awards Europe and the Digiday Marketing and Advertising Awards Europe.

Build your knowledge by downloading a guide:

11. The Digiday video dictionary: Your guide to the terms and acronyms defining the future of video.

12. Six ways Amazon will eat media and marketing.

13. From the editors at Digiday, a compilation of 11 WTF explainers. detailing programmatic advertising.

14. The juiciest of our agency confessions.

15. A special sample of a recent Digiday+ research report focusing on the state of the agency world.

Other:

16. Subscribe to Digiday Media’s monthly Amazon Briefing, covering the retail juggernaut across media and marketing, e-commerce, finance and more.

17. Post - or apply to - a job with Digiday Careers.

18. Check out one (or both) of our sister sites, Glossy and Tearsheet.