Our latest Digiday+ Talks offered exclusive insights into how The Daily Beast is accelerating revenue diversification and how execs can lead during a crisis.

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Recent Digiday+ Talks

• Managing during crisis: How to cut costs and communicate tough decisions

  During this wide-ranging talk, Bryan Wiener explained which skills –decisiveness, focus and communication — will make any leader, regardless of how experienced, ready to adapt their companies and come out of the coronavirus pandemic stronger than ever.

  With the negatives come some positives. Following the last economic crisis, Wiener said that digital agency 360i was transformed and grew its value eight times from the previous three years. “The opportunity we created out of that crisis was the best change to the company,” he said.

Access the takeaways, on-demand video, and slides from the Talk here.

• How the Daily Beast is accelerating revenue diversification

  In the second edition of the Digiday+ Talks series, where industry leaders share how their businesses adapt during this tumultuous time, The Daily Beast CRO Mia Lehmkuhl Libby explained how the Beast is seeing 30% declines in programmatic ad revenue but offsetting those with “three digit” increases in subscriptions, along with rising commerce and content licensing revenue.

  “It’s never been more important to understand what you do well and why people come to you, from an editorial and a revenue perspective,” said Libby.

Access the takeaways, on-demand video, and slides from the Talk here.

Upcoming Digiday+ Talks

• Impact on subscriptions with Mark Campbell, CMO of Tribune Publishing, April 21, 1 pm ET.
• Impact on streaming with Christy Tanner, executive vice president & general manager, CBS News Digital, April 28, 1 pm ET.