Slack has become the enterprise software service where employees communicate, plan, gossip, talk shit about bosses and each other -- and increasingly, organize themselves to fight for their rights. In the coronavirus work-from-home era, Slack has taken on even greater importance as a mechanism for internal change. It is the new water cooler — one of substance to figure out stories in addition to inane banter about the latest Twitter outrage — and media workers are dumping it on their bosses’ heads. Read more below. - Media business leaders gravitated to Slack years ago as a tool to make the labor force more efficient and available at all hours. The irony is that those same workers are now using Slack to fight back against their capitalist bosses.
- For Digiday+ members, NBCU’s Peacock streaming service will roll out nationally on July 15, but it has reportedly not yet secured distribution deals with the two predominant connected TV platforms, Amazon’s Fire TV and Roku.
- Salaried reporters and editors see side hustle newsletters playing the same role that blogs once did more than a decade ago.
- Also for Digiday+ members, in order to grow a substantial Gen Z audience, the content has to feel like it's coming from a friend, but beyond that, the media company also has to engage with the audience as if it were their friend too.
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| Modern Newsroom | | | | Publishing bosses loved Slack as a productivity tool, but it’s now being used as the central forum for the media’s bottom-up revolt. | | |
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howdy! | Business of TV | | | | For TV networks, going direct to consumer in streaming is not so straightforward. | | |
| Sponsored by Acquia | | | | As a result of the pandemic, brands operating on accelerated timelines are launching digital-first pop-up businesses. But unlike typical pop-ups, these transformations are designed to stick around. | | |
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howdy! | Publishing in the Platform Era | | | | Salaried reporters and editors see side hustle newsletters playing the same role that blogs once did more than a decade ago. | | |
| Sponsored by Primis | | | | Taking a cue from platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, publishers are adding video units that automatically recommend additional content that’s relevant to what’s on the user’s page. | | |
howdy! | What Comes Next | | | | Over the last five months, couples and wedding vendors alike have set up new ways of working together. | | |
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| Sponsored by LiveRamp | | | | With Google’s 18-month (and counting) deadline for the demise of the third-party cookie, it’s more important than ever that publishers take control of monetizing their inventory. Join LiveRamp and Digiday on August 4, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET for a research-led discussion on publisher post-cookies strategies. | | |
howdy! | Content & Commerce | | | | In order to grow a substantial Gen Z audience, the content has to feel like it’s coming from a friend, but beyond that, the media company also has to engage with the audience as if it were their friend too. | | |
howdy! | Subscriptions | | | | ‘Covid probably forced our hand,’ said PinkNews Media CEO Benjamin Cohen. | | |
| | | | | Alibaba bought the South China Morning Post in 2015, and brought the Hong Kong newspaper's paywall down shortly after. For SCMP CEO Gary Liu, who came on in 2017, that allowed the media property to have "far exceeded" the scale they'd set out to meet. The English-language paper went from 4 million monthly active users, when the paywall came down, to more than 50 million, according to Liu. Now, said Liu, "it's about when do we believe we have the right product for us to ask some audiences around the world to start paying for the South China Morning Post again?" |
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