As publishers turn to subscriptions to diversify their revenue beyond ads, they face challenges in internal organization.

The Weather Channel built up its Facebook presence over the past few years, getting 500 million video views per month on the platform by last May. Here's why the publisher decided to stop publishing videos on Facebook.

"The balance of commissioning power is still with broadcasters." Netflix has an $8 billion content budget, but U.K. broadcasters don't yet see the company as a rival.

After frustrating publishers with its approach to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, Google now plans to integrate with the independent industry standard for compliance.

"Facebook's in-feed video is not compelling." On the latest Digiday Podcast, Genius' Ilan Zechory discusses why YouTube is the company's focus for video.

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The pivot to paid poses organizational-chart challenges for publishers

Lucia Moses

As publishers lean more on consumers for revenue, the question arises of where consumer revenue should fit to avoid conflicts with the ad side.

'A fun adventure, not a business': The Weather Channel stopped publishing video on Facebook

Sahil Patel

The Weather Channel is no longer actively publishing videos to Facebook due to a lack of meaningful revenue and Facebook’s tendency to routinely shift its priorities.

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In the UK, broadcasters don't yet see Netflix as a rival

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Netflix has the advantage in speed, price and scale, while U.K. broadcast players have local knowledge.

Google plans to commit to the IAB's GDPR approach

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Google plans to be fully integrated with the IAB Consent framework no later than July.

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