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Immediate Media: rethinking the publishing process to maximise ROI
Alex White, Group Managing Director for Immediate Media’s Knowledge portfolio, says the central challenge for any modern media business is to maximise the ROI on every piece of content they create, and that means innovating across the whole publishing process.


Tips for a successful podcast launch from Deutsche Welle’s Don’t Drink The Milk
No matter how passionate you are about your podcast topic, it means nothing if you don’t solve the problem of promoting it. With Don’t Drink The Milk, the DW team have found numerous ways around that issue.


Inside Bloomberg Media’s audience-first approach to product innovation
Bloomberg Media went all-in on an audience-first publishing strategy at the end of 2022, dropping programmatic advertising and committing to actively listening to its audiences. A little over two years in, Global Head of Product Marissa Zanetti-Crume explains that every project starts with two questions: how will this serve our audience and how will this serve our business?


Why human-first audio is pivotal to Zetland’s subscription success
Danish news start-up Zetland’s ‘user needs’ approach led them to identify the importance of audio early on. CEO Tav Klitgaard describes how audio has gone from being a test to one of the most crucial reasons the publication has succeeded with subscriptions, with over 80% of their audience listening. It has also paid off with attracting younger audiences.


Why Discord has become a key tool to build the Women’s Running magazine community
Messaging platform Discord has grown to be a core community-building tool at Women’s Running. Senior Editor Esther Newman explains how it has helped the publication centre women and learn more about their audience.


Introducing memberships to Hearst’s iconic magazine portfolio: “There’s no one-size-fits-all,” says Katie Vanneck Smith
Hearst UK CEO Katie Vanneck Smith talks about communicating membership benefits, putting brands at the heart of the proposition and the importance of publishing teams in making magazine memberships successful.


56 million views in 2 years: How Which? crafts a TikTok strategy to appeal to consumers
Which?'s Hannah Ballantyne discusses how they approached launching on TikTok, the content that resonates with audiences there, and the value to the publication of having a presence on the platform.


When should you take – or not take – VC funding for a new media business? The slow-growth philosophy of 1440
Venture Capital (VC) funding has helped to launch some of the most successful media brands of our time. But, as newsletter-based media business 1440 demonstrates, there are still benefits to avoiding VC and building something more sustainable, more slowly.

