Publishing Insider Summit 2025 | MediaPost | 14 May 2025 | TBA, Nashville, TN, USA

The 2024 event topics include:
• Beyond the "host-read," top tier podcasts are exploring a range of subscription, event, branded content and spin-off streams to make podcasting into a sustainable business. Two of the highest profile news publishers in the podcast world, the New York Times (The Daily; Hard Fork) and Vox Media (Pivot; Today, Explained) compare and contrast what they have learned about the many models they have pursued.
• Let's make this simple. After ad declines, shrunken staff, subscription fatigue, and the collapse of social platform distribution, where do media business strategists look for growth? Is this media winter set to thaw, and green shoots to be found? In new pockets of ad and marketing spend? In subscription niches? In deeper e-comm partnerships? Streaming? Where should publishers be investing for growth now?
• Media spend is turning around...slowly. But how are sales teams meeting a tough retail sales environment where brands demand breakthrough formats, efficiency, and accountability? What products and promises are resonating in this market? Where are the unexpected opportunities?
• Diversification of publisher revenue streams is fundamental to business survival. But how does the portfolio add up to more than the sum of its parts?
• What is the attack plan this year? How are sales teams gearing up for what appears to be one of the toughest selling seasons in recent memory?
• Do you need to be in the top 1% of podcasts to make a real business of this format? How are most publishers using audio both as revenue sources and to support other models in their revenue portfolio?

2024 Past Speakers

MODERATORS:

Steve Smith
VP, Editorial Director, Events, MediaPost @popeyesm

George DiGuido
VP, Growth, The Information @gwdbis3

Jason Tate
Sr. Director, Programmatic & Partnership Development, MediaNews Group & Tribune Publishing

Jody Rones
CRO, GAMURS Group

E. Garrett Bewkes IV
Publisher/ Senior Executive, National Review, Inc.

Justin Geiger
Chief Revenue Officer, Betsperts Media & Technology Group @retailigence

PANELISTS:

Jimmy Saunders
Executive Director of Audio & Events, New York Times Lillian Xu, Executive Director, Audio Business, Vox Media

Iván Adaime
President, Impremedia Justin Barton, SVP, Digital Strategy & Partnerships, Black Enterprise @JustinBartonNYScott Hendrickson, SVP Revenue & Partnerships, VICE Media Group @HendricksonsAllison Murphy, COO, Axios

Estee Cross
Vice President, Head of National Sales, USA TODAY Network

Justin Garrett
Chief Revenue Officer, Q.Digital, Inc.

Sheevani Raikundalia
Head of Financial Services Advertising Sales, North America, Bloomberg Media Lou Tosto, SVP Advertising Sales, Programmatic, and Ad Products, G/O Media

Sharon Mussalli
CEO, NowThis Virgil Waters, OTT Ad Technology & Programmatic, E.W. Scripps

Justin Geiger
Chief Revenue Officer, Betsperts Media & Technology Group @retailigenceJody Rones, CRO, GAMURS Group Paul Vizard, CEO, 30A.media

Brittany Begley
Sr. Director of Revenue Ops, TeamSnap Scott Kelliher, Head of Revenue, Newsbreak

SPEAKERS:

George DiGuido
VP, Growth, The Information

Justin Garrett
Chief Revenue Officer, Q.Digital, Inc.

Matt Frampton
Vice President, Brand Partnerships, Christopher Kimball's Milk Street

Judson Penumaka
GM - Programmatic Revenue and Ad Operations, Internet Brands