The Rebooting Show

Google Zero by the numbers

Sharon Profis, vp of audience innovation at Raptive, joins me to walk through what the company is seeing across its network of 7,000 publishers and creators. Google traff

Reuters' Paul Bascobert on the AI production shock

Publishers know how to live through distribution shocks. AI is a different kind of disruption. Reuters president Paul Bascobert argues it’s a production shock, one that p

The anti-AI bet on print

Adam Reek and Bradley Roe spent 16 years building Peloton magazine, sold it to Outside, and watched it get shut down. Then they started over. Fausto is a high-end print m

Inside the knowledge creator business

Josh Kaplan is co-founder and CEO of Smooth Media, a talent management company for knowledge creators: people like Joanna Stern, Matt Wolf, Cat GPT and the Breaking and E

The Lever's David Sirota on challenging 'corporate media'

The Lever founder David Sirota joins me to discuss why corporate media still sets the terms of the political conversation, even as its business model weakens. We get into

The Atlantic’s Nick Thompson on preparing for a post-web world

The Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson is preparing for a media business where the web plays a far smaller role. That could mean more print issues, stronger relationships between

The Guardian's Anna Bateson on adapting to AI

The Guardian CEO Anna Bateson is a realist. She sees the need to prepare for when publishers are connecting information to AI pipes. “Our website may become something tha

The mushy middle of AI adoption

Publishers are adding AI tools, but the news product remains largely unchanged. Martin Schiori, former deputy publisher and AI lead at Sweden’s Aftonbladet and now co-fou

Playboy's next act

Playboy is rebuilding itself as a lifestyle brand for a new era. President David Miller joins me to discuss why content is now the brand’s marketing engine, the return of

Media's life after the pageview

Complex president Moksha Fitzgibbons joins Brian Morrissey to discuss the company’s evolution from an advertising-dependent publisher into a business spanning media, comm

EX.CO's Paul Jelinek on TV Advertising's 'Major Transformation'

Paul Jelinek, chief business officer at EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), joined me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to lay out why CTV program

The return of movie theaters

Never bet against the need of young people to get out of the home and socialize. Movie theaters are seeing a revival, driven by young audiences. Geoff Schiller, CEO of mo

Inside Spotify's bet on agentic advertising

Per Sendall, co-head of ads at Spotify, joins Brian Morrissey in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to break down how AI agents are already

How Famous Birthdays managed ‘Google Zero’

Famous Birthdays is a classic open web publishing success story. Evan Britton bootstrapped the publisher to fill a simple need: People were seeking out information about

The portal's comeback

Rob Wilk, CRO of Yahoo, joined me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to make the case that 30-year-old Yahoo is in the middle of a genui

WSJ's Josh Stinchcomb on why events are key

Events have moved from a side business to a core commercial product at The Wall Street Journal. CRO Josh Stinchcomb says the long lead times and scarcity let publishers l

NBCU product chief: Big Tech is 'cherry-picking'

Ryan McConville, chief product officer at NBCUniversal, joins me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to make the case that premium video

Subsidizing investigative journalism

Funding investigative journalism is a unique challenge. On The Rebooting Show, I spoke to Scott Stedman, an independent investigative journalist who is using a coffee sub

Agentic advertising isn't ready for primetime

Agentic advertising was the buzzword of the year at Cannes this year. It stands to reason this hype is ahead of reality. Jon Roberts, chief innovation officer at People I

Workweek's Adam Ryan is betting on practitioner media

One of the more promising areas of media is expert practitioners who are both good at their jobs and at explaining their fields. Workweek is a B2B media company built wit