Why is defining data so important to your news media company?
Conference Blog | 13 October 2015
Editor’s note: INMA’s Data Insights Conference explored the practical steps media executives should take now to leverage data for significant audience and revenue growth. This video is one in a series showcasing the most important messages from the conference.
Andy Monfried, CEO of Lotame, discusses why data is so important for the news media industry and why “the most over-used term in marketing ... and in the digital ecosystem is this word data.”
In addition, media executives answer these questions:
How can news media companies use data to bring in new revenue?
How do you think data helps our industry in the future?
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About Dawn McMullan
Dawn McMullan is senior editor at INMA, based in Dallas, Texas, USA. She can be reached at dawn.mcmullan@inma.org.
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