31 sessions across four stages
The PPA Festival will help you and your business devise new strategies and explore solutions for the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
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Strategic insights from industry figureheads and thought leaders as they light the way ahead for publishers in 2024. On this stage, we’ll be tackling the biggest challenges facing our sector and unpacking the latest insights, trends, and business opportunities to help publishers diversify, evolve, and grow.
Who is this for?
Leadership and executive teams, commercial leaders, event leaders, strategists, senior managers, team leaders, HR directors, aspiring practitioners, strategic thinkers, agency planners, and advertisers.
Stage host
Gideon Spanier,
UK Editor-in-Chief, Campaign, Haymarket
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How to develop, engage, and monetise your audiences. We’ll explore the customer journey, from audience identification and growth to subscription acquisition and retention. Leaders will share their measurable approaches to expanding reach and community engagement, growing customer revenues, and increasing profitability.
Who is this for?
Brand, performance, and subscription marketers, audience growth strategists, community specialists, membership managers, publishers, agency planners, advertisers, commercial teams, and those in customer revenue roles.
Stage hosts
Kerin O'Connor,
Founder & CEO, Atlas
Abi Spooner,
Strategy Partner, Atlas
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How can publishing businesses cultivate and engage new and existing audiences by leveraging the latest developments in tech and digital strategy? Topics covered will be the integration of AI into the everyday, the latest thinking around data metrics, and what new tech can help improve product flow.
Who is this for?
Data specialists, SEO specialists, digital product leaders, tech teams, insight gurus, and revenue strategists.
Stage host
Mel McVeigh,
Interim Chief Product Officer & Media Artist
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Trusted, quality content is the bedrock of our industry. This stage is where you’ll hear from editorial leaders who are breaking new ground in the battle for reader attention, along with themes of creative excellence, resilience, and reinvention.
Who is this for?
Editorial teams, writers, journalists, product leaders, event producers, data specialists, insight gurus, revenue strategists, agency planners, advertisers, and PR and communications specialists.
Stage host
Deborah Joseph,
European Editorial Director, Glamour