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Roger Lynch

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

So we started working on plans for each of our brands around that.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

And some of the brands we looked at said, hmm, they don't really have a good plan for that.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

So we're going to reprioritize on the ones that do.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

But if you don't have those paths forward, if you don't have really strong authoritative brands or brands that have very strong niche in certain areas or direct audiences, then you're just going to be fighting that all the way down.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

You know, it's a very important part of our revenue stream.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Our digital subscriptions grew 29% last year, revenue.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Wow.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

And, you know, they're growing double-digit percentages this year.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

So it's a really important growth area of our business.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Yeah.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

And we're launching more digital subscriptions for more brands like Pitchfork, a small brand, just launched a subscription earlier this year.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Tatler, another small brand in the UK, launched it.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

But our big brands, the New Yorker, very, very strong growth.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Vogue is showing incredible growth in digital subscriptions.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

So that's an area that's important to impress.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

And I think we've built up some really good capabilities, both on the technology side, but then also on just the people capability side, too.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

We have raised prices on subscriptions fairly materially over the last couple of years.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

You know, each year we think, okay, we're raising the price, the retention is going to go down, and actually the retention has gotten better every single year.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

So the elasticity looks pretty good for us so far.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

publications can get hurt is if they're caught in the middle.