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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Anyway. We have the perfect guy to ask about this. I don't know who's going to comment on any of this, but we can certainly try and ask him about it. Because we have Roger Lynch, the CEO of Condé Nast, with us here in the TVP and Ultradome. Roger, great to see you again. How are you doing? Great to see you. I'm all right.
Chapter 2: What insights does Roger Lynch share about the future of journalism in the AI era?
For those, I mean, we were hanging out last week, but for those who don't know, introduce yourself. Let's go a little bit back in time. Take us on your journey, and then we can get into all the hot topics in media.
Sure. Well, yeah, I've been CEO of Conde Nast for seven years, but prior to that, I spent my whole career really in technology.
And primarily a fantastic guitarist.
Thank you very much.
That was my life's ambition. That was an incredible performance. It's a little bit of just lore, I guess, but we can get into hobbies and things outside business. But yeah, take us back. What was the first job in media? How did you get to where you are?
first job in media.
Yeah, maybe that's a good place to start.
Well, I mean, it depends on how you define media. Really, I spent my career at the intersection of technology and media. So the first company that I ran was a broadband business. It was one of the first broadband businesses in Europe going back to 1999. And literally one of the first things we did is we did a deal with the NFL to stream live NFL games in 1999. That's crazy. That's crazy.
How much demand was there for NFL in Europe at that time?
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Chapter 3: How is Condé Nast adapting to the decline in search traffic?
Look, I think it's important to know what you're good at and take advantage of that and not try to be something that you're not good at. And you guys are really good at exactly what you just described. And so you've made the most of that and you've attracted a really important audience and it's really worked for you in a business model.
For us, to try to chase that would be to move away from what we're really good at and try to become something different. And I agree with you. I think with the amount of AI-generated content or low-quality content that is being flooded into the market, that only, I think, accrues to the benefit of companies that can really stand out from that. Don't try to be that.
We're going to always have human-created content. First of all, I know it's what our audiences expect and want. Secondly, we have no competitive advantage over just creating AI-generated content. That doesn't leverage any of the advantages we have. Knowing what your advantages are and really building upon that I think is always important in any business.
And for the industry changes that are happening right now, I think there's real value in it because unfortunately there's going to be fewer places that can do that because the ones that are more marginal may not survive the changes that are happening. And, you know, our brands have been really thriving in it.
What is how do you compare your philosophy of running like a house of brands versus, let's say, an LVMH? Is there similarities, differences? What is the philosophy?
Yeah, I mean, you know, when I first joined, I spent a lot of time talking to those companies to try to understand how they were organized, because one of the things I had to figure out is what I wanted to do with the way we were structured, because we were structured very differently. We were really a loose collection of companies all around the world.
Every country operated entirely independently from every other country.
Really?
Oh, my God, it was crazy. There was no technology collaboration. There was no, they competed. Literally. I remember literally three weeks into the job, I start traveling. I go to Milan. I'm trying to visit all the different offices. I get a call from my assistant, like, some of the team in Milan is upset you're not visiting. I'm like, I'm in the office. I'm here visiting them.
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