Where Publishing Meets Innovation with Karen Oh

MAY 19, 202647 MIN
The Community Exchange Podcast by OpenWeb

Where Publishing Meets Innovation with Karen Oh

MAY 19, 202647 MIN

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<p>On this episode of The Community Exchange Podcast, we welcome Karen Oh, Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Partnerships &amp; Initiatives at Ziff Davis, to discuss:<br>• Building a career across Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, and Meta before landing in media<br>• The story behind one of media&#39;s rarest roles: Chief of Staff at a major digital publisher<br>• The real reasons publisher traffic is declining beyond Google Zero<br>• The growing pressure on publishers to diversify beyond a single traffic channel<br>• How Ziff Davis thinks about blocking AI bots, and when that strategy backfires<br>• AI scraping as a business model threat, not just a content problem<br>• The enduring value of authoritative brands in a world of AI-generated answers<br>• The duality every publisher is living: fighting AI scraping while using AI every day<br>• The case for one-on-one aha moments as the key to internal AI adoption<br>And more.<br>New episodes of The Community Exchange Podcast are released each week. </p><p>Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts to get the latest right in your feed. </p>