3. 3
We don’t “do” technology, we do
media: add a vendor for X, a vendor
for Y, a vendor for Z
Enhancements focused on the
advertiser, not on user experience
With the rapid rise of mobile, we’re
trying to pack more and more heavy
technology into smaller and smaller
spaces
Old Mentalities Around Ad
Innovations
RED: EXPERIMENTATION & DEVELOPMENT
4. 4
Where some see disaster,
we see opportunity
The issues facing the
industry are our catalyst for
innovation
We’re finding new ways of
looking at old problems
RED: EXPERIMENTATION & DEVELOPMENT
A Transformative Time for
Advertising
5. 5
Leaders in Journalism and Technology
“We view ourselves as
a technology company
as well as a media
company.”
-Fred Ryan, Publisher
We aim to be in the technology provider for our clients, our partners and our competitors
6. 6
“We have the best technology team, and I don’t just mean the best technology team in the news business. I would
put this team up against any team in Silicon Valley; it’s a world-class team across any industry that’s essential
today.”
-Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post
Teamed up with Google
to build the news
industry’s first
“progressive web app,”
cutting mobile page-load
times from 4 secs to
under 0.8 secs.
Developing artificial
intelligence for both
reporting and user
interaction via SMS,
FB Messenger, and
Amazon Echo
Collaborating with Silicon Valley
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The Post is constantly experimenting and collaborating with the biggest names in Silicon Valley
to create better user experiences
Partnered with Uber
to offer exclusive
access and live trip
progress within The
Post’s app.
7. 7
Don’t focus on the competition,
focus on the reader - give them
what they want, as fast as possible.
Shrink the existing ad tech
ecosystem by building mission
critical technologies ourselves,
perfecting them on our platform,
then opening them up to the rest of
the industry.
We Build Products
That:
1. Improve Current Offerings
Take industry-standard products and
add user-driven enhancements
2. Have Never Been Done
Before Identify trends, define the
opportunity, and pounce
Our Product Principles
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We’re turning The Post into a laboratory for inventing a sustainable future for news
9. 9
A connected suite of tools, custom-
built to the specifications of our
newsroom.
Now licensed to other major news
publishers, brands, and universities.
The New Control Tower for News
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Arc is a modern publishing system engineered for the world’s largest publishers, by the
industry’s most innovative publisher
Includes access to all of The Post’s
proprietary ad products.
10. 10
Fastest-growing news publisher in the
US in 2016
97m MUVs
Part of tronc, 3rd largest U.S. publisher with
21 publications (Chicago Tribune, etc.).
36m MUVs
3rd largest digital traffic in Spanish
worldwide.
29m MUVs
Canada's national “newspaper of record.”
13m MUVs
Largest media brand in New Zealand,
publisher of The New Zealand Herald.
12m MUVs
Home of the Poynter Institute.
10m MUVs
Upstart pure-play digital publisher.
6m MUVs
Britain's largest independent regional
news company.
5m MUVs
Largest digital traffic in Alaska.
2m MUVs
Fast-growing pure-play digital publisher
in Pakistan.
2m MUVs
Alternative-weekly sister publication of
Willamette Week.
1m MUVs
1st to win Pulitzer for a story originally
published online.
1m MUVs
The News, Powered by Arc
Arc’s modernized model allows us to serve a diverse base of global news organizations,
totaling over 250m monthly unique visitors
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15. 15
• Smart Scrolling: ads won’t load
when users are scrolling too quickly
to view
• Intelligent Caching: common ad
scripts are cached for faster loading
• Heavy Ad Protection: slow-loading
ads are automatically refreshed with
new ones
• Predictive Loading: ad loading is
intelligently prioritized based on when
each ad will be in-view
Zeus
RED: PRODUCTS
16. “Big bets are counterintuitive. But,
that’s what makes them big!” –Jeff Bezos
Just like any industry that’s been disrupted in the digital age, successful media companies will embrace the possibilities that technology can unlock for their customers
after all, no other media company is owned by someone who built on of the most significant companies of the digital era