Hearst Joanna Coles was the Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Still reeling from Facebook's dramatic News Feed shake-up earlier this year, publishers have been in the search of new sustainable ways to build their video businesses.
Some, like NowThis, have turned back the spotlight on their websites. Others, like Condé Nast and Refinery29, have started to take aim at over-the-top (OTT) streaming. And many, have even started to pay more attention to Twitter and Snapchat.
For Hearst, the publisher behind magazines like Cosmopolitan and Seventeen among others, the focus has been on ramping up on premium, longer-form episodic video series, with a sharp focus on YouTube.
To read more about Hearst's work in producing premium, longer-form episodic video series on YouTube, click here.
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