Brian Morrissey

Brian Morrissey built Digiday from launch into one of digital media's most influential trade publications, serving as its founding editor-in-chief and president for nearly a decade. Under his leadership, Digiday became the go-to source for how the advertising, media, and technology industries actually work - not the press releases, but the real mechanics.

After leaving Digiday in 2020, he founded The Rebooting, a newsletter and media company with over 90,000 subscribers exploring how media businesses build durable revenue in a post-scale era. His analysis cuts through industry hype to examine what actually works - subscriptions, commerce, events, direct advertising - and what doesn't.

Brian is a sharp, opinionated voice on the economics of content, the collapse of scale-driven media models, and what comes next for publishers willing to rethink their businesses from the ground up. He speaks at events including DLD Munich, PPA Festival, and ASBPE, drawing on two decades of watching media companies succeed, fail, and reinvent themselves.