[1][3] Digiday provides daily online news about advertising, publishing, and media, and also produces events such as industry summits and awards galas.

[3] With support Doug Carlson, managing director of Zinio, Friese put together a Digital Publishing and Advertising Conference in a New York City hotel.

[1] Bloomberg View describes Digiday's "running series on 'confessions' from digital marketing insiders" as "a good source of frank and cynical, though anonymous, descriptions of a deeply dysfunctional business",[9] for example, interviewing "a female ex-creative agency executive who talks about the diversity issues that still plague the industry".

[1][7][16][17] Friese stated that he "plans to take the same approach to Glossy as it took with Digiday", beginning with news reporting and eventually expanding to conferences and other events to drive revenue.

[1][3] Josh Sternberg was a senior editor from January 2012 to July 2014, when he left Digiday for a position with The Washington Post.