The Network is The Digital Chief’s panel of working practitioners — the heads of search, paid, CRM, data and ecommerce we check a story with before it runs. It is free, it is open, and when a story breaks on your desk we send you one question. Answer in 150 words, or ignore it. Nobody chases you.
The Network film · 2:54. Three minutes on what the desks publish, and what we would ask you.
Not every story. Yours. A Google update, a Meta pricing change, an ICO ruling — something moving in the subject you picked, where our draft needs a practitioner’s read before it goes out.
Never “thoughts?”. One precise question about the thing the documentation cannot tell us: what this actually does inside a team that runs it.
150 words is plenty. Four hours, because the story is moving. Miss it and nothing happens — no chaser, no strike, no awkwardness next time.
A deck, a dashboard, a decision they have to make by Friday. Sometimes with the files attached. Never “thoughts?”.
Instantly, in a Friday digest, or never. Your setting, one click, changed any time. A reader can ask you by name at most three times a week.
No clock. No chaser. Every answer carries your name, role and company, and the reader marks the one that helped.
Every application is read by a person, not a filter. Pick the desks you actually run and you will only ever hear from us when a story lands on one of them.
No quota, no rota, no minimum. Some weeks nothing lands on your desk and you hear nothing from us.
Being in the Network does not mean you agree with our verdict. Tell us we are wrong, on the record, and we will print it.
Your address exists to ask you questions. It is never sold, lent, or used for partner outreach.
Nobody pays and nobody is paid. That is exactly why the answers are worth printing.
Open now · Every application read by hand.