For decades, the agency business has run on a simple, if imperfect logic: clients pay for time and the people who fill it. Hours logged, heads counted, invoices sent. Nobody particularly loved it but ...

Somewhere right now, a parent is dumping a handful of spinach into a Ninja Creami. It’s not a recipe SharkNinja’s engineers dreamed up. It’s a hack cooked up by the brand’s own customers — the kind of ...

This week’s Media Briefing looks at the real conversations publishers are having in Cannes – how much of the AI and agentic media buzz will turn into actual money, and what it all means for who pays ...

Last week, streamer Kai Cenat (who has tens of millions of followers across Instagram, Twitch, and YouTube) hosted the second-annual Streamer University, a five-day creator bootcamp at Hendrix College ...

Digiday covers the latest from marketing and media at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. More from the series → Bose CMO Jim Mollica hasn’t used a creative agency in four or ...

Georgia-Pacific didn’t set out to prove a point about programmatic’s future in 2024. It set out to stop wasting money on 30-odd SSPs that all appeared to be selling more or less the same inventory.

This Future of TV Briefing covers the latest in streaming and TV for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → This week’s Future of TV ...

Publishers have finally won the right to keep their articles out of Google’s AI search results. The harder question now is whether that right is usable when the system keeps them opted in by default, ...

Google lost to the Justice Department twice in the last 12 months and was ruled a monopolist in both its search and ad tech practices; while the final shoe has yet to drop in the latter case, ...

The Economist is testing new ways of structuring content to be read solely by agents as AI engines increasingly surface and summarize news. For now, the subscription publisher is experimenting with ...

The Trade Desk built its dominance by being the obvious choice. It’s still the obvious choice. Just not as obviously as it used to be. On the surface, The Trade Desk is not a company in trouble.

AI licensing has gone from niche to crowded fast: Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have entered the fray in the last six months, and publishers are now juggling a growing menu of deals — each with different ...