TV piracy of sports streams is siphoning away millions of viewers. Then: Vox Media and BuzzFeed found new owners this spring, punctuating the end of the pageview era. The post The End Of The Programmatic ... read more

Walmart Connect is adding a second DSP partner: Yahoo DSP. Plus: It looks like location data is being used to spy on the military now. The post Retail Wags The Dog; Data Brokers Vs. The ... read more

Digiday readers need no reminder that the internet’s infrastructure, not to mention its funding, is in flux, causing equal amounts of trepidation and excitement among those earning a living in the digital economy. Amid this ... read more

OpenAI may be telling marketers to treat ChatGPT as a test channel rather than a performance one but its partner deals, tech builds and measurement moves tell a different story about the advertiser it actually ... read more

Publishers are quietly cutting six-figure AI licensing deals on Snowflake, as the data giant positions itself as matchmaker-in-chief between locked-down news content and enterprises keen to plug reliable publisher content into their own internal AI ... read more

CBS News has appointed Nick Bilton as executive producer of “60 Minutes,” CNBC reports. He replaces Tanya Simon, who has been with the program for more than 30 years. Bilton, a former New York Times ... read more

Researchers have long known about a phenomenon called the hostile media effect — the perception by people that the media is prejudiced against them. But researchers are now studying what they call the hostile misinformation ... read more

Screenvision Media has named former chief revenue officer of Vox Media Geoff Schiller as chief executive officer, replacing interim CEO Jeff Howe, CityBiz reports. Schiller will also join the board of directors. The hire comes as ... read more

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has vetoed two media-related bills, The Colorado Sun reports. House Bill 1255, a measure that would require social media platforms to report to law enforcement posts that contain threats, would have a “chilling effect” ... read more

YouTube is testing a beta feature that allows music creators to select and share exclusive content with their most devoted supporters. ... read more

Reddit and X have been subpoenaed by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, due to multiple users' reported posting of social media content critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts. ... read more

The conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a block on a Texas law that requires Google and Apple to verify users' ages and prevent minors under 18 from downloading apps or making in-app ... read more

Amazon Publisher Services at its summit on Thursday introduced new capabilities to help publishers use data signals that improve an advertiser's performance across web, mobile, and streaming TV. ... read more

Amazon Publisher Services at its summit on Thursday introduced new capabilities to help publishers use data signals that improve an advertiser's performance across web, mobile, and streaming TV. ... read more

Connecticut is now the fourth state to prohibit companies from selling data that can pinpoint people's locations within a 1,750-foot radius. ... read more

The association is also bringing former WPP Media whistleblower Jon Mandel back as part of a special media transparency report update webinar next week. ... read more

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She will succeed Clark Rector, who is retiring at the end of July after 37 years with the organization. ... read more

OpenAI has switched on cost-per-action ads inside its ads manager, Digiday has learned.  The feature, which is currently available to select advertisers only, lets them pay for ads in ChatGPT only when a user takes ... read more

The move comes as its U.S. counterpoint - the ARF - is undergoing an executive search for a new CEO to succeed Scott McDonald, who is set to retire early next year. ... read more

Geoff Schiller, former CRO at Vox Media, is set to become CEO of cinema ad network Screenvision. The move marks Schiller’s first departure from the digital publishing industry in 25 years. Vox Media sold half ... read more

Walmart Connect has expanded its offsite media strategy with additional demand-side platforms and programmatic platforms including Yahoo DSP, specifically for Vizio inventory available via Magnite. ... read more

SpaceX's initial IPO shows the focus is on how it will be the parent company for X, Grok and Starlink - with a major focus on advertising. ... read more

Comscore Movies will rebrand as Rentrak. The box office/movie data-tracking company merged with Comscore in 2016 and will now return to its legacy name. ... read more

“Where should I spend my next dollar?” is now a question that marketers can pop into an AI chat box instead of a media dashboard. On Thursday, media measurement provider Measured launched a Model Context ... read more

Mihaila spent the last two decades in senior leadership roles at WPP and its agency EssenceMediacom, including Global Client President and Managing Director EMEA for EssenceMediacom. ... read more

The Fox series "Memory of a Killer" boasts the most conspicuous killer for hire on TV at the moment - an assassin with early-onset Alzheimer's. ... read more

State wiretapping laws written in the 1960s are now taking aim at targeting pixels used for standard ad measurement. In a recent lawsuit that’s currently being heard by the Washington Supreme Court, Baker v. Seattle ... read more

Every era of advertising is defined by what its reporting layer cannot see. In the 1960s, the industry was defined by the Nielsen diary. Households recorded their viewing on paper and mailed it back. Advertisers ... read more

Sir Funds-A-Lot On Wednesday, TV ad decisioning platform Olyzon announced a $10 million Series A investment led by S4S Ventures, the early stage investment group co-founded by Sir Martin Sorrell and Sanja Partalo. TV remains ... read more

As the holding companies suck up or build more ad tech, including AI-powered data curation — look no further than Publicis’ recent $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp — independents find themselves in a position of ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at why publishers are once again turning to social platforms for audience growth and revenue as AI-driven search changes and declining Google traffic put pressure on their owned-and-operated businesses. But ... read more

As more people look for ways to be healthier or seek knowledge about medical ailments (especially in countries lacking universal health care) medical creators have stepped up, providing their knowledge to viewers and a new ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Major carriers are implementing new fuel surcharges, pushing more e-commerce brands to get creative with their shipping options. Effective last week, UPS now has surge ... read more

A more diverse customer set could give big media companies like Comcast the same resilience to market shocks as Meta and Google enjoy, but persuading enough performance-minded brands to try CTV — and they’ll need ... read more

Condé Nast has reached a settlement with the NewsGuild of New York over the firing of four editorial staffers last year. Alma Avalle, Ben Dewey Jake Lahut and  Jasper Lo were terminated after they confronted the chief people officer about ... read more

Meta will introduce new and expanded subscription offerings for creators and businesses, as well as users of the tech giant's AI chatbot and social platforms. ... read more

Meta will introduce new and expanded subscription offerings for creators and businesses, as well as users of the tech giant's AI chatbot and social platforms. ... read more

A receipt from 2006 has people "marveling at how far grocery costs have climbed in the nearly two decades since," according to "USA Today." ... read more

Journalist Sharyn Alfonsi is leaving “60 Minutes,” after a decade-length tenure on the program, The Washington Post reports. Alfonsi had clashed with Editor in Chief Bari Weiss. “This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice ... read more

A pro bono campaign from Cactus morphed into a men's mental health website. A book with similar insights will be published on June 15. ... read more

Roku unveiled its new home screen, which includes a “Top Picks for You” section, an easier way to access subscriptions and a new search function. All of these features are meant to tailor the home ... read more

A federal judge dismissed the FTC's lawsuit last year, ruling that Meta isn't a monopoly because it currently competes with YouTube and TikTok. ... read more

The average share of citations attributed to social platforms was 33% higher in April 2026 than in October 2025. Average share declined in March; April followed three straight months of growth, according to Tinuiti. ... read more

Oscar Rondon, vice president, data and measurement solutions, Nexxen  Today’s TV advertising doesn’t have a data problem; it has an execution problem.  The industry has never been richer in signals, ranging from contextual intelligence to ... read more

Media buyers discover they've been sitting on a human oilfield this whole time, Web3 report says ... read more

MIAMI – At the POSSIBLE conference, Kevin Krim, president and chief executive of media-measurement firm EDO Inc., arrived with a message that probably startled at least a few ad executives wandering Miami Beach meeting halls ... read more

MIAMI — Post-transaction advertising delivers measurably stronger results than traditional display, but the programmatic infrastructure built to serve the open web may be holding marketers back from realizing its full potential. “The unique thing about ... read more

The days of waiting until a campaign ends to find out whether it worked may soon be over. Warner Bros. Discovery has unveiled a real-time measurement and attribution dashboard that lets marketers monitor and optimize ... read more

If you are a brand that was already spending heavily in walled gardens, the argument for going deeper just got stronger. ... read more

Juozas Kaziukenas, an entrepreneur based in New York, shared in a LinkedIn post that he believes Google broke AI's biggest promise to users by adding the ads in mid-conversations. ... read more

Analysis of 1,611 scripted original shows on premium streamers found viewers waited an average of 21 months between new seasons -- up from the 16-month period in 2022. ... read more

Siding against Meta Platforms, a federal judge has rejected the company's bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged Facebook advertisers a collective $4 billion. ... read more

Shachar Orren, co-founder and CRO/CMO, EX.CO For three decades, the click was the currency of digital publishing. Someone wrote the headline, someone clicked it and the monetization engine did the rest. It was simple, reliable ... read more

The ecommerce company's "Celebrate Being Human" campaign pivots from makers to buyers. ... read more

A bipartisan bill that would have required Maryland state agencies to direct half of their ad spend to local news media has been vetoed by Governor Wes Moore, WBOC reports. The Local News for Maryland ... read more

So far, AI is just another tool for persuading humans, but when consumers hand off to AI agents, humans will be out of the loop. That's not something marketers have faced before. Humans have always ... read more

The bots are hungry for content. The content owners are hungry for monetization. And the IAB Tech Lab is working on new recommendations that will – hopefully – help everyone get fed. On Wednesday, the ... read more

IAB Tech Lab has released new guidance on AI system bot-and-crawler management strategies to help publishers and content owners develop approaches to inform non-human agents. ... read more

"The Breakfast Club" morning show co-hosted by Charlamagne tha God will stream live every weekday, and compete with other live morning shows on legacy networks and streamers like YouTube. ... read more

In a promotional video on YouTube, comedian Ben Gleib positions his show in the context of the changes roiling late-night on network TV. ... read more

There are significant reasons to buy news content - "meaning advertisers who avoid news scenes altogether are leaving money on the table." ... read more

There are significant reasons to buy news content -- "meaning advertisers who avoid news scenes altogether are leaving money on the table." ... read more

"The Breakfast Club" morning show co-hosted by Charlamagne tha God will stream live every weekday, and compete with other live morning shows on legacy networks and streamers like YouTube. ... read more

Owlet’s target customer isn’t in market for very long. The publicly traded baby tech company is best known for its smart “sock,” a wearable that wraps around an infant’s foot to track heart rate, oxygen ... read more

Alternative ID vendors have been hardcore pitching advertisers for years that email-based IDs can work for CTV. But skepticism still abounds. To be fair, email-based alt IDs are a viable third-party cookie replacement for online ... read more

Social Butterflies Meta quietly launched an app called Forum this week, which the company says is “built for deeper discussions, real answers and the communities you care about,” reports Social Media Today. This news may ... read more

Marketers are handing more of their workflows over to AI — testing media activation agents, making creative and scaling it. The line around what still requires a human touch, however, is fuzzy. Some executives are ... read more

The ink was barely dry on Publicis Groupe’s deal to acquire LiveRamp before marketers started calling their partners and consultants. Not to make decisions — most aren’t there yet. Just to ask questions they hadn’t ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the conversations that upfront sellers including Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery are looking to have with advertisers regarding incorporating AI agents in ad buys. The ... read more

OpenAI is reportedly heading toward a public market debut as early as September — a listing that could value the company at around $1 trillion. Right now though, it’s still learning how to be an ... read more

A ban on U.K. gambling brands’ soccer sponsorships has created a glut of partnership opportunities for consumer marketers. But while CMOs sizing up the opportunity have leverage for now, they’ll face pressure to prove it’s ... read more

Donald E. Newhouse, who ran the newspaper division of Advance Publications, has died at age 96. Newhouse and his older brother Si inherited a media empire from their father Samuel I. Newhouse. They divided responsibilities, with ... read more

Anna Gomez, the sole Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, is urging publishers to fight  what she says is the administration’s effort to crack down on free speech, Associated Press reports. Gomez sent a four-page letter ... read more

Anthropic confirms it is collaborating with other companies on a project called Glasswing, in an effort to safeguard critical software from AI-driven exploits, Bleeping Computer writes. This occurs as Anthropic prepares for the public rollout of Mythos, ... read more

Today's news is fodder for future historians. The Wayback Machine is designed to achieve that purpose. ... read more

Andy Brown, best known for his role as chairman-CEO of Kantar Media, died May 21. He was 63. ... read more

Google argues on appeal that it "prevailed in the marketplace fair and square." ... read more

For many in the media planning and buying world, the daily work remains full of manual processes and disconnected spreadsheets. But, as artificial intelligence continues its march across the industry, some are seeing an opportunity ... read more

As Beet.TV marks 20 years and roughly 11,000 interviews chronicling the twists, turns and identity crises of the media business, Doug Rozen, president of predictive advertising company Cadent, has a message for advertisers everywhere: consumers ... read more

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Meta Platforms' request to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Vermont, clearing the way for the state to attempt to prove that the social platform designed Instagram to addict ... read more

Do you ask people for advice as often as you used to? The ability to exchange information is one of our most human capabilities. ... read more

Has Spotify ever described your musical taste as “yacht rock coastal grandmother” or “divorced dad hipster”? Even if Spotify’s very specific-sounding labels don’t exactly describe who you are, they probably accurately capture the vibe of ... read more

Platforms driven by influencer culture and algorithmic feeds showed stronger negative associations with happiness than platforms centered on communication, according to the World Happiness Report. ... read more

According to the company, the appointments reflect Blue Hour's evolution from creator partnerships to a full-service social-first creative agency. ... read more

The European Union may fine Google millions of dollars - its largest fine to date - for breaching laws related to the European Digital Markets Act. ... read more

CBS and Paramount have pulled back from sending copyright notices to prevent a parody by Stephen Colbert on Michigan public access show “Only In Monroe” from going viral on social media, NPR reports. In the ... read more

Goalhanger Ventures, Gary Lineker’s new ventures arm, has invested in Charlie Tymon’s Invisible Media, which operates Invisible Hand, a digital media platform and YouTube channel. Invisible Media is developing new specialist formats, including The Invisible Game, ... read more

"The global advertising spend outlook is positive," the agency states, attributing a moderate downgrade as "informed by economic uncertainty tied to geopolitical tensions." ... read more

Global CTV-based advertising will nearly double in four years to $81 billion by 2030 from $44 billion in 2025, research and advisory firm Omdia estimates. ... read more

Pope Leo's global address examines the moral, social and human impact of AI with a particular focus on tech giant monopolies, AI developers and the geopolitical use of AI in warfare. ... read more

The "Project Gravity" platform matches offline consumer lists to digital profiles, allowing AI to understand context, concepts and relationships rather than looking at exact matches. ... read more

Could Jimmy Fallon one day emerge as the King of Late Night? ... read more

Advertisers love live sports. But good luck measuring that investment. Although tides of ad revenue flow based on the ratings of certain tentpole TV events, a new crop of scammers now operate illicit sports livestreaming ... read more

Microsoft has one big piece of advice for publishers and retailers that are cautiously navigating the AI era: Let the bots scrape your sites. That’s according to Nikhil Kolar, VP of publisher product at Microsoft ... read more

Google sees an opportunity for an ecommerce do-over in the agentic AI era. Plus: Cox Media Group and other marketing firms settle allegations over falsely marketing an AI-powered “Active Listening” ad product. The post Google ... read more

Advertisers treated OpenAI’s ad pilot like a bet on the future. The question now is how long they’re willing to wait for it to pay off. So far, it has not been an easy wait. ... read more

There really was only one story in ad tech last week. In case you spent the last week under a rock, Publicis Groupe proposed a $2.2 purchase of the data-onboarding leader LiveRamp, a development that ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify For the most part, the digital media darlings of the 2000s have been killed.  Once valued at over a billion dollars each, BuzzFeed and Vox Media have seen their business ... read more

Imagine this: you’re an avid viewer of a rather small streamer jumping on to catch their daily video game session when you notice something odd. The streamer, who you’ve watched regularly for six months alongside ... read more