for the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit, May 6-8 in Palm Springs.
DIGIDAY+ MEMBER EXCLUSIVES
As holdcos sour on The Trade Desk, Stagwell goes all in
Stagwell’s chosen to double down on relationship with the DSP in a deal intended to boost its agentic AI capabilities.
OpenAI's ads program matures
Media
Beehiiv adds even more features to go up against competitors and win over creators
Weeks after podcasts, Beehiiv continues to add to its platform infrastructure to court creators, but is it enough?
Media Briefing: As traffic declines, publishers see gains in commerce conversions and CTR
Publishers like Forbes and Apartment Therapy see growth in commerce business as audiences convert better despite shrinking traffic.
Vibes over metrics: Why more creators are holding IRL events to own their audience
IRL events are becoming increasingly important pillars of a content creator’s growth strategy; here’s why.
Marketing
Future of Marketing Briefing: In the age of AI, taste is the new competitive advantage
in a world where the tools are everywhere and the output is indistinguishable, taste is the last thing that actually compounds.
Sports guidance to brands from three sources: Keep the fan top of mind and you might just win
Agencies are hiring talent from the big leagues, crystallizing sport-related efforts into full-fledged business opportunities, while others look for the danger in tapping AI in too many places.
YouTube is turning audio into an ad product — SiriusXM is selling it
The streaming giant has exclusively partnered with SiriusXM Media to sell YouTube’s “audio-first” inventory in the U.S.
Future of TV
Future of TV Briefing: The ambitious and alarming proposal fix to TV and streaming’s identity crisis
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement’s Identity Infrastructure 2.0 proposal that aims to address TV and streaming’s fractured identity picture — but at what cost to people’s privacy?
Future of TV Briefing: Netflix’s VOID peeks at the future of virtual product placement
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at an AI tool developed by a team including several Netflix employees that could presage the evolution of virtual product placements.
Future of TV Briefing: A TV advertising staple is missing from YouTube show sponsorships
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the rare practice of YouTube channels offering TV-style make-goods to sponsors as TV-style shows become more commonplace.
Media Buying
Ad Tech Briefing: The days of bloat are over, as efficiency drives ad tech’s C-suite exodus
Faced with increasing competition from LLMs, ad tech players have to better demonstrate their value-add.
Digiday+ Research: Agencies punt budget growth expectations to 2027 — while AI worries intensify
Agencies’ top concerns this year are client spending and the effects of AI, according to a Digiday+ Research survey conducted in the fourth quarter of 2025 among 62 agency professionals.
As upfront negotiations near, buyers chart path through complex sports market
The DOJ’s NFL probe highlights how sports rights complexity can be ‘good for pricing, but hard on strategy’ for brands and buyers.
Annual research reports
Podcasts
Research
More brands are leaning into smaller-scale creators, with creator networks and “community” brand trips replacing mega-influencer campaigns and lavish influencer trips.
More brands are leaning into smaller-scale creators, with creator networks and “community” brand trips replacing mega-influencer campaigns and lavish influencer trips.
Quip’s latest ad was entirely human-made, but it still received social media comments from people who assumed it was generated with AI. Here’s how the brand responded.
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Member ExclusiveHow Urban Outfitters co-creates campaigns with Gen Z
Quip’s latest ad was entirely human-made, but it still received social media comments from people who assumed it was generated with AI. Here’s how the brand responded.