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Dollar Shave Club’s bet: AI makes agencies optional, not obsolete
Dollar Shave Club makes 90% of its advertising in-house. AI is coming for the other 10%.
OpenAI's ads program matures
Media
How Time and others are rebuilding parts of the web for AI agents
Publishers are preparing for the agentic web by creating AI-friendly versions of their sites to stay discoverable in AI search.
The Economist launches new audio and video tier targeting younger subscribers
The Economist has launched a lower-priced audio and video subscription to attract younger readers, called Economist Play.
OpenX hunts new CEO after parting ways with Matt Sattel as chief executive
The ad tech company is switching leaders, ending the current CEO’s five-month term in office.
Marketing
Digiday+ Research: The marketers’ 2026 guide to creator marketing, including Duolingo, Ulta and YouTube
While Instagram, TikTok and YouTube remain dominant social platforms for influencer partnerships, creators are increasingly being used across other media channels, including retail media, CTV and display ads.
How 3 brands are using TikTok Shop to expand abroad
As these brands venture into the U.K., Europe and Japan, they say that the key to a global approach to TikTok Shop involves tailored marketing campaigns.
How beauty brands are popping up around World Cup festivities
Beauty and skin care in particular have taken a bigger spotlight this year, exemplifying just how closely beauty and sports have become intertwined.
Future of TV
Future of TV Briefing: The 5 biggest news stories of 2026 so far
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks back at the most significant developments — or non-developments– in the TV, streaming and digital video industry during the first half of 2026.
Walmart buys ‘the Google Ads of streaming’ Vibe in a deal tipped at a $1 billion-plus valuation
The deal would bring Vibe’s 10,000 SME advertisers to the platform, equipping Walmart to better compete with Meta and Pinterest.
Future of TV Briefing: The ad-supported streaming landscape in graphic detail
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a spate of recent studies that highlight the growing predominance of ad-supported streaming and the risk in how brands are managing streaming campaigns.
Media Buying
What will NBCU’s conscious uncoupling from Comcast mean for brands?
As other market players continue to consolidate, the media giant is set to spin out its TV business. That could have implications for upfront negotiations and ad formats down the line.
Ad tech Briefing: Walmart’s Vibe deal is a reminder not to spend too long courting Madison Avenue
Walmart’s $1.4 billion acquisition of a five-year-old company underlines the importance of smaller businesses.
Media Buying Briefing: The holdco tech heads expound on the ups and downs of building AI
As AI becomes a bigger and broader part of the holding company model, their tech heads seek opportunity while grappling with challenges.
Annual research reports
Podcasts
Research
Upfronts
Future of TV Briefing: The upfront is overtaking streaming’s programmatic marketplace
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how major TV and streaming ad sellers are seeing upfront deals represent a larger share of their programmatic businesses.
Why Amazon and YouTube pitched operating systems, not just TV inventory at this year’s upfront
Negotiations over identity, infrastructure, AI-driven buying take place as much as programing.
Guide: A practical framework for marketers to evaluate agency platform claims amid a sea of identical language
As agencies hustle to bring AI-powered platforms to market to keep up with the competition, the language surrounding those offerings has become nearly identical, while the actual capabilities, economics and accountability behind the claims are unclear. Marketers end up having to distinguish between marketing narrative and measurable capability — sorting through the growing convergence of […]
This week, I checked in on the new slate of celebrity fragrances hitting shelves this summer. Additionally, Coty shakes up its C-suite amid an ongoing turnaround plan, and Tuckernuck makes a play for beauty.
This week, I checked in on the new slate of celebrity fragrances hitting shelves this summer. Additionally, Coty shakes up its C-suite amid an ongoing turnaround plan, and Tuckernuck makes a play for beauty.
Forme used Kalshi to hedge a World Cup refund promo, which helped lift the brand’s menswear traffic on its site. The campaign is a novel example of how e-commerce brands could use predictions markets as marketing tools.
Forme used Kalshi to hedge a World Cup refund promo, which helped lift the brand’s menswear traffic on its site. The campaign is a novel example of how e-commerce brands could use predictions markets as marketing tools.