Media

The Rundown: AI clones split the creator economy

Unauthorized AI voice clones and authorized digital twins are splitting the creator economy in half as brands, lawyers, and talent take stock.

The World Cup is a big chance for retail media to prove itself to advertisers

The World Cup, being much longer than other sporting events with more opportunities for campaigns, will likely serve as a case study for future retail media activations.

AI ‘girlfriend ads’ are fueling a new wave of MFA sites

AI-generated “girlfriend ads” are driving traffic to made-for-advertising sites filled with low-quality content and ads.

Marketing

The official judgmental map of Cannes Lions 2026

This map won’t tell you where to go during Cannes Lions. It will tell you where you actually are.

The definitive Digiday guide to what’s in and out at Cannes 2026

Here’s what’s in and out for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

As AI reshapes search, TikTok turns discovery into a performance pitch

The platform argues rising search activity is evidence that discovery is increasingly driving performance outcomes advertisers expect.

Future of TV

Fox strikes revenue-doubling Roku deal

The media company is set to acquire streamer in $22 billion stock-and-cash purchase. But it will keep its own properties like Tubi separate.

Future of TV Briefing: How TV and streaming networks are laying the groundwork for outcome-based buying

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how this year’s upfront sets up for outcome-based buying in future upfronts.

Future of TV Briefing: How TV-streaming ad sellers are pitching fluidity in this year’s upfront market

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how AMC Global Media, Disney, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision and Warner Bros. Discovery are combining their linear TV and streaming inventory for ad sales.

Media Buying

WTF is vector-based ad targeting?

Traditional text-based ad targeting will always have its place. But in an ad marketplace run by AI agents, it may need to be replaced as the primary method of aiming ads.

Digiday Scorecard: As competition between DSPs heats up, buyers rank market rivals

Media buyers explain how they compare DSPs on transparency, inventory and performance. The best of the lot? Take a look.

Media Buying Briefing: Breaking down Coca-Cola’s campaign blitz with an eye toward its review

Reading the tea leaves of Coca-Cola’s recent campaigns (and their media spending) reveals its priorities ahead of a huge media and data account review.


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.

ACR data is invaluable, but only if it lives within DSPs

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 identity graphs, outcome measurement to an overload of dashboards. Despite this sophistication, too many TV strategies still break down at […]

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