Media

Media Briefing: Publishers say a cookie-less future remains murky, overheard at the Digiday Publishing Summit

Publishers who attended the Digiday Publishing Summit opened up about their top challenges, concerns and curiosities during closed-door, anonymous town hall meetings.

Amazon reveals updated smart devices and software powered by Alexa LLM

Powering all of Amazon’s hardware is an updated large language model, that could help connected devices actually be smarter.

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Why BDG editor Charlotte Owen thinks AI is good for editorial strategy

BDG isn’t using AI to generate content. But the rise of the technology in the media ecosystem is reshaping BDG’s editorial strategy.

Marketing

Why Ducati is confident in Web3, despite the cold of crypto winter

Ducati has legitimate reasons to investigate Web3 tech as a marketing tool. Building a community of Ducati enthusiasts, or “Ducatisti,” has been a core element of the brand’s marketing for decades.

Research Briefing: Brands seem unsure about TikTok’s marketing potential, but TikTok Shop pitch may cause them to spend

In this edition of the weekly Digiday+ Research Briefing, we share focal points from Digiday’s recently released reports on agency and brand confidence in TikTok, and on how publishers are making Instagram work for them.

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Inside Fandom’s mission to boost brand awareness among Gen Z gamers — with a little help from Instagram

While this is the first gaming related livestream Fandom has done with Instagram, it’s part of a bigger push to celebrate and embrace the vast gaming community among the Gen Z demographic thriving on Instagram’s platform.

Special Edition
The commerce media era

This limited editorial series from Digiday explores how commerce media, from e-commerce to retail media networks, has entered a new era.

Future of TV

FOTV

Future of TV Briefing: The 2023 glossary

This week’s Future of TV Briefing offers an updated list of the key terms that can cause confusion when talking about the TV, streaming and digital video industry.

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Future of TV Briefing: The Disney-Charter deal signals looming equilibrium between traditional TV and streaming

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what the Disney-Charter pay-TV distribution deal seems to indicate about the increasingly more-complementary-than-contentious relationship between traditional TV and streaming.

Georgia-Pacific’s Laura Knebusch breaks down CPG giant’s spending shift away from traditional TV

Traditional TV now accounts for less than 50% of Georgia-Pacific’s spending, but its share still exceeds streaming’s.

Media Buying

Magna raises 2023 revenue forecast to $337 billion, boosted by retail media and digital

Retail media and the bounceback of digital advertising led IPG’s Magna to raise its ad revenue growth forecast to more than 5% to total $337 billion in 2023.

Media Buying Briefing: Agencies’ views for and against bid shading

Ever since bid shading became prevalent in programmatic, how do agencies know it’s working? There are still plenty of uncertainties and complexities around the benefits and downsides.

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Apple’s expanding ad ambitions: A closer look at its journey toward a comprehensive ad tech stack

Apple’s limitless advertising ambitions means anxiety for ad tech vendors.


Digiday Publishing Summit
Sep 18, 2023

This year’s Digiday Publishing Summit in Key Biscayne, Florida will convene an influential group of media execs in order to give them the venue to discuss these new strategies, identify common pain points as well as pitch solutions and ultimately, make valuable business connections within the media industry.

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Leadership
What happens when HR is the bad actor?

HR at a property maintenance company harassed an employee, ultimately forcing him to resign due to the hostile work environment. Granted, it’s an extreme example of what happens when HR isn’t competent, but it’s a reminder that HR professionals make mistakes too. And that can damage culture.

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Leadership
What happens when HR is the bad actor?

HR at a property maintenance company harassed an employee, ultimately forcing him to resign due to the hostile work environment. Granted, it’s an extreme example of what happens when HR isn’t competent, but it’s a reminder that HR professionals make mistakes too. And that can damage culture.

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Ulta is back with another sale. Shop our top picks from the retailer’s Fall Haul

The discounts are on select brands and products and range from 20-50%. Among sale items are hair-care, makeup, skin-care and body-care products by buzzy brands including Tree Hut, Megababe and Fur.

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Why Made In went in-house for its video content strategy

Made In, launched in 2017 as a DTC kitchenware brand, counts more than 2,500 professional chefs among its customers. Its in-house video content strategy has developed to feature many of those chefs cooking their favorite recipes as well as other how-tos.