Media

What the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit says about Amazon’s advertising business

The agency accused the e-commerce giant of conducting a range of anticompetitive behaviors that hurt both shoppers and sellers.

The Independent’s Blair Tapper & Thomson Reuters’ Josef Najm are trying to break down advertisers’ news blocks 

In a live recording during the Digiday Publishing Summit, the news executives called for more nuanced conversations with advertisers around their brand safety concerns.

Getty Images gets into the generative AI race with its own image platform

After investing in one generative AI startup and suing another, the company will let customers create images on its website and an API.

Marketing

How Formula One’s ‘huge surge’ in the U.S. is capturing the attention of marketers and publishers

With three Grand Prix races in the U.S. this year – Miami this past May, Austin in October and Las Vegas in November – the interest from U.S. marketers in Formula One has increased this year, according to agency executives, who say they expect that growth to continue next year.

Digiday+ Research deep dive: Brands, retailers use Facebook less, even as it drives revenues, branding

A Digiday+ Research survey found that brands and retailers report using Facebook less over the last few years, all while the platform’s value to their revenues and brands has increased.

Marketing Briefing: Marketers ‘optimistic’ after WGA strike’s potential resolution, but aren’t expecting ad dollars will return just yet

The timeline for a return to business as usual – whatever that may mean now – is yet to be determined.

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

Future of TV Briefing: TV ad industry’s measurement mess gets closer to cleanup phase

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what an industry group’s conditional certification of three measurement currency contenders signals about the TV ad business’s measurement overhaul.

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.

Media Buying

How attention metrics is tuning into audio investments

The latest example comes from work that attention metrics firm Adelaide did with several audio publishers, including iHeart, NPR and Audacy around an eBay campaign.

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Media.Monks applies AI to generate highlights, new media content for Gen Z

S4 Capital’s Media.Monks is developing an AI offering for producing fan content and highlights targeted at Gen Z.

Key takeaways from the DoJ’s battle with Google that advertisers really should know

Early trial proceedings unearth intricate details over Google’s ad sales process.


Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit
Dec 04, 2023

The Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit offers an influential group of programmatic marketing leaders a chance to come together to discuss pain points, pitch solutions and ultimately, make valuable business connections.

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Culture
‘A cut in your salary’: How RTO changes depending on where you live

New Census figures found that while 15% of the U.S. worked from home in 2022, the numbers are much higher in the Northeast and on the West Coast. That highlights how RTO mandates might actually be playing catch up to the rest of the country, rather than setting a standard. 

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Culture
‘A cut in your salary’: How RTO changes depending on where you live

New Census figures found that while 15% of the U.S. worked from home in 2022, the numbers are much higher in the Northeast and on the West Coast. That highlights how RTO mandates might actually be playing catch up to the rest of the country, rather than setting a standard. 

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Luxury
Luxury Briefing: Why Paris Fashion Week is ‘the moment’

Models walking down a runway. It’s been done, and it continues to be done. But the designers that continue to capture the interest of fashion and beyond have consistently updated the ritual with elements that speak to the times. Paris Fashion Week has been awash with examples, inclusive of NYC-based Peter Do and Jonathan Anderson-led Loewe. And, based on the brand’s pregame moves, centered on building closer connections with its community, Louis Vuitton is expected to follow suit. 

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Luxury
Luxury Briefing: Why Paris Fashion Week is ‘the moment’

Models walking down a runway. It’s been done, and it continues to be done. But the designers that continue to capture the interest of fashion and beyond have consistently updated the ritual with elements that speak to the times. Paris Fashion Week has been awash with examples, inclusive of NYC-based Peter Do and Jonathan Anderson-led Loewe. And, based on the brand’s pregame moves, centered on building closer connections with its community, Louis Vuitton is expected to follow suit. 

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Operations
Modern Retail Rundown: FTC vs. Amazon, Target store closures & changes at Peloton

This week on the Modern Retail Rundown, we dive into the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. Then, we discuss Target’s announcement that it plans to close nine stores due to increased theft. Last, we look into recent shakeups at Peloton and what it means about its business.

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Modern Retail Rundown: FTC vs. Amazon, Target store closures & changes at Peloton

This week on the Modern Retail Rundown, we dive into the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. Then, we discuss Target’s announcement that it plans to close nine stores due to increased theft. Last, we look into recent shakeups at Peloton and what it means about its business.