Digiday+ Deep Dive podcast: Snapchat’s unskippable video ads

The Digiday+ Deep Dive is a new podcast available exclusively to Digiday+ members. Digiday editors will discuss the week’s biggest stories, and offer a glimpse into what’s being talked about in the newsroom.

This week, Digiday editors Lucia Moses and Sahil Patel join Digiday editor-in-chief Brian Morrissey unpack Snapchat’s plans for unskippable video ads, and the company’s push to include more Snapchat personalities in the videos publishers are producing for its app.

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