Media Briefing: What to expect at the Digiday Publishing Summit, September 2026 edition

Future of TV Briefing: How strong are the fundamentals of the creator economy, really?

Media Buying Briefing: Linda Boff on the power of independent agencies, and the need for financial discipline

OpenAI turns on cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT

‘Everything is coming down’: ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper

A closer look at OpenAI’s ads manager – and how much work it still needs

Creator industry admits that fee pricing is out of control, but can’t agree on a fix

In the facing of rising creator costs, companies are offering benchmarking tools to level the negotiation playing field, but is it enough?

Media Briefing: The post-traffic era of the open web is taking shape

The open web isn’t dead, but it is changing shape. Publishers are trading search-driven scale for stronger brands and diversified audiences.

USA Today Co. is reformatting content to attract more AI licensing deals

USA Today Co. is testing ways to reformat content for AI bots in a bid to attract licensing deals and unlock new revenue.

Target’s new beauty selection has almost no Black-owned brands

Of the 90 brands listed as part of the new beauty assortment, Modern Retail could only identify two with Black owners or founders.

Carhartt aligns with the NFL through the tradespeople building Highmark Stadium

Carhartt is finding a way to tap into football season that goes beyond partnering with the athletes themselves.

Future of Marketing Briefing: Soccer’s World Cup buzz isn’t moving needle on Premier League ad spend

The World Cup was a success for broadcasters, but marketers looking to capitalize on rising interest in soccer must navigate a diffuse landscape of sporting properties and fan identities.

Future of TV Briefing: Which agency team(s) should be responsible for YouTube Shorts?

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agencies are sorting out which teams take the lead for buying YouTube Shorts ads.

Future of TV Briefing: YouTube Shorts gains ad dollars but needs to crack social budgets

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at advertisers’ spending on YouTube Shorts inventory as the platform raises the revenue-sharing threshold for creators.

Ad Tech Briefing: TV measurement’s competitive reset gathers pace (with more job cuts)

ComScore and VideoAmp confirm large job cuts, just days after rival Nielsen makes bold M&A move.

Media Buying Briefing: Linda Boff on the power of independent agencies, and the need for financial discipline

The former CMO of GE has seen agencies of all stripes and sizes come and go. If they’re not putting the client first, they’re not doing job one.

Dentsu expands and consolidates its commerce and retail media offering under new leadership

One reason for the move to bring in new leadership: the commerce media and retail media worlds continue to grow at impressive rates

Ad Tech Briefing: AI advertising’s measurement problem is really a governance problem

As OpenAI accelerates its ad ambitions, efforts to establish common measurement standards become more urgent.

Digiday+ Research: The 2026 guide to holiday marketing strategies, including A-Frame Brands, Mastercard and Ritual

D+ Research: Marketers navigate a changing CTV landscape

D+ Research: Marketers hesitate to adopt AI for influencer and CTV marketing

The case for and against turning off Google crawlers

Marketers embrace AI across workflows, but questions over guardrails and job impacts remain

Why agentic media buying is becoming a client-by-client configuration job

Digiday+ Research: The marketers’ 2026 guide to creator marketing, including Duolingo, Ulta and YouTube

D+ Research: Marketers embrace AI for social and retail media, but show skepticism in AI ad buying

Digiday+ Research: Marketers optimize GEO strategies amid the effects of zero-click search

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.

WTF is agentic commerce? | How brands can make loyalty and promotions agent-ready

This WTF guide, sponsored by Talon.One, explores how brands can make their loyalty and promotions agent-ready, as agentic commerce evolves from a theoretical concept into practical applications, and AI agents begin to handle the end-to-end shopping journey for consumers. Agentic commerce has quickly become a hot industry topic, as the technology evolves from a theoretical […]