Media Briefing: AI is the new middleman, and it’s coming for the browser

The rise of the AI browser war could accelerate the decline of publishers' search traffic and the push to get paid by AI companies.

Future of TV Briefing: Inside the measurement issues roiling this year’s upfront market

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the tensions bubbling up in the TV ad market as some TV networks press Nielsen to postpone its decision to deprecate panel-only measurement.

Ad Tech Briefing: How ad tech underpins the fate of Madison Avenue’s ‘Wedding of the Year’

The ‘brand safety’ debate is threatening to derail the IPG-Omnicom merger, while questions are raised on the integration of Annalect and Acxiom.

Media Briefing: AI payouts may be entering a new era 

AI compensation is evolving — and new models, not just publisher demands, are driving the shift beyond flat-fee licensing.

Digiday+ Research: Publishers pull back their dependence on digital revenue

After a year in which publishers shifted their revenue dependence away from traditional channels and toward digital channels, 2025 has seen a shift back toward more of a balance between traditional and digital revenue sources.

Pitch deck: Why Google believes its latest AI Max product is a game changer for search campaigns

AI Max, which launched May and rolls out this summer, aims to provide advertisers with a “one-click feature suite” for search campaigns.

Future of TV Briefing: A preview of Digiday’s CTV Advertising Strategies event

This week’s Future of TV Briefing previews next week’s CTV Advertising Strategies event that I’ll be hosting with top brand and agency executives in New York City.

Ad Tech Briefing: The ‘plumbers’ posing as the unlikely saviors of the internet

After several false dawns, can Cloudflare’s ‘anti-AI scraping tool' finally offer publishers a road to commercial redemption?