Media Buying Briefing: AI’s impact on search forces agencies to rewrite the marketing script

Zero-click search and generative search optimization (GEO) are the new battle cries of the media planning and buying world, all because generative AI has upended search behaviors as we’ve known them the last 20 years.

Future of Marketing Briefing: AI feels friendlier, agency holdcos act tighter

In the race to build brands around AI assistants, the stakes are higher than empathy.

Digiday Media Agency Report 2025: How clients are experimenting and spending — from AI to tariffs

Digiday’s 2025 Media Agency Report examines the current and future state of media agencies, from the perspective of total client spending and spending by media channel. It also delves into the impact of agentic AI on the agency landscape.

Media Briefing: From standards to marketplaces: the AI ‘land grab’ is on 

The AI space is growing crowded, with companies vying to set AI standards and build marketplaces to help publishers monetize content.

Future of TV Briefing: Is Meta’s Vibes the future of TikTok?

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how the AI-generated content feed of Meta’s Vibes could fill the doomscrolling void if TikTok users abandon the U.S. version of the app.

Digiday+ Research: Unwrapping brands’ 2025 holiday marketing strategies

Digiday+ Research examined which commerce channels are dominating brands' and retailers' holiday strategies this year, and how some are moving away from Amazon and looking at other channels heading into Q4.

Ad Tech Briefing: PE firms are eyeing take-private deals but Google’s fate casts a shadow  

IAS ends Nasdaq run with $1.9B Novacap buyout amid political oversight, with market pressures expected to further M&A.

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