Video creators cede mid-roll ad placement control to Facebook

Media companies and creators have found that manually managing their Facebook videos’ mid-roll ad placements has not helped -- and in some cases, hurt -- their revenue.

‘Leave the BS in the past’: Why many publishers aren’t mourning the death of the third-party cookie

Life after the third-party cookie might look like life before the third-party cookie. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

Digiday Publishing Summit Europe Event Briefing: Life after the cookie

At this week’s Digiday Publishing Summit Europe in Dubrovnik, Croatia, publishing executives discussed what life might look like after the third-party cookie and how they are diversifying their revenue streams beyond traditional ads.

The loss of tracking cookies is fueling the importance of email newsletters

"Publishers will get more sophisticated, newsletters now are fairly blunt instruments."

Digiday Research: 66% of agencies now offer maternity leave

About two-thirds of agency employees say their agencies now offer maternity leave, with about 45% of the same employees saying their shops also give paid leave to new fathers. That’s part of a new survey covering work-life, culture and careers conducted by Digiday Research early this year. About 63% of the agencies that offered maternity leave offer between one and three months, while 29% of them offer more than three months.

The Rundown: The big Chrome SameSite cookie update day that wasn’t

Similar to Chrome’s January announcement about its intention to kill off third-party cookies “within two years," publishers and the wider online ad community are left in a precarious state of “wait-and-see.”

Digiday Research: Employees at indie agencies are happier than their holding company peers

Ask any agency employee how satisfied they are at work, and a litany of complaints is bound to come your way. There are plenty of reasons to grumble: The ad agency world tends to pay little (especially at junior levels), have very long hours and often feels unstable.

Amid shift to streaming, programmers try to maintain linear TV’s dual-revenue model

The streaming market for linear channels is diverging, which puts traditional TV's dual-revenue stream for linear channels at risk.