The Rundown: DTC companies are relying less on digital ads

The idea that direct-to-consumer companies thrive simply based off of social ads is no longer true. Those companies have diversified their advertising -- and done so because they had to.

Digiday Research: 40% of publishing employees don’t think their compensation is fair

Digiday Research surveyed 203 people working in publishing to ask about work, compensation and culture. Overall, 60% of respondents said they believed they were being fairly paid for the job they did. However, the results started to differ when broken down by gender.

Programmers push Snapchat for minimum revenue guarantees

Snap’s growing interest in the economics of media companies’ Snapchat productions has given them hope that there’s a path to minimum revenue guarantees.

Digiday Research: Publishers are having trouble hiring for product roles

Hiring new talent is a challenge for the vast majority -- 71% -- of publishing executives surveyed by Digiday. But the hardest roles to hire for aren’t in editorial -- they’re in product.

The Rundown: The paywall paradox

For some publishers, their paywalls could be building their competitors' businesses instead of their own.

Pitch deck: How Politico is positioning Protocol to fill a ‘void in tech journalism’

The tech publication, which will run as a separate business from Politico, plans to cover both technology's endemic stories as well as its effects on mature industries. It is seeking a launch figure willing to spend $1 million.

The Rundown: Disney+ is going to help Disney’s ad business

Disney+ may be an ad-free streaming service, but Disney is a partially ad-supported company. And the much vaunted launch of the service is going to help Disney build out ads further. 

Streaming wars are starting to claim casualties

Companies like Walmart, with core businesses outside of entertainment, need to decide how committed they actually are to the streaming business.