Digiday Research: Instagram beats Facebook for content marketing

Forty percent of marketers named Instagram as the best platform for content marketing.

Bloomberg Media has a robot writing story summaries

The Bulletin, a newsfeed-like stream in the app, features personalized stories with summaries written by artificial intelligence.

The Rundown: Martin Sorrell sees the writing on the wall

Creative agencies are in trouble. Creativity isn't.

‘A complex affair’: Membership publishers wrestle with knowing how to hook customers

Publishers are drawn to membership programs because of the high payments and loyalty they can bring, but find that managing them can be difficult.

Digiday Research: 30 percent of publishers say subscriptions are their highest margin products

30 percent of publishers surveyed by Digiday say subscriptions are their product with the highest margins.

Video Briefing: Why YouTube remains a tough business for video makers

Here's a reminder that YouTube is still, first and foremost, a great business for YouTube, and less so for its creators.

Home Depot focuses on smart home tech to fend off online retailers

Home Depot focusing on "smart home technology" is revealing the possibilities of internet- and voice-controlled heating, lighting and plumbing in stores.

How Accuweather is using programmatic sales data to inform direct sales

The publisher is using software to identify the advertisers buying its ads from open exchanges to pitch them on direct or private marketplace deals.