How media companies are courting direct-to-consumer brands

As digitally native brands mature and start thinking of spending ad dollars on television, media companies are ramping up their pitches to these companies.

Retail briefing: Amazon makes private-label push for holidays

For Amazon, this year’s Black Friday-Cyber Monday is all about itself.

Digiday Research: Media buyers grapple with multiple transparency challenges

The majority of media buyers surveyed by Digiday say that have adopted more frequent reporting and whitelists to help resolve transparency issues.

The Dodo has 33 million monthly viewers — and is profitable — on Snapchat

Since launching in 2016, The Dodo has dedicated about eight to nine people internally to Snapchat.

Digiday Research: Publishers estimate their ad-tech tax at around 20 percent

Nearly half of 186 executives from publishers that conduct programmatic advertising predict the ad-tech tax to be between 10 and 24 percent.

Digiday Research: YouTube is the easiest platform for European publishers to monetize

European publishers surveyed by Digiday rated YouTube as the easiest platform to monetize ahead of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Video Briefing: YouTube is now streaming free movies to fend off OTT upstarts

YouTube now lets you watch "The Terminator" and roughly 100 other classic movies for free. It's another way the company is trying to grab TV ad dollars.

The buzz around blockchain as antidote to digital media’s ills is fading

Blockchain proved to be far more complicated than the ad industry and now disillusionment has set in.