Ad Tech Briefing: How ad tech underpins the fate of Madison Avenue’s ‘Wedding of the Year’

The ‘brand safety’ debate is threatening to derail the IPG-Omnicom merger, while questions are raised on the integration of Annalect and Acxiom.

Media Briefing: AI payouts may be entering a new era 

AI compensation is evolving — and new models, not just publisher demands, are driving the shift beyond flat-fee licensing.

Digiday+ Research: Publishers pull back their dependence on digital revenue

After a year in which publishers shifted their revenue dependence away from traditional channels and toward digital channels, 2025 has seen a shift back toward more of a balance between traditional and digital revenue sources.

Pitch deck: Why Google believes its latest AI Max product is a game changer for search campaigns

AI Max, which launched May and rolls out this summer, aims to provide advertisers with a “one-click feature suite” for search campaigns.

Future of TV Briefing: A preview of Digiday’s CTV Advertising Strategies event

This week’s Future of TV Briefing previews next week’s CTV Advertising Strategies event that I’ll be hosting with top brand and agency executives in New York City.

Ad Tech Briefing: The ‘plumbers’ posing as the unlikely saviors of the internet

After several false dawns, can Cloudflare’s ‘anti-AI scraping tool' finally offer publishers a road to commercial redemption? 

Media Buying Briefing: The upfront isn’t moving along for a few surprising reasons

The marketplace is being slowed down due to increasing complexity, and discrepancies with Nielsen’s latest ratings system.

Media Briefing: ‘Cloudflare is locking the door’: Publishers celebrate victory against AI bot crawlers 

After years of miserably watching their content get ransacked for free by millions of unidentified AI bot crawlers, publishers were finally thrown a viable lifeline.