Future of Marketing Briefing: The ad industry’s next mediapalooza is loading

Mediapalooza is coming. This time it might actually mean something.

D+ Research: Marketers hesitate to adopt AI for influencer and CTV marketing

Advertisers embrace AI for social media and retail media marketing, but are slower to adopt AI for influencer and CTV marketing.

Media Briefing: Declared ‘good bots,’ mixed-use crawlers, gray scrapers – how AI accesses publisher content

The Cloudflare's latest AI settings reshape how compliant crawlers behave, yet the biggest leakage for publisher content remains a gray scraping economy that doesn’t bother to play by those rules.

Ad Tech Briefing: Corporate America finally buys into soccer as a mainstream sport; shadier elements of the ad industry are obliging

The FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted across North America for the first time, has spelled out what some in U.S. media circles have known for some time: association football, or “soccer” to use local parlance, is now big in America, and it’s time for corporations to cash in at pace — one hydration break at […]

Media Buying Briefing: It’s a world party at the World Cup, unless you’re looking to get in now

Halfway through soccer's biggest quadrennial event, ratings are up and enthusiasm is high — so long as the U.S. and Mexico stay in the competition.

Future of Marketing Briefing: Why Bose is building an entertainment company

Bose has a new entertainment division. Its CMO hasn’t used a creative agency in five years. The two things are related.

Media Briefing: ‘Surveillance pricing’ laws are coming for dynamic subscription strategies 

How a 'surveillance pricing' lawsuit and new New York legislation could reshape publishers' subscription pricing strategies.

Digiday+ Research: The marketers’ 2026 guide to creator marketing, including Duolingo, Ulta and YouTube

While Instagram, TikTok and YouTube remain dominant social platforms for influencer partnerships, creators are increasingly being used across other media channels, including retail media, CTV and display ads.