Digiday+ Research: The 2026 guide to holiday marketing strategies, including A-Frame Brands, Mastercard and Ritual

Shoppers continue to grapple with higher prices and affordability, while brands face rising operating costs and increased pressure to prove their marketing dollars are delivering measurable returns. 

Future of TV Briefing: Why Aéropostale is investing in creator-led episodic shows

This week’s Future of TV Briefing features a Q&A with Catalyst Brands evp and chief customer and marketing officer Marisa Thalberg about Aéropostale’s recent creator-led episodic series.

Ad Tech Briefing: Q2’s Big Tech earnings, small-scale concessions, and frustrated dealmakers

PE eagerly looms, but despite appetite, stats show dealmaking is flat.

D+ Research: Marketers navigate a changing CTV landscape

As CTV matures, the streaming ad industry is entering a period of change.

Media Buying Briefing: The latest lures holding companies are using to grow principal media

As holdcos rush to equip themselves with AI tools and services, they still haven’t figured out how to sell them. Meantime, principal media has become a major source of profit margin. 

Future of Marketing Briefing: Media measurement is becoming an asset in boardroom theater

Major advertisers spent their quarterly earnings calls talking up media effectiveness efforts to analysts and shareholders this week. It suggests a shift in the way C-suites consider ad spend.

Media Briefing: Threatening to quit Google’s crawlers is just publishers’ new hope

Bold Call: Google's AI era is fueling fresh calls for publishers to cut off access to their content, but dependence on search still holds most back.

Future of TV Briefing: FreeWheel adds show-level reporting to tackle streaming’s transparency problem

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at Comcast-owned FreeWheel enabling streaming ad sellers to directly pass show-level reporting to programmatic ad buyers.