Media Briefing: Turning scraped content into paid assets — Amazon and Microsoft build AI marketplaces

Amazon plans an AI content marketplace to join Microsoft's efforts and pay publishers — but it relies on AI com stop scraping for free.

Digiday+ Research: Dow Jones, Business Insider and other publishers on AI-driven search

This report explores how publishers are navigating search as AI reshapes how people access information and how publishers monetize content.

Future of TV Briefing: CTV identity matches are usually wrong

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a Truthset study showing the error rate for matches between IP and deterministic IDs like email addresses can exceed 84%.

Ad Tech Briefing: Publishers are turning to AI-powered mathmen, but can it trump political machinations?

New ad verification and measurement techniques will have to turnover the 'i just don't want to get fired' mindset.

Media Buying Briefing: Why is Wall Street punishing Publicis – and maybe other holdcos?

Is it possible that Wall Street doesn't understand the value of a holding company anymore – or at least is missing the intangibles?

Future of Marketing Briefing: The word ‘agency’ is costing the ad giants

What’s tripping up the holdcos isn’t just economics or technology. It’s semiotics. 

Media Briefing: A solid Q4 gives publishers breathing room as they build revenue beyond search

Q4 gave publishers a win — but as ad dollars return, AI-driven discovery shifts mean growth in 2026 will hinge on relevance, not reach.

Future of TV Briefing: How AI agents prime TV advertising for ‘premium automation’

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agentic AI can enable TV networks to automate the sales of complex linear TV ad packages.