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This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers in the U.S. and Europe have seen programmatic ad sales on the open market slow in the fourth quarter while they've picked up in the private marketplace.

Q3 was a mixed bag for publishers, with some blaming the U.S. presidential election for an ad-spend pullback.

Topping the list of expected changes: a rollback of many health insurance reforms provided under the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

MediaSense, the U.K.-based media advisory firm, is further expanding its global footprint with the acquisition of fellow advisory firm R3.

The Austin startup is adding an API-based tooling to let marketers embed brand guidelines into an AI model for consistent text and visual outputs.

Recent innovations in AI offer promising solutions for resurrecting that dormant information and converting it into “companion knowledge."

Now that Trump has won the presidency again, what does a second Trump administration mean for news publishers? Traffic and video views paint a mixed picture.

Despite the publishing industry’s grim outlook, many outliers are simultaneously fighting to change and reluctantly accepting the status quo.

Four in 10 managers will have staff work remotely during election week, according to a new survey from ResumeBuilder among over 1,000 U.S.-based managers.

This week’s Media Briefing looks at what publishers attending Digiday Publishing Summit Europe had to say about site traffic challenges and opportunities to better monetize page visits.

The build-up to the U.S. presidential election has almost reached its peak, and publishers' activity on the social platform formerly known as Twitter has shown a similar rise — but the group remains hesitant to actually invest money in X.

Trainspot is launching a two-sided marketplace to help people monetize their IP and help companies source data for AI applications.

Minute Media, which acquired The Player’s Tribune in 2019, is now planning out its next 10 years, with expansions into print publishing and licensing deals on the table.

The beauty giant is partnering with e-commerce tech company Rokt to introduce AI non-endemic ads from the likes of Hulu and PayPal.

The music-streaming service confirms it is building its own SSP, heralding the further rise of mini-walled gardens.

The AI search startup is facing a new lawsuit from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post over copyright and trademark issues. But it's also making progress with ad-revenue share deals.

Over a third of workers overall (and about half of Gen Zers) admit to posting about their job or employer negatively on social media, according to a recent survey from Owl Labs.

Digiday’s second annual Subscription Index examines and measures publishers’ subscription strategies across several different digital touch points to identify some common approaches and key tactics. This installment of the research series looks at an editorially-selected group of the top professional-focused publications in the U.S.

Walmart debuted its own set of retail-specific AI models to help power the company’s “Adaptive Retail” era of personalized shopping and customer service.

The honorees of this year’s Greater Good Awards, presented by Digiday, Glossy, Modern Retail and WorkLife, recognize the importance of empowering communities and fostering economic opportunities, both globally and closer to home. Many of this year’s entrants and subsequent winners also collaborated with mission-driven organizations to amplify their efforts in education, inclusion and sustainability. For […]

The July announcement of a ‘strategic collaboration’ with Criteo appears a precursor to a full migration and quiet shutdown of PromoteIQ.

That was the overarching theme at Digiday Media's Retail Media Strategies event held in New York City last month.

While some observers felt like there were no “bombshells” during the testimony, there was still a sense of vindication that some evidence has come to light.

Approved in August and ready to go into effect Oct. 24, the FTC regulations update the existing ban on fake reviews in ways that aim to clarify, strengthen and enforce laws to protect consumers and add new penalties.

Axios' CRO Jacquelyn Cameron shared how her team is using niche expertise to convince advertisers to act early on booking 2025 sponsorships.

Time's chief operating officer took the stage at the Digiday Publishing Summit to share how he evaluates deals with AI companies.

Highlights include the Meta Quest 3S mixed reality headset, AI updates, upgraded Ray-Ban smart glasses and a new Orion augmented reality device.

Business Insider's Katie Friedman shared how her team refreshed the publisher's subscription paywall strategy with the help of artificial intelligence.

The 2024 Greater Good Awards are presented by Digiday, Glossy, Modern Retail and WorkLife, and showcase the work being done around social causes, its impact, and ultimately those working toward the greater good. This year’s finalists exemplify the powerful themes driving change across industries. From empowering communities through education to fostering economic equity and opportunity, […]

Digiday’s second annual Subscription Index seeks to examine and measure publishers’ subscription strategies across several different digital touch points to identify some common approaches and key tactics. We start in this installment with publishers who produce news content.

Can the industry save itself from short-term thinking, even if Google is dealt a blackened eye, or bloodied nose during a raft of government tussles?

Trial evidence reveals the (until now) hidden extent of the shadow Google casts over the ad-supported internet.

Evidence in week one of its ad tech antitrust trial reveals an iron fist couched within its velvet glove.

To find out where different social platforms stand with publishers, Digiday+ Research surveyed publisher professionals on their social media usage and ad spend, and how social platforms play into their revenues and branding.

While it hasn’t formally launched a publisher program, over the last 18 months Reddit has been steadily rolling out products and resources aimed at courting media companies to increase their presence on the platform.

In part two of the 2024 Media Glossary, we tackle many of the terms you may have heard in conversations about generative AI as well as increasing the value of publishers' on-site content.

Here’s the latest guide to what people talk about when they talk about the ever-changing media industry.