Quartz Brief, the award-winning news mobile app, is being put out to pasture so the digital news publisher can focus on a newer one launched in the fall. | Continue reading
Brands have begun to invest in podcast advertising after years of sitting out the audio format. Now podcasters have to prove their ads stack up against digital, terrestrial radio and other ad formats. | Continue reading
One 24-year-old agency employee told Digiday he “never takes them off” because he’s afraid to lose them. Some cite the restroom as the no-go zone. Others say anywhere’s fair game, as long as they’re not actually being used. | Continue reading
Compared to its biggest competitor Sam’s Club, Costco has been slow to push omnichannel features like buy online, pickup in-store, and digitize the in-store experience, but that's starting to change, as the company is paying greater attention to its e-commerce business. | Continue reading
With its Vudu streaming service, Walmart is hoping to carve out a piece of the free video streaming market -- with a shoppable twist. | Continue reading
Traffic to the digital news pioneer's site had fallen by 85 percent over the past two years. | Continue reading
Accenture's acquisition of creative agency Droga5 shows just how close the consulting firms are getting to ad budgets. | Continue reading
Walmart’s e-commerce business continues to grow at double-digit rates. | Continue reading
Although it’s difficult to measure how many people circumvent meter paywalls, it's unlikely paywall blockers will reach the epidemic that ad blockers did. | Continue reading
Publishers believe Apple's anti-tracking updates and Google's expected roll-out of a Chrome version will have upsides and downsides. | Continue reading
A growing number of high-end gyms and fitness studios are dabbling in media as a way to increase revenue. | Continue reading
Amazon is shifting its retail strategy in order to maximize profit, and sellers are starting to feel the effects. | Continue reading
Delayed Gratification serves up news three months after the event has happened. | Continue reading
Fake profiles are rampant across platforms, but nowhere are they more annoying than on LinkedIn. | Continue reading
Univision spent roughly $200 million on Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion. Here's why it sold those properties for less than $50 million. | Continue reading
Facebook wants TV-ad dollars and will continue to tinker away at a video product that can draw users and brand budgets. What that leaves is a platform that's having an identity crisis. | Continue reading
Advertisers rely on big auditing firms to pore over their media investments and warn them of impending disasters. Now they're seeking alternatives. | Continue reading
Facebook is moving towards canceling Facebook Watch news shows that aren't working. | Continue reading
Axel Springer-owned Insider Inc.'s revenues were up 20 percent year over year as the company hit profitable. Next up: Sustainable growth. | Continue reading
Ikea is testing a furniture leasing program that it hopes could lead to a subscription-based model. | Continue reading
Vice Media is laying off hundreds of employees, with departments such as digital, editorial and international seeing the most impact. | Continue reading
TikTok users in the U.K are spending 41 minutes per day on the app, according to the company's pitch deck. | Continue reading
Digital ad fraud is a volume game. Here’s a primer on how to spot the core techniques used to generate CPM fraud. | Continue reading
Cuts to employees responsible for some of BuzzFeed's most memorable successes stunned many employees. | Continue reading
A former Facebook executive candidly shares his thoughts on Facebook's video business and its ongoing relationship with publishers. | Continue reading
The New York Times shortly tested re-introducing open-exchange programmatic ad buying last fall but didn't pursue it. | Continue reading
Facebook is looking at some really privacy-safe clearinghouse-type solutions to tackle calls from marketers on its ad platform. | Continue reading
The publisher's 2,500 contributors could soon rely on AI to pre-write stories for them. | Continue reading
With new CEOs at both companies, Comscore and Nielsen are looking to address advertisers' and media companies' cross-platform measurement frustrations. | Continue reading
Aa more traditional spaces like Facebook’s News Feed and Google search get more competitive, marketers are looking for other cheaper but effective options. | Continue reading
Oath will be replaced with Verizon Media Group by Verizon at the start of the year. | Continue reading
Union inroads into media have many observers predicting a better long-term future for beleaguered newsroom employees. | Continue reading
A pitch deck for investors shines a light on how Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman and Quibi hope to crack the code on subscription mobile streaming video. | Continue reading
Media companies, including The New York Times, ESPN and USA Today, have rolled out ad products that they say can match ads to people in certain moods. | Continue reading
Most Amazon sellers find themselves in an uncomfortable position with the brand, but as long as they're profiting, they won't leave the platform. | Continue reading
For publishers, part of the blame can be to be placed on downward pressure from ad buyers. | Continue reading
A group of startups wants to change the way customers buy convenience products. | Continue reading
The end of Mic reveals how grim "news for millennials" actually is. | Continue reading
A data scientist inside the marketing department of a company says marketers are wasting money on data scientists. | Continue reading
Amazon advertising is poised to be a $50 billion juggernaut in the next decade and is attracting big brand budgets. | Continue reading
Hustle is everywhere, but it isn’t just hard work -- it’s showing that you’re working hard. | Continue reading
For all the talk of quality publishing environments, advertisers still crave scale. Vox.com, with 30 million uniques, ranks 31st in the news category. | Continue reading
The great Facebook Watch experiment continues as the platform shifts away from the unscripted fodder that populated Watch in the beginning. | Continue reading
Media buyers, who work across digital platforms, said Facebook Ads has been the most frustrating self-serve system due to reliability issues. | Continue reading
Snap will promote its shows through an off-platform marketing campaign and new in-app features that could help to reignite Snapchat's daily audience growth. | Continue reading
Reddit says it's now hosting 1 billion views and 13 million hours of video per month on its own video player. | Continue reading
Free video streaming services from Roku, Pluto TV, Xumo and others are attracting viewers -- and interest from video programmers. | Continue reading
Apple News has won over journalists with its human editorial staff, but its business side chafes at the lack of revenue coming from the platform. | Continue reading