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Digiday+ Research: Where publisher revenue stands with ads, video, content licensing and subscriptions

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Publishers are fresh off of third-quarter earnings and gearing up for a new year — which means it’s time for them to sort out their revenue sources, both the ones they’re making money from now and the ones they’ll […]

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How AI’s hit to publisher traffic is quietly rewiring media M&A

Publishers’ traffic has dipped since AI tools arrived — and the fallout isn’t limited to audience or ad revenue. It’s now weighing on the media mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, making deals harder to price during a time of disruption, according to investors and analysts. Higher interest rates, economic tariffs, and a soft ad market

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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT shopping tool promises ‘in-depth’ research — just not for Amazon products

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. OpenAI is rolling out a new AI-powered shopping tool inside ChatGPT that researches products online, reads reviews and compares options according to users’ specific needs and preferences. The feature, called Shopping Research, appears as an option in ChatGPT when users ask a shopping-related question or

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Future of Marketing Briefing: The tells and flops that will define Omnicom-IPG mega holdco

Let’s dispense with the preambles. The discourse machine has already burned through its takes on Omnicom finally sealing its long-planned purchase of IPG. A year of speculation has a way of numbing the senses, and no one needs another breathless prediction about what it all means.  What’s worth your attention now is narrower and more

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Overheard in the Media Agency Report: How Assembly, IPG, Horizon and others use AI and will spend on ads in 2026

This is a bonus behind-the-scenes look at our conversations with executives for Digiday’s 2025 Media Agency Report, which examined the current and future state of media agencies, from the perspective of total client spending and spending by media channel, and delved into the impact of agentic AI on the agency landscape. Digiday hosted a focus

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AI-powered professional learning and the battle vs. ‘workslop’: Inside Deloitte’s Scout

As AI transforms workplace learning, a paradox has emerged: 40% of U.S. employees report receiving AI-generated “workslop,” content that looks polished but lacks substance. It’s something that’s costing organizations nearly $9 million annually for every 10,000 employees, according to research from coaching platform BetterUp and the Stanford Social Media Lab. Each incident of workslop consumes

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