Marketing

How creator talent agencies are evolving into multi-platform operators

The legacy agency model, long overdue for a reckoning, is finally being rebuilt from the ground up — with creators at the center. The old agency model — brokering deals, manually sourcing talent and running slow, service-heavy operations that treated creators like traditional talent — came of age in a fragmented market. But that model is giving […]

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Omnicom Media North America CEO Ralph Pardo on integration and disintermediation

Omnicom leadership has taken its share of lumps since closing on the acquisition of Interpublic Group at the end of 2025. But it didn’t stop Ralph Pardo, CEO of Omnicom Media North America, from speaking at Digiday’s spring Media Buying Summit, which is wrapping up today in Nashville. Although careful with his choice of words

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Comcast Spinoff Versant Media Stakes Its Future On Streaming

On Tuesday, Versant Media Group reported its first earnings as a publicly traded company. The portfolio of networks, which includes CNBC, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), USA Network, E! and Fandango, was spun off from Comcast in January. Versant Media reported $6.69 billion in 2025 revenue, representing a 5% year-over-year decline. Advertising revenue in particular was

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Meta Has A New Way To Measure Social Engagement (Because Clicks Don’t Cut It)

Meta is making a change to how it reports click-based attribution. Starting later this month, Meta advertisers will no longer only see “click-through attribution.” Instead, Meta will segment the social media-type engagement that occurs on its platforms – including shares, like, saves, bookmarks, comments, etc. – into a category called “engage-through attribution.” When, for example,

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The Trade Desk Welcomes OpenTTD, The Partner Integration Portal To Rule Them All

Add another “Open” to the list. The Trade Desk has OpenPath, OpenAds, OpenSincera and, as of today, a new platform portal called OpenTTD. The OpenTTD product, which will be announced by the DSP during LiveRamp’s RampUp conference in San Francisco later this morning, creates a single login and integrated analytics for companies that span different

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DMWF Spotlight: How ecommerce marketers gain a competitive advantage – without more complexity

If you could identify a potential customer early in their buying journey, before your competitors, what would you do? For ecommerce marketers, growth is getting harder. Search and social are evolving, costs keep rising, and incremental optimizations no longer move the needle. The digital customer journey is also complex and fragmented, spanning discovery, consideration, and

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