Marketing

The Dispatch Is Staffing Up and Pitching ‘Sane Conservatism’ 

The conservative news publisher The Dispatch, which first launched on Substack in 2019, is staffing up and expanding its advertising business amid a nationwide shift in political sentiment. The 27-person outlet generated between $5 million and $10 million in revenue last year, nearly 80% of which came from its roughly 45,000 paying subscribers. Of the…

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Will a ‘rebrand’ of the CMO create a better balance between brand and performance marketing?

The pendulum is starting to swing back to brand and a rethink of the traditional CMO-based marketing model.  Marketing organizations within major brands are recognizing the damage they can do to their brands if they focus too much on performance marketing and too little on brand marketing. Marketers, agency execs and consultants said there’s a

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Publishers want more control over programmatic. Some are finally making it happen

Publishers taking charge of programmatic has always been a mirage — enticing but elusive. In 2025, though, that mirage feels a little closer, a little more real. While full control may still be a long shot, a growing number of publishers are starting to take a firmer grip on the programmatic reins — if they’re willing

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Digiday+ Research: Half of marketers say ad spend will grow this year

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. The theme of optimism in marketing continues: Marketers said they’re coming off a successful year in 2024, they expect to have bigger budgets to spend in 2025, and now they see advertisers spending more this year. This is a

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In wake of Meta moderation shift, advertisers have accepted new status quo: brand safety is a myth

Advertisers have long told themselves that brand safety is something they control. But with Meta rolling back its content moderation rules — narrowing the gap between brands and whether chaos goes viral — it’s clear that control was always a myth. Platforms make the rules, rewrite them at will, and expect advertisers to fall in line.

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