~media-digiday | Bookmarks (77)
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Roblox’s ad expansion sparks backlash from creator studios
In 2025, Roblox's relationships with creator studios have soured, according to studio creator representatives, four of...
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Media Briefing: Publishers see Apple News+ as a stable revenue stream amid ‘volatile’ referral traffic
Apple News+ is a growing source of audience and revenue, according to publishers including The Atlantic,...
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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian teams with Kevin Rose to resurrect Digg
Plans for Digg include a mobile-first redesign and using AI for content quality and community management.
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Dance creators believe YouTube left them behind amid its Shorts push
YouTube’s short-form video push has created new opportunities for dance creators to make money on the...
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News U.K. rethought brand safety, and is starting to profit from it
The publisher has increased its brand safe ad inventory by up to 20%, up from 16%...
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News podcast listeners over-index on video podcast consumption
News podcast listeners are more likely to use YouTube to watch videos and consume and find...
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Journalists are using generative AI tools without company oversight, study finds
Nearly half of journalists surveyed in a new report said they are using generative AI tools...
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Why creators see Twitch’s monetization and moderation updates as the latest salvo in the livestreaming wars
Twitch is expanding its monetization and moderation tools, which creators see as an attempt to regain ground...
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How to grow a creator-based newsletter business, with Puck’s Sarah Personette
Puck’s newsletters have grown into franchises, with its anchor journalists becoming franchise managers, the company’s CEO...
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How podcasters are tackling the challenge of subscriber churn
As podcast subscription businesses mature, podcasters face a challenge that publishers have grappled with for years:...
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Referral traffic from AI platforms grows despite publishers’ attempts to block crawlers
Traffic getting sent to publishers’ sites from AI platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity is growing —...
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The Trump tariffs are forcing creators to overhaul their side businesses
The Donald Trump administration’s tariffs, which impose an additional 10 percent duty on Chinese imports, have...
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Brands' interest in "Grand Theft Auto" is mounting — but questions about brand safety remain
Although it remains unclear whether Rockstar’s stance toward brands will soften for “GTA 6,” the game...
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'The D-word is the most problematic': Why diversity could soon be stripped from DEI values and branding
As the backlash to DEI continues, marketers say it may be time for a rebrand.
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AI Briefing: Ad tech world debates how to address CSAM concerns
Adalytics' latest report is asking serious ethical questions of the media industry.
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Love in the time of Slack: Welcome to the new era of office romance
According to recent studies, office romances aren’t just surviving hybrid work — they’re thriving in it.
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Digiday+ Research: Site traffic declines are publishers' biggest concern this year
Traffic declines and the economy: Those were the biggest challenges publishers faced last year, and they'll...
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Media Briefing: A history of media companies getting into the social platform business, in light of BuzzFeed’s plans
In light of BuzzFeed's plans to launch its own social media platform, the Media Briefing evaluates...
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As independent, creator-owned media companies flourish, Rooster Teeth is looking to join the party
In the wake of Rooster Teeth’s shutdown last year, corporate ownership is starting to feel like...
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How podcasters are measuring videos’ role in growing incremental audiences
Without a proper way to measure videos' effectiveness in growing incremental audiences, podcast orgs and publishers...
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Netflix readies pan-European rollout of its in-house ad tech amid pricing competition
Buyers eye discounts of as much as 20% as Google, The Trade Desk and others join...
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Roblox earnings: Why the platform paid out $280 million to creators in the last quarter
Content creators in Roblox, which the company often refers to as “developers,” are a very different...
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Why LinkedIn is spotlighting the average watch time metric to support its video push
The company believes more creators will make the jump to LinkedIn for the opportunity to be...
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AI Briefing: DeepSeek’s emergence from nowhere shows open-source is eating the world
After recent AI developments, ad tech execs ponder the prospect of Big Tech loosening their stranglehold...