Newsrooms have unionized rapidly since the pandemic began in 2020, but the thousands of employees that have been let go since indicate that unionizing can’t prevent layoffs — only soften the blow. Additional coverage: Editor's note: Digiday will be off for Thanksgiving Day. Look for our next newsletter on Friday, Nov. 24. Other things to know about | | |
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| | | | | Newsrooms have unionized rapidly since the pandemic began in 2020, but the thousands of employees that have been let go since indicate that unionizing can’t prevent layoffs — only soften the blow. | | |
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howdy! | | | | | This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how major streaming service owners’ subscription business fared in the third quarter of 2023. | | |
| | | | | As ad tech’s impact on media execution evolves alongside complex privacy regulations, advertisers’ ability to staff their teams, buy media and run campaigns with in-house resources alone has been stretched. | | |
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howdy! | | | | | A year into Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, now X, one strategist lifts the lid on an agency’s strained relationship with the platform. | | |
| | | | | Current processes in ad operations are notoriously manual — increasing the time teams spend on tasks and the possibility of human error. | | |
howdy! | | | | | Billups, a Portland, Ore. media agency, launched a new analytics platform designed to distill OOH campaign performance tracking and measurement using machine learning tech. | | |
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| | | | | The era of rigid keyword-based safety protocols — which hurt both brands and publishers — is giving way to an AI-enabled contextual technology. | | |
howdy! | | | | | Perhaps, if X’s ads business were faring better, it might have been more enthusiastic about undergoing an audit. | | |
howdy! | | | | | Some agency execs say they’ve dealt with or heard about a higher level of ghosting this year, attributing the normalization of the practice to overwhelmed marketers who are so focused on short-term wins that any longer-term planning goes out the window. | | |
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