Media's age-old problem of long payment terms is getting tougher for publishers to bear. Payment windows on average are 15-45 days longer than they were before the crisis, and late payments are rising. Though publishers have little recourse, some have changed the tactics they use when talking to advertisers. Read more below.

• “Our receivables are normally at 58 days,” an executive at one large digital publisher said earlier this month. “It’s already at 78, and I fully expect it to go over 100.”
• Forced to stay in the house together all day every day due to coronavirus lockdowns, kids now have a unique insight into what their parents do for a living. "I think she should work harder," said 4-year-old Agnes.
• Masterclass is one of a group of "winners" in the current crisis. The uptick in the online learning platform's advertising for some h as become one of the pillars of the weird quarantine world we now live in.
• Budget cuts, not brand safety, could be the real threat to news publishers during the coronavirus crisis.
• For Digiday+ members, in some ways, it's starting to feel like the early days of the direct-to-consumer boom all over again.