As AI-driven inventory floods the digital ecosystem, advertisers are becoming more selective about where they place budgets. In this environment, ...

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: The New York Times |Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks (4 min read) ...

I have spent the last several months knee-deep in research on product market fit, examining how audience behavior, propensity modeling and product ...

Publishers enter 2026 facing unrelenting pressure to innovate with generative AI, colliding with the need to protect editorial standards and audience ...

For media companies, the start of a new year is an opportunity to take stock of the big trends and reassess priorities for the year ahead. AI inevitably looms large in this mix in 2026, particularly ...

Programmatic advertising has long been essential to publisher revenue. Unfortunately, it has also posed a challenge to user experience. However, the longstanding trade-off between ad density and ...

In 2026, media companies are operating in an environment shaped by multiple, overlapping shifts. Audience discovery continues to fragment as search and social become increasingly unreliable traffic ...

Artificial intelligence significantly reduces the cost and time required to produce video. Across major digital platforms, that shift coincides with a notable increase in low-quality, AI-generated ...

Richard Gingras has been surfacing in my human “feed” far too often these past few weeks. As many readers will know, Gingras spent nearly two decades as Google’s head of news and still appears to hold ...

DCN members can access the full Digital Subscription Tracking Report for Q3 2025 after logging in or registering an account (top right corner). Once logged in, a download button will appear below the ...

From craft beer to TV shows, it seems there’s a subscription for everything these days. As I explore in my new book Streaming Wars, this explosion of choice has reshaped our culture—fragmenting ...