The Digiday Podcast

This week’s episode recaps Disney’s deal to open up its character library to OpenAI and Google’s reported plan to roll out ads in its Gemini chatbot. Then Davis Wright Tremaine partner Rob Driscoll joins the show to delve into the copyright concerns and potential trademark issues surrounding brands’ use of generative AI tools (16:40).

This week’s episode unpacks two major developments in the media and entertainment industries. Digiday’s executive editor of news Seb Joseph joins to analyze Netflix’s plan to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business (3:43) as well as Meta’s foray into signing content licensing deals with publishers for its AI chatbot (25:37). Then this week’s featured segment is a live recording from last week’s Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit, in which Attention Arc’s Christopher Francia makes the case for why programmatic ad buying shouldn’t be outsourced to AI agents (34:50).

On this week's episode, the smoke is clearing in the Omnicom-IPG merger with a clearer look at how its media, tech and creative will operate going forward coming into focus. Plus, another ripple in OpenAI's author lawsuit begins to surface. Then (16:30), Digiday's senior marketing reporter Sam Bradley joins the show to discuss WPP's turbulent 2025, and what it'll take to turn things around in 2026.

This week’s episode recaps the who’s who of Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition bids, the end to Meta’s antitrust case, the Omnicom-IPG deal’s final hurdle and why Adobe acquired Semrush. Then (13:40), Digiday’s platforms reporter Krystal Scanlon joins the show to discuss how OpenAI could seriously pursue an ad business.

This week’s episode recaps Paramount raising new ad arbitrage questions, Amazon and Google unveiling new ad agents and IAB Tech Lab introducing its Agentic RTB Framework. Then Digiday’s executive editor of news Seb Joseph and senior ad tech reporter Ronan Shields join the show to outline how, with the introduction of Ad Context Protocol and ARTF, the ad industry is laying the pipes for programmatic advertising’s intersection with AI agents.