This week’s episode recaps the YouTube TV-Disney distribution standoff (5:50), Netflix’s interest in acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery (14:50) and the rising revenue Google and Meta are reaping from their respective short-form video platforms (20:00). Then Tracy Yaverbaun, gm of The Times and Sunday Times, joins the show to talk about the British news publisher’s work with Electric Twin to create a synthetic audience research panel based on The Times’ human reader panel (27:20).
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How Kalen Allen navigates brand safety and cultural polarization in the creator economy
On this week's episode, digital creator and actor Kalen Allen talks navigating brand safety and the so-called culture wars in the creator economy (24:50). Plus, what WPP Open Pro launch says about the agency AI arms race, Reddit’s Perplexity lawsuit and the future AI framework, and the latest on the Warner Bros. Discovery possible sale.
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How brand-creator deal dynamics need to evolve
This week's episode pours one out for Google's Privacy Sandbox as the saga comes to an end and takes a look at the rise of agentic AI while Pinterest tries to curb its AI slop. Then (21:24), David Huntzinger, an agent at talent management firm Night, joins the show to make sense of how the creator economy is positioning itself as a media channel.
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The Sora-TikTok U.S. era of short-form video
This week’s episode recaps Instagram eyeing the launch of a CTV app and Perplexity putting its ad business on pause. Then Digiday platforms reporter Krystal Scanlon joins the show to to discuss the state of the short-form video market as all-AI entrants like OpenAI’s Sora and Meta’s Vibes enter the fray alongside the impending TikTok U.S.
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The Trade Desk under pressure
This week’s episode unpacks OpenAI’s launch of the Sora app and what it reveals about the company’s push into advertising (2:39). We also dive into Meta’s plan to use AI chatbot data for ad targeting (12:59), and Paramount’s acquisition of The Free Press, with founder Bari Weiss set to lead CBS News as editor-in-chief (16:14).
Then, Digiday’s Seb Joseph and Ronan Shields join the show to discuss The Trade Desk’s growing challenges (21:50).
The Digiday Podcast is a weekly show on the big stories and issues that matter to brands, agencies and publishers as they transition to the digital age.
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