Child’s play: The streaming wars have come for the children

To hang on to adult subscribers, streamers including CBS All Access and HBO Max are stocking up on kid- and family-friendly programming.

Omar coming yo: In quest for more engagement, ESPN bets on Omar Raja

House of Highlights creator Omar Raja has a new job at ESPN. Are the two ready to be married?

Digiday Research: Publishers prioritize direct-sold ads heading into the second quarter

Our six-month benchmarking survey found that 53% of publishers said direct-sold advertising is a large or very large source of revenue for them. Programmatic ads are a large source of revenue for 35% of publishers, while video advertising is for 28%.

Video creators cede mid-roll ad placement control to Facebook

Media companies and creators have found that manually managing their Facebook videos’ mid-roll ad placements has not helped -- and in some cases, hurt -- their revenue.

‘Leave the BS in the past’: Why many publishers aren’t mourning the death of the third-party cookie

Life after the third-party cookie might look like life before the third-party cookie. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

Digiday Publishing Summit Europe Event Briefing: Life after the cookie

At this week’s Digiday Publishing Summit Europe in Dubrovnik, Croatia, publishing executives discussed what life might look like after the third-party cookie and how they are diversifying their revenue streams beyond traditional ads.

The loss of tracking cookies is fueling the importance of email newsletters

"Publishers will get more sophisticated, newsletters now are fairly blunt instruments."

Digiday Research: 66% of agencies now offer maternity leave

About two-thirds of agency employees say their agencies now offer maternity leave, with about 45% of the same employees saying their shops also give paid leave to new fathers. That’s part of a new survey covering work-life, culture and careers conducted by Digiday Research early this year. About 63% of the agencies that offered maternity leave offer between one and three months, while 29% of them offer more than three months.