Slacktivism: Slack has become the connective tissue in media unionization efforts

Messaging apps such as Slack have become the platforms that media workers use to organize. They have also become the spaces where those workers gather to voice their fears about the uncertainty and volatility shaking the industry.

The slow death of the salaried retail job

When big-box chains cut back, a manager is often among the first to be purged.

With immigration under fire, visa uncertainty and wait times for foreign-born advertising employees

Under the Trump administration, visa issues for foreign-born agency talent can be more difficult to navigate with longer wait times and more uncertainty.

Reporters wanted: Local news has a talent crisis

Local news is beset by business challenges, but its talent problem is one of the least discussed. Without enterprising, digitally fluent people willing to try new things, the industry could continue to founder.

Digiday Research: Brand priorities heading into 2020, in five charts

For brands, the biggest priorities heading into 2020 are about figuring out the future of in-housing and how to maximize marketing investment. Digiday Research found what's top of mind for brand execs.

Connected TV distribution talks heat up as platforms gain more power

Streamers and TV networks that previously held the high ground are being pushed to find middle ground to remain on Amazon’s and Roku’s platforms.

Marketers want more control: Insights from the Digiday Brand Summit

Marketers problems vary by their specific brand and segments but they said that there's a need to be more open and honest with agencies, to take more control of their data and to be more thoughtful in their communication of brand purpose at the Digiday Brand Summit this week.

‘Let them try it’: Agency execs see the in-house marketing trend fading

Last year, marketers taking agency capabilities in-house elicited feelings of fear and trepidation among ad agencies.