As marketers take more control, ad tech vendors are feeling the pain of stretched payment terms

Late-paying advertisers have long been a source of pain for agencies. Now, ad tech vendors are feeling the burden of stretched payment terms.

Rundown: For agencies, in-housing is a symptom, not a disease

One of the key slides in WPP’s annual report, released this week, is essentially shrugging off in-housing as a threat to agencies.

Video Briefing: The ‘post-cable’ bundle will look a lot like… the cable bundle

Skinny bundles are getting fatter as streaming live TV providers accept the fundamental truth that live TV is expensive and discounts can't last forever.

Digiday Research: How working moving in-house affects the client-agency relationship

Nearly 30% of 73 marketing executives surveyed by Digiday said bringing marketing in-house strained their relationship with their agency(ies).

Anti-fraud measure ads.txt is coming to mobile apps but very slowly

Ad tech firms including Centro, EMX Digital, InMobi and PubMatic plan to begin enforcing app-ads.txt to combat mobile in-app ad fraud.

DTC startups are hiring grown-up retail talent as they mature

Employees at legacy retailers are considering making the jump to a direct-to-consumer or e-commerce startup.

Digiday Research: In-house marketers typically still rely on agencies

Sixty-one percent of marketers who conduct creative production in-house still use external agencies according to a Digiday survey.

Pitch deck: How Snapchat is selling ads after its partner summit

The deck focuses on Snap's augmented reality updates like hand tracking, body tracking, pet tracking and its new marker tracking technology.