The Rundown: Agencies get their hands dirty with data ownership

Publicis’ $4.4 billion acquisition of Epsilon signals a change in tack for the French holding group's approach to data ownership.

Digiday Research report: Agency culture and employment in 2019

In January 2019, Digiday surveyed 446 agency professionals to examine themes affecting agency culture and employment; employee happiness and burnout, workplace harassment, discrimination, and what influences employment decisions.

Video Briefing: Ad-supported streaming platforms take a bigger cut than pay TV

If pay-TV providers find TV networks are providing connected TV platforms with 30% of their ad inventory, they may demand a similar share to bolster their addressable TV businesses.

Digiday Research: 22% of marketers plan to give agency work to consultancies

Twenty-two percent of 73 marketers surveyed by Digiday this April plan to move work from agencies to consulting firms.

‘Difficult to police’: How Unilever is cracking down on fraudulent social media influencers

Only a year since Unilever announced that it was embarking on a large scale cleanup of its influencer marketing ecosystem, it's seen some encouraging results.

Diageo’s cutting the number of publishers it works with to ensure quality

Diageo hosts “media days” in several markets where commercial execs from publishers are invited to discuss their ability to meet 10 criteria.

Untuckit is incubating a startup swimsuit brand

Untuckit and sustainable swimsuit brand Fair Harbor are collaborating on a line of swim shorts, which they started developing in August. For Untuckit the effort is a test a new apparel category, as well as its hand at manufacturing sustainable products.

Digiday Research: Marketers aren’t prioritizing the fight against ad fraud

Digiday polled 100 client-side marketers and found that limiting ad fraud was a lower priority than improving audience targeting or ensuring brand safety.