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April 8, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: A TV advertising staple is missing from YouTube show sponsorships
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the rare practice of YouTube channels offering TV-style make-goods to sponsors as TV-style shows become more commonplace.
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April 1, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: What publishers have to offer creators
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what publishers have to offer creators as more media outlets enlist independent video makers.
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March 31, 2026
Why The Guardian’s first reader-facing AI product isn’t a chatbot
The Guardian has begun to roll out its first reader-facing AI product. But it doesn’t really look like an AI product.
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March 25, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: WTF is the DASH TV universe study at the center of the latest Nielsen drama?
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what is the TV universe study at the center of the recent drama surrounding Nielsen’s The Gauge TV viewership report.
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March 23, 2026
What happens when agency execs negotiate against AI agents
I created a game that has AI agents represent buyers and sellers in an ad deal. Then I asked Wpromote’s Skyler McGill and Butler/Till's Ryan Lammela to test it out.
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March 18, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: How Netflix is shaking up the upfront deal model
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at Netflix’s single- and multi-year deals with advertisers that extend beyond the scope of traditional upfront commitments.
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March 11, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: OpenX adds attention targeting for CTV ads backed by TVision
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a new ad targeting option for CTV advertisers wary of people staring at their phones while an ad airs.
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March 4, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: How Paramount’s and Warner Bros. Discovery’s ad tech stacks stack up
This week’s Future of TV Briefing breaks down Paramount’s and Warner Bros. Discovery’s ad tech stacks now that the companies seem set (finally) to combine.
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February 25, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: Netflix’s in-house ad platform launch has led some advertisers to double spend
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how the streamer’s expanded ad targeting and measurement options has resulted in increased advertiser spending.
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February 18, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: WTF is server-guided ad insertion?
This week's Future of TV Briefing looks at server-guided ad insertion, a newish method for inserting ads into streaming video on the fly.
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February 17, 2026
AdCP vs. IAB Tech Lab: Inside programmatic advertising’s agentic AI standards showdown
Ad Context Protocol and IAB Tech Lab's Agentic Roadmap offer two competing approaches for updating ad tech for AI agents. Can they coexist?
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February 11, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: CTV identity matches are usually wrong
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a Truthset study showing the error rate for matches between IP and deterministic IDs like email addresses can exceed 84%.
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February 4, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: How AI agents prime TV advertising for ‘premium automation’
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agentic AI can enable TV networks to automate the sales of complex linear TV ad packages.
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February 3, 2026
Inside NBCUniversal’s test to use AI agents to sell ads against a live NFL game
NBCUniversal’s Ryan McConville joined the Digiday Podcast to break down the mechanics of the company’s first-of-its-kind agentic AI ad sales test.
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January 28, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: The creator’s economy’s ‘very loud, dirty little secret’ of brands’ late, delayed payments
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how lengthening payment windows and late payments from brands continue to roil the creator economy.
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January 21, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: YouTube develops new program to pitch brands on top creators’ shows
This week’s Future of TV Briefing reports on YouTube’s new pilot program that would have brands sponsor shows from top creators.
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January 20, 2026
The top AI platforms for publishers, ranked
Digiday’s Jessica Davies and Sara Guaglione joined the Digiday Podcast to handicap the more than a half-dozen AI platforms, from Amazon to OpenAI, that have begun doing business with publishers.
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January 14, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: Brands are spending more to advertise creators’ content, making usage rights a focal point
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what brands spending more money to promote creators’ content means for creator compensation models.
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