In a shift, Conde Nast integrates more of US and international arm
Condé Nast this week formed a new creative agency that sells advertisers nontraditional ad services like events and influencer marketing and on a global scale....
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Facebook bets that Stories are the future, and ads will follow
Ed note: This article has been updated from an earlier version. Facebook is betting the future of the social network on Stories, which could wind...
How Facebook let advertisers target ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theorists
Facebook let another racist trope slip into its advertising platform, this time allowing marketers to select a target audience of people interested in the bogus...
While other niche streaming services falter, Crunchyroll crosses 2 million subscribers
At a time when the shine has slightly come off of niche video streaming services and video industry insiders weigh whether it’s even possible for...
Google workers walk out to protest sexual misconduct
Thousands of Google workers walked out of offices around the world to protest how the tech giant has handled sexual misconduct by some of its...
Instagram ‘influencer’ is sued for allegedly failing to shill for Snapchat
An Instagram celebrity, hired to promote Snapchat Spectacles, failed to live up to a marketing agreement to be seen wearing the camera sunglasses, according to...
Digiday Research: Few marketers require performance guarantees for branded content campaigns
Less than a third of marketers and agencies are requiring performance guarantees for the branded-content campaigns they purchase from publishers, even as the tactic becomes...
Google workers plan walkout to protest handling of executive misconduct
Some Google employees are planning to walk out from their jobs because they’re dissatisfied with Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai’s response to a report about...
Facebook removes fake accounts that originated in Iran
Facebook removed 82 fake pages, accounts and groups that originated in Iran, the latest effort by the company to clean up its social network ahead...
‘At what point does reality set in?’: Candid thoughts on the future of video programming
Netflix is trying to swallow the entertainment industry whole — and it’s impacting everyone from small digital studios and publishers to TV networks and the...
Microsoft sees growth thanks to booming cloud biz
Microsoft posted another quarter of brisk revenue growth driven by its cloud business, underscoring that internet-based computing is now the heart of the largest software...
Retail Briefing: The crowded digitally native mattress market is poised for consolidation
Subscribe here to get the Digiday Retail Briefing in your inbox each week. It’s so crowded in the mattress category that startup founders no longer...
Oculus co-founder joins Facebook’s list of acquisition departures
Facebook is losing another long-tenured founder from an acquired company: Brendan Iribe, who was the chief executive officer of Oculus VR when Facebook bought it...
AmEx and PayPal are working together to expand their merchant network
American Express customers will soon be able to use their rewards points at online stores where PayPal is accepted, and send peer-to-peer payments through PayPal’s...
WhatsApp bans more than 100,000 accounts in Brazil election
WhatsApp banned hundreds of thousands of accounts in Brazil as the Facebook messaging service struggles to contain spam, misinformation and other political shenanigans ahead of...
Twitter posts massive data dump exposing bad actors in Russia, Iran
Twitter has published data sets comprising millions of tweets, images and videos and thousands of accounts linked to operatives based in Russia and Iran, shedding...
