The seeming inexorable trend of companies bringing many marketing functions in-house has a roadblock: Finding the people to staff these functions is hard.

Conde Nast is testing the elasticity of the Wired brand by branching into over-the-top streaming services like Apple TV.

Amazon has ambitions to grow its ad-funded channels in Europe, and while the e-commerce giant is not yet talking to media agencies about an evolved ad offering for Amazon Prime Video, it's clearly on the cards.

For Digiday+ subscribers: Lucia Moses breaks down whether Google and Facebook will ever drive substantial subscription revenue for publishers.

The Guardian has started tracking and analyzing its Instagram audience data on a more granular basis, to test what formats and topics it should develop and evolve and what should be scrapped.https://digiday.com/media/gdpr-giving-new-life-programmatic-guaranteed-deals/

ICYMI: One unintended consequence of GDPR: programmatic guaranteed deals, always laggards, are getting a second lease on life.

 

Brands wanting to handle more marketing internally find staffing challenges

Ilyse Liffreing

Internal recruiting practices and location are getting in the way of companies hiring the talent they need.

Wired goes over-the-top with new streaming TV channel

Sahil Patel

The channel, available on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku, will have original and licensed programming.

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One year in: How Amazon is expanding its pay TV service in Europe

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For broadcasters looking to diversify beyond ad revenue, monthly subscriptions fees from Amazon, no matter how many viewers it gets, will seem compelling.

Will Facebook and Google really help drive subscriptions?

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Google and Facebook are making a big show of demonstrating their interest in helping news publishers.

Short is sweet: The effectiveness of 6-second ads

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Slow death: Latency is a weight dragging down publishers' bottom lines

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