Consulting firms muscle in on media planning in transparency fallout

Management consultancies are using the lack of transparency in media as an opportunity to carve out a larger role in helping marketers spend their money.

"The agenda of brand safety is being washed into the agenda of sensitive news content." Amid heightened brand-safety fears among advertisers, some video publishers are having difficulties monetizing hard-news videos.

Faced with e-commerce giants like Amazon, department stores are closing in record numbers around the U.S. But some department stores remain confident they can still turn things around.

A pool of more than 100 speakers and attendees at the Digiday Retail Summit shared their perspectives on Amazon as a retail partner, competitor and threat to retail's future. Subscribe to Digiday+ to read their thoughts.

From Glossy: Mobile accounts for 70 percent of fast-fashion retailer Asos' traffic and 50 percent of its purchases. Here's how the retailer achieved this.

Video executives from Bonnier, Refinery29, Defy Media and much more are on this year's Digiday Video Awards jury panel. Get your work in front of them by the early deadline this Thursday, Aug. 17.