Tech giants including Apple and Facebook have banned Infowars from some parts of their ecosystems but not others. The inconsistencies permit major companies to enforce policies on a case-by-case basis, to the confusion of users.

At the Digiday Content Marketing Summit in Vail, Colo., this week, marketers spoke out about their frustrations with publishers and platforms. Here are the highlights.

For Digiday+ members: A new subscription video service designed for mobile has the backing of some of the biggest players in Hollywood like Disney and NBCUniversal.

Since its early days, Snapchat has emphasized its daily active user number, making it hard to compare its audience to Facebook and Twitter. But in its latest earnings report, it finally shared how many active users it has a month.

Following in Amazon's footsteps, Wirecutter is making its own holiday around deals.

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Infowars ban shows how platforms fail to enforce policies evenly across services

Kerry Flynn

Enforcing policies is all to the advantage of the individual companies, allowing them to make decisions on a case-by-case basis.

'Social has gotten more difficult': Marketers mull the pitfalls of content marketing

Shareen Pathak

"Our Facebook reach has gone up, but the metric I'm scored by at the end of the day is engagement, and that's gone down."

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WTF is automatic content recognition?

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Video Briefing: More details emerge about Jeffrey Katzenberg's $1 billion mobile video bet

Sahil Patel

Katzenberg has $1 billion and the support of major entertainment studios to build a subscription mobile video streaming platform.

Shani Hilton is driving BuzzFeed News' video gamble

Lucia Moses

BuzzFeed News has a 50-person team devoted to creating shows, but don’t call it a pivot to video.

A publisher's guide to UX

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It turns out that while shedding ad units is painful, the long-term benefits of prioritizing user experience elevate the editorial output as well as the bottom line. Get the guide. Sponsored by GeoEdge.

From marketplace to publisher - how Artsy tapped its user data to bring art to the people

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Artsy's leadership quickly realized that it could do more than just make the art market accessible to a niche audience. To truly support all artists, Artsy needed to make the art itself accessible - to everyone. Sponsored by Airtable.

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