Univision spent roughly $200 million on Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion. Here's why it sold those properties for less than $50 million.  

With influencer marketing en vogue and publishers hunting for ways to drive engagement on their properties, the hunt for famous, influential contributors is back on - and it's giving rise to a new kind of role at business and news publishers.  

Business Insider parent company Insider is seeing revenue gains after letting advertisers buy video ads that run against its content across multiple platforms, reassuring buyers about where they appear on social platforms as brand-safety concerns continue to bubble.

For Digiday+ members: Discovery has begun to use its own first-party audience data to target ads across its linear TV networks and its Go-branded TV Everywhere apps.

Fake profiles are rampant across platforms but nowhere are they more annoying than on LinkedIn.

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Inside Univision's troubled acquisition of Gizmodo and The Onion

Sahil Patel

Univision spent roughly $200 million on Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion. Here’s why it sold those properties for less than $50 million.

'A more sophisticated influencer strategy': Publishers are building teams to recruit 'expert networks'

Max Willens

With influencer marketing en vogue and publishers hunting for ways to drive engagement on their properties, the hunt for famous, influential contributors is back on.

 

The marketer's guide to African-American millennials

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In 2019, it's not enough to market to millennials as a whole -- the savvy marketer knows to get specific and focus on subsets with pinpoint accuracy. With a deeper understanding of African-American millennials in particular as outlined in this report, your business can better understand how to reach this large and powerful audience. Sponsored by Viant.

Insider is ramping up its cross-platform video ads

Lucinda Southern

Insider Inc. has been growing revenue through its cross-platform video ad sell, which it plans to roll out beyond the U.S. and U.K. in the next year.

Discovery has started using its first-party data to target ads across TV, digital

Tim Peterson

Discovery has created around 100 audience segments using its first-party data to target ads across its linear networks and OTT apps.

Unlock the power of your data: Five ways publishers can reinvent their business in 2019

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A fresh start: Rethinking the advertising landscape

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At the recent U7 summit in London, industry experts and world-renowned brands discussed the issues of complicated supply chains, self-policing and a lack of global guidelines on transparency. However, it's not all doom and gloom -- many companies are working hard to clean up the ad landscape by bringing transparency and trust back to the industry. Sponsored by Unruly.

 
 
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