The Digiday Podcast

Creator Brandon Edelman stops by the Digiday Podcast to talk about his pivot to full-time content creation, how he strikes brand deals and life after TikTok (22:00). Also on this episode, Digiday platforms reporter Krytsal Scanlon joins co-hosts Kimeko McCoy and Tim Peterson to talk about Linda Yaccarino’s exit from X, what WPP’s new CEO means for the holding company’s growth and how AI is shaping...

YouTuber Michelle Khare joins the Digiday Podcast to break down how she’s leveling up her content — from viral challenges to Emmy buzz (18:24). Plus, co-hosts Kimeko McCoy and Tim Peterson unpack Paramount’s $16 million settlement with the Trump administration, why European publishers are taking aim at Google’s AI Overviews, and what TikTok’s rumored app reboot means for its U.S. future.

This week’s episode recaps Meta’s reported look at acquiring Perplexity, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s conditional approval of the Omnicom-IPG merger and Netflix’s deal to carry traditional TV networks in France. Then Select Management Group’s Danielle Pistotnik (21:45) joins the show to go behind the scenes of developing “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” around a group of TikTok creators a...

Amid the AI hype, increasingly fragmented media marketplace and economic headwinds, marketers this year came to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity looking for answers. For Carly Carson, PMG’s head of integrated media, this year’s festival served as a temperature check for an industry in flux. As the book closes on another Cannes Lions, Carson has pocketed three takeaways: AI sti...

Between panels and parties, creators like former bachelorette Rachel Lindsay are looking to get face time with ad execs, brand marketers and partners like Spotify. However, rather than coming to the Croisette to strike deals, they’re playing a long game. Joined by Roman Wasenmüller, head of podcast business at Spotify, and Digiday Podcast co-host Kimeko McCoy, Lindsay pulls back the curtain on the...

A few years ago, Twitter Beach was one of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity places to be. Nowadays, the beach and Twitter execs are harder to find. Instead of the flashy fireside chats and branded lounges, X’s execs are found behind closed doors, quietly courting marketers and media buyers against a backdrop of lawsuits, Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM)’s disbanding...

If there was any doubt that everything is an ad network, this year’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity proves otherwise. To Peggy McCann, chief media officer at GSD&M ad agency, all signs point to one thing: retail media networks aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. It’s a tall order, but perhaps fits within the expectations of Cannes’ pageantry. For media planners like McCann, the question is: i...

On this episode of the Digiday Podcast, Patricia Corsi, chief growth officer at Kimberly-Clark, joins hosts Kimeko McCoy and Tim Peterson to kick off Cannes Lions 2025. Corsi shares her approach to Cannes and how she's sifting through AI hype chatter to get to the real talk of Cannes. This episode marks the start of Digiday’s daily podcast coverage from Cannes. Tune in every day this week for fres...

On this episode of the Digiday Podcast, co-hosts Kimeko McCoy, senior marketing reporter, and Tim Peterson, executive editor of video and audio, sit down with editor-in-chief Jim Cooper and executive news editor Seb Joseph to share their top tips for surviving Cannes Lions (18:06). Also on this episode: Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to split into two companies, why the ad spend outlook isn’t as gr...

On this episode of the Digiday Podcast, co-hosts Kimeko McCoy, senior marketing reporter, and Tim Peterson, executive editor of video and audio. sit with Marie Claire’s EIC Nikki Ogunnaike about her day-to-day routine (14:42). Also on this episode: Amazon announces its first content licensing deal with a publisher, Business Insider makes staff cuts amid AI growth and Meta goes all in on AI ads.

This week’s episode recaps Google’s latest AI-related announcements, OpenAI’s hardware plans following its acquisition of io and Publicis Groupe’s purchase of Captiv8 to bolster its influencer marketing business. Then Google vp of global ads Dan Taylor (18:03) joins the show to discuss how the search giant is transforming its search advertising business for the AI era.

Digiday senior reporter Sam Bradley joins the show this week to recap the highs and lows of last week’s Upfront Week presentations in New York City, two major pay-TV and internet providers’ merger plans and Microsoft’s decision to shut down its demand-side platform. Then (19:45) Horizon Media’s president of global investment David Campanelli breaks down the state of play as TV and streaming’s annu...

On this episode of the Digiday Podcast, co-hosts Kimeko McCoy, senior marketing reporter, and Tim Peterson, executive editor of video and audio, talk about the new SEO playbook in the AI era, why OpenAI is poaching Instacart’s CEO; and what Netflix’s new home screen means for product recommendations and, ultimately, ad personalization.

This week’s Digiday Podcast episode recaps the gloomy Q2 outlook in Meta’s, Amazon’s and Snap’s latest quarterly earnings reports, the roll-out of ads to AI chatbots and how Roku’s FrndlyTV acquisition could set it up to be a bigger streaming aggregator. Then Digiday senior media buying editor Michael Bürgi joins hosts Kimeko McCoy and Tim Peterson (19:27) to break down what are set to be the hot...

On this week’s episode of the Digiday podcast co-hosts Kimeko McCoy, senior marketing reporter, and Tim Peterson, executive editor of video and audio, talk about Google’s U-turn, keeping its third-party cookies in Chrome after all and the ripple effects of its anti-trust case fallout. Also on this episode, Hillary Kupferberg, vp of performance marketing at Exverus Media, breaks down the art of the...

On the Digiday Podcast this week, hosts Kimeko McCoy, senior marketing reporter and Tim Peterson, executive editor of video and audio, discuss the ripple effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs on the marketing and advertising industry (18:20). To make sense of all the tariff talk, they are joined by senior marketing editor Kristina Monllos and senior reporter Sam Bradley. Also on this episode...

This week’s episode recaps the topsy-turvy tariff changes, Walmart’s rising retail media demands and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against Meta. Then TikTok creator Alyssa McKay (16:17) joins to discuss how Snapchat and Instagram Reels could fill the TikTok void if the ByteDance-owned platform ends up being banned.

On the Digiday Podcast this week, hosts Kimeko McCoy, senior marketing reporter and Tim Peterson, executive editor of video and audio, discuss the TikTok ban’s second extension (yes, it has been extended yet again), tariff’s trickle down effects and why agency holding companies are looking to bolster the data capabilities. Also on this episode, Amie Owen (17:28), chief commerce officer at Kinesso,...

This week’s episode examines the gloomy ad market outlook, Apple’s App Tracking Transparency troubles and ad verification vendors’ bot blind spots. Then Dotdash Meredith svp and gm of D/Cipher Lindsay Van Kirk joins to discuss how the publisher has enlisted OpenAI to give its contextual ad targeting product a AI-assisted boost.

Sara Jerde, managing editor at Digiday, joins this week's episode of the Digiday Podcast to talk about Apple's $1 billion streaming TV loss, Ben & Jerry's ousted CEO and of course, Perplexity's proposal to buy TikTok the countdown to the ban continues. Also on this episode, Digiday senior media reporter Sara Guaglione and senior entertainment media reporter Alexander Lee joined the Digiday Podcast...

This week's episode of the Digiday Podcast covers recession fears and signals, and their impact on the market, how streaming networks are looking to scoop up YouTube creators for shows and Scope3’s plans to pivot, bringing the ad tech company into the AI era. Also on this episode, Digiday platforms reporter Krystan Scanlon walks through the ever-looming TikTok ban, and how it could impact marketer...

This week's episode of the Digiday Podcast covers T-Mobile and Publicis Groupe's ad tech acquisitions amidst the "everything's an ad network" narrative, the TikTok ban tug-of-war and YouTube's new subscription service, Premium Lite. Also on this episode, Pinterest's chief revenue officer Bill Watkins walks through the platform's play for more ad dollars this year with AI-powered tools, a focus on...

Puck’s famed journalist-centric publishing model is changing. Sort of. The news outlet debuted in 2021 with its journalists as the company’s audience-facing focal point, not the publication. People would subscribe less so to Puck than to Matthew Belloni’s or Julia Ioffe’s newsletters via Puck. And Puck’s journalists were, in part, compensated directly for the subscribers they attracted. Lately tho...

In January, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission finalized an updated version of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. And for as much attention as the update may have received, it probably merits more. “It is a big deal. And I think because there’s been so much other activity in the news, people haven’t really paid attention to it,” Debbie Reynolds, a privacy expert and founder, CEO and chie...

The house built around diversity, equity and inclusion is coming apart brick by brick. Since last summer, brands, retailers, holding companies and, most recently the federal government, have been dismantling (or retooling) DEI initiatives, many of which were built up after the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter Movement of 2020. The “diversity” portion of diversity, equity an...