
The Digiday Podcast
The Digiday Podcast is a weekly show on the big stories and issues that matter to brands, agencies and publishers as they transition to the digital age.
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AI’s big moves at NYT, Business Insider and Meta + A Day in the Life of Marie Claire’s EIC Nikki Ogunnaike
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, Bus

Google’s AI Mode, OpenAI’s io buy, Publicis’s Capitv8 capture + Google’s AI ads era with Dan Taylor
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 transform

Upfront Week recap, Charter-Cox merger, Microsoft’s DSP shutdown + Horizon Media’s David Campanelli on the upfront market ahead
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 inve

How Digitas is navigating search’s shift to the AI era, OpenAI's latest talent poach and Netflix's push for personalization
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

Big Tech earnings, AI ads, Roku’s FrndlyTV acquisition + what’s in & out in this year’s upfront
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

Google’s Third-Party Cookie U-Turn + WTF are JBPs with Exverus Media’s Hillary Kupferberg
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 Kupf