Show overview
The Digiday Podcast has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 498 episodes, alongside 11 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 340 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 34 min and 48 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 27 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Digiday Media.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 498 episodesInside the infrastructure behind Unilever’s creator force
Meta courts agencies with expanded ad tools while AI reshapes the industry
Spotify rebuilds ad business around automation, AI to win bigger media budgets
What happens when brands AI clone their talent?
How automation and AI are rewriting the upfront marketplace
ChatGPT ads are underperforming. Why are brands staying?
BuzzFeed, Vox and the end of the site traffic era
Can retail media networks survive the shift to agentic commerce?
Why Duluth trusts AI agents with bidding, but not brand storytelling
WTF are brand health metrics?
The Netflix playbook: JBPs, programmatic power, and the future of the upfront deal
Why OpenAI is moving fast to build an ads business
Inside The Trade Desk's programmatic power struggle
Mondelez overhauls its $3.5 billion digital commerce strategy in era of AI search
Why The Guardian’s first reader-facing AI product isn’t a chatbot
The Guardian didn’t want to build an AI chatbot. Not a reader-facing one anyway. Not at the risk of that chatbot misrepresenting the news publisher’s journalism and undermining readers’ trust. “We’re not going to die if we don’t build a chatbot tomorrow. We need to be really clear about what the threats are externally, but ultimately what we have is something that’s worth protecting,” said Chris Moran, head of editorial innovation at The Guardian, during a live recording of the Digiday Podcast at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, on March 23. While not a chatbot, The Guardian has begun to roll out its first reader-facing AI product. But it doesn’t really look like an AI product. Called Storylines, the product is an AI-generated spin on the related links module common to publishers’ pages. It currently appears on a subset of The Guardian’s so-called “tag” pages, which typically list articles related to a given topic, such as “Trump,” in reverse-chronological order. Amid this article feed is an unassuming box with a selection of related articles threaded to a given narrative or storyline.
How to sell an influencer agency: Lessons from Digital Voices founder Jennifer Quigley-Jones
What does it take to sell an influencer agency right now? This week on the Digiday Podcast, Digital Voices founder Jennifer Quigley-Jones joins Kimeko McCoy and Tim Peterson to break down her agency’s sale to PMG. Plus, what it says about the booming creator economy M&A moment.
After WPP reckoning: The case for and against principal media
A decade after the ANA’s bombshell report, the WPP debacle has forced a new standard of clarity in media buying. This week, Digiday executive editor of news Seb Joseph and Michael Burgi, senior editor of media buying and planning, join the Digiday Podcast to discuss why agencies are leaning into principal trading, and why some brands are finally reining them in.
TikTok after the legal fight: Why it’s coming for Meta’s ad dollars
Since its legal woes have been resolved, and the U.S. app was spun out earlier this year, TikTok has taken a muted approach to business. Digiday senior platform reporter Krystal Scanlon joins this episode of the Digiday Podcast to discuss why what looks like business as usual on the surface is more likened to hushed plight for more ad dollars, creators and users.
OpenAI's ad push begins, and The Knot is co-piloting
Ads in ChatGPT have entered their trial run period. Instead of agency partners, it's brands like The Knot Worldwide that find themselves at the helms of OpenAI's ad push. Marketers like The Knot's CMO Jenny Lewis are navigating everything from performance metrics to infrastructure.
Why some creators are now back auditing their brand deals
Hootsuite’s partnership with ICE sparked controversy earlier this year, leading creators to take a closer look at the companies they work with. On this episode of the Digiday Podcast, Tameka Bazile shares why she ended her deal with Hootsuite, how it prompted her to audit other brand partnerships, and what creators can learn about balancing ethics, audience expectations, and income.