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Agencies Push Budget Optimism to the Horizon, Where It Often Stays
Agencies

Agencies Push Budget Optimism to the Horizon, Where It Often Stays

The advertising business has always had a complicated relationship with the future. It is where the money will be, clients promise, just as soon as the present calms down a bit. That dynamic is playing out with particular clarity in 2026, according to a survey of 62 agency professionals conducted by Digiday+ Research in the fourth quarter of 2025. The

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The Upfront Lexicon, Revised for Another Year
Television

The Upfront Lexicon, Revised for Another Year

The advertising industry has long maintained its own dialect, a patois that evolves with each selling season and tends to sound, to outsiders, like a

Tim Cook Still Remembers
Television

Tim Cook Still Remembers

It has been nearly a decade since Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy, a victim of what turned out to be the opening salvo in what

Subway Stairs, and a Campaign Built on Chivalry
Agencies

Subway Stairs, and a Campaign Built on Chivalry

The New York City subway system, that great democratic leveler where hedge fund managers and hot dog vendors alike are reduced to waiting on a

Quality as a Selling Point Returns to Fashion
Agencies

Quality as a Selling Point Returns to Fashion

There was a time, not so long ago, when advertisements for consumer products routinely made claims about how well those products were made. The stitching