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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
well the upfront calendar opened up a bit
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I hosted an event the other night featuring a cross section of folks from the creator-meets-media-meets-brands world. They had a lot to say about the future of the industry mikeshields.substack.com/p/the-creato...
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The Creator Ad Tech Paradox
Everyone wants to grow spending. The question is how.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
All the biggest advertisers say they are going big with creators - but the numbers (at least the ones we have) tell a different story mikeshields.substack.com/p/despite-so...
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Despite Some Big Talk, When it Comes to Creators, Big TV Brands Are Still Moving Pretty Slowly
YouTube landscape dominated by challenger brands, DTCs
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Fascinating podcast conversation with YouTube Jordan Matter on how his daughter became the star of his channel, and how their new skincare line with Sephora almost shut down New Jersey open.spotify.com/episode/7dAN...
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From Viral Photographer to Skincare Empire with His Daughter Salish
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Talked to Kin Community founder Michael Wayne about the many ups and downs of building a business with creators on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fV2...
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What's It Like to Ride the YouTube Wave for Nearly 20 Years
YouTube video by Next in Media
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New episode of Next in Media features illuminating chat with Unilever's Selina Sykes explaining how the beauty brand is going to work with a bazillion creators at once open.spotify.com/episode/7DhJ...
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How is a Giant Marketer Like Unilever Going to Spend Half of Its Media Budget on Creators?
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dug deep into the origins of Amazon's ad business as a guest contributor for Big Technology www.bigtechnology.com/p/how-amazon...
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How Amazon Built The World's Fastest Growing Ad Business
The definitive, inside story of how Amazon joined Facebook and Google as the internet's third dominant ad seller.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Here's the problem: how do you advertise in Jimmy Kimmel right now? They'll come after you. And I like Jimmy Kimmel
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Got to talk with top YouTuber Dhar Mann and his CEO Sean Atkins about why they've leaned into scripted content, and how they plan to partner with brands to make originals open.spotify.com/episode/7BTz...
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Dhar Mann Wants to Make YouTube Shows With Big Brands
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/09/2025
Exclusive: Paramount Skydance is preparing a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that is backed by the Ellison family.
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Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
If you think micro-dramas are new, you may not be old enough to remember Prom Queen mikeshields.substack.com/p/before-the...
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Before There Were Micro-dramas - There Was the 'Prom Queen' of MySpace
Was the teen soap way ahead of its time? Or do Americans just not want this stuff?
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Could anyone actually AI-ify TV buying across networks? Maybe Amazon? mikeshields.substack.com/p/could-amaz...
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Could Amazon Be on a Path to Take Over TV Ads?
Would big TV networks, and brands, be ok with a 'crystal box'?
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Alcarez about to get deported
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
What is the USTA thinking having the men's final- which should be epic- against the opening of the NFL season?
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
In case you were wondering, we tried the creator commentary versions of the NFL game on YouTube and I'm rooting for nuclear war
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I wrote about YouTube's big first date with the NFL mikeshields.substack.com/p/youtubes-b...
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YouTube's Big NFL Audition
How to keep fans and sports brands happy, while also showing your unique value
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Can Bari Weiss fix Paramount+?
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Regulators: companies shouldn't share data for online ad targeting. Also, Google should share everyone's search data with everyone
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
So I didn't get the Vogue job
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Wow. Trump and Putin to appear later today together on New Heights podcast
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
whoa www.theinformation.com/articles/wal...
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Walmart Backing Away From Trade Desk, an Amazon Ad Tech Rival
Amazon’s most direct rival in handling ad sales across the web, the Trade Desk, could be in danger of losing one of its most valuable clients—Walmart. Last year, Walmart renegotiated its four-year-old...
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
What's going on with AppLovin? It's complicated mikeshields.substack.com/p/applovin-a...
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AppLovin Appears to Be Installing Apps That People Don't Want Via Some Questionable Ad Practices
The Wall Street darling keeps having to answer questions
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This is cool but how about spending $7 to fix the app www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/b...
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Paramount Strikes Seven-Year Deal to Stream U.F.C. Fights
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hitler is an ad network www.businessinsider.com/grok-ads-cha...
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Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads to Grok
Ads in Grok could provide a "specific solution" to users when they're asking the chatbot about a problem, Elon Musk said.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Disney+ and Hulu coming together. This way it will be easier to show the same ad again and again to the same user www.businessinsider.com/disney-hulu-...
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Disney+ and Hulu are merging and it could save $3 billion
Speculation has been mounting inside the media giant that Disney+ could gobble up the Hulu brand altogether.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Tubi is working with 50 plus creators trying to figure out how to take YouTube and TikTok talent and translate it to streaming open.spotify.com/episode/3qdu...
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How Tubi is Embracing Creators - and Trying to Shake up Streaming
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Can any of these people make an app that works? deadline.com/2025/08/skyd...
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Skydance-Paramount Post-Merger Hierarchy Made Official
Sources tell us that Skydance-Paramount is going to make official their corporate hierarchy tomorrow morning.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
When it comes to its ads and media strategy, for Spotify it's been pivot after pivot mikeshields.substack.com/p/spotifys-m...
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Spotify's Misadventures in Video Continue
It may be time for a much bolder move if the company really wants to become a serious ad player
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
For my 50th birthday we got wings
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Latest episode of Next in Media features Snap CMO Grace Kao talking about trying to normalize ads in chat open.spotify.com/episode/4wLN...
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Snap's CMO Grace Kao: Beyond Social Media - Connecting Audiences, Brands & Developers
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I mean, should I tell The Information? Or do you want to? www.axios.com/2025/07/14/t...
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The Information launches new video product called TITV
Co-founder and CEO Jessica Lessin will host a segment about coverage themes coming out of editor's meetings.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Fun chat at Cannes between Omnicom's Megan Pagliuca and Walmart Connect's Khurrum Malik on trying to harness creators for commerce, without going overboard open.spotify.com/episode/0kfU...
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Live From Cannes with Walmart Connect and Omnicom Media Group
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Could AI Agents (if they're real) blow up the Retail Media party? mikeshields.substack.com/p/could-ai-w...
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Could AI Wipe Out a $200 Billion Ad Category?
I doubt it, but it could seriously shake things up
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Google wants to be all in on AI, while also being the home of human-led authentic engatement mikeshields.substack.com/p/google-vs-...
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Google vs. Google
The tech giant needs to balance AI with creators - while maybe distance itself from Meta
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Are the Knicks using Indeed.com at this point?
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Talked to Vayner's John Terrana about the two distinct TV upfronts this year, and the coming battle within Google open.spotify.com/episode/7i7K...
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A Tale of Two TV Upfronts
Next in Media · Episode
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Got to hang in the Spotify studio in Cannes with Chloe Wix to talk about how the company is trying to get consumers, creators, and advertisers to think about the app as a video platform www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duo_...
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Can Spotify Become a Bigger Video Ad Player?
YouTube video by Next in Media
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Did I accidentally DVR Linkedin?
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Maybe there's a simple way for the TV ad industry to get bigger. Suck it up and partner with big tech mikeshields.substack.com/p/tv-learns-...
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TV Learns to Live With the Duopoly (Or the New One At Least)
Tech giants, retail media companies could be they key to unlocking the long tail of advertising
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Hung on the Walmart Connect Cannes rooftop and talked about pushing retail media into TV with ad boss Ryan Mayward www.youtube.com/watch?v=54jK...
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Next In Media Live From Cannes with Walmart Connect's Ryan Mayward
YouTube video by Next in Media
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I talked to Google's Sean Downey at the Google Beach in Cannes about why its still too hard for brands to find the right creators open.spotify.com/episode/5ZPk...
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Live From Cannes with Google's Sean Downey
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It's important for legacy media to embrace the creditor economy bsky.app/profile/wsj....
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
All you hear about is how FAST is growing like crazy. But as for ad dollars.... mikeshields.substack.com/p/free-ad-su...
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Free Ad-Supported TV is Growing FAST. So Why Does it Feel Like a Bubble?
The ad mood is - rather glum
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Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The people who own CNN and HBO want to keep HBO, and sell CNN and every other cable channel they own. By me: www.businessinsider.com/warner-bros-...
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Warner Bros Discovery is ditching its cable channels, just like Comcast
Would you like to own CNN, TNT, and the Discovery Channel? Warner Bros. Discovery owns them now — but wants to get rid of them.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Latest Next in Media chat with super consultant Emily Riley on the Amazon/Trade Desk DSP drama and what happens if Paramount sale drama never ends open.spotify.com/episode/4FRM...
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Mike and Emily Riley talk media agency paralysis, Amazon vs Trade Desk, Paramount Drama and Sydney Sweeney Soap
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
For me this is like when the Cowboys play the Eagles and I just pray that everyone gets injured www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk’s Government Contracts as Feud Escalates
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'm a small advertisers looking to get on TV. I now have 47 choices mikeshields.substack.com/publish/post...
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Sign in to Next in Media
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
You haven't lived until you've seen Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning on Landry Shamet's forehead
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
For all the talk about alternative currency and the JIC and all that, Nielsen wins every new deal www.axios.com/2025/05/27/w...
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Scoop: Nielsen strikes WNBA measurement deal, largest ever for women's league
The agreement marks a significant milestone in the advancement of women's sports media rights.
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digitalshields @digitalshields.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Wrote about the behind the scenes battle to grab viewers on you TV operating system, and why free often wins mikeshields.substack.com/p/inside-the...
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Inside the Heated Battle For TV-Screen Real Estate
Streamers and studios are constantly vying for your attention
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