Our recommended reads from around the web:

• The Wall Street Journal | Some Media Companies Cool on YouTube Distribution (6 min read)
• BuzzFeed News | FTC: Most Americans Don’t Know How Much Companies Track And Sell Their Data (6 min read)
• The Washington Post | Why Verizon wants to buy an ailing Yahoo in $4.8B deal (6 min read)
• Marketing Land | Hulu has joined this list of major platforms that ignore Do Not Track requests (3 min read)
• Campaign | Guardian to scale back media coverage in cost-cutting move (2 min read)
• Politico | With Yahoo win, Verizon sidles up to Google, Facebook (3 min read)
• Ad Exchanger | GroupM Taps John Montgomery For New Global Brand Safety Role (3 min read)
• New York Magazine | The Case Against The Media. By the Media. (90 min read)
• Independent | Steve Dempsey: Advertisers should heed the good news for premium news websites (3 min read)