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DCN’s must reads: week of August 19, 2021
August 19, 2021 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Bloomberg Businessweek | Amazon’s Move Into Podcasts Was a Big Advertising Play All Along (7 min read)
- Vulture | 12 Hollywood Insiders Reveal Who’s Really Winning the Streaming Wars (10 min read)
- Harper’s | Bad News (25 min read)
- The Markup | How The Daily Wire Uses Facebook’s Targeted Advertising to Build Its Brand (6 min read)
- The New York Times | A First Amendment Precedent (3 min read)
- Poynter | Some good news, some uncertain news regarding the media in Afghanistan (3 min read)
- Hollywood Reporter | Does Disney+ Need to Absorb Hulu and ESPN+ to Rival Netflix? (5 min read)
- AdWeek | Here’s How the Biggest Streaming Services Stack Up in Mid-2021 (7 min read)
- Digiday | Employees praised for pandemic productivity question new pressures to return to the office (5 min read)