Digiday

British kids media brand and comic book Beano Studios is ramping up its branded content chops by launching kids-focused consultancy Beano for Brandshttps://trib.al/lgSJsCT 

As digital-first customers demand quick action from retailers based on their feedback, luggage brand Away is using Slack to collect it and evolve product designs fasterhttps://trib.al/NP2nc2y 

Telcos explore the same revenue stream that made their online rivals bloated with profits -- advertisinghttps://trib.al/pIST0ZQ 

Condé Nast this week formed a new creative agency that sells advertisers nontraditional ad services like events and influencer marketing and on a global scalehttps://trib.al/IlxYzEL 

Luggage brand Away aggregates all customer feedback using Slack, letting it evolve product designs quicklyhttps://trib.al/Ohp5RuW 

Facebook's entertainment programming strategy has shifted as the company seeks bigger shows that make use of different Facebook products and featureshttps://trib.al/nyQ6Wti 

For Digiday+ members: 39 percent of publishers said GDPR has not negatively impacted their revenues, while 29 percent said they're unsure what it's impact has been if anyhttps://trib.al/9XvqlXu 

Beano for Brands will upsell more services to clients, particularly outside the Beano ecosystemhttps://trib.al/7ZeBrHh 

Axios sees its HBO show as an opportunity to broaden its audience and create a halo effect for two subscription products that are in the workshttps://trib.al/Coc5RyC 

Facebook recently reduced its budget for entertainment programming on Watch as the company focuses more on bigger projects, as well as news and live sportshttps://trib.al/m80KJd1 

The U.S. publishing house is scrambling to erase $120 million in losses last year; its international arm could offer lessons in cost-savingshttps://trib.al/Hicrmz0 

Mobile operator Three is getting into the ad business as a vendor of anonymized customer datahttps://trib.al/tuoUeFR 

Brands like Gillette, Pampers, Aveeno and Neutrogena are buying up more conversion ads directing users to their own websiteshttps://trib.al/ly4xPNd 

In the direct-to-consumer era, everyone is becoming a direct marketerhttps://trib.al/MweSEqV 

Axios expects its annual revenue to double year over year to more than $20 million in 2018https://trib.al/zZtuiU1 

Snapchat's Comscore deal marks the first time the platform has introduced third-party measurement for traffic on Snapchat Discover.https://trib.al/nun9YuA 

"You need to be connecting better with people on who they are as an individual. It’s not about putting people in buckets of 24-35 years old. That doesn’t work anymore because people don’t consume media that way."https://trib.al/G9aaFma 

During this election period, on Gannett's digital properties, visitors will be able to do things like interact with a chatbot that delivers real-time election results, or take an interactive politics quiz.https://trib.al/HfexEAY 

For news video publishers that are programming 24-hour linear feeds within the Roku channel, the channel remains an incremental source of revenue.https://trib.al/PTEzTl2 

Facebook has partnered with Macy’s to bring its first Small Business Pop Up to nine Macy’s stores across the country starting on Nov. 5.https://trib.al/FuqDeWj