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Edition No. 9 · Mon 29 Jun 2026 · 3 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest

Edition No. 9 · Quiet day

Monday 29 June 2026

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A quiet day

3 stories against a usual 12 over the previous seven editions. A light mailbox (a weekend, a holiday) makes a shorter edition: fewer stories, each covered in more depth, never padded. How quiet days are called.

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  1. 01 · Marketecture

    A $1.4 Billion Bet on Performance TV

    Walmart paid $1.4B for Vibe.co, its biggest acquisition in two years, a bet on performance TV bringing net-new SMB and regional budgets into streaming.

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    AdTech and mediaBusiness and tech

    M&A

  2. 02 · Digiday

    Inside Unilever's 50,000-creator World Cup play

    Unilever activated 50,000 creators for the World Cup, with House of Fresh pop-ups in NYC, Miami and Mexico City.

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    FIFA World Cup
    AdTech and mediaFIFA

  3. 03 · SportBusiness

    Sport and the Streamers

    Netflix said in 2022 it would not spend on sport, then committed $7bn to live rights between 2024 and 2026.

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    Sport

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