Media Buying Briefing: Auto marketers aren’t slowing ad spend in face of tariff tension

President Trump’s latest tariff proposal is creating headaches for automotive marketers and media buyers, but they’re not slamming the brakes on media spend just yet.

The uncertainty created by the mere threat of tariffs can often lead to marketplace confusion, consumer hesitancy and unnecessary pullbacks in media spend.

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Ad-free platform Substack isn’t ruling out ads after all

Despite previously stating it’s an ad-free zone, Substack — like many other platforms before it — is no longer ruling out advertising.

“For us, advertising is an interesting business,” Hamish McKenzie, Substack’s co-founder and chief writing officer, told Digiday. “Maybe some way off in the distant future.”

Call it a reality check — a realization that growing a platform is an expensive business, even one that takes a 10% cut of the money subscribers pay their favorite writers. There’s only so much growth that can come from reader revenue. Whereas ads, when done right, promise scale, margins and the kind of financial upside that’s hard to ignore for long.

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