🌯 LA Times Woes Signal It’s Time to Reinvent the Newsroom

The news business is on the ropes in general, but what’s been happening lately at The Los Angeles Times is particularly grim. How are publishers responding to all of this instability and disruption?

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🌯 Did Publishers Waste Time Playing in the Privacy Sandbox?

Now that Google hit pause on its grand plan to kill third-party cookies in Chrome, publishers can breathe a sigh of relief (for now). But was the time spent testing the Privacy Sandbox worth it?

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🌯 Ad Dollars and Google Antitrust Drama: 2024’s Banner Year, 2025’s Bumpy Ride

Digital ad revenue in the U.S. hit an all-time high of $259 billion in 2024—a 15% year-over-year surge and the fastest pace of growth since 2021. But was is the outlook for 2025?

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🌯 Tariff Timeout: Can Publishers Make the Most of the 90-Day Reprieve?

Trump's tariffs caused economic chaos, even after the 90 days pause, but working through change and economic uncertainty is nothing new for publishers.

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🌯 Can the EU Rein in Big Tech While Avoiding a Trade War?

The European Commission is set to issue fines against Apple and Meta for violating the DMA—its first levies under the law.

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Q&A With Nicolle Pangis, 24/7 Media

Yesterday 24/7 Media (rebranded from 24/7 Real Media last month) announced an extensive partnership with Microsoft Advertising, including naming the Microsoft Advertising Exchange the exclusive third-party ad exchange offered to users of 24/7 Open AdStream; annointing the Microsoft Media Network as the only non-WPP demand source with programmatic access to…

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Mr Take-Away Goes to London

I was in London last week for OPS London and to prepare for our Vienna Publisher Forum June 17-20th. Fortunately my visit allowed me to mingle with some elite digital minds at a SpotXchange dinner and a packed IAB Mobile Engage event. While the focus of the dinner and the…

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OPS London Live Blog – May 15

It may be pouring outside in London, but it's pretty cozy at the Royal College of Surgeons, where AdMonsters is holding its 2012 OPS London event today, May 15. The main hall is full, where Jonny Shaw, previously a speaker at our OPS Mobile conference in New York, is elaborating…

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The Upside of Social Media Fragmentation: Q&A With Nikhil Sethi, CEO & Cofounder, Adaptly

Normally in the digital advertising industry, we consider fragmentation a real drag: think online video advertising in Europe or the endless fountain of mobile platforms and devices. But Adaptly CEO & Founder Nikhil Sethi, who is presenting on social media buying at OPS London on May 15, says social media…

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Digital Video vs. Fragmented Europe: Q&A With Brian Fitzpatrick, Managing Director, Europe, Adap.tv

I don't want to make anyone faint from shock, but did you know this European Union thing is actually made up of a whole bunch of different countries, most with different langauges? You've got some pretty divergent markets, and this fragmentation makes online video advertising painful for publishers stretched across the…

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