🌯 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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Digital Fulcrum (APS) Teams Up With TagMan

  Tag management provider TagMan has found an ally in Digital Fulcrum, the company that provides the consulting muscle for AdMonsters Professional Services. Through an exclusive strategic partnership, TagMan has integrated Digital Fulcrum's Ghostwriter technology, a web performance optimization tool aimed at publishers as well as marketers. With Ghostwriter, TagMan's…

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OPS Markets Live Blog – London, Feb. 9

It's the first AdMonsters event of the year at the Grange Tower Hotel in blustery London. OPS Markets features a wide variety of speakers analyzing the rapid development of data-driven advertising and pondering what's next. The two Gs of AdMonsters' ever-diligent content team – that would be EU Editor Gautam…

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From Traffic to Strategic Insights: The New ‘Data Ops’ Practitioner

 The role of the ad operations professional is evolving. As data plays an increasingly important role for every advertiser and publisher, the role of ad operations has, in turn, rapidly expanded. It’s no longer enough to just ensure a placement is trafficked correctly and that campaigns are pacing at an…

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Making Content Social: Q&A with Arvind Sethumadhavan

   This exclusive interview with Arvind Sethumadhavan, Regional Practice Lead, Social & ROI Analytics, Isobar Asia Pacific, is brought to you by AdMonsters Southeast Asia. AdMonsters Southeast Asia brings commercial directors and operations leaders at the forefront of the field in the region together to lead the discussion on building the market and infrastructure for online…

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What Does ‘Audience Efficiency’ Mean?

 OPS Market's Focus On Session leader Doug Conely takes us through the concept of 'audience efficiency' in his latest blog post. Read Tribal Fusion's Senior Director for Data & Targeting ‘s piece here.  If you’ve heard me speak, internally and externally, over the last few months you will have heard…

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