🌯 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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Mobile Device as Second Screen: Q&A With JoAnna Abel, VP of Marketing, FreeWheel

According to FreeWheel's recently released "Video Monetization Report" for third quarter 2011, short-form video (under 5 minutes) and mid-form video (over five, less than 20) have a primetime interval of 1 p.m. to 4 p.m, while long-form episodic video (over 20) has a primetime that mimics television – 8 p.m.…

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Like-Minded Users: Looking Beyond Editorial Strategy to Grow Audience

Online publishers have a lot of problems to think about when it comes to ad management. To maximize their revenue, they have several levers to pull including inventory pricing tiers and models as well as sales channels (direct sales vs. ad networks and exchanges). Yet, marketers are buying audience. So…

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The Value of Scarcity: A Microeconomic Lesson From #PubForum Oxford

Oxford is a city that promises to broaden the mind. My thoughts on what makes a great publishing business were certainly enlightened by Greg Taylor, one of the keynote speakers at the AdMonsters Publisher Forum at Oxford. Greg has his Doctorate in Economics and is a research fellow at the…

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Certifiably Mobile: Q&A With Sandrine Cardi, International Mobile Business Development Manager, Smart AdServer

 If you got the right stuff, it’s not a bad idea to get a stamp of approval. Multi-channel ad server Smart AdServer just emerged from an intense four-month audit of its systems as the first U.S. certified mobile ad server according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mobile Guidelines. We sat…

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Google Beefs Up DFP Mobile: Q&A With Marcel Gordon, Product Manager, DFP Mobile

 While Google introduced core mobile ad serving capabilities to the DoubleClick for Publishers ad serving suite last summer, the company is just now releasing the real mobile muscle. Launched today (check out the blog post), DFP Mobile offers support for a wide array of mobile rich media ad formats such…

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