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🌯 Business Insider’s Layoffs Are a Tremor in a Bigger Media Quake
Business Insider, once the poster child for viral news and breakneck traffic growth, slashed 21% of its staff—at least 100 jobs. But this is not an anomaly.
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🌯 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.
Read MoreMobile Advertising Measurement Guidelines are Emerging
The unique attributes of mobile devices and mobile ad networks have made it difficult to trust the accuracy of campaign reports provided by mobile ad servers or the usage reports of mobile sites and applications. Crisp sometimes provides 3rd party reports to publishers or agencies that show significant discrepancies against…
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The Impression Exchange Solution: Idealism Versus Pragmatism
What is the IES? It seems to continue to make more regular appearances at the industry's events, but few people seem to fully understand what it is, and how it will impact their operations. The IES stands for "Impression Exchange Solution" (or sometimes "Standard"), though I would argue as a…
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Krux Digital Releases 2010 Cross-Industry Study
Editor's note: Reposted from the Krux Digital Blog[On November 9], Krux Digital released the findings of its 2010 Krux Cross-Industry Study. With this study, we have undertaken a comprehensive review of data collection activities across the industry, with attention to the phenomenon we have referred to as ‘data leakage’ in…
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I recently spoke to the Yieldex Summit about areas for return on investment within organizations and thought I'd share some of the take aways. Theres a lot of competition in the market, as our 'industry's favorite slide' keeps demonstrating. The dramatic evolution in the ad technology and systems space is…
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Removing the Barriers to Growing Online Media Spend: Transparency
Over 75% of Americans regularly spend time online. All savvy marketers realize that digital is the fastest growing component of their marketing strategy.However online media spend has grown at a much slower rate than consumer growth in time spent online, why is this?There are two clear reasons for the lag…
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