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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?
Read More🌯 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?
Read More🌯 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?
Read More🌯 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.
Read More🌯 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 MoreAdvertising Transformed: The Solution
Editor's note - continued from Part One: Advertising Transformed: The Publisher's DilemmaTo solve this dilemma, publishers must transform their advertising operation. Publishers must integrate print, web, and all other advertising divisions into a single unified operating system. A complete advertising solution sells, packages, manages, traffics, optimizes, tracks, and bills advertising—all…
Read MoreJack Myers and Rob Beeler at OPS NY Part 2 – Transparency
We knew when developing the agenda for OPS that we couldn't just have operations people say that ops was sexy. We needed an icon in the industry to help drive that point home and end the day with everyone buzzing about all the great things operations is. We were extremely…
Read MoreAdvertising Transformed: The Publisher’s Dilemma
Editor's note: This is part one of a two part post.The expanding online advertising market presents publishers with substantial opportunities for dramatic revenue growth. It also presents significant challenges that will require publishers to transform their advertising operations in order to capture the full revenue potential. With the right strategy,…
Read MoreMore details on the release of adBrite Audience Manager
A couple weeks ago we featured a Leading Operations Online post from Iggy Fanlo, CEO of adBrite, a display and video ad exchange. The post discussed the need for publishers to provide transparency and work with ad exchanges.This week adBrite annouced the availability of Audience Manager. Read the press release.…
Read MoreJack Myers and Rob Beeler at OPS NY Part 1 – Ops is sexy
We knew when developing the agenda for OPS that we couldn't just have operations people say that ops was sexy. We needed an icon in the industry to help drive that point home and end the day with everyone buzzing about all the great things operations is. We were extremely…
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