🌯 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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Online Ad Operations: Properly Defined and How to Staff – Part 4

Defining Traffic Managers, Client Services Managers, and Analysts Ad Operations must be clearly defined and communicated to the company, especially to the departments who interact with it. That is: what this staff does in this organization, and what this staff does not do. Otherwise, it is not unusual for Ad…

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Five Places Advertisers should turn “Or” into “And”

Especially in this economy, it’s clear that there are pressures on everyone in the advertising ecosystem to do more with less. This leads to advertisers (or their downstream reps, ad buying agencies) trying to figure how to allocate resources in the most effective way possible.  But some of the thinking…

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What’s the best way to train a new trafficker? The top 5 things to consider when on-boarding an ad trafficking novice

Within the Ad Ops community, the turnover of people coming in and leaving can be nonstop.  It might seem like you are always training the newbie.  Training new traffickers can be a daunting task if you approach your employees with an overload of information.  The 5 steps below are guidelines…

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5 Questions for Rob Deichert, Jr., The Weather Channel

Rob Deichert Jr., Senior Vice President of Ad Operations at The Weather Channel, will be presenting a Focus Session: Publisher Success Across Multiple Platforms: The Operations Opportunity at OPS in NY on September 30, 2010. In advance of the event we asked him a few questions about multiple delivery platforms…

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Online Ad Operations: Properly Defined and How to Staff – Part 3

Focus and Clarity Employees perform better with focus. Mixing different job descriptions that might sound like they can co-exist, such as a web producer and a traffic manager in the same role, can create tremendous difficulties that will inevitably result in employee retention challenges and failing campaigns.  I call this…

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