🌯 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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Data Monetization in the Era of ID Deprecation: Best Practices to Pivot and Evolve Your Data Strategy

When it comes to evolving data monetization, some publishers are blessed with substantial strong quality 1P signals, while others rely more heavily on cookie-based identity, with limited access to alternative identifiers. Given these diverse circumstances, there's no one-size-fits-all solution.

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Opinary’s First-Party Data Strategies: Building Audience Engagement and Publisher Success Through Meaningful Interactions

Cornelius Frey, Co-Founder and CEO of Opinary, outlines his company's approach to collecting and leveraging first-party data through interactive user engagement. That offers not only a solution to the challenges posed by the demise of third-party cookies but also holds the potential to reshape the future of digital advertising. 

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Exploring the Path of Digital Accessibility

An accessibility barrier is anything that stops someone from completing a task online or forces them to get help, find a workaround, or spend an undue amount of time or effort doing the same thing as someone without a disability.

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Ops Is Strategic: Navigating the Evolution of Revenue Operations

When Rachael Savage, Senior Vice President, Ad Revenue Operations, Hearst, dropped the phrase Ops is Strategic, during our fireside chat (Growing Your Career Through the RevOps Ranks) with Brooke Edwards-Plant, VP Global Ad Ops & Revenue Platforms, Condé Nast, at Publisher Forum Coronado Island, it was like a mic drop…

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ChatGPT: The Virtual Assistant for Ad Ops Daily Tasks

In his session at PubForum Coronado, Jared Collett, Sr. Director of Ad Operations at Major League Fishing, defined ChatGPT as an AI language model developed by OpenAI. While experts still have a lot of experimentation, testing, and regulation ahead for ChatGPT and other generative AI applications, the benefits are undeniable. 

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