🌯 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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Is Microtargeting Giving the Digital Advertising Sector a Bad Rap?

Micro-targeting based on behavioral data was supposed to be a good thing for all parties involved in the equation: brands, publishers and consumers. But those benefits haven’t panned out.  It hasn’t been suitable for publishers. As advertisers pivoted away from traditional advertising to micro-targeted programmatic campaigns, revenue for global newsletters…

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420 Special: The Wild Ride Facing the Cannabis Advertising Industry

Another challenge that advertisers face in the cannabis industry: the effectiveness of channels and tactics. Because more traditional advertising channels (i.e., linear TV, broadcast radio) are not yet warmly welcoming cannabis brands, digital channels have been heavily pushed, especially from a paid media perspective. 

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Neuroprogrammatic Is the Future of Contextual Advertising

Contextual advertising has yet to reach its peak potential. Cutting-edge advertisers are not merely matching ads to content based on topics. They contextually target ads based on emotion and a granular understanding of the moods of the audiences they want to reach. The technology bringing about this reinvention of contextual…

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Project Crosswalk: IAB’s Guidelines for CTV Privacy Compliance

IAB created Project Crosswalk to help publishers and advertisers who want to participate in the CTV boom but are worried about privacy compliance guidelines. The project is a working group of the IAB Legal Affairs Council that identifies privacy complications in CTV and develops solutions to these compliance issues. The…

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How Malvertising Shapes Behavior and Threatens An Industry: A Q&A with Yuval Shiboli, GeoEdge

From 2022 to 2023, GeoEdge monitored and analyzed billions of live advertising impressions across premium websites, apps, and SSPs to assess the overall ad quality in today’s digital ecosystem. The results, published in GeoEdge’s Q1 Ad Quality Report are worrying, which is why Yuval Shiboli, Director of Product Marketing is…

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