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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.
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Ex.Co Gets Into the AI Content Recommendation Business: A Chat with CEO Tom Pachys
AdMonsters spoke with Tom Pachys, CEO and Co-Founder, EX.CO about the launch of the ad tech company's new AI-driven content recommendations and premium video libraries for publishers. We also discussed how they increase value for publishers by streamlining the supply path, and how AI can help fix ad tech's sustainability…
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AdMonsters Playbook: AdOps Are Rock Stars. Are Sales Teams Taking Advantage of Their Stardom?
How widely is contextualized AdOps data shared with sales and ad product teams? Have publishing organizations succeeded in digital transformations, or are they still struggling with silos that ultimately inhibit a more robust monetization strategy? To answer these questions, we surveyed 136 people who work in digital publishing in an…
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PubForum Miami: Minority Report Podcast Live — Developing a Leadership Career in Digital Media and Ad Tech
For the onstage recording, the trio discussed Chris’ career development. He started as a financial analyst at HBO and transitioned into the world of digital media and ad tech. The conversation also explored leadership tactics, what it means to be LatinX in the industry, and why we need more diversity.
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The Unintended Consequences of a TikTok Ban
If you live in DC, you may have noticed a new breed of lobbyists in town: the TikTok influencer. Politico reported that these folks planned to “flood” the city this week with its presence in an effort to stave off the U.S. government’s attempt to ban the app, unless ByteDance…
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The Many Benefits of First-party, Consent-based Advertising: Q&A with Arshdeep Sood, OneTrust’s Strategic Solutions Engineer
Ahead of our upcoming webinar led by Strategic Solutions Engineer for OneTrust, Arshdeep Sood, "Consent-based Advertising: How You Can Automatically Build Audience Trust," we chatted with Sood about ever-changing privacy regulations, consent-based advertising, and what publishers need to know to stay ahead of the game.
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