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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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The Importance of Black Media and Sharing Your Wealth: Cedric J. Rogers, Culture Genesis Inc.
From creating startups to owning one of the largest Black-owned digital networks with Youtube ad sales rights, Rogers has always invested in the Black community and ensured that others benefited from the wealth and resources he acquired. To honor his legacy and the history he continues to make, we chatted…
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How Can Ad Ops and New Media Players Eliminate Inefficiencies?
We are seeing a trend of ad monetization driven by manual ad ops processes bleeding into various industries. Many ad ops processes utilized by new media players, including retail media networks, CTV, and streaming companies, are adaptations of legacy processes and workflows used by long-standing publishing and media brands.
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What’s Hot in Publishing and Ad Tech: An AdMonster’s Q&A with Scott Messer
The digital advertising business moves at such a fast clip that it’s difficult for anyone to keep up with emerging trends. For this reason, AdMonsters sits down with thought leaders within the sector who are doing the work of pushing the envelope and innovating so that we can share their…
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The Neglected Demographic: Multicultural Ad Spend
When Mark D. Walker, Co-Founder and CEO, Direct Digital Holdings, started in the media business in the 90s, he heard murmurings that the consumer landscape was evolving to become more ethnically diverse. Black Americans drove culture and wielded immense spending power, birth rates for Hispanic Americans were rising, and LGBTQIA+…
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How Can Publishers Boost Their Ad Revenue with Header Bidding?
A recent study showed that header bidding led to a 23% increase in fill rate and a 20% increase in average CPM. With these benefits and more, it's no wonder why header bidding has become a popular and essential tool for publishers looking to maximize their monetization potential.
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