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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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A Post-cookie Survival Guide for Publishers – Tips From PubForum Nashville
Justin Wohl, CRO at Salon.com, TVTropes.org, and Snopes.com and an advisor to Supply Side Platform, Sovrn, acknowledges that monetizing programmatic ads is a critical part of editorial and has made it his due diligence to hone in on that aspect. He came to Publisher Forum Nashville to share what he’s learned…
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Emodo Q&A: Adapt Launches Debate on Traditional Native Ads vs. Advanced Native Ads
We spoke with Thomas Anderson, Chief Marketplace Development Officer at Emodo about the creation of Adapt, advanced native ads competing against traditional native ads, how they hope to future-proof their product and more.
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Change Management: A Personal & Organizational Approach for Ad Tech
With the speed and complexity of change needed to succeed in an ecosystem like advertising, both senior management and “in the trenches” workers must be aligned. Ad Operations are only as good as the people who deliver the goods, and nothing is more human than concerns about change, job security,…
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Creative Is the Last Standing Lever for Marketers in a Privacy-first World
Creative has taken center stage as the primary lever to pull when looking to accelerate business results, particularly as marketers are forced to lean into audience consolidation and automation, writes Megan Mullarky, Associate Director, Digital Strategy, Media.Monks.
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Elon Musk Proves Once and for All That Nihilism Is Not a Media Company Strategy
The boundaries of acceptability have been pushed back and back for years. Elon Musk just happens to have gone a few steps too far and is showing the entire industry that, in the end, nihilism is a losing strategy in the media world.
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