🌯 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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Effectively Using Consumer Data to Future Proof Your Business

In preparation for our upcoming webinar with Permutive: How Publishers Can Use Data to Close More Deals With Advertisers, Wednesday, August 31 at 1 PM ET, (Register Now!) I spoke with Thomas Baart, Customer Success Manager at Permutive. We discussed how publishers and advertisers can deliver more responsible advertising to…

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You Are Not Immune: Take Our Publishers’ State of Clickbait Survey

No site, it seems, is immune, with clickbait ads appearing on even the most discerning properties. This 5-minute survey seeks to help us better understand the extent of the problem, why it occurs, and whether or not publishers have the tools they need to eradicate it from their properties. 

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Justin Killion: Complex Networks Masters the Art of the Pivot to Diversify Revenue

Inspired by the innovation of Complex co-founders Marc Ecko and Rich Antoniello, Justin Killion, President at Complex Networks, will discuss the “Justification of Revenue Diversification” for the Publisher Forum opening keynote. Complex Networks boasts a twenty-year long legacy of adapting from print to web to streaming in order to maintain…

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Your Email Strategy May Blow Up Sooner Than You Think

Does an email still count as first-party data if you never know who the email belongs to, or whether it belongs to anyone at all? And what happens as email obfuscation becomes an “enabled by default” feature of consumer devices and web browsers? Just when everyone thought email might be…

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How to Attract & Retain Talent During the Great Resignation: Q&A with SEBPO’s Ray Adamson

A leading global outsourcing company, SEBPO services all areas of the advertising technology space. As such, the company is uniquely positioned to help its clients with any needs they have, despite the current state of the industry. This helped SEBPO navigate the pandemic and subsequently the Great Resignation, both pivoting how…

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