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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 Mystery of Dark Patterns: A Publisher’s CMP Nightmare
The FTC report, entitled “Bringing Dark Patterns to Light,” highlights how companies are using a deceptive design practice called dark patterns. The practice is becoming progressively sophisticated and it aims to trick consumers into buying products or unwillingly giving up their data.
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What is the Winning Approach for Non-gaming Apps to Acquire High-value Users?
According to Sensor Tower data, over half of App Store spending in the U.S. now comes from non-game apps, and in Q2, iOS users in the U.S. spent more money in non-gaming apps than games for the first time ever.Â
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Byron Allen Says He’ll Sue More Advertisers to Accelerate Black Media Spend
Byron Allen, former comedian and Founder/CEO of Entertainment Studios, is well-known for his $10 billion 2021 discrimination lawsuit against McDonald's Corp. for refusing to conduct advertising business with Black-owned media companies. Now, he's promising to sue more advertisers in order to create a more equitable playing field for Black media…
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Let’s Get Serious About Automating the Last of AdOps Tedious Tasks
It’s ludicrous that we're in 2022 and AdOps teams in large publishing houses must manually take hundreds, sometimes thousands of screenshots per month, then insert them into a PowerPoint deck and email it to their clients. While screenshots can be a pain point they're necessary to show clients their campaigns…
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10 Hispanic/Latin American Professionals Doing Big Things in Ad Tech
During Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize those who inspire others to succeed. In advertising technology, very few Hispanic/Latinx people are running the show. Here at AdMonsters, we are fortunate enough to know a few who are striving in their professional roles daily and have been for years. Here are 10…
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