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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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Unknown Unknowns: Speculation Mounts About Freezing Chrome’s User-Agent String
Developers on a recent GitHub thread are really heated about the Chromium project freezing the User-Agent String that provides the advertising ecosystem with metadata about a user's browser name and version, operating system, and rendering engine used\. Many fear they'll no longer have the ability to access this information to…
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What Is Google’s Privacy Sandbox?
As the clock ticks on the two-year expiration of the third-party tracking cookie, the advertising industry wonders how advertising tracking and measurement will work. Google has proposed a plan called the Privacy Sandbox, a series of APIs intended to provide users with privacy while ensuring that programmatic will continue to…
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Battling the Rising Mobile Ad Blockers: Q&A With Blockthrough’s CEO Marty Krátký-Katz
Ad blocking may have dwindled on desktop, but users are massively taking up arms on mobile. AdMonsters spoke with Marty Krátký-Katz, Co-Founder & CEO of ad-block monetization platform Blockthrough, about the findings from his company's new 2020 PageFair Adblock Report and how publishers should best wage war against this monumental…
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Reading the Programmatic Tea Leaves From Google’s Earning Report
AdMonsters Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway doesn't always pay attention to Google earnings reports, but there were some surprising inclusions—and absences—in the fiscal year 2019 that got the ad tech speculation machine humming at full speed. There may be big changes for ad tech on the horizon—read more.
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Unified IDs Up, Cookies Down: Q&A With Index Exchange
The industry doesn’t need a direct replacement for the third-party tracking cookie, and there are already a variety of solutions out there to take its place without mentioning Google’s budding privacy sandbox. To dive further into the many identification options circling around the industry, I caught up with one of…
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