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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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Give The People What They Want—How Complex Networks Taps Into Audiences To Increase Value
In response to the disappearing cookie and privacy regulations, Complex Networks created Complex Collective—something akin to a research panel—including 30,000 brand enthusiasts who provide the company direct dialogue and feedback on editorial content, trends, consumer attitudes, and new products. They're leveraging it as both a sales tool and a consumer…
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AdMonsters Playbook: Life Beyond Cookies
Much of the contemporary Internet—and certainly digital advertising—has been built upon tools for data transference. While the cookie has been key in the development of digital advertising and programmatic transactions in particular, the architecture is not going to collapse without it. Understanding why the third-party cookie has gone out of…
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Webinar Replay: 3 Things We Learned Switching to a Next-Gen DMP
In this webinar, Scott Messer, SVP of Media at Leaf Group, joins Kristy Schafer, VP of Americas at Permutive, to give publishers some honest advice on evaluating their current technology and what pitfalls to avoid when changing DMP.
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Liberate Ad Ops By Integrating Automation
In contemporary ad ops, the repetitive and voluminous tasks we handle remain huge—whether they are performed in-house or outsourced. Just beginning to integrate automation will significantly reduce ops’ trafficking time and free them up for more valuable analysis and client care.
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Are Programmatic Demand Vendors Becoming An Endangered Species?
Are programmatic demand vendors becoming an endangered species like the Sirocco Kakapo parrot? Well, if they're not careful they just might be. Many SSPs aren't giving publishers the data they need to optimize their programmatic yield and meet revenue goals. Ad-Juster's Programmatic Scorecard evaluates the top 10 programmatic demand partners based…
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