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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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How Dotdash Meredith’s Joetta Gobell D/Ciphers Intent Signals and Measurement Innovation
Joetta Gobell, SVP of Data Strategy and Insights at Dotdash Meredith, shares how her journey from shy student to data leader shapes her work driving contextual targeting innovation, measurement strategies, and smarter audience insights.
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Google on Trial: What the Verdict Means for Ad Tech’s Future
Google’s ad tech dominance faces a major legal challenge. AdExchanger’s Allison Schiff and AdMonsters’ Lynne d Johnson break down the DOJ verdict, what’s next for publishers and advertisers, and why the fight for the open web isn’t over yet.
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AdExchanger and AdMonsters Reveal 2025 Top Women in Media & Ad Tech
AdMonsters and AdExchanger unveil the 2025 Top Women in Media & Ad Tech Awards—celebrating the women redefining what leadership looks like in digital media, ad tech, and marketing.
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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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What is the IAB Tech Lab’s Trusted Server Framework, and How Does It Help Publishers?
The IAB Tech Lab developed the Trusted Server Framework to help publishers reclaim control of their infrastructure and data strategies in a system that has marginalized them for too long.
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What CIMM East Told Us About the Future of Media Measurement (and Why the Sell Side Needs to Pay Attention)
CIMM East was full of insights highlighting the complexities of media measurement’s future. From currency fragmentation to AI workflows and data transparency, here are six takeaways for the sell side to keep top of mind as the ground keeps shifting.
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Multicurrency Is Messy. Mediaocean’s Building the Highway That Could Be the Fix.
While the industry debates which currency wins, Mediaocean is busy powering the infrastructure that makes them all work. In this fireside chat at CIMM East, Ramsey McGrory chatted about why being the system of record—and staying neutral—might be the most powerful position of all.
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After the Ruling: Can Publishers Thrive Through Google’s Ad Tech Breakup?
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema found that Google "willfully acquired and maintained monopoly power" in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets. What does it mean for publishers and independent ad tech?
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When Rome Fell: Reflections on the DOJ Ruling and the Fall of Our Digital Rome
In this analogy, Google is Rome. The whole empire: GAM, AdX, DV360, Open Bidding, Search, AdSense, Analytics, you name it. These tools allowed publishers of all sizes to build, monetize and scale.
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