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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 Next Stage of Social Strategy: A Q&A With Claudia Page of Dailymotion (Part 1)
Facebook's algorithm changes (and public statements) have publishers scrambling to retool the way the platform fits with their business strategy. But let's not panic yet: Claudia Page, Dailymotion's VP, Product and Partner Development, tells Gavin Dunaway about how the industry has been down some similar paths already, and how Facebook's…
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Will Cambridge Analytica Hurt Facebook Ad Business? Plus, Inside Newsweek’s Bot Problem
This week's news briefs: Cambridge Analytica overstepped user data boundaries, iHeartMedia's bankruptcy brings mixed feelings for radio fans, one of Newsweek's bot-traffic partners gets unpacked, and Amazon gains more and more digital ad market share.
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Highlights from Huntington Beach
The Spring 2018 Publisher Forum is a wrap, but the lively discussion goes on. We take a look at how some of those discussions--specifically, how to talk with the buy side about brand safety, and how to take action to avoid the GDPR-empowered wrath of E.U. regulators--have played out this…
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Fill Out the 2018 Publisher Salary Survey
The job of digital ad operations has long been difficult to define—what exactly falls under the purview of ops? Inventory management, yield, revenue analytics… Even sales? No surprise, it’s been hard to evaluate—or justify—how much ops should be compensated. Instead of growing simpler as the digital media industry matured, the…
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What to Watch For at PubForum Huntington Beach
PubForum might be over, but as we process it, it's helpful to check over the list of what we were excited about to begin with... because it was basically everything. Everyone who attended, look out for the event summary, coming at you soon.
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