🌯 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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ID Is Key: Unlocking Mobile Tracking & Cross-Device Measurement, Part 2

“We spend most of our time telling privacy advocates and even our clients what we don’t collect," comments James Lamberti, Vice President and General Manager of AdTruth. “If you read our contract, there’s a list of 20 things we don’t collect: IFA, cookies, UDID, MAC address, etc. We purposefully stay…

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ID Is Key: Unlocking Mobile Tracking & Cross-Device Measurement, Part I

UDID was a problem. First off, the 40-digit alphanumeric codes giving unique identifiers to Apple mobile devices based on hardware details had no consumer opt-out functionality – no blocking, removing, what have you. Second, the read-only identifier was static – even if a phone exchanged owners, the UDID was imprinted…

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OPS Mobile/OPS TV Preview: Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object

“TV is an immovable object, mobile is an unstoppable force,” suggested Rob Beeler, Content Czar.A strong opening is essential to a great event, and the content team was having trouble wrapping the myriad topics within the OPS TV/OPS Mobile agenda (Thursday, July 18 at Chelsea Piers in NYC) into a…

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Weigh in: Nominate a Leader in Ad Operations for an award!

Weigh In: Who’s leading the future of digital ad operations?We want to hear from you as we select the newest lot of industry-leading ad ops gurus who dedicate themselves to advancing the ever-evolving world of digital advertising. Tell us who you believe should be one of our newest Digital Media…

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Salary Survey 2013 – We Want to Hear from You

Click Here to Take the 2013 AdMonsters Ad Ops Salary Survey.Our 2013 AdMonsters Ad Operations Salary Survey is now open, and we want your input as we seek to compile a comprehensive record of all the job categories, job roles, titles and salaries that together comprise the ad operations industry.Each…

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