🌯 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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Worlds Collide: Letting RTB Compete with Direct Campaigns in Your Ad Server

A number of partners I’ve been working with have mentioned casually that they are experimenting with creating a marketplace in their adserver by collapsing the prioritization settings. For a lot of publishers, this is the latest version of the struggle with sales channel conflict that they have been wrestling with…

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AdMonsters Joins Forces With Rising Media for UK, Europe

AdMonsters Strengthens Global Reach In Serving Digital Strategists AdMonsters Partners with Rising Media to Produce AdMonsters Conferences in UK and Europe SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 23, 2013 - AdMonsters, the global leader in strategic insights on digital media and advertising strategy through its conferences, website, research and consulting services, today…

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Speaker Spotlight: PubForum Sonoma Keynote Brian Monahan, MAGNAGLOBAL

MAGNAGLOBAL's Brian Monahan is no stranger to the digital advertising world; in fact, some may even call him one of its pioneers. From laying the groundwork for some of digital advertising's earliest practices and standards to co-founding the San Francisco Bay Area Interactive Group in 2004, Monahan is an original…

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Capturing ‘Profit-Tailwinds’ and Revenue Growth

Many leading digital publishers are meeting the challenge of growing revenues with varying degrees of success. However, one challenge that remains a constant is the ability to grow profitability at the same rate or faster than revenue.The predominant focus of many leading organizations remains yield (or eCPM). Adroit sales and…

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This Week in Ad Ops: Deadspin Missed Out, Mobile Revenue Booms, and Ad Tech Updates

Deadspin Didn't Bring Home the Bacon on Te'o StoryAs your Facebook and Twitter feeds might have indicated, one of the biggest news stories this week – providing Lance Armstrong some welcome shade from the media glare – was the deception of/by Manti Te'o and his fake girlfriend. As AdAge reports, although…

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