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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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FTC: Consumer Privacy on Mobile Devices
In preparation for our upcoming AdMonsters Mobile Publisher Forum, we've interviewed Attorney Jim Elliott of the Federal Trade Commission to get a preview of his presentation on consumer privacy on mobile devices, which he will be delivering at the event. First, an intro from Jim:Maria, I appreciate this opportunity you and…
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Viewability’s Impact on Digital Advertising: Q&A With Dr. Douglas de Jager, CEO of Spider.io
The talk du jour is certainly revolving around the seemingly endless issues of ad viewability and how to best measure viewable impressions across various environments. spider.io – a London-based ad tech company – recently announced the launch of the first service to measure i-framed ad viewability across all major browsers.…
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Programmatic Direct Sales Pick Up Steam
So much of the confusion and concern over the hot topic of programmatic premium stems from equating real-time bidding and programmatic buying. Let's put it out there for what undoubtedly won't be the last time: the former is a subset of the latter. Still, that doesn't stop overactive imaginations from…
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Putting Money into the Mobile Wallet
A new patent by Apple promises to bring a challenge to ever-developing NFC technology, but is it too late? NFC has been in the news for ages, but it hasn’t fully taken off. It was disappointing when the iPhone 5 didn’t come NFC-enabled, but the technology itself has some kinks…
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Three Lessons in Digital Strategy from Jon Rimmerman of Garagiste
Hard work makes art In Seattle last week I had the opportunity to meet a minor hero of mine: Jon Rimmerman, founder of Garagiste Wine. Jon's business is nothing short of amazing, but the main reason I wanted to meet him is simply because of his writing. Jon's offers (which, by the way,…
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