🌯 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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Seven Secrets of Highly Successful Vendors

How ad technology vendors capture, monitor and use data can have a tremendous impact on their success. Let’s look at seven practices that can transform a vendor’s data collection processes and business model for the better.1. Invest in Data Operations TalentIn my last blog entry on the metamorphosis of the…

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Colbert Takes on Dish’s AutoHop… With Sponsored Content

The broadcast networks’ furor over Dish Network’s AutoHop offering, which pretty much cuts the commercials right out of recorded primetime TV content, hasn’t just hit courtrooms, it also caught the eye of one of America’s top satirists. On June 26, Stephen Colbert dedicated a section of his show, “The Colbert…

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The Pragmatist’s Guide to Compliance with the ePrivacy Directive

One can recall a time in the recent past when the ePrivacy Directive appeared as an apparition on the horizon, a stern Directive, but one with vague requirements that no one seemed to be paying much mind.  In the second quarter of 2012, the market shifted dramatically, led initially with…

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AdMonsters Industry Roundup: Casale Media, VideoHub, Adaptly & More

In this week's AdMonsters Industry Roundup, we bring you the latest news from Casale Media, VideoHub, Visual IQ & more, with industry insights from David Berkowitz of 360i and Nikhil Sethi of Adaptly. Check it out below!  VideoHub Provides Awesome Digital Video InsightsVideoHub, an end-to-end analytics and monetization platform built exclusively…

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IDG’s Responsive Design-Infused Site Overhaul

“There were too many advantages to ignore,” comments Aaron Jones, CTO of IDG Consumer and SMB, when explaining why the company embraced responsive design in rebranding and rebuilding two of the company’s most popular sites – PCWorld and Macworld. For one thing, unifying the back-end of those two sites –…

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