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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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Do Not Track Guidelines: W3C Wants Pub Ad Ops’ Take
UPDATE: The AdMonsters DNT meetup was a rousing three-hour discussion that poured over into a delightful talk over drinks. Our appreciation goes out to all who attended – including representatives from NYTimes, MTV/Viacom, A&E Networks, Clearspring, Gawker and more – with extra thanks to W3C Tracking Protection Working Group Co-Chair…
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Consumer Tracking With Respect: Device Recognition and the Next Leap Forward for Digital Media
For digital media to work, advertisers need to reach and positively engage consumers. There are billions of Internet-connected devices connecting every corner of the world so reach certainly isn’t the issue.The challenge is this: how do we as an industry parlay that massive reach into positive impact? Without the current…
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OPS Mobile NY Live Blog – April 19
Monsters Mobilize!I thought of that about three weeks ago and it's been burning to get out ever since.Phew, ok that's out of the way. Welcome to the OPS Mobile NY Live Blog coming to you direct from a somewhat overcast Soho, NY City.Stay tuned for a day of industry leaders,…
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OPS Markets NY – Live Blog
We're very close to kick-off here at OPS Week NY. Some of the brightest minds in the digital ad space are currently milling through the doorway into the impressive space that is 82 Mercer right in the heart of Soho.Looks like we're all set for a day of stellar peer…
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Machine Vision: Image Recognition and the Future of Mobile Advertising
With two days (!) left until AdMonsters OPS Mobile, we caught up with one of our keynote speakers, Michael Nicholas, Chief Strategy Officer at Roundarch Isobar, to get a sneak peek of his presentation. Michael will be discussing how tangible digital design is poised to revolutionize the way we use…
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