🌯 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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Noise Is Subjective: A Q&A with Paul Valerio

With this year's only European Publisher Forum rapidly approaching (June 17-20) US Editor and Led Zepplin enthusiast Gavin Dunaway sat down with one of our fantastic keynote speakers – Paul Valerio, Principal at Method – and picked his brains on what he'd be covering in Vienna. Have a read below…

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Stepping Out of the Shadows: Turn Looks to Shape the Future of Advertising Using Its Past

This industry of ours does not just lend itself to creativity and innovation – it craves it. This is our very lifeblood and it’s what makes digital the most fast paced, innovative and ultimately lucrative side of the advertising industry.But when looking for creativity and innovation far too often we’ve…

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Q&A: Weborama Breaks Down Display Advertising’s Data Boom

'Data' has become a huge talking point in display advertising in the UK and Europe. Weborama's move to acquire Datvantage speaks to the growing importance of data in an increasingly automated world. AdMonsters caught up with Alain Levy, CEO of Weborama, and Mathieu Roche, MD of Weborama UK, to discuss…

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TV and Digital Video, Wrapped Together: Q&A With Teg Grenager, Cofounder and Vice President of Product, Adap.tv

AdMonsters' upcoming OPS TV event, July 11 in NYC, is not about the convergence of TV and digital video, but instead an examination of the growing overlap between the two channels. Signaling this increasinly convoluted relationship was Adap.tv's 2012 First Quarter State of the Online Video Industry Report, which found that…

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TV Networks Have Seen This Show Before

Above is a clip from the OPS Markets NY keynote of JT Batson of Mediaocean remarking on the fluidity of TV buying and selling systems. Batson learned a great deal about these at Donovan Data Systems before that company merged with MediaBank to form Mediaocean in April. The fluidity of…

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