🌯 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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Performance Is Key: An Enlightening Q&A with QUISMA MD Ellie Edwards

European Editor Gautam Srivastava had the pleasure of sitting down with QUISMA MD, Ellie Edwards to discuss their shift from Search to Display and what their plans are for the UK and European market.Search, Dynamic Creative , RTB, Technologies and so much more - check out Gautam’s fascinating interview below. Ellie…

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Charting the World of Overlapping Video Standards

The first advertising standards, guidelines and best practices for digital video emerged four years ago, which seems like a short time in the grand scheme of history. But technology moves at an accelerated pace, and four years is enough to make anything outdated in the ad technology space. In fact,…

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StrikeAd Demystifies Mobile Privacy: Whitepaper Excerpt

There are two ways to store the user ID on the mobile device. The first is through using the impression cookie – we go into more detail in StrikeAd's full whitepaper that this article is excerpted from (PDF). On iOS, i.e. iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch, however, it is not possible…

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Mobile Ops Talk: Ad Ops Insider Q&A With Brian Hoskins, Disney Technology Solutions & Services

Continuing our series of chats with leaders in the mobile ad ops space (check out our Q&A with Bryan Moffett, VP of Digital Strategy and Ad Operations for National Public Media) in front of the upcoming OPS Mobile conferences (April 19 in NYC and May 16 in London), Ad Ops Insider sat down with Brian Hoskins, Senior…

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Consolidation and the Future of Digital Display Advertising

We are experiencing a boom in the digital display advertising market and the growth is remarkable. IAB Europe indicate that display has overtaken search as the fastest growing advertising channel in Europe, up 21.3% compared to 2010.  Technological evolution and innovation - principally from new technologies like demand-side and supply…

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