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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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iPad and iPhone App Development: Like Pouring Concrete
NPR was one of a few publishers to have a customized iPad application available at the product launch. The iPad app was a result of five weeks of intense development, but also, six months of learning through a successful app on the iPhone platform. Here are some things to consider…
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Highlights from the 2010 Brightcove Video Monetization Summit
On Wednesday I attended the Brightcove Video Monetization Summit. After a brief geeky starstruck moment - seeing Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire (formerly of Allaire and Macromedia) in person and resisting the urge to scream "I LOVE COLDFUSION" at him - I settled in for a long day of video learning.…
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Are you able to execute cross platform deals?
According to the Bain Study “Building Brands Online”, in the next 3 years, brand marketers will spend close to 40% of their budget on cross-platform campaigns (up from roughly 25%). That’s about $52,000,000,000 being spent on cross platform campaigns in the near future. Unless you start making changes in your…
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The Science of Display – Introduction
With this blog post, I’d like to begin a series of posts on the technology and data-science that power modern display advertising (especially at Turn, where we’ve always been at the cutting-edge of innovation in this area). We will explore why the advances we’re making in the new field of computational advertising matter…
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Thoughts on the US Leadership Forum in NYC
I hope everyone who attended the US Leadership Forum in New York this past week found it enjoyable and valuable. As always I was in awe of being surrounded by so many smart people. Events such as the Leadership Forum are such a great way to not only learn from…
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