🌯 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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Blurring the Lines: Inclusion of Ad Operations in the Product Development Process

At many publishers there is a distinct line between the Product team and Ad Operations team. Product is focused on developing cutting edge, revenue generating formats that are desirable by agencies and advertisers, while AdOps is focused on executing timely, high quality campaigns. While the skill sets required of these…

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AdOps: Stop Running From the Ugly Truth

A few weeks ago, DM2PRO.com, in collaboration with Operative, asked AdMonsters to help reach out to our community of ad ops professionals to complete a survey on the issues facing Ad Operations. Mike Leo and Lorne Brown from Operative presented the results of that survey at DPAC a couple of…

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Video: David Crystal’s Keynote Presentation from AdMonsters EU XIV: What Words are Worth

Watch Professor David Crystal's keynote presentation from the EU Publisher Forum in Barcelona, Spain: Professor David Crystal is a prolific writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster who divides his time between work on language and on internet applications. His recent publications include Language and the Internet (2006) and Txtng the Gr8…

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5 Questions for Ed Montes of Havas Digital

Edward Montes will be presenting a keynote address When will Online Advertising Evolve? at OPS US in New York on September 30, 2010. In advance of the event we talked him a few questions about the evolution of online advertising.Q: Please tell us a bit about what you are doing…

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5 Questions for Sacha Berlik of Mexad

In advance of the EU Network Ops Forum we asked keynote speaker Sacha Berlik of Mexad a few questions about the new data driven marketplace.Q: Can you tell us about Mexad and what role the company has in the industry?SB: Mexad’s core team are made up of Ad Exchange Veterans…

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