🌯 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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Addressing Discrepancies between your Ad Server and Google Analytics

If small budget advertisers are complaining about the number of clicks reported by your ad server not matching with their Referring Sites report in Google Analytics, it can be addressed by one of two ways: change the CTU (Click Through URL) and advise the client of what to look for…

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Challenges with Local and National Advertisers and Agencies

Many publishers work with both local and national agencies and advertisers and they both provide unique challenges. Our presentation in Portland offered some insight into how we approach these challenges:Be a Consultant to Sales. The knowledge you have about your site and its products goes a long way in helping…

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US Leadership Forum provides Valuable Insights

This past Wednesday, AdMonsters hosted our 8th Leadership Forum in the U.S. at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York. The Leadership Forum is a unique event in that it brings senior Ad Operations leaders from publishers, agencies, networks and vendors together into one room to discuss the topics of…

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People & Performance NOT Pages & Prices

No one will argue that the Display marketplace is an incredibly fragmented and inefficient system. Try as they might this advertiser driven ecosystem has created a few problems long hidden by overinflated CPMs. First are the serious issues in the market’s ability to scale. Second, is the arbitrage and optimization…

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Creating Business Policy An Organization Can Grow With

If I asked you, right now, to explain your organization's cancellation or make-good policy – could you do it? Do you know who owns it, who is responsible for regular validation and who has the authority to change this policy? If you answered "no" to any of these questions, then…

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