🌯 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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How Yahoo Is Doubling Down on Buy-side Offerings, As Told by CRO Elizabeth Herbst-Brady

As CRO at Yahoo, Herbst-Brady is the General Manager of the advertising business, which mainly consists of the DSP. She also develops monetization strategies that help elevate the company's future. In a sea saturated with undifferentiated SSPs, Yahoo decided to shut down its supply-side business earlier this year to focus…

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Legit Black-owned Publishers Are Being Labeled MFA Sites, but Maybe There’s a Solution

The MFA site reformation in ad tech is well underway. Still, some Black-owned publishers are being labeled as MFA sites by the industry in their attempts to reach advertisers’ quotas and serve quality ads to consumers. Is a tiered approach the answer to this problem?

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How to Build Viewership for FAST Channels: A Q&A with Ron Gutman, CEO of WURL

To learn more about FAST and where it fits into the TV landscape, we talked with Ron Gutman, CEO of Wurl, a 25-year veteran of the TV industry. Wurl and Samsung launched the world’s first native FAST channel in 2018, and today Gutman is hoping that over the next five…

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Seven Insights From Advertising Week NY, As Told From AdMonsters’ X Timeline

At Advertising Week New York there were eight stages representing the eight different areas of the advertising industry. The tracks included marketing, ad tech, the creator and influencer economy, television, creative, web3, DEI, leadership, female empowerment, and of course the most glorified of them all, AI. Check out these AWNY…

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Optimizing Media Mix in App Marketing: A Q&A on Growth Strategy

This Q&A with Andrey Kazakov, VP of Demand & Non-Gaming at AppLovin, delves into understanding how app marketers can think beyond the traditional channel mix for non-gaming apps, the undeniable significance of mobile in performance marketing, and the revolutionary role of AI in shaping the future of mobile advertising.

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