🌯 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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Publisher Forum Nashville Keynote Cara Pratt: The Retail Media Pioneer

Before Cara Pratt was pioneering in the ad tech space, in her adolescence, she was dreaming of becoming a detective. If the fates decided to turn the wheels of destiny a different way, she might have been the real-world Enola Holmes. Instead, I’m sure the ad tech ecosystem is grateful…

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Consent Summit 2022 Takeaways: Privacy and Compliance are Ad Tech’s Regulators

At the LeadsCon 2022 Consent Summit, agencies, marketers, technologists, legal teams, digital departments, data agencies and compliance professionals came together to discuss all things privacy, consent and compliance. From discussing the potential federal privacy regulations moving through the U.S. Legislature to learning about balancing your privacy and compliance issues with your…

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Two Heads Better Than One: Aniview & diDNA Join Forces to Drive Pub Revenue

Aniview and diDNA cover a large part of the publisher ecosystem, and at the end of the day, working together allows both ad tech companies to stay ahead of the curve. Even more impressive is that their frenemy relationship with one another doesn't just stop there. diDNA is a top…

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Commerce Media Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Navigating new monetization territories is never easy but thankfully Charlene Charles, Head of Operations at DG Media Networks provided essential guidelines to motivate and help retailers win in this space. When dealing with innovation, the unknowns can be endless. You have to be able to deliver fast and efficient outcomes…

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ID5 Provides Actionable Identifiers, Audience Monetization and Privacy-focused Approaches

To get an in-depth understanding of one of the major alternative IDs, we spoke with Mathieu Roche, co-founder and CEO of ID5. Known as the privacy-focused identity solution, it creates an encrypted first-party data ID that gives publishers a unique device ID they can share with their partners and clients. 

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