🌯 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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Farewell, Friction: Why Digitized Ad Sales are Mission Critical for Future Revenue Growth

Friction is the enemy of growth — and today's publishers have to mitigate quite a bit of friction in order to breeze through revenue goals, quarter after quarter. There's the natural tension between fulfilling advertisers' (growing) demands and delivering a frictionless content experience for users.  There's friction between different platforms…

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Cookie Cutoff Could Mean Publisher Layoffs

Lotame's latest “Beyond the Cookie” report is out. There’s so much uncertainty and concern is high on all levels. Key reports findings include: Forty-eight percent of publishers predict a downsizing in workforce due to third-party cookie deprecation.

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Putting Contextual in Context: Can Standardized Definitions and Taxonomies Lead to Scale?

Whether it's evaluating contextual as a key performance driver amidst the decline of third-party cookies and mobile identifiers, or new use cases—like extending contextual audiences into CTV—there is so much more to consider about the practice of segmenting and analyzing content. So in advance of our upcoming Revenue Strategy Session,…

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A Publisher’s Guide to Supply Path Optimizations: A Case Study

Supply Path Optimization (SPO), aka finding the most direct route to a publisher’s inventory, sounds like an activity that’s best left to the world’s DSPs. After all, they’re the ones with the AI-powered algorithms that focus on winning ad placements for advertisers. SPO actually requires teamwork amongst all parties, especially those…

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The Future of Publisher Revenue Operations: Benchmarks & Best Practices

From third-party cookie deprecation, to ColoPA, CCPRA, Apple and the looming antitrust pressure on Google and Facebook, the business of digital publishing is being rebuilt right now ... pixel by pixel. And while there’s no such thing as a crystal ball, AdMonsters has partnered with Jeeng to come up with…

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