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🌯 Business Insider’s Layoffs Are a Tremor in a Bigger Media Quake
Business Insider, once the poster child for viral news and breakneck traffic growth, slashed 21% of its staff—at least 100 jobs. But this is not an anomaly.
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🌯 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 Do You Balance Ad Revenue vs. Ad Quality? Take Our In-App Ad Quality Survey
We're seeking insight into your experience with in-app ad quality for an upcoming Playbook, with the support of GeoEdge. We're diving into the current state of in-app ad quality. and we'd like to learn how your team is prioritizing ad quality challenges this year. In return, we plan to provide…
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AAX Study Breaks Down Who Uses Ad Blockers the Most and Why
A new study released by AAX: Why Block Ads? Behind User Reasons and Motivations, sifted through years of data on internet behavior collected by GlobalWebIndex (GWI). The goal? Getting to know more about ad filterers, a large demo defined by GWI as “selective ad-blocking users” a.k.a. folks who have installed…
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Newsweek Sees Huge CPM Lifts With LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution
We spoke with Dev Pragad, CEO Newsweek, about how the publisher is building better relationships with their audience toward the goal of zero-party data exchange, as well as how they're using LiveRamp's Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) to drive CPMs. We also spoke with Scott Howe, CEO of LiveRamp, to learn more…
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Yesterday’s Malware Solutions Won’t Solve Tomorrow’s Problems
The burden of cost for preemptively identifying and blocking bad ads lies solely at the feet of the publisher. And because this approach often means that blocked ads don’t get filled at all, revenue cannot be recovered. Malvertisers, on the other hand, don’t stand to lose a thing – their…
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The State of Ad Filtering in 2021
The surge in digital media consumption continues. Ad spend is flowing freely beside the traffic stream. But unfortunately, to the dismay of publishers and advertisers alike, ad block usage is on the rise. But ad blockers are becoming ad filterers — the 95% of all ad-blocking users who have an ad…
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