🌯 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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Minority Report Podcast: AdMonsters’ Tameka Kee Geeks Out on Ad Tech

In this recent episode of Minority Report Podcast, Tameka Kee, Head of Content, AdMonsters, speaks with hosts Kerel Cooper, Chief Marketing Officer, LiveIntent, and  Erik Requidan, Founder & CEO, Tradecraft Advisory about her career journey, which includes Mediapost, Digiday, eMarketer, Rubicon Project, and launching her own business, The In.Fux Lab.…

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Building a Successful Advertising Business from a Subscription-First Model

In this keynote video, from Publisher Forum Virtual Spring 2021, Lisa Ryan Howard, SVP, General Manager, Media explains how The Times is focusing on fewer, higher quality ads and using its first-party data to offer targeting based on emotional states and reader motivations to provide more powerful ad experiences.

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Amidst the Cookiepocalypse, Creative Agility Can Be a Rev Team’s Secret Weapon

Over the course of 2020, revenue and ad ops leads increasingly found themselves collaborating with new contacts within brands and agencies. They also had to come up with hacks and lean on solution providers to help create engaging ad experiences that enticed users (and drove performance). And as we continue…

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Go Big or Go Home: Sports Media Companies Cash In

Maybe it’s the “larger than life”-sized player personalities. Maybe it’s the rabid, easy-to-amass audience segments. Or maybe it’s some marvelous combination of the two — but sports media brands are cashing up and turning pandemic-driven shifts in content consumption into new pathways for revenue generation.

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Facebook Ads & iOS 14: What Can You Do to Overcome Data Loss?

If you’ve looked at your Facebook ads data recently, you might be worried about your dwindling conversion insight. Starting with Safari and Mozilla’s default blocking of cross-site tracking since the release of ITP 2.1, continuing with the rollout of Limited Data Use that limited tracking in California to comply with…

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