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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?
Read More🌯 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?
Read More🌯 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?
Read More🌯 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.
Read More🌯 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.
Read MoreHello First-Party Data Strategy
In a recent AdMonsters Webinar with Permutive, Goodbye Cookie, Hello New Data Strategy, Nathan Bell, SVP, Data and Business Analytics and Rachael McCombs, Sr. Director of Ad and Media Operations shared why Digital Trends decided to work with Permutive and how it is developing its first-party data strategy.
Read MorePFV Video: Keynote Maguire Dispenses Pandemic Recovery Plan
"Trust is the catalyst of any recovery," shared Christine Maguire, VP Of Global Ad Revenue, TripAdvisor at AdMonsters recent PubForum Virtual during her keynote. Watch the video of her keynote below to learn more about TripAdvisor's five stages of recovery and action plan for continuing to build trust with employees,…
Read MorePFV Video: Under the Hood With Prebid 4.0
Recently selected to the Board of Directors at Prebid as a publisher representative, CafeMedia's Patrick McCann is tasked with ensuring that publishers' interests are heard throughout the organization and to communicate those interests to developers. At AdMonsters PubForum Virtual a few weeks back, McCann took to the main stage to…
Read MorePFV Video: Operationalizing Inclusion—Effecting Change From Within
When it comes to diversity and inclusion, Melissa Bonnick, SVP, Client Results, Dentsu Aegis Network and Rachael McCombs, Sr. Director Ad and Media Operations, Digital Trends are effecting change within their organizations. So we invited them to talk with Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson to have a discussion about it…
Read MoreWhat Is IDFA?
It’s true that most people in the advertising world know more about IDFA than they did six months ago, but the twists and turns of the privacy plot are worth exploring. We asked Isaac Schechtman, Senior Director of Product Strategy at BidSwitch to catch us up on everything going on…
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