🌯 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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During COVID-19, Commerce is More Important Than Ever for Publishers. Here’s What They Should Know.

Traffic is up. Ad revenues are down. COVID-19 has turned publishing on its head, and publishers are scrambling to find new ways to diversify revenues under changing conditions. It’s not impossible. It’s just different. The ever-evolving media landscape is accelerating down an unexpected course. Here’s what we can do about it.

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PubForum Video: Keynote Elgin Kim, Lab1492, on Making Mobile Pay

"We're at a point now where we're going to have to focus on that one-to-one relationship," says mobile expert Elgin Kim, Partner, Lab1492. In this wide-ranging fireside chat with AdMonsters Chairman Rob Beeler, Kim explores the biggest operational and date challenges in apps and mobile web currently while tapping into the most…

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Webinar Replay: The Revenue Boost You Could Use Right Now

Ad-blocking users are too often written off as “lost traffic” when studies show they can help revenue efforts when given the right incentives—anything from less intrusive advertising to the ability to pay cash for content. Considering ad-blocking users can average 15% of traffic, that’s potential revenue you should start capturing…

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Understanding Your Ad-Blocking Audience: A Conversation With Frederick Leuschner, AAX CEO

Leading up to our upcoming webinar with the Acceptable Ads Exchange (AAX), The Revenue Boost You Could Use Right Now—Ad-Blocker Traffic, on April 30, @1PM, Editorial Director, Gavin Dunaway, had a conversation with CEO Frederick Leuschner. We talked about the importance of publishers not resorting to bad practices to mitigate…

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AdMonsters Playbook: The Identity Connection

As the sunset of the third-party tracking cookie approaches, one of the most promising options—enabling publishers to monetize their audiences and advertisers to address audiences with confidence—is identity or people-based marketing. This playbook, created in partnership with Lotame, dives into identity as a concept and explains the wealth of advantages…

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