Media layoffs continued this past week. First, BuzzFeed announced plans to lay off 16% of its workforce and sell off Complex Networks. Meanwhile, Vice is pulling the plug on Vice.com and announced it would lay off “several hundred” staffers as part of its major restructuring. What does this mean for…
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After months of negotiations, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) secured support from over 60 backers for a comprehensive bill to expand online protections for children. It could pave the way for the most significant congressional effort in decades to regulate tech companies.
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Even with legislation like COPPA on the books, which helps parents regulate information collected about their children aged 13 and younger when they go online, more needs to be done to protect the 18 and under demographic.
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2023 was a trying year for the programmatic supply chain, at least from a PR point of view. But despite the challenges, the open markets are still a vital lifeline for publishers that can’t afford to maintain a dedicated sales force, and its revenue is still predicted to grow. What…
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According to Ebiquity and Scope 3 research, MFA sites generate around 26% more carbon waste than non-MFA sites due to all of the connections to myriad SSPs and resellers. With thousands of requests for every impression, ads placed on MFA sites have the biggest carbon footprint in the industry. MFA…
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To experts, OpenAI made five key governance mistakes, from its initial “weird” board structure to a small and inexperienced board making a bad decision. Time will tell if OpenAI survives as a company or if it’s absorbed into Microsoft entirely, but for now, other start-up tech companies are looking at…
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After we published our article about Black-owned publishers’ concerns about being designated MFA sites, we spoke to some industry experts to understand how they define them, how to distinguish a bad site from a benign one, and to see if the industry’s standards label Black-owned publishers as MFA sites unfairly.
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There are genuine MFA shoppers out there and that brands that advertise with MFAs may find enthusiastic audiences. However, there are limits to their enjoyment of ads. While some shoppers like advertising — and seek it out with online circulars and clicking on sites the industry calls MFAs — there’s…
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As publishers, we recognize the immense value of our content, and the concept of a conversational chatbot guiding users to explore and enhance their experiences with that amazing content is truly fascinating. But can publishers launch generative AI chatbots and sidestep the issues we read about daily, such as hallucinations, responses…
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July 05, 2023 Google’s Q1 2024 Cookie Deadline Did Google Violate Its Video Ad Standards? Around the Water Cooler Is Google’s Q1 2024 Cookie Deadline a Mistake? The Google cookie deprecation countdown clock is inching closer and closer to its final tick. While many are testing their post-cookie solutions, some…
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