Digital publishers today face an unprecedented challenge. While U.S. digital advertising revenue is forecast to generate more than $116 billion by 2021, publishers aren’t seeing their fair share of that revenue. Ad revenue is being cannibalized by everything from ad blockers to walled gardens... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2019-12-09 13:30:26 UTC ]
Ad tech on the open web has become a disjointed chain of systems that is so fragmented that it prevents any single player from innovating at scale. The walled gardens of Google, Facebook and Amazon have left the rest of the ad-tech ecosystem behind. Take publishers, for example. The industry has... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook miscalculated how it was measuring average watch time on its platform. Agencies claim it’s not affected how they conduct business because they trade based on performance metrics like impressions, 10-second views and completed views -- not average watch time. That said, agencies and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Confusing licensing rules, walled gardens, limited bundling, subscriptions, and library borrowing, buggy platforms. Why do we put up with this ebook nonsense? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]