Digital Publishers Need a Revenue Revolution

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 and user-generated content platforms, and the media landscape is increasingly fragmented across devices, channels, […] Continue reading at 'Publishing Executive'

[ Publishing Executive | 2019-12-09 13:30:26 UTC ]
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