Publishers who have strong first-party relationships with loyal user bases are at an advantage – and the homepage is where that relationship thrives.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SP-Oh, It’s On Call it supply-path optimization, transparency or premium publisher marketplaces. Whichever you choose, Digiday writes, it “amounts to disintermediation.” In recent years, DSPs have leapfrogged SSPs to establish direct connections with media companies. The marketers are interested in media, after all, […]
Marketers are often mission-driven. But too often, when informing the public through news and information is of utmost urgency, marketers choose to steer clear not just from bad or hot-button issues, but from all news content entirely, choking off potential revenue for news enterprises and doing a disservice to the public good, writes Dev Pragad, CEO of Newsweek.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Microsoft Is Not Playing Around Microsoft announced a $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, the game developer that owns Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and King, the mobile studio behind Candy Crush, among many other game franchises, The New York Times reports. […]
Since Newsweek revamped its digital business in 2019, the publication grew its readership to more than 100 million unique visitors a month and increased digital ad revenue by 166%. Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad attributes this growth to the implementation of an objectives and key results (OKR) framework that completely changed how the publication approached its […]
Shaun Hekking, SVP of national sales at Newsweek, has blunt words for publishers that don’t accept cannabis advertising: “There’s no reason we can see not to work with cannabis advertisers.” “We’ve been covering cannabis editorially since before Woodstock and writing about the business side since the early 2000s,” said Hekking, who joined Newsweek early last […]
IBT Media – publisher of International Business Times, Latin Times and Newsweek – plans to grow programmatic revenue from 30% to 60% by the end of this year. It first started selling programmatically last May and plans to fuel growth by adding programmatic direct to the mix through Rubicon and Sonobi. Buyers can purchase through […]
