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  • The LMC Wants To Ensure Local News Publishers Actually Have A Post-Cookie Future

    Thanks to signal loss, recession fears and the “ad tech tax,” publishers of all sizes are seeing their ad revenue suffer. But the problem is more pronounced among local news publishers, many of which were barely getting by before platform privacy changes roiled the digital advertising industry. The Local Media Consortium (LMC) shares how it’s helping its members mitigate these headwinds.

  • Political Advertisers Are Spending More Than Ever, But Not On Local News

    US political ad spending is exploding in the runup to the 2022 midterm elections, with an estimated $8 billion to $13 billion up for grabs this election cycle. But, while CTV and streaming video are seeing an infusion of political ad cash this year, local news publishers aren’t seeing a dramatic change in their bottom lines.

  • How Local Pubs Are Taking The Reins With Their Own Version Of A Single Sign-On

    Local news publishers aren’t waiting around for ad tech vendors to solve their third-party cookie problems for them. In late March, the Local Media Consortium (LMC) launched NewsPassID, a single sign-on solution and ad network, designed to help the 5,000 local publishers represented by the LMC to aggregate their first-party data and clean up their […]