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  • More Layoffs At BuzzFeed; Can’t Spell “Bundle” Without “Bled”

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. BuzzCuts BuzzFeed is laying off 12% of its workforce, Variety reports, based on an SEC filing. The reduction will apparently help BuzzFeed “weather an economic downturn that I believe will extend well into 2023,” writes CEO Jonah Peretti in a memo.  BuzzFeed’s revenue […]

  • Taking Ads To The Max, HBO Max; Ads Are The Zits In Etsy’s Awkward Years

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Kilar Out Outgoing WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar had interesting tidbits for Bloomberg about HBO Max advertising, now that WarnerMedia merged with Discovery (and is run by Discovery chief David Zalsav).  Set aside the rubble of AT&T’s once-ambitious plan to build a top global […]

  • Apple Reroutes Publisher Traffic To Apple News App; Shakeup At WarnerMedia

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rules Don’t Apply  Apple is intercepting site traffic to publishers on Apple News+ and redirecting it to the Apple News app through updates to iOS 14 and MacOS Big Sur. The move not only cannibalizes publishers’ subscription audiences, but puts privacy-conscious Apple in a […]

  • Brand Safe (At Any Cost?); New CEO For WarnerMedia (And Xandr?)

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pretty Good, Eh? File this one under, “Not an April Fools’ joke.” Postmedia, one of the largest Canadian news media conglomerates, is making all of its online content free this month, thanks to a partnership with Mary Brown’s, a fried chicken chain based in […]