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TV piracy of sports streams is siphoning away millions of viewers. Then: Vox Media and BuzzFeed found new owners this spring, punctuating the end of the pageview era.

To survive and stay relevant, publishers like Ziff Davis and Black Enterprise are creating commerce-related content.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast Talk Podcasting has heated up, with big M&A deals in recent years, including Amazon’s acquisition of Wondery for $300 million and Spotify’s $235 million deal for Megaphone. Podcast advertising is forecasted to exceed $2 billion by 2023, according to emarketer, which revised up […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mike Peralta, Global CRO, Future plc After a difficult 2020, the publishing world is bracing for an uncertain 2021. With ambiguity swirling around the future of the cookie and its potential replacement, many publishers, […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Insider Inc’s publisher and CRO Pete Spande talks about the shifting revenue mix at his company, which owns Business Insider, Morning Brew and Insider Intelligence. Among other topics, he predicts the likely revenue […]

Ever since his company, Automated Insights, announced a partnership with the Associated Press (AP), CEO and founder Robbie Allen says it’s been a bit of a whirlwind. The idea that his Durham, N.C., firm’s technology could automate what reporters do with the appropriate data inputs clearly has larger implications. As The Washington Post and Poynter, among […]

Digital-media buying may have moved from buying placement to buying audience, but vertical publishers are still gladly carrying the “contextual” torch as valuable audience continues to be attracted to niche content – an opportunity TechMediaNetwork is looking to exploit. Having raised $33 million in 2011 in hopes of unseating other tech publisher networks such as […]

The old thinking: social media channels like Facebook and Twitter will be the death knell of traditional publishers. The new thinking: they need each other desperately. And just maybe, they can actually generate a worthwhile amount of ad dollars and audience engagement through mutual benefit. That was the consensus at the opening panel of the […]

Pat Connolly is Head of Strategy, Conde Nast Ideactive, an agency unit within publisher Condé Nast. Connolly discussed his views on industry trends recently with AdExchanger.com. Click below or scroll for more: Programmatic Buying and ‘Always On’ Success Metrics for Branded Content On Marrying Offline/Online, Print/Digital What’s Hot AdExchanger: How is programmatic buying affecting your […]

James Avery is CEO of Adzerk, a publisher-side ad technology company. AdExchanger.com: Why focus on publisher ad serving as opposed to advertiser ad serving? JA: The reason is publishing. I view publishing as crucially important to us as a society. When I originally started running ad networks, the reason was due to the fact many […]

Last Thursday, Aol and Bonnier’s Parenting Group announced a deal which will bring Parenting.com content to Aol owned and operated sites as well as leverage Aol’s salesforce and ad products on behalf of Parenting.com’s own site. Read more. Ned Brody, CRO and President of AOL Advertising, discussed the deal. Click below or scroll for more: […]

Rob Leathern is CEO of XA.net, an online media buying platform technology and tools company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Leathern to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of XA.net today. Click below or scroll down for more: Facebook […]

Cyril Zimmermann is CEO of Paris-based Hi-Media, an online ad network and publisher. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would launch its own ad exchange through the AppNexus platform. Read the release (PDF). AdExchanger.com: Tell us a little bit about Hi Media. CZ: Hi-Media is now an old story. I created the company 15 […]

If your favorite stars are in the digital advertising technology world (and why wouldn’t they be?), then last week’s Digital Media Summit in New York City was a star-studded affair. Co-produced by LUMA Partners and MediaLink, several hundred attendees came together to hob nob and put their best foot forward to potential acquirers or their […]

“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Michael Zimbalist is VP, Research & Development Operations for the New York Times Co. He also co-founded the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and serves as a member of its executive committee. In the years since Terry Kawaja first published his famous […]

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco chaired the Monaco Media Forum – YouTube channel here – in his diminutive principality this past week with luminaries from advertising taking part in panel discussions as well as ad tech companies showing their wares. (Post-show, cigarette boat tour video with Sean Connery here.) Among those on […]