Seb Joseph

Publishers count their losses as the open auction bleeds ad dollars

On: March 22, 2025

By Seb Joseph • March 21, 2025 • Ivy Liu 2025 is shaping up to be a brutal year for publishers hoping programmatic ad auctions would keep the cash flowing. Things are so bleak that not one would speak on the record about their dwindling fortunes. Better to suffer inContinue Reading

Meta follows Musk’s lead on censorship — but ad industry keeps its distance from panic

By: Seb Joseph

On: January 8, 2025

In: Technology

By Seb Joseph and Sam Bradley • January 8, 2025 • Ivy Liu Meta is borrowing a page from Elon Musk’s X on free speech and censorship, but advertisers aren’t hitting the panic button — yet. For now, they’ve brushed off Meta’s decision to scrap its U.S. fact-checking program in favorContinue Reading