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How big of a deal is The Trade Desk’s top 100 list? AdExchanger spoke to industry experts for their reactions and bounced some of their hot takes off The Trade Desk.

The company’s total revenue was down 1% YOY due to a decline in ad revenue across its News Media and Dow Jones publishing groups.

Gannett experienced its fourth consecutive quarter of growth in Q1 2024. It pointed to recent partnerships with non-news publishers as instrumental to growing its audience and ad revenue.

Appealing to advertisers’ better angels is never going to bring ads back to the news. But appealing to their bottom lines might.

In today’s newsletter: P&G boosts paid media budgets by 14%; why lower subscription prices aren’t enough to sustain the current rate of ad-supported streaming signups; and news publishers follow the NYT’s lead by using games to retain visitors.

If advertisers feel like they need to go out of their way to support journalism, that is proof the programmatic open marketplace is broken. Yet we can’t place all the responsibility on the buy-side; media owners need to develop effective strategies to support themselves.

Local advertisers are spending more on social media platforms today than three years ago, despite being unconvinced social media is the best place to reach their customers. What gives? Corey Elliott, Borrell’s EVP of local marketing intelligence, explains the story behind the numbers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. After A Fashion Criteo inked an exclusive deal with British online clothing retailer ASOS to be the ad tech pipes for its advertising business. “The ASOS vision is to become the go-to global destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings and we want to take brands […]

Don’t apologize for having to monetize, according to Lisa Howard, global head of advertising and marketing solutions at The New York Times. “[We’re] unapologetic about ads,” she says. But when it comes to digital advertising, less is more.

Over the course of less than 24 hours last week, the UK’s competition authority provisionally closed its investigation into the Chrome Privacy Sandbox and, separately, a coalition of top European publishers filed an antitrust complaint in the EU accusing Google of anticompetitive digital advertising practices.