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Chief Strategy Officer at The Trade Desk

There is a lot of talk about Google's privacy sandbox and the deprecation of cookies... We, as an industry, need to focus on solutions - so that publishers are not penalized, or worse, put out of business and instead can control their own destiny. Check out my thoughts on this topic https://lnkd.in/dCUkZvUh #UID2 #OpenInternet #Publishertools #Diversevoicesmatter

Where have all the users gone? How Google's actions could degrade the open internet and what publishers can do to stop it. | The Current

Where have all the users gone? How Google's actions could degrade the open internet and what publishers can do to stop it. | The Current

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Yeong Cheng

I help people identify, expose, manage, and navigate abusive people and systems to liberate personal agency.

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Been out of the game for a while, always great to get summaries from folks I know and trust :) a note: I believe the statement that "75% of funding for journalism today is derived from advertising" is incorrect, or at the very least it's not proven by the linked article, which notes that: "In the 20th century, advertising revenue made up roughly 75% of the budget for most daily newspapers." and that: "In 2014, the model flipped: For the first time, circulation and subscription revenue exceeded advertising revenue at newspapers worldwide" I may be missing something in the linked article or the contemporary ecosystem, but the idea that subscription revenue far outweighs ad revenue - more reliably and more efficiently - fits my understanding back from ~2018 when I was building a product focused on this problem area. This screenshot from our 'problem' slide matches the graph in the article and that data ends in 2016 on a steep downward trajectory. Totally love the proposed solutionset, the framing is just a bit off (to me). IIRC NYT (though that's the pinnacle as we all know)'s ratio was something like 90% subscription/circulation 10% ads

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