Past Issues
Recent past issues can be found below. Click any heading to read in full
Issue #10: Late March 2022
- Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) to be retired next year... but you need to act now
- Prebid has its first full-time president and wants more publishers to get involved
- Blockthrough shares data on ad block rates
- Meta fined $18.6 million for GDPR breaches
- No dumb questions
- Wrapping up
Issue #9: Early March 2022
- 80% of publishers failing to recover revenue from ad blocking
- DMCA takedowns can tank traffic by 89%
- Cloudflare users need to change this setting
- LiveRamp and TDD tackle competition ID standards... by launching a new ID Standard
- Desktop Page Experience Update Complete
- Ukraine War Impact on Publishers
- Have an ads or publishing question?
- More stories in short
- Wrapping up
Issue #8: Late February 2022
- Ad consent solutions might be illegal in Europe
- TCF ruling may benefit Google
- Reader's question: Should I just delete my ad consent script?
- Another reader's question: First party data
- GDPR hit small/medium businesses hardest
- Ad Blocking Survey - take two
- Vulnerabilities found in popular publisher plugins for Wordpress
- France agrees with Austria: Google Analytics has a privacy problem.
- Facebook numbers fall for the first time
- Google launches "Related Search for Content"
- Google will not retire Cookies until CMA concerns have been addressed
- The Publishing Show: London - March 8th & 9th
- Wrapping up
Issue #7: Early February 2022
- The big MCM Switchover
- In-content ads now "acceptable"
- Poll: How do you handle adblocking?
- Targeted advertising comes under even heavier fire...
- ...but the ad industry prepares to fight back
- Now even our fonts breech GDPR
- Goodbye FLoC, hello Topics API
- AdSense users reporting bot clicks
- Your favourite SEO tools just got an upgrade
- No dumb questions
- Hire Me!
- More stories in short
- Wrapping up
Issue #6: Late January 2022
- Austria thinks that pretty much everything publishers do is illegal
- Google accused of stealing from both publishers and advertisers
- German courts rule in favour of AdBlock Plus... again
- A $238 Million lesson in consent
- FTC given go-ahead to pursue the breakup of Meta
- Instagram testing new subscription offering for creators
- Reader's question: What is "Dark Social"?
- No dumb questions
- Wrapping up
Issue #5: Early January 2022
- Don't panic! It's just January
- News closer to home
- Instant search engine listing just got easier
- The pandemic "probably won‘t impact the advertising market"
- No dumb questions
- Wrapping up - 2022 predictions
Issue #4 : Late December 2021
- Poll results : Things aren't looking good for the future of AMP
- Meta offers up "Professional Mode" for Facebook
- Critical vulnerability in popular WordPress plugin
- TikTok offers monetisation as it becomes "Bigger than Google"
- Google gives additional guidance around UGC
- Ad Vendors still tracking users who opt out
- AOP proposes protocol for fair link attribution
- AdSense deactivating inactive accounts
- No dumb questions
- More stories in short
- Until next year...
Issue #3 Early December 2021
- Poll results : How ready are you for the Cookie-pocalypse?
- Millions of WordPress sites admin credentials exposed
- AdSense Matched Content to be retired
- Google continues with the Q4 surprises
- AMP loses further favour
- Question of the month: Investing in AMP content
- Triopoly hoovers up 2/3 of all US digital ad spend
- Google gives ground to EU over privacy sandbox
- New feature alert!! No dumb questions
- Other news in short
- Wrapping up
Issue #2 Late November 2021
- Poll results : How are publishers doing in Q4
- Question of the month: Are you building first party data?
- Google's 2-for-1 algo updates
- ...and another big search change coming
- GDPR pop-ups aren't just annoying, they breach GDPR too
- US takes aim at filter bubbles... and misses
- Outages, hacks and vulnerabilities aplenty
- Open Bidding for all (almost)
- And because even an extra issue doesn't cover everything happening in the crazy world of publishing, I wrapped up more stories in short at the end
- Wrapping up
Issue #1 November 2021
- Adblocker usage back on the rise
- Publishers win from Facebook outage
- Facebook gets all Meta
- Changes to review structured data
- Supply chain issues threaten Q4 earnings
- What Adsense's move to first price means for you
- Question of the month
- How am I doing?