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		[{"id":4017,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/05\/26\/camp-fire-interstitial-ux-reset-navigator-nyc-ai-publisher-response-analysis\/","name":"camp-fire-interstitial-ux-reset-navigator-nyc-ai-publisher-response-analysis","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/campfire.png","alt":""},"title":"Camp.Fire: Interstitial UX Reset + Navigator NYC & AI Publisher Response Analysis","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"May 26, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-05-26 14:19:21","modifiedDate":"2026-05-26 14:24:02","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-05-26 14:24:02","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/partner-qa\/' rel='post_tag'>Partner Q&A<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":7},"status":"publish","excerpt":"We\u2019re kicking off this month\u2019s Camp.Fire with Evan Thor, who digs into a broken part of the mobile ecosystem: interstitial ad UX. We also recap, review, and analyze the critical conversations from Navigator NYC and AI Publisher Response."},{"id":3977,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-as-magic-instead-of-infrastructure-matthew-rance\/","name":"ai-as-magic-instead-of-infrastructure-matthew-rance","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beeler.Space_Header_19.jpg","alt":""},"title":"There\u2019s a dangerous tendency to think of AI as magic instead of infrastructure: a publisher show-and-tell with Matthew Rance","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"May 18, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-05-18 13:03:02","modifiedDate":"2026-05-18 13:03:06","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-05-18 13:03:06","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/partner-qa\/' rel='post_tag'>Partner Q&A<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":5,"sec":9},"status":"publish","excerpt":"For the past two years, publishers have largely talked about AI in abstract terms: opportunities, risks, legal concerns, SEO disruption, licensing deals, existential dread. Yes, they are all important. But they\u2019re increasingly disconnected from the practical question every operations, revenue, and editorial team now faces: what are we actually doing with this stuff?"},{"id":3922,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/05\/11\/metrics-publishers-prioritize-may-not-drive-revenue-report-playwire\/","name":"metrics-publishers-prioritize-may-not-drive-revenue-report-playwire","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Beeler.Space_Header_5.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Metrics publishers prioritize may not drive revenue (new report from Playwire)","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"May 11, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-05-11 12:24:05","modifiedDate":"2026-05-11 12:30:15","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-05-11 12:30:15","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/partner-qa\/' rel='post_tag'>Partner Q&A<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":11,"sec":36},"status":"publish","excerpt":"For years, publishers have been told to obsess over CPMs, viewability, and time-on-site. But according to Playwire\u2019s new report, State of Publisher Ad Revenue 2026: Insights and Opportunities, many of the industry\u2019s most commonly discussed metrics are not actually the strongest predictors of publisher revenue."},{"id":3930,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/05\/04\/pub-call-ai-automation-show-tell-with-matthew-rance-april-9-2026\/","name":"pub-call-ai-automation-show-tell-with-matthew-rance-april-9-2026","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Beeler.Space_Header_15.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Pub.Call: AI automation show + tell with Matthew Rance (April 9, 2026)","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"May 4, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-05-04 04:31:43","modifiedDate":"2026-05-18 12:56:08","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-05-18 12:56:08","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/partner-qa\/' rel='post_tag'>Partner Q&A<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":22},"status":"publish","excerpt":"AI can be useful in surfacing patterns, ranking information, speeding up repetitive steps, and supporting decision-making. But the people building and using them still need to understand how the system works: where the data comes from, how it moves, what gets logged, where the risks are, and where human judgment belongs."},{"id":3928,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/05\/04\/pub-call-bsi-publisher-quality-utility-april-21-2026\/","name":"pub-call-bsi-publisher-quality-utility-april-21-2026","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beeler.Space_Header_18.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Pub.Call: BSI Publisher Quality Utility (April 21, 2026)","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"May 4, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-05-04 04:24:08","modifiedDate":"2026-05-04 04:24:13","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-05-04 04:24:13","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/partner-qa\/' rel='post_tag'>Partner Q&A<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":15},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Publishers know what it feels like to lose revenue without a clean explanation. A buyer avoids your site. A domain gets flagged. A piece of inventory gets treated like a risk. Sometimes the reason is obvious. A lot of the time, it\u2019s buried inside someone else\u2019s methodology, vendor score, block list, or browser standard."},{"id":3926,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/05\/04\/18-years-as-advertiser-shai-almagor\/","name":"18-years-as-advertiser-shai-almagor","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/What-advertisers-want-Image-3-1.jpg","alt":""},"title":"What 18 years as an advertiser taught me that publishers can use today","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"May 4, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-05-04 03:56:23","modifiedDate":"2026-05-04 03:56:28","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-05-04 03:56:28","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/industry-editorial\/' rel='post_tag'>Industry Editorial<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":6,"sec":3},"status":"publish","excerpt":"That combination of a curiosity about adtech and a genuine respect for the role publishers play\u00a0is what pulled me across the fence. That shift gave me a rare vantage point: I know what advertisers are thinking when they open a media kit or decide which partners make the plan."},{"id":3824,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/04\/27\/pub-call-need-revenue-now-make-q2-your-new-q4\/","name":"pub-call-need-revenue-now-make-q2-your-new-q4","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Beeler.Space_Header_11.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Pub.Call: Need revenue now? Make Q2 your new Q4","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"Apr 27, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-04-27 12:57:39","modifiedDate":"2026-04-27 12:57:42","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-04-27 12:57:42","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/partner-qa\/' rel='post_tag'>Partner Q&A<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":5,"sec":26},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Publishers don\u2019t have the luxury of waiting for a market rebound, a cleaner AI story, or a perfect internal roadmap. The theme of our recent Pub.Call was much more urgent than that."},{"id":3747,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/04\/20\/ai-publisher-response-live-bots-gavin-king\/","name":"ai-publisher-response-live-bots-gavin-king","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BT_AIPR_BP_Zoom_2560x1440.jpg","alt":""},"title":"AI Publisher Response Live: What the bots are telling you (with Gavin King)","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"Apr 20, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-04-20 11:40:08","modifiedDate":"2026-04-20 11:40:48","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-04-20 11:40:48","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/events\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Events<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/events\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Events<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/ai\/' rel='post_tag'>AI<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":59},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Bots are hitting your site at meaningful scale, and most teams still don\u2019t have a clear picture of which ones matter, which ones are useful, and which ones are just taking."},{"id":3675,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/04\/13\/pub-call-revenue-now-march-26-2026\/","name":"pub-call-revenue-now-march-26-2026","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Beeler.Space_Header_14.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Pub.Call: Revenue Now (March 26, 2026)","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"Apr 13, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-04-13 11:22:06","modifiedDate":"2026-04-13 11:22:10","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-04-13 11:22:10","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/partner-qa\/' rel='post_tag'>Partner Q&A<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":8},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Our conversation emphasized publishers moving beyond traditional metrics to focus on revenue per session and overcoming current market challenges like declining traffic and privacy regulations."},{"id":3567,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/04\/07\/beeler-tech-expands-how-its-community-can-access-publishing-intelligence-with-admiral-visitor-copilot\/","name":"beeler-tech-expands-how-its-community-can-access-publishing-intelligence-with-admiral-visitor-copilot","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beeler.Space_Header_34.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Beeler.Tech expands how its community can access publishing intelligence with Admiral Visitor Copilot\u2122","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"Apr 7, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-04-07 13:32:33","modifiedDate":"2026-04-07 14:02:05","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-04-07 14:02:05","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/staff-editorials\/' rel='post_tag'>Staff Editorials<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":4,"sec":35},"status":"publish","excerpt":"As Beeler.Tech grows its original reporting, analysis, and member content, Admiral Visitor Copilot\u2122 gives community members a faster way to find, connect, and use the intelligence coming out of the business side of publishing."},{"id":3550,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/04\/06\/proops-consultings-chris-quinn-gam-workflows-broken\/","name":"proops-consultings-chris-quinn-gam-workflows-broken","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bT_QnA_Header_b7.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Stop firefighting, start fixing: ProOps Consulting's Chris Quinn on why GAM workflows are broken, and what to do about it","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"Apr 6, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-04-06 13:18:45","modifiedDate":"2026-04-06 13:18:49","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-04-06 13:18:49","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/partner-qa\/' rel='post_tag'>Partner Q&A<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":5,"sec":43},"status":"publish","excerpt":"To explore how publishers can move from reactive chaos to proactive control, Rob sits down with Chris Quinn, Co-Founder, ProOps Consulting, a firm that has spent years embedded in both the sell-side and buy-side realities of ad ops."},{"id":3443,"link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/2026\/03\/30\/ai-publisher-response-live-with-shay-brog-ceo-of-burt-intelligence\/","name":"ai-publisher-response-live-with-shay-brog-ceo-of-burt-intelligence","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BT_AIPR_BP_Zoom_2560x1440.jpg","alt":""},"title":"AI Publisher Response Live: with Shay Brog, CEO of Burt Intelligence","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Liz","link":"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/author\/liz\/"},"date":"Mar 30, 2026","dateGMT":"2026-03-30 13:47:31","modifiedDate":"2026-03-30 14:11:26","modifiedDateGMT":"2026-03-30 14:11:26","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/events\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Events<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/events\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Events<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/category\/originals\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Originals<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/www.beeler.tech\/tag\/ai\/' rel='post_tag'>AI<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":11},"status":"publish","excerpt":"In this episode, we talk about the latest updates on our upcoming AI Publisher Response event, including a preview of the speakers and conversations shaping the agenda. \n\nWe also discuss what we\u2019re hearing across the industry as publishers continue to navigate rapid changes driven by AI. Special guest, Shay Brog (CEO, Burt Intelligence) also shares the launching of Burt Intelligence\u2019s new MCP Server."}]