Not your average analogy

Advertising is growing, but the growth hides the fact that some sectors are burning hot and others are ice cold. The problem is we can’t pit these sectors against each other like we are. Publishers need advertising, and advertising needs publishers. Let’s make sure publishers have a seat at the table.

Above the Fold: June 22, 2026

Did anyone else get obliterated by Google’s June algo update? Even worse, it seems to have spilled over to our performance on discover and news.

5 Year Plans Do Exist

I don’t care how low you are in the organization, but if you can get time with your CFO or someone at that level, learn what the vision is and then create your own models that you can share with them. Five year goals are met one impression at a time.

Above the Fold: June 15, 2026

When Chrome’s Heavy Ad Intervention pulls an ad for consuming too many resources, the slot goes dark. A member now reports that Google is automatically refilling those slots by default, without anyone asking.

How to bring buyers closer to the impression

If sell-side decisioning becomes another opaque toll booth, publishers will lose confidence, buyers will question the economics, and the open internet will have recreated the problems it claimed to solve.

Free Soloing an Unknown Mountain

How do you prepare for a climb when you can’t see the route? Not with a step-by-step plan. A plan is a list of moves, and it only works if the wall stays put. The first time a hold crumbles, your plan is just directions to a place that’s gone.