{"id":6615,"date":"2018-01-04T23:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/?p=6615\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T17:27:15","slug":"how-publishers-can-survive-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/how-publishers-can-survive-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"How Publishers Can Survive in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><b>The eight steps publishers should consider taking in 2018 to keep their ad revenue flow high.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-very-dark-gray-color\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Programmatic grows in power among the biggest publishing players. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/publishers\/programmatic-revenue-grows-guardian-uk-shores-data\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to AdExchanger<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the automated ad purchasing sector accounts for 85% of the Guardian UK\u2019s display advertising business. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-very-dark-gray-color\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Guardian stays quite frank about currently most efficient business model: \u201cas programmatic becomes a more significant revenue stream, publishers\u2019 appetite for taking control back will move to the forefront.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-very-dark-gray-color\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Times does not stay behind, as they overhaul analytics to make content creation data-driven. It\u2019s simple: content requires data.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Times proved their broad market awareness that \u201cdigital has a completely different level of insight, and that culturally is something we are trying to inoculate into the DNA of this organization,\u201d <\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/platforms\/time-inc-overhauls-analytics-make-content-creation-data-driven\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>said Time Inc. editorial director Will Lee<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-very-dark-gray-color\"><b>Check the PUBLISHER\u2019S GAME BOARD to shed some light on what it takes to survive in 2018:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-very-dark-gray-color\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Unify data and bring analytics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &amp; bring together different data sources to enable better decision-making and strategy development. &nbsp;<\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/publishers\/programmatic-revenue-grows-guardian-uk-shores-data\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOW ME HOW<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Put user experience before revenue <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&amp; eliminate ad units that don\u2019t justify that harm. <\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/publishers\/publishers-user-experience-trumps-revenue\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOW ME HOW<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Evaluate your ad partner <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&amp; remove those who negatively affect overall revenue. &nbsp;<\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/the-sell-sider\/getting-holy-grail-publishers-measure-incremental-value-ad-tech-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOW ME HOW<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Track revenue in real time <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&amp; &nbsp;buy traffic. <\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/publishers\/buying-traffic-way-future-says-ceo-made-400000-single-slideshow-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOW ME HOW<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Place the ads contextually <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by using semantic targeting or <\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/the-sell-sider\/cafemedia-uses-watson-ai-power-context-driven-private-marketplaces\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watson AI<\/strong><\/a>. <\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/ad-exchange-news\/wall-street-journal-serves-semantically-targeted-ads-programmatically\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOW ME HOW<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Step up your data offerings to advertisers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &amp; leverage your first-party data. <\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/publishers\/conde-nast-bringing-nielsen-catalina-data-optimize-ad-campaigns\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOW ME HOW<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Consider a diversified revenue mode<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">l &amp; focus on a wide variety of ad formats, on subscriptions, and affiliate revenue. <\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/ad-exchange-news\/nyts-new-ad-chief-digital-publishers-need-ads-survive\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOW ME HOW<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Bet on platform diversification<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &amp; use various OTT devices and platforms. <\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/adexchanger.com\/platforms\/cnn-platform-distribution-part-modern-broadcaster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOW ME HOW<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-very-dark-gray-color\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check each step below or <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" style=\"color:crimson\" href=\"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Game-Board-How-Publishers-Can-Survive-in-2018-.png\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>download your copy of the PUBLISHER\u2019S GAME BOARD<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6617\" src=\"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Game-Board-How-Publishers-Can-Survive-in-2018-.png\" alt=\"Game-Board-How-Publishers-Can-Survive-in-2018-\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Game-Board-How-Publishers-Can-Survive-in-2018-.png 1200w, https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Game-Board-How-Publishers-Can-Survive-in-2018--239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Game-Board-How-Publishers-Can-Survive-in-2018--816x1024.png 816w, https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Game-Board-How-Publishers-Can-Survive-in-2018--120x150.png 120w, https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Game-Board-How-Publishers-Can-Survive-in-2018--768x964.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eight steps publishers should consider taking in 2018 to keep their ad revenue flow high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33496,"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/33496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yieldbird.com\/research-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}