Programmatic advertising is a buzzword used often by publishers and marketers, but some are hesitant to embrace it because of several misconceptions.

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The Fort Bend Herald filed a lawsuit Friday in district court to force the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Department to release the name of the complainant in an investigation into allegations of attempted bribery made by two Lamar Consolidated Independent School District trustees.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1764","attributes":{"class":"media-image alignnone size-full","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","alt":""}}]]The Wall Street Journal today officially debuted its first mobile-only product, a digest app called "What's News" that borrows its name from the newspaper's long-running front-page headline roundup.The iPhone app is available exclusively to subscribers, reflecting the Journal's efforts to shore up user loyalty in its pur

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Nonprofit organizations perform some of the most vital work in the United States, often serving the needy and filling gaps where society does not, or cannot, deliver services or provide safety nets. The word “charity,” often applied to such institutions, can have the ring of altruism and irreproachable motives. But nonprofits are some of the nation’s largest, most powerful organizations such as hospitals, foundations, universities and churches. Like any other set of institutions, they are susceptible to corruption, waste and abuse.

A study published last month confirmed what we already know: Americans across all demographics are increasingly getting their news from Facebook and Twitter. Nearly two-thirds of Facebook and Twitter users saying they use those social platforms to get news, with Twitter users particularly using it for breaking news. But how are these users actually using the platform? How do they share news and what accounts do they follow? A new Pew snapshot susses out a few different behaviors.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1765","attributes":{"class":"media-image alignleft","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"308","height":"190","alt":""}}]]The great philosopher Homer Simpson once memorably described alcohol as “the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.” Internet advertising is a bit like that — the funder of and terrible nuisance baked into everything you do online.Advertising sustains pretty much all th

Many of the world's biggest and best-known online news publishers saw significant drops in traffic between March and April this year. It appears Facebook might be a culprit in some way, but nobody can agree on a solid theory as to why. The BBC, The Daily Mail, New York Times, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Fox News, and many others were among the publishers that lost traffic from March to April, according to data from SimilarWeb. Some of these sites lost tens of millions of visitors, while others lost multiple millions.