Advertising has always been a core part of the news business, and its importance to the industry has only grown with the advent of the internet. We don’t opt in – online ads just happen.
Publications need advertising to make money. Other methods have been shown to not work, so it is just driving publications away from the open internet on to platforms where they can sort of guarantee their life cycle.
When ad blockers started appearing a few years ago, no one was paying much attention – the user base was limited to a tech-savvy audience.
But that user number now exceeds 200 million, whoch poses an existential threat to online news outlets and their economic viability.
The Listening Post’s Paolo Ganino reports on the rise of ad blockers and what they mean to the news business.
Källa: Ad blockers: A nail in the online news coffin? – Al Jazeera English
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