Why Digital Publishers Benefit From Prioritizing On-Site Video Content

Why Digital Publishers Benefit From Prioritizing On-Site Video Content

October 31, 2024

Discover the benefits for publishers of prioritizing on-site video over social media distribution. Over the past 15 years, the goal for publishers has largely been to go viral on social media. The website experience was often deprioritized: instead of a loyal audience typing in your URL multiple times a day, potentially millions of readers would encounter individual stories through social media...

Context Matters: Improving User Experience with Personalized Video

Context Matters: Improving User Experience with Personalized Video

October 17, 2024

Understand why context and personalization matter in digital publishing and the benefits of contextual video recommendations for publishers. In just five minutes of tapping and scrolling, the average smartphone user will come face-to-face with dozens of entities vying for their attention: brands, content creators, influencers, personal friends, and, of course, publishers. Everyone, in 2024, is fighting for a slice of the attentional...

Safeguarding Publishers’ Demand From Malicious Actors

Safeguarding Publishers’ Demand From Malicious Actors

October 09, 2024

Learn how malvertising harms your ads and discover how EX.CO helps protect your demand from this growing cyber threat. What is malvertising? Malvertising, or malicious advertising, is a new type of cyberattack that injects harmful code into digital ads. This problem is becoming more and more common, with Confiant reporting that about 1 in 100 ads contains harmful code. As a result, it poses an increasing challenge...

Lessons in Hindsight: Career Reflections from Women Who’ve Been There

Lessons in Hindsight: Career Reflections from Women Who’ve Been There

September 30, 2024

EX.CO's recent Women in Media Breakfast attendees tell us what career advice they would give to their younger selves. It’s hard to believe that in 2024, events exclusively for women (outside of baby or wedding showers) are still so rare. That’s why I’m incredibly proud to have organized EX.CO’s Women in Media Breakfast event again, alongside our partners at Index Exchange. The media, advertising, and technology...

EX.CO Promotes Accessible Video Experiences

EX.CO Promotes Accessible Video Experiences

September 24, 2024

Discover EX.CO's suite of accessible features that ensures an inclusive experience for all users. Let’s be clear: making your videos accessible for people with disabilities isn’t just an option—it’s a fundamental requirement in today’s digital age. Video content is a key part of our digital lives, from live streaming on platforms like TikTok and Snapchat to engaging with news on various...

Grupo El Progreso Tripled Video Viewability in One Week With EX․CO

Grupo El Progreso Tripled Video Viewability in One Week With EX․CO

September 09, 2024

Grupo El Progreso knew their audiences loved consuming video but they struggled with how to monetize the content. Learn how they drove revenue and dwell time via video with EX․CO. Grupo El Progreso is an institution in the world of Galician journalism. Its portfolio contains such venerable publications as El Progreso, Diario de Pontevedra, and De luns a venres—all of them known for their in-depth journalism and their deep insights across a wide variety of verticals, ranging...

Unlocking the Power of Contextual Recommendations

Unlocking the Power of Contextual Recommendations

August 20, 2024

Discover how our video recommendation engine transforms content delivery with real-time, relevant video matches, boosting engagement and experiences. In today's world, publishers aim to share the best content with the widest audience possible. It's no secret that it’s all about sending the right message to the right audience at the right time. In fact, there's a delicate balance here—trying to align reach, relevance, and measurement to make...

Exciting Feature Updates to EX.CO’s Online Video Platform (OVP)

Exciting Feature Updates to EX.CO’s Online Video Platform (OVP)

July 08, 2024

Learn about EX․CO's platform updates, including enhanced playlist, player, reporting, and media management features. Summer has finally arrived, and besides the wonderful weather and sun to warm us up, we're also excited to announce a bunch of new exciting product updates and enhancements to EX.CO’s online video platform (OVP). Our team has been working hard to deliver a set of improvements to our playlist,...

Recap: Leaders at The Daily Beast and Advance Local Talk News Monetization at AdMonsters Ops 2024

Recap: Leaders at The Daily Beast and Advance Local Talk News Monetization at AdMonsters Ops 2024

June 12, 2024

Executives from The Daily Beast and Advance Local discuss news monetization during a politically charged year at AdMonsters Ops 2024 in New York City. At the start of this year, the outlook for publishers was fairly bleak. GenAI was biting into valuable search business; Google was finally beginning its deprecation of third-party cookies; and the big social platforms were continuing their turn away from news. As it happened, an unlikely savior has...