BlogPress Release
BlogPress Release
May 13, 2025
Here are five strategies to help publishers, media groups, brands, and agencies stay ahead this year, no matter what the economy throws our way. The global economy isn’t just rocky—it’s full-on unpredictable. Between shifting tariffs, political unrest, supply chain strain, and fluctuating consumer confidence, 2025 is testing even the most seasoned media professionals. Ad budgets are being watched like a hawk, teams are running leaner, and...
February 04, 2025
Video monetization is evolving, and choosing the right OVP is key to long-term success. Discover the essential strategies publishers use to evaluate platforms effectively and drive sustainable growth. For online publishers, video monetization has entered a new era of complexity and opportunity. As traditional TV advertising budgets rapidly migrate to digital channels, the pressure to quickly implement or switch online video platforms (OVPs) has never been higher. For many publishers, a single...
January 30, 2025
See how EX.CO helped Spain’s largest media group transform engagement, scale seamlessly, and drive more revenue—without disrupting the user experience. Alayans Media Group is one of the most significant digital media consortiums in Spain, home to many of the country's most influential and widely-read publishers. Their 28 million avid users—totaling 90% of Spain's digital audience—turn to them for news and commentary on every subject under the sun:...
November 19, 2024
Unlocking Subscriber Growth: How Video Content Can Drive Conversions and Loyalty for Media Companies As publishers face increasing competition for audience attention, video content has emerged as a game-changing tool for driving subscriber growth–and subscriptions are becoming a more significant priority in 2025. In fact, according to a new Digiday+ Research survey, 83% of professionals working at...
November 13, 2024
Learn how publishers, from news sites to travel and lifestyle brands, can make the most of the divided, post-election climate with balanced video content. The post-election period brings heightened political engagement, reminiscent of the so-called “Trump Bump,” when politically charged content saw a surge in interest and traffic. However, with this engagement comes a highly polarized climate that publishers need to navigate carefully. While the...
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...
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...
June 26, 2024
Learn how EX.CO helped turn digital cooperative 1XL into a video powerhouse with out-of-the-box video monetization and management solutions. 1XL is one of the most significant English-language digital media cooperatives in the world, providing advertisers access to 43 local and regional news publishers across the UK and Ireland. With a de-duplicated user reach of 34.7 million, it provides scalable access to over half of the UK digital...
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...