BlogPress Release
BlogPress Release
December 02, 2025
AI summaries are cutting publisher traffic, but opportunity remains. Explore how media brands can regain control, boost engagement, and thrive beyond search. Digital publishers have always raced to stay at the top of search results, constantly adjusting to the shifts and quirks of Google’s algorithms. It was never easy, but even after a major update, media companies could usually bounce back and reconnect with audiences.
November 18, 2025
El Español partnered with EX.CO to unify video and boost revenue, achieving a 23% RPM lift and 50% more ad impressions in one quarter. Spain’s online publication, El Español, was launched in 2015 as a bold, independent, and innovative startup. Ten years later, it’s grown into the nation’s leading general newspaper, drawing in more than 3.5 million daily visitors and over 20 million unique users each month. In August 2025, the site...
November 03, 2025
Stop wasting quarters on video vendor tests. Learn how to evaluate OVPs strategically, ask smarter questions, and drive real video monetization results. Many publishing teams dive into video vendor tests with the best intentions. But what begins as a data-driven evaluation often turns into a stalled quarter of chasing metrics and debating what “good” even means. Three months later, they still haven’t found a suitable online video platform (OVP) 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 22, 2025
The right video partner can transform your strategy. Discover the 5 must-ask questions that help publishers unlock higher engagement, seamless scalability, and boosted revenue. For most of the internet's history, digital publishers viewed video as a nice add-on—great to have, but not a requirement. The hope, back then, was that a selection of on-site video content might compel users to come back more often and to spend more time with what they perceived as the main...
December 04, 2024
EX․CO teamed up with Brian Morrisey's The Rebooting for a deep-dive investigative research report into the state of publisher video. Read the insights here. Remember the mid-2010s? Skinny jeans were still firmly in fashion; Tumblr was the coolest place to be; and publishers were, en masse, pivoting to video. Facebook, in those days, had just recently emerged as a media juggernaut—a kingmaker in the media space, with the ability to direct millions of...
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...
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...
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...