Webinar Wednesday: Editable Ads on 7/10

If an ad is updated every single day by an advertiser, won’t readers be more likely to have a look and see what’s new, especially if it’s from a trusted local organization? Our performance numbers say so − Editable Ads get about 3 times more clicks than regular ads do. If you aren’t already familiar, our […]

Migrating from Shared Hosting to WPEngine the Fast Way

  In the last post, we sort of laughed about how we’ve rescued so many publishers from the grips of OpenX. But there’s another villain in the land of hyperlocal publishing technology: the hosting provider. The most popular web hosts among our publishers appear to be Dreamhost, HostGator, and Bluehost. Now, we won’t go pointing […]

The OpenX Disaster Response Team

  We’d like to welcome The Batavian, Hoboken411, and Hulafrog to the Broadstreet family. These folks have a few things in common: They came on board in the last month They required exceptional and affordable adserving power They were unexpectedly forced onto “the street” (pun intended) by the failings of the most famous adserver around: OpenX. To put it […]

A Simple Guide for Ad Unit Planning (PDF)

When launching a new website, thinking about how your ad units will be laid out sometimes doesn’t make the priority list. And why should it? For most local news publishers, just getting a website live can be a challenge. Then comes design, hosting, writing content, and trying to secure your first advertisers. At Broadstreet, we deal a […]

Mozilla to Block Third-Party Cookies: What Does It Mean for Small, Online Publishers?

Mozilla, the organization behind the popular Firefox web browser has recently announced that they may ship future versions of Firefox with “third-party cookies” disabled by default. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has taken a stance against this, saying that the move will hurt small to medium sized businesses. But how? What are “third-party cookies,” and how might […]