Digital deals with how published work reaches people and how that reach is counted. Topics include search referral and its decline, social and app distribution, syndication, analytics and attribution, and first-party data collection. Explainers describe the mechanism behind a traffic change before assessing what a publisher can reasonably do about it.
Digital deals with how published work reaches people and how that reach is counted. Topics include search referral and its decline, social and app distribution, syndication, analytics and attribution, and first-party data collection. Explainers describe the mechanism behind a traffic change before assessing what a publisher can reasonably do about it.
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