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    Grow: Introducing Subscribe and the Spotlight Widget

    One day in the not-too-distant future, we won’t need to preface every blog post with this news, but today is not that day. Soon, third-party cookies are going away. Chrome, the last remaining browser to support them, is phasing out third-party cookies entirely starting later in 2023. We’ve discussed at length…

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    Largest Contentful Paint: Optimizing for LCP

    Publishers have been hearing a lot about the new Google Page Experience algorithm that will begin factoring into rankings in May 2021 — and for good reason. Pagespeed is always top of mind at Mediavine, but with this Google change on the horizon, it should be a priority for everyone. To…

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    How Grow Helped The Hollywood Gossip Make $100,000. Already.

    We spend a lot of time talking about Grow as Mediavine’s first-party data solution for the coming decade, as Google phases out third-party cookies and the entire world shifts toward a privacy-first web. What we don’t talk about enough — and publishers may not even realize — is that in addition…

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    Grow Refresh: New Grid View for Search Results and Bookmarks

    We’ve been on this Grow journey together for several months now with both the Mediavine team and our publishers/beta testers working to design and develop features ahead of the demise of the third-party cookie. The Mediavine Engineering team really relies on our beta testers to provide valuable feedback that guide the…

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    Amanda Williams Interview: Content During COVID

    After what felt like the longest and shortest year all at once, we can’t believe it’s now Q1 and a new year is here. Even throughout a global pandemic that continues on, our Mediavine publishers keep amazing us with their perseverance and resilience! They impress us because instead of giving up,…

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    Mediavine’s 2020 Year In Review

    Dec. 6, 2023: This blog post has been updated to reflect the sale of Grow Social and Grow Social Pro to NerdPress. The plugin is now called Hubbub; more information about the sale can be found on our Hubbub landing page. Here we are, at the end of 2020. If you’re…

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    Introducing the Recipe Card Save Button: A Grow & Create Crossover

    We’re excited to announce the launch of a new feature for Mediavine publishers running Grow and our WordPress plugin Create: the Recipe and How-To Save Button! The results for this feature are so great, we couldn’t wait until Q1 to launch it: How does 3x the favorites sound? What Is Create’s…

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    Server-to-Server: The Future of Header Bidding

    Just as we were ahead of our time with Search Engine Optimization, digital publishing and running an all-remote workplace, Mediavine was into header bidding before it was cool. In fact, we’ve been using header bidding before it even had a name — it was simply the technology we used to power…

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    Google Presents Mediavine with Prestigious Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award at the 2020 Google Certified Publishing Partner (GCPP) Summit

    Mediavine also Awarded the “Highest Health Score” for Second Year in a Row BOCA RATON, Fla. – November 19, 2020 – Mediavine, a Google Certified Publishing Partner (GCPP), on Tuesday proudly received “The DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Driver” and the “Highest Health Score” awards from Google during the virtual 2020 GCPP…

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    Site Structure: Navigation Matters for SEO

    When it comes to navigating your website, the site hierarchy or site structure, is extremely critical for users and search engines alike. Allowing for easy, effective navigation of your website sounds obvious, because every user and publisher knows (and wants) that. So what do we mean by site structure, and why…

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    CLS: Solving for Cumulative Layout Shift

    Cumulative Layout Shift is a pagespeed metric of Google’s Core Web Vitals. In today’s post, learn how to solve for CLS to make your pages faster. The announcement of Google’s new Page Experience algorithm brings us a series of new Web Vitals, or metrics regarding the pagespeed and experience of your…

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    Mediavine Extends Optional Backfill Donation Offering in Partnership with Cookies for Kids’ Cancer and Operation Gratitude

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – Sept. 24, 2020 – Mediavine, the largest exclusive ad management company in the United States and a Comscore top five lifestyle property with 125 million unique monthly visitors, has partnered with Cookies for Kids’ Cancer and Operation Gratitude, two well-known 501c3 non-profit organizations, to provide additional public service…