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The Publisher Earns While the Advertiser Allocates
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The Independent’s revenue crossover and Ruggable’s budget shift place creator commerce on different sides of the ledger. Digiday reports that the publisher’s social-commerce revenue first edged past SEO commerce in September, while the rug brand is moving advertising dollars from Meta toward ShopMy creators ahead of a potential IPO. For a publisher, the commercial question is what activity brings revenue in. For a brand, it is where spending might help reach customers. Those roles create different incentives even when both businesses are interested in socially driven shopping. A publisher can celebrate a revenue line while a marketer interrogates a cost line. At the commerce industry’s dinner party, everyone admires the checkout, but accounting still insists on asking who paid for the chairs.
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