In the past few weeks, digital news publishers have experienced a true rollercoaster ride. On the one hand, pageviews increase massively. More and more people are getting information online about the situation in their country regarding Corona. On the other hand, there is a lack of bookings by agencies and advertisers who have frozen their advertising budgets. In some countries, the government supports media companies with ad bookings, but this only covers a fraction of the lost in revenue. The high website traffic thus stands against empty advertising inventory.
