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- Facebook Signs Up A Further 13 UK Publishers For Its Instant Articles
Facebook has signed up 13 new UK publishers to participate in its Instant Articles programme with the likes of the Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Sun, The Evening Standard, Sky News, Sky Sports and the Daily Mail joining existing publishing partners the BBC and The Guardian
- Here’s What Happened to Pineapple, Airbnb’s One-Off Print Magazine
A year ago, Airbnb Inc. published the first issue of Pineapple, a print magazine designed for coffee tables in homes across the rental company’s expanding network.
- Enthusiasm for The Digital Edition Fade At Many Magazine Firms, Even As Access Continues To Grow Through Library Systems
Circulation directors, who once dreamed of being able to rely on growing digital subscriptions to reach rate base levels, continue to fight to make their numbers
- Bill Henderson Marks 40 Years of The Pushcart Prize
“I just couldn’t get excited about making money from words,” said Bill Henderson, founder and publisher of Pushcart Press, as to why he was fired from his job as an editor at Doubleday in the 1970s.
- Publishers’ Newest Revenue Scheme: Monetized Gift Guides
With every ad dollar a struggle to come by, publishers are trying to tap into e-commerce.
- Defiance Publishing Co. Sold To Adams Publishing Group
Adams Publishing Group, LLC has purchased the Defiance Publishing Co., LLC from Dix Communications.
- 12 Digital Workplace & Martech Predictions For 2016
Real Story Group (RSG) forecasts twelve trends that will affect digital workplace and marketing technology in the coming year.
- Facebook Is Updating Instant Articles to Help Publishers Make More Money
Facebook is updating its policies for Instant Articles, per a rep with the company, which could mean up to 40 percent more ads for publishers on the platform.
- Magazine for The Super-Rich Spear’s Launches On Newsstand In London With £5 Cover Price
Luxury lifestyle magazine Spear’s is moving on to the newsstand as it approaches its tenth birthday next year.
- Publishers are Underwhelmed with Apple News App
When Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp expressed frustration with his company’s performance on Apple News last week, his complaints apparently were just the tip of the iceberg.
- Opinion: How New Technologies are Revolutionizing Digital Publishing
In the world of digital publishing we are used to hearing a lot of ‘buzz’ phrases and currently the one that’s getting a lot of airspace is content.
- Here’s Notify, Facebook’s New Twitter-Like App for Following Publishers
The social network rolled out a new app called “Notify” on Wednesday specifically to send you mobile notifications from publishers you care about, like BuzzFeed or CNN or The Weather Channel.
- Seven Dow Technologies Honored by R&D 100 Magazine
The Dow Chemical Company announced today that six of its latest innovations have been named to R&D Magazine’s prestigious 2015 R&D 100 Awards
- 8 Ways Publishers Can Master Mobile
Mobile continues to be one of the hottest topics in publishing—and for good reason.
- Business-Focused 417 Magazine Spin-Off Publishes First Issue
Whitaker Publishing, LLC released the first issue of Biz 417, a new bimonthly magazine covering the local business scene and the professionals who power it in Springfield, MO and the surrounding Southwest Missouri region served by the 417 area code.
- CMO Today: Headaches for Publishers in Facebook’s Instant Articles
Twenty publishers are currently using Facebook’s Instant Articles program, which lets media companies post stories directly on the social network, as opposed to linking back to their own sites.
- Niche Publishing & The Small Staff: 7 Tips for Success!
Anyone who has ever participated on a sports team or a group school project can relate: Some on the team have a different version of what the timeline and objectives are supposed to be, one or two people do all the work, there’s always one flake.
- Experts Wary of ‘Platforms as Publishers’
“HE’S MOVED OVER TO THE DARK SIDE,” announced journalist David Clinch, explaining why he was moderating one of today’s panels at the Columbia Journalism School in place of a former colleague who recently took a senior role at Twitter and therefore recused himself from a discussion of “Platforms as Publishers.”
- Facebook’s Traffic to Top Publishers Fell 32 Percent Since January
While Facebook makes headlines for cooking up new initiatives with publishers, the actual traffic it’s sending those publishers has fallen sharply.
- Grantland and The (Surprising) Future of Publishing
It’s dangerous, I suspect, to draw too many lessons from the ignominious end of Grantland, the high-brow sports and culture site that ESPN shuttered this weekend, several months after parting ways with Bill Simmons, the site’s founder and editor-in-chief.
- Lucky Magazine Shuts Down Once and for All, Here’s why it Failed
On Friday, the handful of remaining staffers at The Lucky Group’s editorial side were dismissed, the final gasp of a publication that once held sway over 1 million readers, many of them young women and avid online shoppers.
- Axel Springer Raises Outlook, Citing Strength of Ad Sales
Axel Springer, the German publishing and digital media group, on Wednesday raised its forecast for 2015 revenue as increasing sales of digital classified advertising offset continued declines in print circulation and other revenue.
- Google, Apple & Texture Trigger Latest Trend in Digital Publishing — Disaggregated Content
Every six months, we at Next Steps Marketing put together a Digital Magazine Dashboard to bring you the latest trends in digital publishing from an audience perspective.
- Jane Pratt Shares Her Thoughts on The Future Of Xojane at Time Inc.
In recent months, Time Inc. has been scooping up digital brands in an effort to reach a millennial audience, including Zooey Deschanel’s Hello Giggles and sports blog network FanSided.
- Tribune Publishing Claims Finances Improving But Records 9.6 Percent Ad Revenue Decline and Slight Loss for 3rd Quarter
The drama surrounding Tribune Publishing Company management was largely absent as the company reported third quarter results and discussed them with analysts.
- Sage Advice from Publishing Pros!
The recent fall issue of FOLIO magazine profiled top editors, publishers and influencers in the magazine business.
- New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Announces Succession Plan
At a staff meeting Monday morning, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. announced that the company has initiated a succession process, and that a deputy publisher will be named within two years, according to a source.
- Why Publishers Are Using Instagram to Connect With Their Communities
BBC News, CNN International and La Cronaca Italiana give insights into their use of Instagram to reach new and existing audiences and how they approach news formats on the platform.
- Pulitzer Prizes Open Three More Categories to Magazines
International Reporting, Criticism and Editorial Cartooning will be expanded to accept print and online magazine entries for the 2016 prizes.
- The Week Launches Junior Edition as First Brand Extension
Dennis Publishing is launching The Week Junior, The Week’s first paid-for print brand extension, next month.
- The Return to Focus: Publishers Wake Up to the Limitations of Growing Too Much Too Soon
Pressures to scale are creating a sameness on the Web, where publishers are increasingly covering the same set of general-interest news stories in an effort to capture readers.
- Six Insights Into Future Trends In Digital Publishing
Nobody knows what the future of the media industry will look like – we can only extrapolate from its current state and hope nothing too disruptive ruins our bets in the meantime.
- Tribune Publishing Introduces Tribune Content Solutions, an In-House Agency Delivering Custom Content Solutions for Local, National Marketers
Tribune Publishing today announced that it has launched an in-house agency called Tribune Content Solutions designed to deliver custom-content solutions for Tribune Publishing marketing partners.
- Can’t Finish A New Yorker Story Online? The Magazine Will Now Send You an Email Reminder to Come Back
For as long as The New Yorker has existed, its readers have lamented not being able to get through everything in the magazine.
- Chute’s New All-In-One Visual Marketing Suite Lets Brands Search, Analyze, Publish Social Content
Visual marketing service Chute has created a suite of tools developed for the enterprise to help brands harness user-generated content for their social campaigns.
- The Newest Key Person at Publishers: Platform Wranglers
The rise of the distributed publisher has given rise to a new role at media companies: the platform ambassador.
- Google Launches €150m Fund for Publishers’ Digital News Projects
Google has launched its €150m (£109m) fund for European publishers to tap to develop new digital news projects, with large-scale grants needing approval from a council including Telegraph chief Murdoch MacLennan.
- Hearst to Target Online Shoppers with New Digital-Only Site
Hearst Magazines has been adapting its traditional magazines to match the speed of the Web, and now it’s starting to apply what it’s learned to new launches.
- The Guardian Tells Brands it Can Drive their Business Goals Further with ‘Fewer But Better’ Ads
The Guardian claims its future commercial model will be powered by “fewer, better” ads across all of its platforms, telling advertisers it can “do more with less” to achieve their long-term business goals.
- Twitter Announces New Tools, Partnerships for Finding and Publishing Embedded Tweets
Online publishers are about to get a lot more options for embedding tweets in their stories, with Twitter announcing a new “ecosystem” of products around embedded tweets today at its Flight developer conference.
- Niche Publishing Management: 6 Top Tips for Revenue Diversity!
With the transformation of magazines into multi-channel media brands, there is greater opportunity for new kinds of revenue.
- What’s Actually Working in Digital Advertising? 8 Publishers on How They’re Bringing in Money
Many publishers’ digital revenues have been on an upward swing in recent years — but it’s not enough to fill the gaps left by print.
- TNG Shakes Up Magazine Retail Sales
Shoes continue to drop as the newsstand industry moves, step by step, into the future, led by the giant TNG.
- Bot Fraud Seizes One-Third of Publisher Revenues
Online publishing is growing fast, and fraudulent advertising schemes are growing right along with it.
- What 3 Publishers Have Learned From their Approach to Paywalls
The Toronto Star, Bild and The Times and Sunday Times give insights into their take on subscription-based models, mulling over their successes and failures
- Publishers Are Finally Getting The Hang of Mobile Ads, Close The Gap With Desktop
Publishers’ mobile efforts are starting to pay off with higher prices for their ads, according to new data from PubMatic.
- Publishing Management: The Rich Media Gold Mine
In the past, rich media advertising has been viewed as too complicated and too expensive.
- How The Digital Revolution Has Been Disruptive For Publishers’ Major Vendors
Paper, Print, Retail & the USPS have felt the impact of digital migration.
- Imagine Announces Launch of New Technology Magazine, Gadget
Fans of gadgets, innovations and ground breaking technology have been given an exciting new fix to feed all their tech needs, with the arrival of Gadget magazine – Imagine Publishing’s latest technology title.
- Five Predictions for The Future Of Publishing
Apple’s battle with Facebook and deals with tech companies will shape the face of the publishing industry in the coming years.
- Bloomberg Markets Reduces Print Frequency
Bloomberg Markets, the monthly magazine distributed to all Bloomberg Terminal subscribers, will re-launch in 2016 with a reduced number of issues, says editor-in-chief John Micklethwait in an announcement to Bloomberg’s American-based staff.
- Gannett to Buy Journal Media Group for $280 Million
Gannett, the publishing company that owns USA TODAY and media businesses in 92 local markets, said late Wednesday that it has agreed to buy Journal Media Group for about $280 million, following through on a strategy of acquiring additional local news outlets after it was spun off from its former parent in June.
- Publishers Embrace Social Platforms, Mobile
In line with the classic advice to “fish where the fish are,” publishers are embracing social platforms and mobile media along with their audiences, but remain wary of some potential pitfalls associated with these channels, fast on their way to dominating media consumption.
- Government May Not Enforce Plan to Make Publishers Pay Both Sides’ Libel And Privacy Costs
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has said he is “not persuaded” by a law forcing publishers pay both sides’ legal costs in libel and privacy cases.
