- Newsworks Tablet Study Finds Ad Response Up To 40 Times Higher Than Online
Response to advertising in tablet editions of newspapers is up to 40 times higher than that tracked online, according to the industry’s first study commissioned by Newsworks. - Twitter And Newspapers: Not That Different?
Despite its position as a social media giant, Twitter has much in common with local newspapers. - Bloomberg Gives Its Native Ads A Data Spin
Data journalism is getting the native ad treatment. - Is The Online Advertising Model Broken For Print Media Brands? Who Says It Was Ever OK?
With ad dollars falling, and profits disappearing, many print media executives are wondering what happened to the promise of Internet advertising. - Facebook Jacks Up Ad Prices As Advertisers Learn The Game
Where social media sites are concerned, advertisers see Facebook as by far the biggest game in town. - Apple’s Developer Guidelines Silent On Newsstand App Naming Schemes, Contradict Their Own App Ratings System
New digital magazines start using convoluted names to take advantage of Apple’s unsupervised Newsstand. - Magazine Chiefs Urge Industry Change From Burning Platform To Growth
Job cuts, relocation and reorganization are dominating the magazine world as it grapples with digital challenges. - The Problem With The Single Copy Checkouts And Four Easy Steps To Fix It: A Mr. Magazine™ Magnet Exclusive
The Five Percent vs. the Rest of the Magazines: The Real Numbers and The Real Problems.In life there is the one percent vs. the 99 percent, in magazines there is the five percent vs. the 95 percent. - 3 New Types Of Digital Advertising Agencies
Three experimental new models for ad agencies.
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The Media Minute – 20 May 2014
- Apple Begins Allowing App Developers To Use Promo Codes For In-App Purchases
Apple is now allowing developers to create promo codes for in-app purchases. - Geolocation Targeting: Stalking Or Smart Marketing?
Stalkers don’t announce their presence, but smart marketers do. - Kobo, Aquafadas Launch Innovative Digital Magazine Publishing Tools
Kobo and Aquafadas breaks down entry barriers like time, money, manpower etc in the world of digital publishing and offers publishers a way in, without creating more work for either party.” - Google Launches Magazine-Style Ads That Bring Text Ads To Display Ad Units
These so-called “magazine-style” ads will only feature text, but will appear with “a design aesthetic suitable for display,” Google says. - 9 Ways To Improve Your Company’s CRM System
Organizations spend thousands (make that hundreds of thousands) of dollars on customer relationship management (CRM) software. - Advertising Innovation Needed To Halt Declines
Ad page declines are more and more a worldwide phenomenon. - Publishers Invest In Home-Grown Mobile Ad Innovations
What’s the future of mobile advertising for publishers? Anything but the banner ad. - Tips From The Guardian For Creating Shareable Content
The Guardian looks to sites such as BuzzFeed and Vice to understand more about what makes content highly shareable, Laura Oliver, the outlet’s social and community editor, UK, said at the London Social Media Summit. - Facebook Developing Video Messaging App To Rival Snapchat
Facebook is working on a video chat app to rival the popular Snapchat ephemeral messaging app, according to reports.
The Media Minute – 13 May 2014
- Seven Years Of Digital Publishing: What Have We Learned?
Seven years after the launch of the iPod touch and the opportunities for interactivity it brought to digital publishers, what have magazine publishers learned? - The Quest For Human Content In A Digital World
The best content marketing needs to not only be good, but human. That’s possible by being interesting, positive, and relevant. - World’s Press Ready For Global Summit Meetings
Leading newspaper and news publishing executives will gather in Turin, Italy, for their annual summit meetings. - Ebay Wants To Be A Digital Magazine Of Things
The online e-commerce giant is getting into the content business. - 20 Social Media Tips All Brands Should Know
As publishers, your ultimate goal is to create compelling, lively, and interesting content that your readers will love and share with their friends. - Who Killed The Magazine App? 9 Suspects
We publishers tend to be trend-happy. When something that was supposed to be the Next Big Thing turns out to be The Most Recent Overhyped Thing, we reflexively start debating whether it’s dead. - Pinterest Launches First Paid Ads With Kraft, Gap And Others
Pinterest is finally setting out to make some money. - Newspapers Show Solid Gains In Digital Circulation In Latest Snapshot Report
The latest Snapshot report for newspapers from the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) presents an interesting look at newspaper readership. - Publishers’ Ad Sides On Native: Where’s The Conflict?
Publishers are rapidly embracing sponsored content as an additional revenue stream.
The Media Minute – 6 May 2014
- Average Visit At Newspaper Site: 1.1 Minutes
Even though two-thirds of American adults visit the digital media published by newspaper companies, the average time spent in each session is an anemic 1.1 minutes per day. - How To Make Native Advertising Work For You
The buzz around ‘native advertising’ just shows how little Big Marketing is grasping. The future is indigenous brand messaging. - The Definitive Guide To Tracking Social Media Metrics
What are you hoping to get from your social media marketing? - Big Data: Should Publishers Even Care?
The rise of data- and analytics-driven decision making is poised to transform the book publishing industry. - Top 10 Digital Magazine Mistakes That Cost Publishers Readers
Look at other digital publishers on the Apple Newsstand to see what they’re doing right. - Discoverability An Issue In Apple’s Newsstand
A host of apps and subscriptions services have made magazines discovery in the app stores and virtual newsstands almost as much of a problem as it is for books. - How To Get The Most Out Of Digital Publishing On Newsstand
Newsstand has evolved significantly since its 2011 launch and publishers have had to adapt along with it. - More Publishers Need To Share Content
Ammunition in the War for Views. - Facebook To Expand Ad Video Metrics
Brands will be getting more insight into how many times their ads are viewed on Facebook, the social network announced on Monday. - Newspapers Are Lagging Behind In The Mobile Traffic Boom
The Internet is becoming an increasingly mobile medium, but it appears that newspaper publishers are not only struggling to make the transition, they’re falling behind.
The Media Minute – 29 April 2014
- Native Ad Measurement Grows Up And Gets Engaged
Here’s how some publishers (and brands) are doing it. One key takeaway? - Digitally Marketing: Machine Learning For Humans Advertising Online
A computer can learn to optimize an ad campaign promoting your app the same way you learned to read. - Print Is Not The Future, But It’s Not The Past Either
Once a year the Newspaper Association of America pulls together its overall performance figures, when we can see more clearly than ever which way the US press industry is heading. - Bumpy Traffic: How Big Viral Publishers Stack Up Against Each Other
Turns out not all viral publishers are created equal. And life at one of these sites whose stories are optimized for sharing and discovery via social networks can be quite tumultuous indeed. - Data Analysis Tops Publishers’ Priority For Investment In 2014
The AOP’s annual member survey finds publishers plan to increase their investment in data-led technology and skills - The Newsonomics Of Newspapers’ Slipping Digital Performance
As we approach the middle of the 2010s, where do newspapers fit in the battle for America’s largest ad sector — digital? And how well are all those paywalls doing? - Ad Buyers Slowly Taking Digital Newfronts More Seriously
Digital platforms are aggressively seeking TV dollars again in this year’s NewFronts presentations, which kick off on Monday. - Paying For Online News: What We Have Learned From The Telegraph’s Metered Paywall One Year On
Guardian versus Telegraph web growth – 2012-2014 - The Power Of Storytelling
How We Got 300% More People To Read Our Content
The Media Minute – 22 April 2014
- Publishers: Mobile-First Isn’t Enough
While many are waiting for “the year of mobile” to finally arrive, that very idea may have already become passé. - Print’s New Pioneers: Paper And Ink In The Digital Age
With print circulations plummeting and most organisations looking to digital, a new daily newspaper has arrived on Los Angeles newsstands: The Los Angeles Register - How Publishers Tweak Content For The Social Web
There’s an optimization gap in digital publishing. - Print Ads Fell 8.6% At Papers In 2013: NAA
In the eighth consecutive year of decline, print advertising at the nation’s newspapers fell 8.6% to $17.3 billion in 2013, according to statistics released today by the Newspaper Association of America. - Digital Journalism: We’re Still Waiting For The Third Model Of News Publishing
What do recent launches such as Vox.com and the FiveThirtyEight mean for the development of the news media? - ‘Video Now’ Is This The Future?
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School has released a multimedia report titled “Video Now: The Form, Cost and Effect of Video Journalism” - 6 Ways To Use Pinterest To Promote Your Brand
See how six brands got creative with Pinterest and captured new followers and interest. - Publishers Are Learning To Love Collaboration
The complexity of digital media is forcing formerly warring departments at publishers to call truces and work together. Nothing concentrates the mind like crisis. - Twitter To Offer Mobile Ads Beyond Twitter In Bid For Revenue
Twitter’s ad world just got a little bigger.
The Media Minute – 15 April 2014
- Adobe Drops Support For Amazon Newsstand And Kindle Fire Reading Apps
Adobe has quietly dropped support for the newsstand aspects of the Amazon App Store and reading apps for the Kindle Fire. - Digital Journalism: We’re Still Waiting For The Third Model Of News Publishing
What do recent launches such as Vox.com and the FiveThirtyEight mean for the development of the news media? - A Scientific Guide To Hashtags: How Many, Which Ones, And Where To Use Them
Have you ever found yourself explaining hashtags to someone whose only connection with the word is as a telephone button? - The Newsonomics Of 50/50 And The Unchaining Of The U.S. Press
For decades, newspapers moved from local ownership to nationwide chains. Now, the shift is in the other direction — with the help of your friendly neighborhood billionaire. - For Newsstand Publishers, What Is Plan B?
When John Harrington says the sky is falling, it’s time to look up. So, publishers, it’s offical: We need a plan B. - What We Learned At The Digital Media Europe Conference
WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference, focused attention on mobile, the role of video, social news and the vexed issue of paid content. - How To Measure Engagement
Three publishers highlight the different approaches media brands are taking to strengthen customer relationships - Why Publishers Are Building Advertising Innovations Groups
With ad rates sinking, publishers now know that if they want to turn the money picture around, they have to give brands more than just marginal banner space. - A Print Newspaper Generated By Robots: Is This The Future Of Media Or Just A Sideshow?
What if you could pick up a printed newspaper that had pieces that were selected based on what was being shared?
The Media Minute – 8 April 2014
- How The Internet Of Things Drives CRM Investments
Organizations are leveraging CRM technologies as a major part of their digital initiatives to enhance the customer experience. - Publishers Bring Native Ads To Their Comment Sections
Native advertising, the ad format du jour, has been an effective way for publishers to make money. - Facebook Offers Free Calling Via Wifi Through Messenger App
Facebook has updated its Messenger app, adding in free calls over WiFi. - Barnes And Noble Nook Glowlight Now $99
Barnes and Noble has just announced the first big discount on their latest generation e-reader. - How Your Data Is Helping Publishers Increase Circulation
Marketers are putting less money into print advertising just as readers are increasingly becoming mobile-first. - Demystifying Royalties For Magazine Publishers
Set out the four main methods for royalty generation - Paid Content – Understanding The Hype Cycle
The future digital markets are being conquered today - Strong Newspapers, Strong Communities
The Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association has made a video documentary highlighting the strength of its newspapers. - Ways To Improve Your Ad Sales Role-Play
Top 10 ways to improve your role-playing practice.
The Media Minute – 1 April 2014
- The Newsonomics Of NYT Now
It’s an ambitious launch. Within it, we can hear many of the digital news buzzwords of the moment: mobile first, curation, paywall, native ads, voice. - Look Ahead: Making The Transition
PaperG was founded to bridge the gap between print and digital advertising. - Publisher’s Paradox: The Unlimited Email Revenue Strategy
Your newsletter’s revenue potential is hamstrung by your link back strategy. - The New York Times Sets April 2 For The Launch Of NYT Now
The New York Times announced today that its new digital subscription offerings will become available starting April 2. - How New Trends In Web Development Impact Magazine Design
Over the last decade, as internet technology quickly evolved and expanded all over the world, digital magazines have opened not only a new way of distributing magazines, but also significantly changed the look and feel of magazines. - The Times’ Spotify Offer Gets ‘Really Positive’ Reception
Customer response to the offer of Spotify Premium membership bundled with The Times and Sunday Times website/print subscriptions has been “really positive,” says Claire Gribben, head of Times+, the company’s loyalty program. - News Corp Boss Brands Washington Post Journalists ‘High Priests’
Chief executive Robert Thomson says paper’s journalists have failed to embrace transition to digital - University Newspaper Gains 500 Subscribers After Implementing Paywall
With many campus newspapers struggling with the same challenges as their mainstream counterparts, one university newspaper has succeeded in charging for its content, signing up 500 paying online subscribers. - Should Publishers Invest In Start-Ups?
Start-ups are a good place for publishers to look for inspiration on getting to grips with the latest technology, thinking outside the box, and perhaps discovering a more agile approach to new projects.
The Media Minute – 25 March 2014
- What Digital Edition Engagement Reports Can Tell Us
As we find ways to get our digital editions opened by our audience on any platform, we also need to understand the level of engagement we have within the digital editions. - For Ad Sales Pros, It’s All In The Timing!
Successful prospecting these days is all about setting up phone meetings. This is a trend that has changed how we do business. - Newsbeat App Provides Audio Of Top News Stories
A new app from Tribune Digital Ventures, however, will provide both iOS and Android users with audio editions of personalized news stories that they can access from their devices, a great feature for those commuters who have to do their own driving. - Mobile Ad Spending Soars 75%
Spending on mobile advertising worldwide more than doubled in 2013 to $17.96 billion and 2014 growth is reckoned at 75% to a global total of $31.5 billion. - Native Advertising Can Actually Boost Display-Ad Sales
A new report from eMarketer suggests that native sales are spurring display-ad sales. - Why Top Digital Publishers Are Betting On Data Dashboards For Reporters
The Verge recently raised eyebrows for its practice of not giving its reporters access to their own traffic data — a rarity among publishers in a metrics-crazy time. - 5 Myths About Web Publishing, Debunked
Ads at the top of the page are most valuable. - 4 Strategic Tipping Points For Digital Content Providers
Legacy and born-digital content creators are now approaching tipping points where they will be forced into deep strategic thinking and choices that will affect their future operations. - Traffic Is A Good Thing For Media Companies To Pay Attention To – Except When It Isn’t
One of the biggest differences between online media and traditional media is that the former is so much easier to measure — every eyeball, every pageview and every click can be quantified and tracked and analyzed in real time.