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The publishing world went into a tizzy when reports surfaced about a story in The Australian, a newspaper based in Sydney, containing some explosive commentary from Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. According to the report, Campbell Brown, Facebook’s global head of news partnerships, during a 4-hour off-the-record meeting with a group of more than 20 broadcasters and publishers, made certain comments to the following effect: “Mark [Zuckerberg] doesn’t care about publishers but is giving me a lot of leeway and concessions to make these changes,” Brown allegedly said. Also warning that if publishers didn’t work with the social network on business model solutions, “……

A few days ago, Google started rolling out a broad core algorithm update for search results. The company has now confirmed that the algo update—dubbed the Google Medic Update—is now fully rolled out. This seems to be a part of a series of such “broad core algorithm updates” Google has been rolling out this year, notably in March and April. This particular algo change appears to be a more significant update, based on many of the metrics SEO professionals are tracking. Google’s aim with these updates is to improve the overall quality of the search results provided to searchers. Google mentioned that…

Search is back. Ever since Facebook put down publishers in favour of friends and family,…

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The world’s best brand magazines learnt early on not to push their products, but rather…

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How local news publishers in Europe are responding to digital

Like their larger cousins, local newspapers are far from immune from the challenges of the digital era. As a result, many local news publishers are…

6 ways to increase the public’s trust in journalism

By now it has become common knowledge: Most Americans simply don’t trust the news media. It’s a sentiment that journalists have become all too familiar…

Whitepaper: We need to move beyond dwell time when measuring audience engagement

WNIP sponsored post The longer ads are in front of people the more effective they are. The percentage of people who recall seeing a brand…

Sovrn releases OneTag to help publishers grow their business

Sovrn, which offers products and services to more than 25,000 independent online publishers, has announced the official release of OneTag, a unified mechanism to simplify…

Rebuilding trust in journalism: The Conversation model

With the rapid evolution of technology and the consequent shift to digital, journalism has been forced to evolve and thus the reliable business structure that…

Google’s mobile shifts driving traffic boost to publishers

In the past year, while the dialogue around platform traffic focused on the decline from Facebook, Google was quietly executing on a tectonic shift towards mobile.…

Reuters launches a new ‘news wire’ app: A switch in consumer strategy

Whenever the name ‘Reuters’ is mentioned, a well respected international news agency is what springs to mind. Since 1850, Reuters has experimented, invented, and created…

Facebook to publishers: We are not interested in your traffic and referrals

The publishing world went into a tizzy when reports surfaced about a story in The Australian, a newspaper based in Sydney, containing some explosive commentary from Facebook’s CEO,…

Three opportunities for publishers, using more relevant data

Every day we’re reminded about the limited resources facing our industry, from the time people have to produce stories to the lack of insights we…

How publishers are using Instagram’s IGTV

2018 might have been a challenging year for its parent company Facebook, but for Instagram, it has largely been business as usual. The image/video based…

Google rolls out core algorithm update, benefiting pages previously under-rewarded

A few days ago, Google started rolling out a broad core algorithm update for search results. The company has now confirmed that the algo update—dubbed…

The decline of community newspapers: can digital media startups fill the void?

The decline of local journalism is a “threat to democracy and is fuelling the rise in fake news”, Theresa May said earlier this year while discussing…

Meredith’s Shape magazine: A year-long brand evolution

Meredith’s Shape magazine spent the last year thinking over and creating its own evolution. Shape, which is published 10 times a year, reaches a rate…

Q&A: How Exact Editions is pioneering the archiving of magazines for the profit of publishers

Headquartered in London, Exact Editions was founded in the first wave of digital magazine apps that appeared circa 2005. The company was an early pioneer…

New York Times Reports $24 Million Profit – Thanks to Digital Subscriptions

Last month we reported how the New York Times made more than $1 billion in overall subscription revenue last year, with a total of more than 2.6…

With a Little Help – and a Little Weirdness – Readers Understand Why it’s Important to Help Local Startup Newsrooms pay the bills

Reporters have a lot of fun. They get to call remarkable people every day. Editors don’t do that quite as much, so Thursday was exciting…

Ads.txt errors – here’s what the data says
Adoption of Ads.txt by publishers has grown quickly over the last six months. While many publishers view this as a nuisance, they are deploying an increasing number of ad buys, and are adopting Ads.txt files to whitelist demand sources for individual campaigns. As implementation increases, what does the data show about management and upkeep of these seemingly simple …
How publishers can drive up traffic using Flipboard
The ever-growing threat of a simple algorithm change to Facebook or Google continues to loom over publishers, but Parse.ly’s latest traffic report has a few solutions to that issue. Aptly termed “The Authority Report,” Parse.ly’s report analyzed 8 billion page views for 1 million articles in its network for the months of April and May 2018. While …
Magnetic – Putting Trust in Context
The first use of the term “post-truth” can be found in the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich’s 1992 essay ‘The Nation’ – but it wasn’t until over two decades later that we adopted the phrase into our daily lives. Driven by a combination of the 24-hour news cycle, false balance in news reporting, the increasing …

Facebook to publishers: We are not interested in your traffic and referrals

Facebook to publishers: We are not interested in your traffic and referrals

Google rolls out core algorithm update, benefiting pages previously under-rewarded

Google rolls out core algorithm update, benefiting pages previously under-rewarded

Have you started thinking about voice search yet?

How brand magazines are becoming more sophisticated – and successful

How local news publishers in Europe are responding to digital

6 ways to increase the public’s trust in journalism

Whitepaper: We need to move beyond dwell time when measuring audience engagement

Rebuilding trust in journalism: The Conversation model

Google’s mobile shifts driving traffic boost to publishers

Reuters launches a new ‘news wire’ app: A switch in consumer strategy

Facebook to publishers: We are not interested in your traffic and referrals

Three opportunities for publishers, using more relevant data

How publishers are using Instagram’s IGTV

Google rolls out core algorithm update, benefiting pages previously under-rewarded

The decline of community newspapers: can digital media startups fill the void?

Meredith’s Shape magazine: A year-long brand evolution

Q&A: How Exact Editions is pioneering the archiving of magazines for the profit of publishers

New York Times Reports $24 Million Profit – Thanks to Digital Subscriptions

With a Little Help – and a Little Weirdness – Readers Understand Why it’s Important to Help Local Startup Newsrooms pay the bills

Have you started thinking about voice search yet?

News Publishers Should Tell More Stories

BoSacks Speaks Out: Ad Spending Disappearing as Most Magazines Continue to Fumble

Picture Perfect: New AI Tool to Help Publishers Find the Right Pictures, from Getty Images