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Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen’s Q3 2018 Total Audience Report. There’s been a significant jump in mobile time-spent among 18-34s, from 29% to 34%. The growth came at the expense of television viewing. This trend continues from a year earlier, as live and time-shifted TV (i.e., traditional cable and set-top box viewing) was surpassed by mobile in Q3 2017, and now that gap has widened even further. For all US audiences, mobile went up from 21% to 24%, with media consumption otherwise remaining flat, at about 10.5 hours per day. With…

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Publishers, you’re focusing on the wrong metric for push notifications
Opinion There are well-documented ways to improve the click-through rates of push notifications. But, what they all lack is a way to determine the actual value being added.Although high amounts of click-throughs or ‘tap-throughs’ may result in short-term bursts of traffic and ad revenue, without a way to measure long-term push notification value, publishers walk …
Opinion: Design thinking in Publishing and Media
Ask an author who they write for, and you’re likely to get as many answers as there are authors. But when we’re planning campaigns and strategies, we really need to keep one person in mind: the eventual customer or consumer. In reality, this isn’t always the case. Strategies and creative approaches, look, feel and content …
Opinion: Could a new breed of media alliances be publishers’ answer to the tech giants?
Will 2019 be the year when we see publishers fight back against the rise of the big four – Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA)? Even though, with the tech giants investing more in creating their own content in addition to aggregating content created by others, they could seem a daunting and relentless threat… A …

Mobile time-spent jumps up: YouTube corners ~40% of the traffic, Facebook less than…

Mobile time-spent jumps up: YouTube corners ~40% of the traffic, Facebook less than…

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