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Every summer, for the past three years, my colleague Lisa Heyamoto and I have taken a group of University of Oregon students to New York for a week. The aim of the program is to expose them – and us – to some of the key developments taking place at the heart of our industry. We cram a lot in. This year, our group (comprising 16 students and 2 faculty) undertook 18 meetings in 5 days. That may sound exhausting, but we left invigorated and inspired; our faith in the future of journalism and media reinvigorated by the conversations we…

We’re only a few months into GDPR with many publishers still struggling with GDPR compliance and falling short of their obligations. Others, notably US publishers such as the Chicago Tribune and LA Times, are sidestepping the issue altogether and continuing to block European visitors. What is clear is that the stringent requirements of GDPR have made things much more complicated for publishers, especially those working with multiple ad tech partners and who now need to obtain user consent for each one. CMPs to the rescue Whilst the current state of affairs with GDPR is causing both panic and technological innovation,…

With the huge amounts of investment into digital video over the past few years, from…

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In the publishing industry you often hear discussions around the impact of the Facebook/Google Duopoly…

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Opinion: 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 …
Ad Tech, GDPR & Data Protection – The future’s bright, but not as we know it..
It’s generally understood that if you’re putting the data subject at the heart of your design, policy and risk management then you can’t go far wrong. This underlying strategy of accountability and transparency are the fundamental principles of the new GDPR and businesses all around the UK have been busy developing new privacy frameworks to …

Six strategic takeaways from a week visiting New York newsrooms

Six strategic takeaways from a week visiting New York newsrooms

CMPs for publishers: a comparison guide

CMPs for publishers: a comparison guide

Twitch, Facebook, YouTube and the future of Interactive Video

New financial services to help publishers thrive

Constructive journalism: “Good news” for beleaguered publishers?

Google and Oxford extend Digital News Project to 2020

Consumers want control to improve the relevance of online advertising

The BuzzFeed experiment: Only news, only programmatic

Will IGTV Deliver for Publishers?

Zenith: Online video now the world’s fastest-growing ad format

Q&A: Taking subscription boxes to a new (digital) level

Opinion: How publishers can drive up traffic using Flipboard

Publishers can now access “Cross Device” capabilities through Google Analytics

Future Publishing to acquire Purch’s Consumer Division

New potato magazine polywrap aims to eliminate single-use plastics

6 business questions for publishers to consider before investing in programmatic

News consumption on mobile grows 300%, in just 5 years

Vox Media selling its “magical” technology to other publishers

The Digital News Innovation Fund: How publishers can succeed in the next round of funding

Magnetic – Putting Trust in Context

Six strategic takeaways from a week visiting New York newsrooms

Ad operations: What’s the ideal team structure in 2018?