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Brazilian publishing company CARAS went from managing one site with 4M monthly unique users to 20 sites with 81M users in three years. Facebook’s Instant Articles (IA) played an important role in this. It helped the publisher grow its audience, and increase IA revenue by 47% YoY. This is one among several case studies Facebook has shared in recent months looking into how publishers have made significant gains in traffic, audience engagement and revenue using Instant Articles. They range from legacy publishers to young digital media houses and television broadcasters from Asia, Africa and Europe. The case studies include strategies…

Subscription revenues grew strongly, up by a healthy 44.9% to reach £34.5 million. One third (33%) of publishers now seek to grow their business through acquisition. Digital publishing revenues in the UK fell to £96.6 million in Q2 2020, down by 14.3% in comparison to Q2 2019, according to the latest quarterly Digital Publishers Revenue Index (DPRI) from the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) and Deloitte. This drop was less steep than anticipated, given the UK was in lockdown for much of the period. A drop in digital publisher revenue was unfortunately inevitable in Q2 2020 given the COVID-19 pandemic…

In February 2020, Google, INMA and FT Strategies launched the European edition of the GNI…

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How smaller newsrooms have taken the pandemic head-on: Key findings from Reuters Institute

While the pandemic has been tough on most publishers, a “significant minority” have continued to do well, according to a new report from the Reuters…

Publishers make hay while the sun shines (and Google pays): The Media Roundup

Google signs copyright agreements with six French newspapers Platform and publisher priorities will never align for very long. That’s the reality of our situation, and…

Apple to reduce App Store commission but debate rages

OPINION Apple recently announced plans to cut App Store commission rates for smaller businesses and developers. If firms earn less than $1million a year from…

Adblock revenue recovery: A guide for publishers

Adblock has caused significant revenue losses to online publishers for a decade, with the current US adblocking rate averaging 26% and EU exceeding 30%. The…

“Publishers are innovating in a way that we haven’t seen”: The State of Digital Publishing in 2020 report

Even before the arrival of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the magazine publishing world was in a period of transition. The shift from digital advertising to…

Changing hearts and minds: Advice for cultural change in legacy news organisations

For something a bit different this week, we are giving a new report from Reuters on culture change a careful look. In this report, Lucy Kueng argues…

The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week

Help us to help you with relevant reports and content for 2021 Eyes on 2021 It won’t be long before we’re hit by an avalanche…

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BuzzFeed buys HuffPost, Apple reducing cut from news publishers’ subscriptions, and more: The Media Roundup

BuzzFeed to buy HuffPost in all-stock deal First question: do we call it BuzzPost or HuffFeed? Neither, as it turns out, because BuzzFeed and HuffPost…

“It is worth a try, clearly”: How publishers are seeing significant gains in traffic, engagement and revenue via Instant Articles

Brazilian publishing company CARAS went from managing one site with 4M monthly unique users to 20 sites with 81M users in three years. Facebook’s Instant…

YouTube launches audio ads, to reach music and podcast listeners

YouTube is now entering uncharted territories, with the company’s first ad format without a video component, aiming to reach music and podcast listeners. Google, on…

What is your newsroom’s audio strategy?

Tech and media journalist David Tvrdon reflects on how the forces of business, technology and journalism intersect and what that means for the media industry.…

When longform journalism and user needs meet, the story thrives

What is news? Good question. News is in the eye of the beholder, one might say. What’s important to me can be insignificant to you.…

Sophi: The paywall that knows when to give up

“The results were stunning. We ended up with millions of dollars in incremental revenue.” When any news organisation starts down the path of paywalled content,…

Harnessing first-party data: Lessons from Immediate Media and JPI Media

In our most recent episode of Publishers’ Corner, Matt Rance of Immediate Media and Jade Power of JPI Media break down how they are leveraging their…

Innovations in print, advertising, events and more… How Covid-19 is generating new opportunities for media

With every crisis comes opportunity, and that has certainly been the case for many publishers in 2020. As a member organisation, at FIPP we’ve heard…

Reach PLC’s Terry Hornsby discusses the value of the open internet to advertisers with Lotame’s Chris Hogg

Over the past two years publishers have rightly been shouting about the power of their first party data. Understandably, that’s led to many becoming protective…

As subscription revenues grow strongly, publisher confidence is rebounding: AOP and Deloitte report

Subscription revenues grew strongly, up by a healthy 44.9% to reach £34.5 million. One third (33%) of publishers now seek to grow their business through…

Don’t publishers need to be where the customers are?

Are we so Neolithic that we refuse to let what can and should be digitized not be digitized? What other industry is not transforming ……

How new approaches in training can empower media sales teams

Even before the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic the media sales industry was having to respond to unprecedented levels of change. Legislation, such as GDPR,…

First-party data sees CPMs rise 20% at Penske

Publishers embracing first-party data are already seeing revenue lifts. And closer relationships with advertisers are the key to improving this initial success, once third-party cookies…

Apple to reduce App Store commission but debate rages
OPINION Apple recently announced plans to cut App Store commission rates for smaller businesses and developers. If firms earn less than $1million a year from paid app revenue and in-app purchases, then Apple’s commission rate will fall from 30% to 15%. If a developer passes the million-dollar threshold then they are immediately bumped into the …
Publishers and marketers are unprepared for the end of third-party cookies
OPINION Even though it’s been months (granted: every day feels like years these days) since Google announced that third-party cookies would be phased out on Chrome, many marketers and publishers remain unprepared for the ball to drop in 2022. While the findings of our study that polled mid-to-small sized marketers and publishers found nearly two-thirds …
Building engagement for the mobile user majority: Travel Radar’s Luke Willmoth
Few industries have been impacted by Covid-19 so wholesale as aviation. S&P Global Ratings predicts a drop in global air passenger traffic by up to 70% across all of 2020, with a return to pre-pandemic levels expected by 2024. Cost-cutting, fleet size and liquidity preservation are priorities for airlines currently. All this intrigue, alongside positive …

“It is worth a try, clearly”: How publishers are seeing significant gains in traffic, engagement and revenue via Instant Articles

“It is worth a try, clearly”: How publishers are seeing significant gains in traffic, engagement and revenue via Instant Articles

As subscription revenues grow strongly, publisher confidence is rebounding: AOP and Deloitte report

As subscription revenues grow strongly, publisher confidence is rebounding: AOP and Deloitte report

Which publishers are seeing “the strongest performance in subscriptions”? Key indicators from FT Strategies’ North Star report

The legacy of COVID-19 for publishers: 19 notable trends and impacts

How smaller newsrooms have taken the pandemic head-on: Key findings from Reuters Institute

Publishers make hay while the sun shines (and Google pays): The Media Roundup

Apple to reduce App Store commission but debate rages

Adblock revenue recovery: A guide for publishers

“Publishers are innovating in a way that we haven’t seen”: The State of Digital Publishing in 2020 report

Changing hearts and minds: Advice for cultural change in legacy news organisations

The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week

BuzzFeed buys HuffPost, Apple reducing cut from news publishers’ subscriptions, and more: The Media Roundup

“It is worth a try, clearly”: How publishers are seeing significant gains in traffic, engagement and revenue via Instant Articles

YouTube launches audio ads, to reach music and podcast listeners

What is your newsroom’s audio strategy?

When longform journalism and user needs meet, the story thrives

Sophi: The paywall that knows when to give up

Harnessing first-party data: Lessons from Immediate Media and JPI Media

Innovations in print, advertising, events and more… How Covid-19 is generating new opportunities for media

Reach PLC’s Terry Hornsby discusses the value of the open internet to advertisers with Lotame’s Chris Hogg

As subscription revenues grow strongly, publisher confidence is rebounding: AOP and Deloitte report

Don’t publishers need to be where the customers are?

How new approaches in training can empower media sales teams

First-party data sees CPMs rise 20% at Penske