The start-ups saving local news in the U.S.
The narrative that local news is dead is widely accepted in the media industry. The rise of digital advertising has cut off the main source of revenue for organisations that… (more)
The year in subscriptions: A growth story
Platforms and publishers benefitted from steady growth in consumers paying for content 2020 saw many publishers enjoy Covid-induced waves of new subscribers. But as life slowly returns to normal, attention… (more)
Publishers laid the foundations for their own strategies, even as tech giants rocked the industry
The year in data and privacy Chrome’s cookie delay has been a welcome respite for an industry under pressure. But with no viable replacements on the horizon, publishers wasted no… (more)
The Publisher’s Guide to Podcasting: Report Download
What’s New in Publishing is proud to present The Publisher’s Guide to Podcasting, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn, and written by regular WNIP contributor and Media Voices podcast… (more)
Audio subscriptions: A new reality for publishers
Paid podcast subscriptions add another layer of complexity to an already cluttered landscape. But with the platforms resolved to simplify the experience, the promise of subscriber revenue from audio is… (more)
Billion dollar valuations and ambitious projections shaped M&A in 2021. But will the hype last?
For an industry frequently cited as struggling, the sale figures of some of this year’s headline media acquisitions have painted quite a different picture. But some of the acquired companies… (more)
How Immediate Media is growing 7-figure revenues around webinars and podcasts
Immediate Media is one of the publishers that did very well out of the pandemic. They saw huge subscription boosts to their brands, many of which were focused around consumer… (more)
Facebook’s obsession with youth is misplaced: The key to success is in their aging user base
Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last week that he would be pivoting all Facebook’s future efforts to focus on the youth was tinged with panic at their aging user base. But his… (more)
What we’ve learned from publishing 200 podcast episodes
We’re celebrating a milestone this week: Media Voices’ 200th podcast episode. So almost five years after publishing our first episode, here are ten things we’ve learned. 1: Keep showing up This… (more)
“The demand is definitely there”: How Social Spider is making local news commercially viable
Local news is under more pressure than ever. But as Covid has demonstrated, having local sources of information is vital both for keeping communities connected and holding local power to… (more)
Former EMPIRE Editor in Chief Terri White on why she left the ‘best job in the world’
“The reality is, if I hadn’t have had my baby, I would still be editing EMPIRE now,” Terri White tells us in the latest episode of Media Voices. “And that’s a… (more)
Building subscriptions through a crisis: Insights from Bauer
“We jumped from 2020 to 2023 in a weekend.” A revenue drop of 80% and staff scattered to the four winds isn’t what you want to be dealing with in… (more)
“We knew there was a rabid group of readers”: 9 months after launching, Defector nears 40k subscribers
“Stick to sports”. An edict that caused a mass editorial exit from G/O Media-owned Deadspin toward the end of 2019. Just a few months later, several of these writers had… (more)
“It’s been a galvanising moment for us”: How Quartz is charting an independent path to the future
The past few years have been bumpy for many publishers. Quartz is no exception; squeezed by plummeting ad revenues and a slow takeup of its membership offering, it has seemed… (more)
“The audience growth has been too good to let it go away”: How the Wall Street Journal is adapting its live journalism in a virtual age
One of the Wall Street Journal’s newer projects is the Live Journalism team; a group of journalists who build agendas and source guests for the publisher’s events. They operate with… (more)
7 things we’ve learned from launching a daily newsletter
Four months ago, we launched the first edition of our new daily newsletter The Media Roundup. We previously had a longstanding weekly newsletter that listed the stories we’d discussed on that… (more)
Finding sustainable post-pandemic business models for news: Reuters Institute’s Rasmus Nielsen
The events of this year have laid bare a very real issue with many news business models. Publishers have seen record-breaking levels of traffic and engagement with their content as… (more)
“It’s a more intimate way of consuming journalism:” Why The Correspondent launched an audio-only app
The Correspondent, famous for their 2018 ‘unbreak the news’ crowdfunding campaign, are branching out into audio to bring their journalism to members in new ways. A year after the English-language… (more)
How Future is growing its new gardening brand after a quick-fire launch
During lockdown, Future plc has been busy launching a number of brands following the completion of its acquisition of TI Media in April. We caught up with Jason Orme, Future’s… (more)
8 ways publishers are making money from podcasts
Despite having been around for years, podcasting is still a relatively new medium for many publishers. This in turn means that routes to sustainability in terms of revenue can seem… (more)
