Publisher apps: What you need to know about push notifications
Pushwoosh, the push notification specialist, has released its findings into how media companies are using its push notification platform and, importantly, what works in terms…
Balancing revenue and user experience doesn’t need to be mission impossible
Revenue, product, and editorial teams are in a continuous battle over what appear to be conflicting needs. Not making enough profit, annoying users with endless…
How publishers are using robot journalism to drive engagement, subscriptions and ad revenue
Robots are making the impossible possible in many newsrooms. Dutch regional publisher NDC said earlier this year that it plans to cover every single local…
Facebook’s ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ smart glasses: What you need to know
Users will be able to share content on Facebook and other Facebook-owned platforms, as well as non-Facebook apps such as Twitter, TikTok and SnapChat. In…
Identity resolution for digital publishers
Identity resolution has been a business need for years, but most recently rose as a key concept for digital publishers, due to the convergence of…
UK AOP launches Publishing Tech Talk event focusing on best-in-class publisher tools
The Association of Online Publishers (AOP), together with Google and Xandr, have launched an initiative to help publishers learn about new tech solutions, with an…
Opening up remote hiring has grown and improved the applicant pool: The Media Roundup
Opening up remote hiring has grown and improved the applicant pool Back in the before times, I wanted to make a podcast series called ‘FCKLDN’.…
Media products: When to build it yourself?
Developing in-house digital solutions comes at a cost that is not always paid directly with money My favorite topic to be angry and disillusioned about…
How the SF Chronicle is keeping locals updated amid record wildfires
TLDR: With hundreds of wildfires raging throughout the summer, the San Francisco Chronicle has focused on text messaging as a key means of notifying its…
Making content analytics data actionable: A primer for publishers
From data to action Data is great and we believe that no online publishing newsroom should be without it. But that doesn’t mean that any data…
Consent Management: What publishers need to know today
Trying to stay on top of this ever-changing landscape can be a nightmare for publishers, especially when there are significant penalties for failing to comply.…
Why publishers should choose editorial over generic analytics
Ah, analytics. The word alone is enough to make some cower in fear and others rub their hands in anticipation. Regardless of how you personally…
VPNs for content creators: How private are they really?
VPNs promise privacy, but The Markup found their apps and websites full of trackers For the last seven years, Shannon Morse has been making videos…
Publishing trends and successes worth thinking about: Bo Sacks
“We learned that readers are willing to pay for quality journalism.” Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “You have your way. I have my way. As for…
Can DAOs narrow the gap between publishers and their audiences?
If you don’t subscribe to Brian Morrissey’s newsletter, can we recommend you do? Morrissey is the President/EIC at Digiday Media and his Substack newsletter (The…
2021 AOP Awards: What publishers can learn from the finalists (Part 2: Innovation)
Despite the unprecedented disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK digital publishing industry has demonstrated enormous resilience. A key part of this has been…
Publishers: Turn to AI to improve site and content performance
News publications are wrestling with uploading more content faster across more news channels and media than ever before. And with fewer resources. In the US,…
2021 AOP Awards: What publishers can learn from the finalists (Part One)
Eighteen months ago, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic swung a wrecking ball across the digital publishing industry. In the UK, over £1 billion in…
Creating projects of the future: Media hackathon case study
Perspectives and learnings from running media hackathons, especially in emerging and frontier markets [Editor’s note: Originally developed in the IT sector, hackathons are an increasingly…
‘A journey we’re on with our readers’: How Reach is tackling the post-cookie future
In January of this year, Google’s cookie announcement prompted WNIP to explore the implications for the publishing industry, which we presented in our report, How…
