Predictive AI helps Foxtel drive double-digit growth: Insights for publishers
How can publishers convince audiences to pay for content that is available elsewhere for free? They can look at what Australian pay-TV brand Foxtel did…
Password-free logins to benefit both web services and publishers in Germany
Mobile Connect, a universal password-free online log-in solution is being adopted with immediate effect by Verimi, the first single cross-industry login platform for web-based products…
How The Economist grows revenue by experimenting with the digital experience
The Economist has more than doubled the amount of web traffic it receives via newsletters over the past year. This was achieved with the help…
The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week
In defence of a free internet, inside Glamour’s print to digital transformation, and more… To be (free) or not to be (free)? That is the…
The “remarkable transformation” of a print publisher: Highlights from WAN-IFRA report
WAN-IFRA just released a report—Digital Transformation at Aller Media Finland—that looks into the successful transformation of a legacy print publisher into a diversified business group.…
Why publishers should own their code (and its impact on user experience)
It’s hard to remember a time before the Internet. But many would still be surprised to learn that the first online news publication was launched in 1979,…
Amazon Polly’s neural text-to-speech allows publishers to turn articles into realistic audio
Amazon has added two new features to Polly, its cloud service that converts text into speech. The features are Neural Text-To-Speech (NTTS), and Newscaster Style. …
Facebook’s Libra reignites publisher interest in the promises of blockchain
Thanks to Facebook, Libra has brought the attention of the media industry back to the blockchain after the unfulfilled hype cycles of 2017 and 2018. …
The fourth estate fights back: What the news media is doing to defend against deepfakes
Anyone who watched the doctored video of congresswoman Nancy Pelosi in which she appears drunk—a clip that quickly went viral a few months ago and which Facebook refused…
“We don’t think in devices anymore, we think in users”: Germany’s leading publisher on going from print to digital
As our world has become increasingly digitized, the news industry has been forced to follow suit. Fewer people, after all, are reading the news in…
WAN-IFRA: How publishers can build resilient business models in developing nations
WAN-IFRA has released a new report, Unlocking Journalism Resilience: Adapting a Digital Business Model to Promote Press Freedom. It examines how news publishers in politically…
“Faster bandwidth unlocks new ways to tell stories”: Publishers get ready for 5G
Opensignal, a mobile analytics company, recently released its analysis of 5G performance in eight countries. According to the report, “5G boosts the maximum real-world download…
Fighting fake news: 5 free (but powerful) tools for journalists
A Pew Research Center study, released last month, found that most U.S. adults (63%) think that altered videos and images create a great deal of…
Time launches immersive reality app, to showcase groundbreaking visual journalism
Time magazine is making headway into immersive augmented reality and virtual reality experiences this week, with the announcement of a new app and news that…
PSFK’s Piers Fawkes: Our B2B publication works due to relentless iteration
PSFK founder, president & editor-in-chief Piers Fawkes unveils how his B2B company helps brands and retailers build tomorrow’s customer experiences. Bibblio CEO Mads Holmen had a chat…
Ecom ad spending is growing “much faster” than total digital advertising: GroupM
According to the latest report on E-commerce trends by GroupM, e-commerce related spending on advertising is growing much faster than total digital advertising, and holds…
Google is building a social network (again)
Shrugging off its monumental failure with Google+, the search giant is again dipping its toes into the social networking waters. It’s latest initiative is Shoelace,…
How the Beano Digital Network keeps the brand relevant to today’s kids online
The Beano is the longest running weekly children’s comic in the UK, having published issues for the past 81 years, almost to the day. But…
Q&A: Sourcefabric, co-creating journalism’s open-source newsroom CMS
Founded in April 2010, Sourcefabric has grown to become Europe’s largest developer of open-source software for the news industry. WNIP recently caught up with Sourcefabric’s…
Publishers—like Hearst and NYT—are making human capital investment a priority again
After years of shrinking budgets for training and cuts to personal development across the magazine and news media industries, there are signs that companies are…