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eCommerce livestreaming to generate $25B in sales in the US by 2023: What publishers need to know

“This is where shopping is going,” says Nancy Berger, SVP/Publishing Director and CRO, Hearst Media, as Cosmopolitan gears up to host its second, bi-annual shopping…

The Independent reaps the rewards of investment: The Media Roundup

Independent eyes acquisitions as it marks fourth year of profit despite Covid-19 The Independent has achieved a fourth year in profit since going digital-only, and…

The Newsletter Era: Growing your newsletters starts with knowing your audience

Experts share tips on making your newsletter a success Newsletters were one of the fastest growing media distribution and marketing solutions of 2020. Publishers used…

Facebook versus News: Advertising is the real problem

The fight between Facebook and the Australian government is over almost before it began. Having drastically overplayed its hand by banning a vast range of content, Facebook…

“The industry is actually in better shape than many others:” How COVID-19 influenced publishing revenue trends

Publishing industry insiders and commentators have often used the word acceleration to describe the effects of the pandemic on various business trends. The latest mediafutures…

Publishers seeing 20-50% increase in subscriptions: The importance of direct customer relationships

Bauer, Hearst, Immediate and Dennis Publishing have all seen 20-50% increases in subscriptions — print and digital — with some notable surges for individual brands…

This week’s changes are a win for Facebook, Google and the government — but what was lost along the way?

After almost a year of heated discussion about the News Media Bargaining Code, there will shortly be a new law of the land – one…

Audience engagement, affiliate commerce, and more… The Media Roundup

Audience Engagement = Audience Respect Engagement is one of those buzzwords; something we all acknowledge to be a worthy aim but not something we take…

“Facebook has refriended Australia”: Will restore news on its platform

Australia agrees to amendments in proposed law. Facebook reverses news ban. Facebook has agreed to restore Australian news on its platform following an agreement with…

Stronger appetite for news curation leads to subscription rise at Dennis

If you ask Julian Thorne of Dennis Publishing why UK subscription revenues are up, he won’t hesitate with the answer. “Like many magazine publishers we are…

Europe’s press publishers & Microsoft call for Australian-style arbitration mechanism

Europe’s press publishers and Microsoft have struck an agreement to collaborate on a solution to ensure that Europe’s press publishers get paid for the use…

The news media bargaining code could backfire if small media outlets aren’t protected: An economist explains

When I was the chief economist at the US Federal Communications Commission, we oversaw was the acquisition of DirecTV, the satellite pay-TV platform, by News Corp in…

Publishers lose up to 20% traffic after Facebook’s news blockade, but there’s some good news

Australia wanted Big Tech to pay for news. Facebook didn’t. Rather than pay media companies in return for linking to their stories, as a forthcoming…

The NYT subscriber strategy and why the model is hard to replicate

New York Times says 100 million would be willing to pay for news in English My first gig in journalism was finding stories in data,…

Study: Many publishers still looking for solutions to cover the loss of third-party tracking

Lotame, a global provider of data enrichment solutions for addressable advertising, has announced findings from its “Beyond the Cookie: The Future of Advertising for Marketers…

Getting news from Facebook and Google is convenient — but it comes at great collective cost

Digital platforms like Facebook and Google give us easy access to media and information. But our collective dependence on these tech giants could in the…

The WeChat model: How Facebook’s ban could change the business of news

Facebook’s “news ban” in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining code, has been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on social networks in the past…

Facebook’s news blockade in Australia: A ban with global implications

Sharing is caring, Australian government says. Facebook disagrees. The media world is watching Australia. Landmark media legislation would force Google and Facebook to pay for…

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

Google handing out millions to publishers. Facebook pulls the plug on news. It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. In…

Facebook’s news is gone. Here’s where to turn for trusted information

How Australian news publishers and consumers can cope with Facebook’s restrictions. Notes from down under. Information is everywhere, right? Well, here in Australia, we now…

How to play outside the duopoly’s publishing rules
Today, the word ‘publisher’ encompasses a wide group of publications. From traditional print publications such as The Financial Times to digital-first publications like Wired and even the consumer-generated content website Medium. This evolution towards digitally-native content has boosted the two largest publishers; Google and Facebook. These two ‘publishers’ dominate when it comes to the number …
Follow the cookieless road
Cookies, consent & IDFA, oh my! As if 2020 wasn’t challenging enough, much like in Oz, publishers both big and small are grappling with their houses being picked up and crashed back down in a cookieless world. For many, high up on the 2021 to do lists will be adapting to a slew of browser …
Why digital media companies need an eye toward adaptation, not just innovation
Digital companies are consistently tasked with innovating—from tracking traffic changes, to keeping up with platform trends, to understanding the dynamic ad tech landscape. What was predominant in the last year, however, is that innovating to meet consumer behavior and advertiser preferences was simply not enough. We were hit by a global pandemic, platforms like TikTok …