How to diversify revenue stacks: Insights from Condé Nast and LA Times
A publisher’s journey to diversifying revenue streams should start with leveraging financial planning and analyses. As part of a three pronged approach to finding new…
Apple is starting a war over privacy with iOS 14: Publishers are naive if they think it will back down
iPhone users are about to receive access to Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 14. It will come with the usual array of shiny new features,…
How legendary weekly British comic, 2000 AD, survived Covid-19 and thrived
Covid-19 sent the worldwide comic industry into free-fall in March when its monopoly distributor, Diamond, shut down all operations. With no product to sell and…
The secret of Apple News+ success? Knowing your content and your audience
What does a fried egg have to do with the Wall Street Journal and Apple News+? It’s all about your most important content… Apple News+…
Membership, revenue and subscriptions: Insights from TU Media and Die Zeit
The one is a niche publisher of an engineering magazine in Norway, the other a national weekly newspaper in Germany. TU Media and Die Zeit…
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…
Innovation in leadership in times of pandemic
With Covid-19 radically changing the media landscape, it’s never been more important for publishers to be innovative when charting a path forward. As companies look…
“News is evolving in exciting ways”: How publishers are using Instagram to hook young audiences and grow subscribers
Instagram is opened a “staggering 35 times per day” by The Economist’s followers, according to Kevin Young, the publisher’s Head of Audience. The photo and…
Publishers “are just sitting on this goldmine”: Lessons from Week 2 of FIPP World Media Congress
The second week of FIPP’s World Media Congress 2020 featured a jam-packed schedule covering everything from ecommerce, membership models and branded content to talent management, remote working…
Platforms vs. Publishers: Australia is just the start, Facebook and Google are fighting a global battle
Google and Facebook have launched a nationwide public relations campaign in response to the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission’s draft news media bargaining code. Rather…
“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.…
Q4 will be massive, with unprecedented ad spend
How many times have you heard the word “unprecedented” in the last six months? I think it became a cliche sometime between Marchtober and Maypril.…
The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week
Quartz doubles subscribers during the pandemic, the buzz is back in publishing, and more Quartz finds late subscriber success Once a digital media darling, business-focused…
Use Netflix principles, to build a forever transaction with your readers
Subscriptions are now par for the course in news media, but as previous editions of FIPP World Media Congress attest, this wasn’t always the case. How they…
The publishing industry has been and is still vibrant and ever-evolving
As a former Production Director at McCall’s Magazine, my friend Samir Husni’s articles in this newsletter about the Seven Sisters had me fondly reminiscing. Did you…
The billionaire boondoggle no one is talking about
OPINION The trend of major media outlets marketing their in-house software to other news organizations is bad for the news industry When it comes to…
“The business model that was broken is being re-made through technology”: How digital is helping publishers find new revenue streams
More people are consuming news more frequently, Australian media report finds Global paid digital circulation volumes of newspapers increased by 307% to reach 31.5M paying…
The future of news: Navigating out of a crisis
Few publishers have weathered the Covid storm better than Bloomberg Media – the group seeing a big bump in subscribers and online traffic during the…
The regional media reforms we really need: Insights from down under
After Australia’s two big local newspaper companies, Australian Community Media (ACM) and News Corporation, shut down scores of rural newspapers as part of their COVID-19 cost-saving strategies, there…
6 things you missed over summer
In this first episode back following an… eventful summer for media, the team discusses six topics you might have missed over the past month. Key…
