Magazines see audiences shift to mobile
MPA — The Association of Magazine Media has released The Magazine Media 360° Brand Audience Report for the first half 2016, showing that magazine media…
LaterPay offers micropayments with a twist
LaterPay offers a small twist: Readers only actually pay once they hit a total of 5 euros. LaterPay keeps a bar tab of what you’re…
‘National newspaper for the north’ closes after five weeks
Another hopeful newspaper launch has come to grief. The title, called 24 – The North’s National, will cease publication from tomorrow after just five weeks.…
The Guardian should look at Economist and FT for inspiration
The Guardian’s owner the Scott Trust has a remit to protect the journalism of the 195 year-old title in perpetuity. At the current rate of…
Jamie magazine teams up with Hearst Magazines UK
Hearst Magazines UK, the publisher of Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar and ELLE, has been awarded the content publishing account for Jamie Oliver’s monthly food,…
Guardian financial results: £173m pre-tax loss
The Guardian and Observer publisher had hoped that digital income would exceed print for the first time in the year to the end of March…
Articlesbase is bought by MoreNiche
Articlesbase, (articlesbase.com) the article syndication website which provides content from a global community of writers and syndicated videos, has been acquired by digital marketing company MoreNiche…
Artificial intelligence and the art of reader-driven publishing
In March a novel co-authored by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm moved into the second round of submissions for a national literary contest in Japan.…
B2B print ad revenue continues to fall as publishers depend on events & digital
The financial crisis may have been the final nail in the B2B coffin. In 2009, ad pages fell by a quarter – and while ad…
Verizon acquires Yahoo in $4.8 billion deal
The addition of Yahoo to Verizon and AOL will create one of the largest portfolios of owned and partnered global brands with extensive distribution capabilities.…
September issue ads by the numbers
David Cooperstein, advisor to programmatic platform PebblePost, said that marketers haven’t caught up to retailers when it comes to multichannel efforts. “They think of a…
Regional website ABCs
Regional news publishers have continued to see their online audiences grow, the latest ABC website figures show. Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press and Newsquest are all…
New European shows pop-up newspapers can work
Pro-Remain newspaper the New European is thought to have sold more than 40,000 copies of its launch edition. The so-called “pop-up” title, which went from…
Why Bauer Media still believes in the newsstand
It’s no secret that the newsstand is not the revenue driver it once was for magazines. However, that hasn’t been the case for Bauer Media,…
Johnston Press launches new local marketing services website
Johnston Press has announced the launch of a brand new website, jplocalbusiness.co.uk, providing a guide to local marketing and advertising services within its titles for local…
How the FT plans to turn its content studio into a full-service agency
The Financial Times has big plans for expanding its content studio into a full-service agency. Until now, it’s been adept at the delivery and distribution…
How publishers wring new value from old content
There are a few ways publishers squeeze more out of their content. One is the approach BuzzFeed has honed, to keep iterating. One way it…
Advice on Facebook Messenger bots from The Wall Street Journal
When Facebook unveiled a bot platform for Messenger at its F8 developers’ conference, The Wall Street Journal was one of the first news outlets to…
