Revenue diversification for media and publishing businesses
Media brands need to develop more revenue streams as online display advertising declines. We all know this, but the challenge is working out new business…
Insights on the media industry’s changing fortunes, from Dow Jones
At the recent FIPP Congress, Jonathan Wright – Global Managing Director for Dow Jones & Wall Street Journal – spoke about how media companies can…
The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week
Google to make third-party cookies ‘obsolete’ by 2022, UK digital spend to soar 8% this year, and more The third-party cookie crumbles This week, Google…
The reader revenue revolution: How publishers can grow digital subscriptions
Ahead of the Making Publishing Pay conference in London in February, Carolyn Morgan looks at what seems to be working for publishers growing their digital…
50% of publishers to double down on subscriptions in 2020, reports Reuters Institute
Podcasts and AI to play a greater role in news organisations’ strategies, and three-quarters of publishers are confident about their company’s prospects in 2020 Leading…
Media M&A, reader revenues, data and advertising: What publishers can expect this year
2020 has now firmly landed, and as we gear up to go back to work, many of us will be wondering what this new year…
The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week
9 trends that will define media in 2020, new models for the news business, and more Data will be the key battleground for 2020 Happy New Year from…
Media Moments 2019 Report: the key events that have shaped publishing this year
What’s New in Publishing is pleased to present its annual report Media Moments 2019, sponsored by Sovrn and written by the Media Voices Podcast team.…
50 Ways to Make Media Pay: Report Download
What’s New in Publishing is proud to present 50 Ways to Make Media Pay, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn and written by regular WNiP contributor and University of…
Publishers are joining the race for reader revenues, but there’s no silver bullet
Publishers large and small are joining earlier adopters with their own reader revenues plays. But with subscription fatigue threatening, quality content and smart reader retention…
How 5 media companies around the world are using eCommerce
In this series from our comprehensive report on publishers and eCommerce, we’ve already explored how major publishers like BuzzFeed, POPSUGAR and Marie Claire UK are…
As print falters, Marie Claire UK goes all in with eCommerce
As part of our series exploring publishers’ eCommerce efforts for our latest report, Damian Radcliffe charts Marie Claire’s journey into salons, stores and more. Originally…
News habits: Getting readers hooked in the digital age
Recently, we gathered the leading minds in our industry for the third “Digital Growth Summit” in Berlin. Through candid conversations and thought-provoking debates, we were…
“Tech behemoths are smelling potential” as digital subscriptions grow from 10M to 20M: FIPP report
Digital only subscriptions for news and magazine media have doubled from 10M to 20M in a year and a half, according to the latest Global…
How local news organisations can fight for their slice of the subscription pie
The subscription economy has grown more than 300 percent since 2012, but it is tech giants such as Netflix and Spotify that have mainly benefited from this. Even…
Independent and print first: the Monocle strategy
Contrary to what most magazine brands are trying to achieve, deliberately not developing a dedicated digital format for the iconic Monocle magazine remains part of…
How POPSUGAR went from gossip blog to eCommerce pioneer
With a rich portfolio of subscription boxes, beauty products, partnerships and more, Damian Radcliffe charts POPSUGAR’s journey from early retail efforts to an interconnected eCommerce…
208% growth in digital news subscribers over five years: Readers are “more willing to pay for content,” reports WAN-IFRA
Here’s some good news for publishers focusing on generating direct reader revenue. WAN-IFRA’s recently published World Press Trends 2019 report notes steady growth in digital…
5 things publishers can do to increase revenues this quarter
We get it—because many of us have been there. You have just a few more months to deliver a serious jolt to your revenue and…
Top 6 publisher subscription benchmarks, from Google News Initiative
Digital media subscriptions are predicted to continue strong growth of 20 per cent year over year, with digital news subscriptions specifically reaching twenty million subscribers,…