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The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19: Report Download

What’s New in Publishing is proud to present The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn and written by regular WNiP contributor and University…

“Lasting legacy of the coronavirus crisis”: How COVID-19 is reshaping the publishing industry

The pandemic has created deep disruption in the publishing industry. “Lockdowns and safety restrictions have changed the way news is produced, with long hours and…

“A new day is dawning”: Publishers gear up for a better tomorrow in the face of significant upheaval

“When disruption appears all around, when the familiar is crumbling in front of us, it can be hard to see the rays of a brighter…

Global social media ad spend jumps 56.4%, surpasses previous year in spite of pandemic

Note: Based on further clarification from Socialbakers, all ad spend referred to below relates to social media ad spending. Sharp increases in social media ad…

How leading Canadian publisher, The Globe and Mail, is building the “newsroom of the future”

Sophi, a suite of artificial intelligence tools developed by The Globe and Mail, Canada has won this year’s Online Journalism Award for Technical Innovation in…

“We’re trying to reiterate the value we provide”: How publishers are wooing new readers through innovative ad campaigns

Publishers—including The Guardian, The Economist and Bloomberg—have recently launched striking ad campaigns to connect with new readers. They are using varied and innovative strategies to…

Trust in news publishers extends to advertising brands, IAB survey finds

Advertising on news content can be beneficial to a brand’s image, according to a new IAB report, The News Trust Halo: How Advertising in News…

4 ways publishers are building loyalty during COVID-19

Loyalty is a rare, but valuable commodity for publishers. Acquiring new paying customers and members can be an expensive business. As a result, we’ve seen…

“Key to reimagining post-pandemic journalism”: Challenges unleashed by the pandemic have also unveiled real opportunities

The pandemic has been tough on journalism, to say the least. Journalists have had to endure financial instability, deteriorating mental health and threats to physical…

“We now have a better outlook for digital ad spending”: US spend to grow by 21.1% in 2021, eMarketer reports

“According to revised stats from eMarketer, United States digital display spending will grow by almost 10% this year (vs. a prediction over the summer of…

COVID-19’s impact on the media, in 10 charts

It’s too early to understand the full implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on publishers. For some, it could be an “extinction-level event”…

Lessons from Lockdown: Bauer Media

Timed to coincide with the launch of our free-to-download report entitled, “The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19“, WNIP reached out to a number of publishers…

Publishers are building their own podcasting apps to capture the “next frontier of media”

“In the US, one quarter of adults, or 60M people, listen to a podcast a few times a week, and 91M listen to one at…

Lessons from Lockdown: Dennis Publishing

Whilst the data underpinning the need for second Covid-19 lockdowns is debatable, especially in terms of reduced death rates not to mention more than adequate…

“The best year since the 1990s”: Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter looks at 50% increase in operating profit

Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter is on its way to increasing operating profit by about 50% to nearly SKr180M ($20M) this year. This marks the publisher’s…

Lessons from lockdown: What publishers learned

The first lockdown to ‘flatten the curve’ of the Covid-19 pandemic happened swiftly and took the publishing industry by surprise earlier this year. Global in…

“There is not a country on Earth where this model is not working”: How digital subscriptions are helping publishers build a stronger future

The latest edition of FIPP’s quarterly Global Digital Subscriptions Snapshot (Q3 2020) reflects the “full impact of the crisis in the figures for the first…

“Convert subscribers from print to pixels”: Publisher reduces churn to a “phenomenal” 1% after replacing print edition with digital replica on iPad

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was able to achieve three important goals with one bold strategy. The publisher dramatically reduced cost by cutting down on print, got…

“We’re seeing the shift of traditional to over the top”: How Bloomberg is appealing to the next generation and expanding its presence

Bloomberg Media is relaunching QuickTake, its short-form video content channel, globally as an OTT streaming product in November. It was originally launched in 2017 as…

Publishing’s next big trend: “monetizing the individual”

Substack has been in the news lately as many journalists have left full-time positions to start their own newsletter on the platform. The most recent…

Through Covid, journalists have regained the public’s trust in the press
OPINION The British public have a turbulent relationship with the publishing media. In May we read reports that in a YouGov poll almost three-quarters of people didn’t trust newspaper journalists. At the time this was attributed to the way the press had reported on the emerging Coronavirus pandemic, with accusations they were out of step …
Publishers’ social dilemma
Netflix’s latest documentary hit, The Social Dilemma, is a sobering and spine-chilling take on the reality we live in. The film combines expert interviews with a dramatized vision of what current social media trends can lead to and the questionable ways in which it operates, collecting data without consent, mining on young people’s insecurities, and …
Unmasking app spoofing for publishers
OPINION Increasing amounts of publishers are transitioning from print to digital to widen their virtual presence, following restrictions on physical experiences to limit the spread of COVID-19. Many publishers are launching apps for users and subscribers alike to maintain and extend their reach while enhancing revenue. Some have turned to paywalls or in-app purchases to …