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Enhanced privacy, advanced publisher friendly features and steady growth make Telegram the messaging app to watch out for

There is a notable rise in the use of messaging apps for sharing news in the last few years. Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Research Fellow at Reuters…

TikTok could dethrone Instagram, says Snap founder, as 2020 heralds “a significant shake-up in the social media pecking order”

The winds of change are blowing hard at the onset of 2020. Just days ago we reported about TikTok overtaking Facebook to become the 2nd…

How Complex Media became one of the most innovative digital publishers

Back in September, I logged onto Twitter one day and saw that the actor Shia LaBeouf was trending. At the time I had only a…

Backed by Hollywood A-listers and top news publishers, Quibi aims to transform mobile storytelling

A new subscription-based mobile video streaming service is rolling out, with exclusive shows from Hollywood A-listers including directors like Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, Sam…

As Instagram growth stalls, Pinterest surges to become the 3rd biggest social media platform in the US

Research firm eMarketer reports that US user growth for Instagram fell to single-digits, for the first time ever, in 2019. eMarketer projects a continued decline…

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…

The Publisher’s Guide to eCommerce: Report Download

What’s New in Publishing is proud to present The Publisher’s Guide to eCommerce, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn and written by regular WNIP contributor and University of Oregon Professor, Damian…

TikTok, with more downloads globally than Facebook, enters 2020 with big plans for publishers and advertisers

TikTok has surpassed 1.5B downloads on the App Store and Google Play, according to Sensor Tower. The app reached an all-time high of 220M installs…

Linkedin Groups and Pages: what’s the difference for publishers?

See our guide to Facebook Groups vs Pages here. Linkedin’s value to publishers is largely dependent on whether it’s the right place for the brand.…

RIP third-party cookies: What Google’s ‘pivot to privacy’ means for publishers

Google has confirmed plans to make third-party cookies obsolete within the next two years, with an aim to ‘build a more private web’ according to…

“A trend no publisher—large or small—can afford to overlook”: Social commerce set to be the most important digital channel by 2029

Social commerce, that is, promotion and sales via social media sites, is looking at exponential growth in the coming years as digital native consumers grow…

The publishing industry begins 2020 on a “confident” and “happy” note

It was not too long ago that Bo Sacks, a veteran of the publishing industry since 1970, opined that “I think this is the new…

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…

“We’re competing for that scarcest of modern world resources — attention”: How publishers are innovating for 2020, and beyond

“News Media Innovation 2020,” a new report from The Centre for Media Transition (an applied research unit based at the University of Technology Sydney), offers…

The death of the cookie signals a new golden age for publishers
Opinion Google has spoken. The third-party cookie is dead. No more speculation, rumour or dread. Last week it finally announced that it will block third-party cookies in the Chrome browser within the next two years. The news, while largely expected, has still sent shockwaves across the media and marketing industries. But for publishers, this isn’t …
Bo Sacks: Are the 2020s when print media will end?
Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “There are no facts, only interpretations.” That comes mighty close to our understanding of the magazine industry today, at least when it comes to the various reports we constantly read on the subject. Too often some industry prognosticators confuse what is happening to “the big guys” to be representative of the …
CCPA: Ready or not here it comes
Opinion Publishers are reaching the point of data privacy fatigue. When the GDPR landed, most went into red alert and re-directed their energy, and resources, at ensuring compliance. Then new legislation started cropping up across the globe. Now, with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) already active, beside a few genuine attempts at compliance many …