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“News organisations have become even more central to how people stay informed”: How the pandemic helped publishers build trust

News publishers have played a stellar role in helping the world navigate through an extraordinarily complex and scary pandemic. “In almost all countries, news organisations…

Analytics for publishers: Understand the true value of your content

Page views and click-throughs are not enough anymore. To grow loyal audiences and develop the broadest range of monetization opportunities you need the tools to…

Apple WWDC 2021: What publishers need to know

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off yesterday, with a keynote by Chief Executive Tim Cook. While WWDC is primarily a developer-focused event, it also…

6 publishing technologies that will make a difference to your business: Report

What’s New in Publishing is proud to present 6 publishing technologies that will make a difference to your business, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn and written…

B2B Subscriptions: Strategies publishers are using to conquer the market

Subscription revenue has become increasingly more important to publishers as advertising revenue has declined. Publishers, especially those with general interest publications, have traditionally pursued individual…

How to identify audience growth opportunities: The Star, The Economist, South China Morning Post, and The Times

Last Thursday, four publishing executives from the South China Morning Post, The Economist, The Daily Star and The Times participated in a session at Journalism.co.uk’s…

Google shares how it ranks news sources: Transparency is “a major factor”

“Our systems are designed to use these guiding principles… They help ensure we’re elevating content from trusted, authoritative sources.” There are some surprises for publishers.…

How publishers can prepare for the sunsetting of cookies in 2022: Report

What’s New in Publishing is proud to present How Publishers Can Swap Out The Cookie Jar, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn and written by media specialist,…

How customer service offers “critical trust-building opportunities” for publishers: API report

Customer service has become more important now as publishers are increasingly focusing on generating revenues directly from readers. However, “scant attention has been paid to…

“Amid the chaos, there are opportunities”: Insights for publishers on first-party data monetization strategies

38% publishers think that increasing privacy measures have created a new opportunity for monetizing their own first-party data, according to a new report by data…

How publishers can become more audience-focused: Key learnings from WAN-IFRA and Google News Initiative

“A full commitment to growing subscription revenues means realigning editorial, marketing and technical operations with a new focus on trust, loyalty, data, and understanding core…

“Stop whining and start fighting”: How publishers can build sustainable businesses in the era of platforms

Google and Facebook are blamed for many of the problems plaguing publishing today. However, “the truth is that, for most publishers, Google and Facebook are…

“An internet without friction and frustration”: What we know so far about Twitter’s upcoming subscription service

“There’s a model for a better internet. Members get clean, fast-loading sites without ads while publishers make more money.” Twitter previously confirmed, a few months…

“Burn the ships”: WAN-IFRA’s guide to igniting cultural change, for publishers

The internet has profoundly transformed publishing in the last two decades. Digital is now seen as the future of the industry. However, “digital transformation demands…

How the largest UK news publisher generated a 32% increase in page views

Reach plc, the largest commercial national and regional news publisher in the UK, has one of the biggest monthly multi-platform audiences in the UK and…

Using real women in imagery: Future Publishing’s story

In late 2019, Future Publishing, the publicly listed UK and US publisher with 200 brands and a global monthly audience of 390M, launched an initiative…

What “trust in news” means to users: Insights for publishers, from Reuters Institute

“Trust often revolves around ill-defined impressions of brand identities,” according to a new Reuters Institute report, “and is rarely rooted in details concerning news organisations’…

Bauer Media’s Grazia and heat magazines go shoppable using image recognition

Bauer Media, part of the privately-owned Bauer Media Group, has announced a partnership with Phuzion Media, that allows its print titles to become fully interactive and instantly shoppable. The…

“Creative destruction driving advertising growth”: World’s largest digital media owners grew their ad businesses by 40% globally

“Years from now we might look back on this era as a mass genesis event of new business creation.” New economic data from the U.S.…

“It’s much more common to succeed with subscriptions”: Publisher insights from Piano’s Performance Benchmark Report

Piano, one of the world’s leading providers of subscription services, has just published its inaugural Subscription Performance Benchmark Report. It’s based on data from the…

6 Publishing Technologies that Will Make a Difference to Your Business
Technologies to help you build a broader, audience-focused revenue mix
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How Publishers Can Swap Out The Cookie Jar In 2021
The identity solutions available to publishers as Google sunsets third-party cookies
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50 Ways to Make Media Pay
A comprehensive guide to publisher revenue models
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The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19
How publishers are successfully steering a course through the pandemic
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The Publisher’s Guide to eCommerce
Exploring wider opportunities that eCommerce potentially affords publishers
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The Publisher's Guide to eCommerce: Case Studies
How specific publishers are successfully leveraging ecommerce opportunities
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Media Moments 2020
The key moments that have changed the media landscape during a tumultuous year
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Harnessing 2020’s media quality lessons for greater publisher gains
It is understandable that people are eager to move on from the year no one expected, although that doesn’t mean the challenges and the progress made during 2020 should be shelved. As illustrated by recent Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) data — which discovered a 5% growth in ad spend in 2020 — the digital advertising …
Power in numbers: 3 ways publishers can dismantle Big Tech’s ad dominance
Publishers, who once ruled internet news content, have had to manage the rapidly changing landscape and, in some cases, have lost their grasp on readers at the hands of corporate tech giants. But how and why? The first newspapers came online in the mid-80s via CompuServe and then en masse to the web in the …
Roadmap for effective digital transformation: FIPP D2C Summit
As part of the on-demand videos at the forthcoming FIPP D2C Summit, James Hewes from FIPP and Carola York, VP of Publishing at Jellyfish, discuss what’s needed if a publisher is looking to embark on a digital marketing transformation project. As a preview of what’s in store at the Summit, the full video from this …