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Mobile time-spent jumps up: YouTube corners ~40% of the traffic, Facebook less than 10%

Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen’s Q3 2018 Total Audience Report. There’s been a significant jump in…

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…

Medium offers publishers an alternative to paywalls, with revenue shares and minimum guarantees

“We are looking to fund more great editors, writers, and publishers,” announced Medium yesterday, revealing its plans to fund and launch new publications. The ad-free…

Facebook’s director of media partnerships on how publishers can work with the platform

Last year Facebook hired Jesper Doub, who was then CEO of German media giant Spiegel Online, to lead its new media partnership team. In the…

How automated news is helping publishers: WAN-IFRA report

“News automation is making its way to newsrooms all over the world,” says a new WAN-IFRA report exploring the potential of automated news. “Artificial intelligence…

Productivity hacks for magazine editors

After years of shifts, downsizing, and mergers, some magazine media around the world are feeling the pinch. We’re all dealing with strained and sometimes non-existent…

How local news outlets can compete with the Facebook/Google duopoly

It’s become obvious over the last few months that the national news media, particularly the part of it that exists online, isn’t exactly a paragon…

“Apple News Magazines” details leak: PDF-based, offline reading, both on iOS and macOS

New details about Apple’s revamped news and magazine subscription service—expected to be announced at the company’s Special Event on March 25—have been unearthed in Apple’s…

The membership model is one bright spot in the crisis in local journalism

There is a crisis in local journalism across the English-speaking world. While those in the trenches – jobbing journalist and editorial management alike – try…

34M unexpected pageviews: A novel news app is helping publishers draw massive traffic

Opinion Traffic to your most engaging content can come from unexpected places. Case in point: Chartbeat’s data science team recently found that TopBuzz — a…

Podcast: Former Magfest organiser Nikki Simpson on plans for The International Magazine Centre

On this week’s episode of Media Voices, former PPA Scotland business manager Nikki Simpson introduces plans to launch The International Magazine Centre, a hub for…

10 essential media stats from February 2019

Record numbers for the New York Times, Facebook’s 15th Birthday, Spotify’s podcasting punt and brands go all in for digital video. This is the sixth…

Publishers of all kinds can learn from the mistake of ignoring voice technology

US$17 million voice revenue lost by NYT bestsellers in 2019; will exceed US$50 million in 2020 without changes Voice technology – more properly referred to…

Facebook’s biggest losers: Content hurt by the last product strategy update

Another big announcement from Facebook has made some people in media understandably nervous. The unknown impact another algorithm, or in this case entire product strategy, change might…

Publishers, you’re focusing on the wrong metric for push notifications

Opinion There are well-documented ways to improve the click-through rates of push notifications. But, what they all lack is a way to determine the actual…

Stories: the format publishers need to take seriously

Increasing engagement, reaching younger audiences, habit formation…all topics keeping leaders of the news media industry up at night. While there is no magic bullet (and…

With 100 newsrooms on board, Civil launches blockchain-based publishing platform

Civil—a community-owned journalism network based on transparency and trust—aims to make journalism sustainable through an alternative business model based on blockchain and cryptocurrency. Yesterday the…

Readers consume content differently now, say neuroscientists: Here’s how publishers can benefit

A series of studies over the past year have found that news readers are increasingly looking for easy and quick ways to stay updated on…

Could Medium one day employ 8,000 writers?

January 4, 2019 marked the two-year anniversary for when everyone briefly thought that Twitter co-founder and Medium CEO Ev Williams had lost his marbles. Early…

How integrating analytical and editorial teams drives subscriptions

Publishers are reclaiming their voice when it comes to how and when they are reaching their most important readers. As the market continues to feel…

Publishers, you’re focusing on the wrong metric for push notifications
Opinion There are well-documented ways to improve the click-through rates of push notifications. But, what they all lack is a way to determine the actual value being added.Although high amounts of click-throughs or ‘tap-throughs’ may result in short-term bursts of traffic and ad revenue, without a way to measure long-term push notification value, publishers walk …
Opinion: Design thinking in Publishing and Media
Ask an author who they write for, and you’re likely to get as many answers as there are authors. But when we’re planning campaigns and strategies, we really need to keep one person in mind: the eventual customer or consumer. In reality, this isn’t always the case. Strategies and creative approaches, look, feel and content …
Opinion: Could a new breed of media alliances be publishers’ answer to the tech giants?
Will 2019 be the year when we see publishers fight back against the rise of the big four – Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA)? Even though, with the tech giants investing more in creating their own content in addition to aggregating content created by others, they could seem a daunting and relentless threat… A …