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Every summer, for the past three years, my colleague Lisa Heyamoto and I have taken a group of University of Oregon students to New York for a week. The aim of the program is to expose them – and us – to some of the key developments taking place at the heart of our industry. We cram a lot in. This year, our group (comprising 16 students and 2 faculty) undertook 18 meetings in 5 days. That may sound exhausting, but we left invigorated and inspired; our faith in the future of journalism and media reinvigorated by the conversations we…

We’re only a few months into GDPR with many publishers still struggling with GDPR compliance and falling short of their obligations. Others, notably US publishers such as the Chicago Tribune and LA Times, are sidestepping the issue altogether and continuing to block European visitors. What is clear is that the stringent requirements of GDPR have made things much more complicated for publishers, especially those working with multiple ad tech partners and who now need to obtain user consent for each one. CMPs to the rescue Whilst the current state of affairs with GDPR is causing both panic and technological innovation,…

With the huge amounts of investment into digital video over the past few years, from…

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In the publishing industry you often hear discussions around the impact of the Facebook/Google Duopoly…

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Opinion: How publishers can drive up traffic using Flipboard
The ever-growing threat of a simple algorithm change to Facebook or Google continues to loom over publishers, but Parse.ly’s latest traffic report has a few solutions to that issue. Aptly termed “The Authority Report,” Parse.ly’s report analyzed 8 billion page views for 1 million articles in its network for the months of April and May 2018. While …
Magnetic – Putting Trust in Context
The first use of the term “post-truth” can be found in the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich’s 1992 essay ‘The Nation’ – but it wasn’t until over two decades later that we adopted the phrase into our daily lives. Driven by a combination of the 24-hour news cycle, false balance in news reporting, the increasing …
Ad Tech, GDPR & Data Protection – The future’s bright, but not as we know it..
It’s generally understood that if you’re putting the data subject at the heart of your design, policy and risk management then you can’t go far wrong. This underlying strategy of accountability and transparency are the fundamental principles of the new GDPR and businesses all around the UK have been busy developing new privacy frameworks to …

Six strategic takeaways from a week visiting New York newsrooms

Six strategic takeaways from a week visiting New York newsrooms

CMPs for publishers: a comparison guide

CMPs for publishers: a comparison guide

Twitch, Facebook, YouTube and the future of Interactive Video

New financial services to help publishers thrive

Five trends to watch as media flips to mobile-first

Q&A: Felix, putting Ai-driven content discovery at the heart of audience development

Twitch, Facebook, YouTube and the future of Interactive Video

“Opportune time for digital publishers”: Ad rates at an unprecedented high

Behind The Economist’s first graphic novel on Instagram

Consumers relying less on Facebook for news: Reuters Institute

How UPDAY’s unique blend of human and algorithmic intelligence delivers value to readers

Time’s up for time spent

Hearst UK launches a new digital metric to demonstrate content engagement quality for commercial partners

Quality online environments are 42% more cost effective for advertisers

The sound and the story: How publishers can benefit from audiobooks

Chart of the week: The acceptance of paying for news is growing worldwide

New financial services to help publishers thrive

Pinterest Pincodes: Furniture brand Neptune bridges the print/digital gap

AppNexus: What AT&T’s purchase means for Google and Facebook’s dominance

Q&A: How Bibblio is taking content recommendation to a new AI-driven level

Blockchain: The Ultimate Resource Guide for Publishers

Podcast: How The Telegraph navigates tech trends & platforms

The newsstand apocalypse: what does the future hold for publishers?