A forum for the print and
digital publishing industries
- Digital Publishing Dilemma
Dilemma of analyzing digital audience engagement. What numbers can you really trust?
- Op-Ed: How The Publishing Industry Gave Itself Away
Publishing industry is so internally focused that too often it fails to grasp the changing content world it operates in.
- Are Tablet Magazines Dead Or Alive?
Barely 42 months after the birth of the iPad, critics proclaimed the death of the tablet magazine. That was fast.
- Print And Digital Media Critics Are Finding It Hard To Get Along
Can’t we all just get along? Those who still believe there is a future for the print newspaper (and magazine, for that matter) and those who are convinced that print is dead?
- Think Twice About What To Design First, Mobile Or Web
It is not unusual to hear people say that they “can’t survive” without their mobile; phones are so embedded into our daily lives that the thought of being without them is, for some, a genuinely terrifying prospect.
- “Digital Advertising Needs To Aspire To Be As Good As Art” Says Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has called on digital advertising to aspire to become “as good as art” as she discussed the development of the online media company’s platforms and the emergence of native advertising.
- Digital Publishing: Making Your Content Go Viral
Why do certain articles go viral?
- What iOS8 Means For Content Publishers
After the uproar about changes to Newsstand in iOS7—including the terribly redesigned icon—many thought iOS8, announced earlier this month at Apple’s annual developer’s conference and available this fall, would bring some redemption: more visibility, new features.
- Pinterest For Journalists
If you’re a fan of Pinterest, you probably know how to “pin” images of recipes, clothes, and home décor to your board, but what if you want to share the news?
- Four Ways Publishers Can Diversify Sales Channels, Become Less Reliant On Amazon
Some publishers admit that nearly 50% to 70% of their sales come through the Seattle retailer, and if this is the case, then vanishing buy buttons can be a serious problem.
- Brands Should Pair Up With Publishers As Facebook Reduces Organic Reach
As Facebook steadily reduces the organic reach of page posts, brands have new decisions to make about how to structure their marketing and advertising budgets as well as where and when branding goals make sense on the social network.
- Business Of News: It’s A Whole New Ballgame
Newspaper leaders need to show their journalists how to change, and why.
- Attention And Timing Are The New ‘Clicks’
As digital analytics have become more powerful, publishers have more choices to make about their content and how to maximize its impact — in readership, social sharing and revenue.
- Digital Media Is Now Bigger Than National TV Advertising, Will Surpass Total TV By 2018
Magna Global issued a report on Monday predicting a major upswing of 8.3 percent for U.S. television advertising revenue in 2014, after a dismal 2013 in which revenues were down 0.6 percent.
- Adobe DPS Powers New Samsung Tablet’s Magazine Feature, Papergarden
From a digital reading standpoint, there’s a lot about the tablet that stands out, particularly thanks to Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite.
- If Advertisers (And Agencies) Want To Limit Ad Fraud They Might Consider Better Targeting
It would be nice to think that stories such as that which appeared in the Financial Times would wake up the ad industry, but that might be too much to hope for.
- Facebook To Use Web Browsing History For Ad Targeting
Through its ubiquitous “like” buttons on publisher sites across the web, Facebook has long been able to watch the web surfing behavior of its 1.28 billion monthly users.
- Digital Publishing Metrics—What’s Real?
The ecstasy of digital publishing is that it enables the granular measurement of everything from traffic to ad clicks.