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- Google Launches €150m Fund for Publishers’ Digital News Projects
Google has launched its €150m (£109m) fund for European publishers to tap to develop new digital news projects, with large-scale grants needing approval from a council including Telegraph chief Murdoch MacLennan.
- Hearst to Target Online Shoppers with New Digital-Only Site
Hearst Magazines has been adapting its traditional magazines to match the speed of the Web, and now it’s starting to apply what it’s learned to new launches.
- The Guardian Tells Brands it Can Drive their Business Goals Further with ‘Fewer But Better’ Ads
The Guardian claims its future commercial model will be powered by “fewer, better” ads across all of its platforms, telling advertisers it can “do more with less” to achieve their long-term business goals.
- Twitter Announces New Tools, Partnerships for Finding and Publishing Embedded Tweets
Online publishers are about to get a lot more options for embedding tweets in their stories, with Twitter announcing a new “ecosystem” of products around embedded tweets today at its Flight developer conference.
- Niche Publishing Management: 6 Top Tips for Revenue Diversity!
With the transformation of magazines into multi-channel media brands, there is greater opportunity for new kinds of revenue.
- What’s Actually Working in Digital Advertising? 8 Publishers on How They’re Bringing in Money
Many publishers’ digital revenues have been on an upward swing in recent years — but it’s not enough to fill the gaps left by print.
- TNG Shakes Up Magazine Retail Sales
Shoes continue to drop as the newsstand industry moves, step by step, into the future, led by the giant TNG.
- Bot Fraud Seizes One-Third of Publisher Revenues
Online publishing is growing fast, and fraudulent advertising schemes are growing right along with it.
- What 3 Publishers Have Learned From their Approach to Paywalls
The Toronto Star, Bild and The Times and Sunday Times give insights into their take on subscription-based models, mulling over their successes and failures
- Publishers Are Finally Getting The Hang of Mobile Ads, Close The Gap With Desktop
Publishers’ mobile efforts are starting to pay off with higher prices for their ads, according to new data from PubMatic.
- Publishing Management: The Rich Media Gold Mine
In the past, rich media advertising has been viewed as too complicated and too expensive.
- How The Digital Revolution Has Been Disruptive For Publishers’ Major Vendors
Paper, Print, Retail & the USPS have felt the impact of digital migration.
- Imagine Announces Launch of New Technology Magazine, Gadget
Fans of gadgets, innovations and ground breaking technology have been given an exciting new fix to feed all their tech needs, with the arrival of Gadget magazine – Imagine Publishing’s latest technology title.
- Five Predictions for The Future Of Publishing
Apple’s battle with Facebook and deals with tech companies will shape the face of the publishing industry in the coming years.
- Bloomberg Markets Reduces Print Frequency
Bloomberg Markets, the monthly magazine distributed to all Bloomberg Terminal subscribers, will re-launch in 2016 with a reduced number of issues, says editor-in-chief John Micklethwait in an announcement to Bloomberg’s American-based staff.
- Gannett to Buy Journal Media Group for $280 Million
Gannett, the publishing company that owns USA TODAY and media businesses in 92 local markets, said late Wednesday that it has agreed to buy Journal Media Group for about $280 million, following through on a strategy of acquiring additional local news outlets after it was spun off from its former parent in June.
- Publishers Embrace Social Platforms, Mobile
In line with the classic advice to “fish where the fish are,” publishers are embracing social platforms and mobile media along with their audiences, but remain wary of some potential pitfalls associated with these channels, fast on their way to dominating media consumption.
- Government May Not Enforce Plan to Make Publishers Pay Both Sides’ Libel And Privacy Costs
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has said he is “not persuaded” by a law forcing publishers pay both sides’ legal costs in libel and privacy cases.
- Twitter Opens Pre-Roll Video Ad Marketplace
Twitter is bolstering its video ad capabilities with a new feature enabling marketers to easily place pre-roll ads in professionally-produced video content across its platform, the company announced Thursday.
- How to Sell Online Paid Content Successfully
You are trying to sell Sponsored, Paid, Native, Special Promotion–it’s all the same thing.
- Imagine Announces Launch of New Technology Magazine, Gadget
Fans of gadgets, innovations and ground breaking technology have been given an exciting new fix to feed all their tech needs, with the arrival of Gadget magazine – Imagine Publishing’s latest technology title.
- Punching Up: How Smaller Publishers can Compete with The Condés
Great audience data is the key to the marketing kingdom. Big publishers have oceans of the stuff.
- Magzter Drops Price of Netflix-Like ‘All-You-Can-Read’ Magazine Service to $7.99 Per Month
The digital newsstand service Magzter announced today that it is reducing the price of its all-you-can-read magazine service to $7.99.
- All UK Red-Top Tabloids Lost Sales by 10 Per Cent or More Year on Year Last Month Ahead of Star Price Cut
Every UK national newspaper lost print sales in September with red-top tabloids falling the fastest.
- The Aftermath of a Post-Print World
Speculation about print’s demise began more than a decade earlier, but in 2009, publications started to make news of their own when their printing presses fell silent.
- Publishers, Amazon Not to Blame for Author Poverty Wages
After polling 1,674 Guild members, Mary Rasenberger, executive editor at the Authors Guild, created a splash a few weeks ago by claiming that most of its members’ annual earnings were below the federal poverty level of $11,670.
- Medium Opens up Publishing API, Adds WordPress Plugin, and Adds New Content Partners
SAN FRANCISCO — Publishing site Medium has unveiled a slew of updates today for its iOS and Android app at an event focused on showcasing how to build a sustainable platform.
- AOP Census Reveals New Threats to Digital Publishing Industry
The latest findings from the AOP’s seventh annual Content and Trends Census reveal ad blocking is seen as a threat to the publishing business model (65%) the first time the danger has appeared since the census began in 2006 with one in five (19%) citing it as the most significant problem.
- Meredith Partners with Beekman 1802 to Launch New Magazine
Meredith is rolling out another collaborative magazine effort.
- Ad Sales: Selling Print Ads in A Digital World
Yes, online advertising is gaining traction every year, but that doesn’t mean print can’t still be a strong media channel for your advertising customers.
- Emap Brand to be Scrapped as all Its Titles Move Digital-Only
Publisher Top Right to move business-to-business brands including Drapers, Retail Week and Nursing Times out of print over the next 12 to 18 months.
- Next Issue Media, The ‘Hulu For Magazines,’ Tries A New Name And A New Idea — Make Your Own Magazine
Next Issue is a “Hulu for magazines” concept — a service, jointly owned by some of the world’s biggest publishers, that lets you read digital versions of magazines produced by some of the world’s biggest publishers.
- Press Release: Mary G. Berner to Leave MPA After Completing Three-Year Term
At the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Magazine Media 360° brand audience report, MPA announces that Mary Berner will be leaving her position as CEO with the company.
- Daily News Chief: Paper will Continue in Print Seven Days a Week
The Daily News has no plans to reduce the frequency of its print edition, according to a top executive at the tabloid.
- Time Inc and Warner Brothers Strike Deal to Create One-Off ‘Broadsheet’ to Promote The Intern
Time Inc-owned fashion title Look has partnered with Warner Brothers Pictures UK for a one-off broadsheet paper to promote new comedy The Intern.
- Publishers tap Twitter for Snapchat growth
For the handful of publishers that get top billing on Snapchat Discover, attracting new viewers has been pretty straightforward. Everyone else has had to work a bit harder.