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- Publishers are Underwhelmed with Apple News App
When Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp expressed frustration with his company’s performance on Apple News last week, his complaints apparently were just the tip of the iceberg.
- Opinion: How New Technologies are Revolutionizing Digital Publishing
In the world of digital publishing we are used to hearing a lot of ‘buzz’ phrases and currently the one that’s getting a lot of airspace is content.
- Here’s Notify, Facebook’s New Twitter-Like App for Following Publishers
The social network rolled out a new app called “Notify” on Wednesday specifically to send you mobile notifications from publishers you care about, like BuzzFeed or CNN or The Weather Channel.
- Seven Dow Technologies Honored by R&D 100 Magazine
The Dow Chemical Company announced today that six of its latest innovations have been named to R&D Magazine’s prestigious 2015 R&D 100 Awards
- 8 Ways Publishers Can Master Mobile
Mobile continues to be one of the hottest topics in publishing—and for good reason.
- Business-Focused 417 Magazine Spin-Off Publishes First Issue
Whitaker Publishing, LLC released the first issue of Biz 417, a new bimonthly magazine covering the local business scene and the professionals who power it in Springfield, MO and the surrounding Southwest Missouri region served by the 417 area code.
- CMO Today: Headaches for Publishers in Facebook’s Instant Articles
Twenty publishers are currently using Facebook’s Instant Articles program, which lets media companies post stories directly on the social network, as opposed to linking back to their own sites.
- Niche Publishing & The Small Staff: 7 Tips for Success!
Anyone who has ever participated on a sports team or a group school project can relate: Some on the team have a different version of what the timeline and objectives are supposed to be, one or two people do all the work, there’s always one flake.
- Experts Wary of ‘Platforms as Publishers’
“HE’S MOVED OVER TO THE DARK SIDE,” announced journalist David Clinch, explaining why he was moderating one of today’s panels at the Columbia Journalism School in place of a former colleague who recently took a senior role at Twitter and therefore recused himself from a discussion of “Platforms as Publishers.”
- Facebook’s Traffic to Top Publishers Fell 32 Percent Since January
While Facebook makes headlines for cooking up new initiatives with publishers, the actual traffic it’s sending those publishers has fallen sharply.
- Grantland and The (Surprising) Future of Publishing
It’s dangerous, I suspect, to draw too many lessons from the ignominious end of Grantland, the high-brow sports and culture site that ESPN shuttered this weekend, several months after parting ways with Bill Simmons, the site’s founder and editor-in-chief.
- Lucky Magazine Shuts Down Once and for All, Here’s why it Failed
On Friday, the handful of remaining staffers at The Lucky Group’s editorial side were dismissed, the final gasp of a publication that once held sway over 1 million readers, many of them young women and avid online shoppers.
- Axel Springer Raises Outlook, Citing Strength of Ad Sales
Axel Springer, the German publishing and digital media group, on Wednesday raised its forecast for 2015 revenue as increasing sales of digital classified advertising offset continued declines in print circulation and other revenue.
- Google, Apple & Texture Trigger Latest Trend in Digital Publishing — Disaggregated Content
Every six months, we at Next Steps Marketing put together a Digital Magazine Dashboard to bring you the latest trends in digital publishing from an audience perspective.
- Jane Pratt Shares Her Thoughts on The Future Of Xojane at Time Inc.
In recent months, Time Inc. has been scooping up digital brands in an effort to reach a millennial audience, including Zooey Deschanel’s Hello Giggles and sports blog network FanSided.
- Tribune Publishing Claims Finances Improving But Records 9.6 Percent Ad Revenue Decline and Slight Loss for 3rd Quarter
The drama surrounding Tribune Publishing Company management was largely absent as the company reported third quarter results and discussed them with analysts.
- Sage Advice from Publishing Pros!
The recent fall issue of FOLIO magazine profiled top editors, publishers and influencers in the magazine business.
- New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Announces Succession Plan
At a staff meeting Monday morning, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. announced that the company has initiated a succession process, and that a deputy publisher will be named within two years, according to a source.
- Why Publishers Are Using Instagram to Connect With Their Communities
BBC News, CNN International and La Cronaca Italiana give insights into their use of Instagram to reach new and existing audiences and how they approach news formats on the platform.
- Pulitzer Prizes Open Three More Categories to Magazines
International Reporting, Criticism and Editorial Cartooning will be expanded to accept print and online magazine entries for the 2016 prizes.
- The Week Launches Junior Edition as First Brand Extension
Dennis Publishing is launching The Week Junior, The Week’s first paid-for print brand extension, next month.
- The Return to Focus: Publishers Wake Up to the Limitations of Growing Too Much Too Soon
Pressures to scale are creating a sameness on the Web, where publishers are increasingly covering the same set of general-interest news stories in an effort to capture readers.
- Six Insights Into Future Trends In Digital Publishing
Nobody knows what the future of the media industry will look like – we can only extrapolate from its current state and hope nothing too disruptive ruins our bets in the meantime.
- Tribune Publishing Introduces Tribune Content Solutions, an In-House Agency Delivering Custom Content Solutions for Local, National Marketers
Tribune Publishing today announced that it has launched an in-house agency called Tribune Content Solutions designed to deliver custom-content solutions for Tribune Publishing marketing partners.
- Can’t Finish A New Yorker Story Online? The Magazine Will Now Send You an Email Reminder to Come Back
For as long as The New Yorker has existed, its readers have lamented not being able to get through everything in the magazine.
- Chute’s New All-In-One Visual Marketing Suite Lets Brands Search, Analyze, Publish Social Content
Visual marketing service Chute has created a suite of tools developed for the enterprise to help brands harness user-generated content for their social campaigns.
- The Newest Key Person at Publishers: Platform Wranglers
The rise of the distributed publisher has given rise to a new role at media companies: the platform ambassador.