- What Does 2016 Have In Store for Digital Publishers?
Innovative, enlightening and – at times – turbulent, 2015 has been anything but dull for digital publishers. - News UK CMO: Facebook Has A ‘Duty Of Care’ To Publishers
News UK’s chief marketing officer Chris Duncan wasn’t previously a fan of publishing directly to platforms like Facebook. - Good News for Niche Digital Magazines!
Digital media revenue and consumption are up, up, up. Niche magazines are always searching for new ways to create revenue streams and distribute their fine, niche-y content. - 2016: The Year Ahead for Publishing In 12 Words
From ad blocking to postal rates, here’s a handy guide to what’s likely to happen in magazine publishing next year. - This Startup Believes It Has Found A Way to Make Ad Blocker Users Generate Money for Publishers
An “ethical” ad blocking service launched Thursday that allows users to pay their favorite publishers not to show them ads. - Facing New Competition, Flipboard Doubles Down On Relationship with Publishers
The last year has proved a tumultuous one for news reader apps. - Zinio Partners With Boopsie for Digital Magazine Growth
Zinio is one of the leading digital magazine providers for consumers, but in the library sector they depend on distribution partners. - City Lights Publishers Shines On
San Francisco’s City Lights Publishers is wrapping up its 60th year in publishing this month. - Why One Enthusiast Publisher Is Gambling On A Lower Cover Price
The newsstand is in a free-fall, but there are still many publishers that count single copy sales as a major source of revenue.
Month: December 2015
The Media Minute – 15 December 2015
- Facebook Signs Up A Further 13 UK Publishers For Its Instant Articles
Facebook has signed up 13 new UK publishers to participate in its Instant Articles programme with the likes of the Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Sun, The Evening Standard, Sky News, Sky Sports and the Daily Mail joining existing publishing partners the BBC and The Guardian - Here’s What Happened to Pineapple, Airbnb’s One-Off Print Magazine
A year ago, Airbnb Inc. published the first issue of Pineapple, a print magazine designed for coffee tables in homes across the rental company’s expanding network. - Enthusiasm for The Digital Edition Fade At Many Magazine Firms, Even As Access Continues To Grow Through Library Systems
Circulation directors, who once dreamed of being able to rely on growing digital subscriptions to reach rate base levels, continue to fight to make their numbers - Bill Henderson Marks 40 Years of The Pushcart Prize
“I just couldn’t get excited about making money from words,” said Bill Henderson, founder and publisher of Pushcart Press, as to why he was fired from his job as an editor at Doubleday in the 1970s. - Publishers’ Newest Revenue Scheme: Monetized Gift Guides
With every ad dollar a struggle to come by, publishers are trying to tap into e-commerce. - Defiance Publishing Co. Sold To Adams Publishing Group
Adams Publishing Group, LLC has purchased the Defiance Publishing Co., LLC from Dix Communications. - 12 Digital Workplace & Martech Predictions For 2016
Real Story Group (RSG) forecasts twelve trends that will affect digital workplace and marketing technology in the coming year. - Facebook Is Updating Instant Articles to Help Publishers Make More Money
Facebook is updating its policies for Instant Articles, per a rep with the company, which could mean up to 40 percent more ads for publishers on the platform. - Magazine for The Super-Rich Spear’s Launches On Newsstand In London With £5 Cover Price
Luxury lifestyle magazine Spear’s is moving on to the newsstand as it approaches its tenth birthday next year.
The Media Minute – 8 December 2015
- Snapchat’s New Deep-Linking Feature Could Unlock The Platform for Publishers
Snapchat said it will allow its publisher partners (like CNN and Vice) to post links on social media that go directly to specific pieces of the publisher’s content within the ephemeral messaging app. - Der Spiegel Publisher to Cut 20% of Staff and Launch Paywall
The publisher of the influential German newsweekly Der Spiegel is to cut about 20% of its staff and start charging for some articles online as it tries to fight a decline in advertising and circulation. - What’s Going On At Condé Nast?
The publisher is streamlining its operations and reorganising its US portfolio to capitalise on its most valuable brands: Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Wired and The New Yorker. - 2016 Year In Preview: The Year Publishers Get Smarter About Platforms
This essay is one in a series of 10 produced by Digiday’s staff of reporters and editors in which we look to the major trends of 2016. - The Wall Street Journal Develops New Magazine About The Future
The Wall Street Journal is launching a new annual magazine dubbed “The Future of Everything,” which is set to launch next week. - Understand Your Magazine’s Web Traffic to Boost Conversions!
As a publisher, you invest a lot of time and effort to driving traffic to your website. You’re also always searching for new ways to increase visitors big-time. Real success is measured by how good you are at getting them to take that next step to conversion. - Chess Champion and Youth Motivator Honored on Cover of Industry’s Top Magazine
Orrin C. Hudson, the internationally renowned #1 Amazon bestselling author, founder and executive director of the non-profit organization, Be Someone (www.besomeone.org), has been named the inaugural Chess Lifemagazine cover contest winner. - Dayton Daily News to Cease Printing Business Publication
Cox Media Group is moving its business magazine online amid company-wide restructuring. - The Non-Linear Reading Revolution Is Now. Here’s How Publishers Are Handling It
Going mobile is more than just big pages fitting on tiny screens.
The Media Minute – 1 December 2015
- Newspaper Advertising Sales Hit Nearly £5m on Black Friday
You may already be sick of the name, but Black Friday has helped buoy declining newspaper advertising departments to the tune of nearly £5m, becoming by some distance the biggest weekday ad take of the year. - Dennis Does the Double At the PPA Digital Awards
Dennis Publishing is celebrating a rare double after being named Digital Publishing Company Of The Year (Consumer Media) at the PPA Digital Awards for the second year in a row. - Daily Mail Publisher Reports 4% Fall in Pre-Tax Profits to £288m
The publisher of the Daily Mail has warned “the challenging market conditions in the UK print advertising market” will have an “adverse” impact on the next financial year, after reporting a 4 per cent fall in pre-tax profits this year to £288 million. - Vox.com is Snapchat’s Newest Discover Publisher
Snapchat is adding another publisher to its Discover feature with Vox.com set to come aboard Nov. 23. - Social Media Drove More Referrals Than Search For 2015’s Biggest News Stories
Publishing analytics provider Parse.ly wanted to find out where web traffic for 2015’s top news stories came from — search engines or social networks. - Big Publishers Scale Up Video Production
Recent months have seen a flurry of executive appointments by big publishers tapping top talent to lead their video production and distribution efforts. - Why Stronger Relationships Between Advertisers And Publishers is Key to Successful Data Sharing
Today, data is the fundamental element in digital advertising, but that doesn’t mean every data issue has been resolved. According to a recent Forrester report, brands still feel there are hurdles to jump when it comes to easily sharing second-party data. - Qubit: Dennis Publishing Picks Qubit to Drive Subscription Optimisation
Leading UK consumer magazine publisher sees Qubit’s platform as integral to making magazine subscriptions ‘the new loyalty scheme’ - Launching in 2016: The Digital Publishing Awards
The Digital Publishing Awards will recognize and promote excellence in the content and creation of Canadian digital publications through an annual program of awards and national publicity efforts.