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- New Platform Improves Content Discovery For Publisher Catalogues
The digital world is overloaded with information. The challenge for publishers is to focus their efforts on content discovery rather than distribution.
- Hearst Looks For Global Scale To Native Ads
Magazine giant Hearst is rolling out its native digital ad product to all 84 of its markets, buoyed by the success it has had in the U.S.
- Johnston Press Profits Rise By More Than A Fifth But Further Cuts Loom
Scotsman and Yorkshire Post publisher – which is to complete take over of i next month – says ongoing slide in revenues means it may sell off more titles.
- Credentials Come First For Alison Overholt, The First Female Editor Of A Major U.S. Sports Magazine
When Overholt was named editor of ESPN The Magazine in February, research revealed that she is the first woman to be editor of a national, general-interest sports magazine.
- Facebook Introduces Daily Video Metrics For Publishers
Facebook today announced that it’s adding daily measurements of how much people watch videos posted on the social network.
- Testing Its Pay-Per-Article Model In English, Blendle Launches In The United States With 20 Publishers
The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time, and more are now publishing on the Netherlands-based micropayment platform.
- Medium Spins Off Online Magazine Matter
Matter, the National Magazine Award-winning online magazine unit of Medium, will be spun out as a nonfiction storytelling incubator under the name Matter Studios.
- Penguin Random House Posts Record Profit For 2015
Integration yields improved margins at the world’s largest trade publisher
- Facebook Instant Articles And Other Off-Site Experiments Boost Engagement For Three Publishers
The Guardian, The Washington Post and Cosmopolitan have found new, engaged audiences on social media through publishing native stories
- Entries Open For AOP’s Prestigious Publishing Awards
The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has announced entries are open for its flagship annual awards – in partnership with PubMatic – which benchmark and champion excellence in online publishing.
- Who Will Be The Gatekeeper?: European Publishers Confess Their Biggest Challenges
For publishers, times have never been more challenging.
- IAB Creates Guide For Publishers To Combat Ad Blocking
In an effort to thwart the ever-increasing use of ad blocking software, the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s tech lab has released a guide for publishers groping to respond.
- Next Issue Media Updates Their Texture App, Adding Landscape Reading To All Magazines
The digital newsstand Texture from Next Issue Media has updated its app, adding landscape reading to all magazines.
- Facebook Announces A WordPress Plugin That Lets Publishers Easily Create Instant Articles
Facebook is encouraging developers to customize the open-source plugin as it prepares to open Instant Articles to everyone next month.
- 1843, The Economist Unveils A Relaunched, Rebranded Lifestyle Title
The Economist’s rebranded and relaunched lifestyle title, formerly known as Intelligent Life, is full of similar fare.
- Where Is Lead Gen Leading Publishers? Part One
The Truth in Publishing: An insider’s series on the challenges facing today’s publisher.
- Newspaper, Magazine Revenues Fell In 2015
Total revenues for the U.S. newspaper and magazine publishing industries dropped again in 2015, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Where Magazine Distribution Stands Right Now
Magazines have faced a lot of turmoil over the past decade with the rise of digital threatening traditional print titles.
- How Publishers Are Unlocking Value In Events
News that Bauer Media, publisher of the world’s biggest movie magazine Empire has partnered with sports and entertainment company AEG Europe, owners of The O2 in London.
- Time Out Editor Says Title Makes A Profit And Predicts That More Magazines Will Go Free
More paid-for titles will follow Time Out’s “freemium” model, according to the editor of the London issue of the listings title, who has also revealed that the magazine makes a profit.
- Medium Plans Publisher Monetization Within A Month, Considers Paywalls And Premium Content
Popular long-form blogging platform Medium has given the biggest hint yet as to how and when it will let publishers monetize their content.
- 2016 Yale Publishing Course To Expand Discussion On Digital Publishing Strategies
The dates for the 2016 Yale Publishing Course (YPC) have been announced and applications to attend are now being accepted.
- Facebook Is Letting Publishers Use Instant Articles To Collect Email Newsletter Signups
Facebook is letting some publishers test newsletter sign-up messages at the bottom of their Instant Articles.
- IAB Releases Ad Blocking Primer That Recommends A New ‘Deal’ Between Publishers And Consumers
NEW YORK–(Business Wire)–The IAB Technology Laboratory today released its Publisher Ad Blocking Primer, outlining the tactics publishers are successfully employing to persuade users to stop deploying ad blockers.
- The New Magic Marketing Tool: Introduce Your Archives To New Readers
If you have been in the publishing biz for a while, you have tons of great content–probably going back years, maybe decades.
- As More Publishers Join Mobile, What Should Be Their Next Step?
Mobile’s growing popularity shouldn’t take anyone by surprise.
- The Untold Story Of How Magazine Media Is Winning
The consumer, not the print magazine, now resides at the hub of the business model.
- How Curated Content Can Help Publishers Cut-Through The Content Obesity Crisis
The publisher world is experiencing an obesity crisis while the attention span of readers is thinning so publishers are moving to curated content to cut through and engage tired audiences.
- Adblock Plus Opens Up About How ‘Acceptable Ads’ Work
Publishers with more than 10m blocked ads have to pay 30% of the revenue from previously blocked ads to make it on to whitelist.
- Corporate Culture As A Competitive Advantage
Hearst Magazines UK, a subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation headquartered in London, ranks among the market leaders in the UK magazine and periodical sector with its extensive portfolio of print magazines.
- New York Magazine Gets Serious About Video, Especially On Facebook
New York magazine has seen the power of Facebook video and is going all in.
- Google Gives Publishers What Facebook, Apple Haven’t: A Paywall
The New York Times has moved guardedly with Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc., posting just 30 articles a day on new platforms controlled by those companies.
- Soldier Of Fortune Shutters Print Magazine After 40 Years
Soldier of Fortune, the notorious magazine chronicling the shadowy world of mercenaries battling it out in hot spots around the globe, is ending its print edition in April after more than 40 years on newsstands.
- The New York Times Might Ban Visitors Who Use Ad Blockers
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson did not mince words Tuesday when talking about ad blocking, which has been causing more than a few headaches for publishers.
- 4 Little-Known Tools To Curate And Publish Content
Discover four unique ways to curate social media content on Medium, Twitter, SlideShare, and your blog.
- Protecting Intellectual Property Remains The Top Job For Association Of American Publishers
With governments across the globe racing to make revisions to copyright laws to keep up with changes brought on by new technology, the Association of American Publishers engaged in a host of activities in 2015 aimed at protecting intellectual property in the U.S.