The Media Minute 07.25.2017

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the measurement and analytics company that empowers the advertising industry, has announced an industry-first optimisation solution for publishers to maximise the yield on their inventory.

This week, our top stories examined Amazon’s video platform and Facebook’s tool that will give publishers more Instant Articles performance data.

Perhaps John Lennon said it best. But when it comes to print, Mr. Magazine™ has also perhaps been a dreamer his entire life.

Marketers’ disgust with online ad fraud has created an opening for our industry, but we’re not ready to take advantage of it.

Facebook Inc is in early talks with several news publishers about how its social media site can better support subscription business models.

Among all the changes magazine media faces—consolidation, layoffs, digital—the one consistent trend is the decline of print advertising.

In the last six months, dozens of publishers have made their content available on Flipboard, an aggregator platform that launched in 2010.

Facebook today released a new developer’s tool for publishers to see how their stories are doing on the social media platform.

El Financiero and Bloomberg L.P. announced Thursday the launch of Bloomberg Businessweek México, a Spanish-language, bi-weekly edition.

The Media Minute 07.18.2017

If You Send Marketing Emails To Canada, Here’s What You Need To Do Now

Canada’s Anti-Spam Law took effect in 2014, but a three-year grace period just ended. Sending marketing emails to the Great White North now demands you ask users to opt in.

Google Funds Automated Journalism In Uk

Robots may not be pounding the streets and cornering reluctant sources in the search for scoops anytime soon, but they will be generating a giant volume of basic local news in Britain in the near future, thanks to Google.

Publishers Are Switching Affections From Snapchat To Instagram

Hearst’s Kate Lewis can easily rattle off the company’s Instagram stats. Half the company’s brands have more than 1 million followers.

Newspapers Want To Band Together Against Facebook And Google

A trade group representing many of the country’s biggest newspapers, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, said Monday it’s lobbying to revise antitrust laws in order to allow newspapers to bargain collectively with Google and Facebook.

Online Publishers Try Reducing Ads To Boost Revenue

For online publishers, more advertising typically means more revenue.

Do You Really Know Your Digital Audience? The Data Might Surprise You.

It turns out that publishers who take the time to understand the breadth and diversity of all their readers – not just their most vocal fans – will uncover new content opportunities and positioning strategies that can reach a broader audience.

Magazine Media: Knockdown Or Fixer Upper?

To keep the print house standing, publishers need to emphasize consumer trust, accountability, and a willingness to experiment.

Reader’s Digest: A Legacy Brand That’s Been For The People & Mostly By The People Since Its Inception And Now Sports Its First-Ever Reader-Generated Cover

People generally curate things themselves through Google searches and other ways, but they also rely on various brands to do the curating for them.

Look Out, Youtube And Facebook: Amazon’s Coming For Video Publishers

YouTube and Facebook get a bulk of the attention from digital publishers looking to build and scale video businesses.

The Media Minute 07.11.2017

Chances are you’ve heard about it and probably thought about it too. A growing number of traditional publishers are offering creative marketing services to diversify their revenue model.

Last year, home improvement power couple Chip and Joanna Gaines turned to print, and Meredith, to extend their brand with the quarterly magazine The Magnolia Journal.

Two New Magazines, Hungry Girl, Waste Less, Save More, To Join Eat This, Not That, The Magnolia Journal, And Forks Over Knives, In Meredith Core Media’s Stable Of New Shining Print Stars.

The Economist prizes its high-quality environment, but that doesn’t mean it’s against audience targeting.

Like many other magazines, such as Mental Floss, Jet and Computerworld, American Heritage is going digital-only.

Publishers can now add the three new formats to their mobile sites, creating more inventory for responsive ads.

In the panoply of platform giants, Amazon is scoring big with publishers, at least for now.

For traditional publishers, developing and implementing a programmatic approach to ad sales can feel complex and challenging.

A sale of Rodale Inc., the family-owned publisher of magazines such as Men’s Health and Women’s Health, could potentially come before the end of the summer

The Media Minute 07.04.2017

Niche CEOs in both B2B and B2C gathered at the Niche CEO Summit in Washington DC last week to talk about how to transform their current revenue models.

More magazine brands are producing video as audience rates grow across various platforms.

Standing out on distributed platforms presents a branding challenge for publishers.

Condé Nast Britain Digital is launching Stories, a newly titled branded content studio.

Raab Associates recently took an informal census of vendors using artificial intelligence for marketing or customer management.

Conventional wisdom would tell you that in the magazine space, print is on the wane; advertisers are shifting their budgets to digital media.

The Amazon Echo Show, the $230 audio and video device launched in early May, is years away from being a niche product.

At the beginning of June, The Pioneer Woman Magazine debuted at Wal-Mart, the retailer where Ree Drummond, who is the “Pioneer Woman” has her line of cookware, dinnerware and home products sold.

Can everyday people change the world? Or do you have to be a business leader, media figure, or celebrity?