• National Daily Newspaper Sales Fall By Half a Million in a Year
  Sun records drop in circulation of 10%, with Guardian reporting biggest fall among quality titles and a 10% average decline across all Sunday titles
• 5 Fab New Revenue Ideas for Niche Publishers!
  A Dozen (or More) Revenue Ideas and How to Pull Them Off, that can pump new revenue into your magazine or expand your media products.
• New Company to be Created for Audience Measurement of Newsbrands and Magazines
  The Publishers Audience Measurement Company (PAMCO) will next year replace the National Readership Survey Ltd. (NRS) as the organisation which oversees the audience figures for newspapers and magazines.
• Publishers Rethink the Infinite Scroll
  The feature, which loads content continuously as readers scroll down the page, has gone from design curiosity to the go-to tactic for publishers looking to boost time on-site and ad.
• Facebook May Move into Native Ads
  Facebook is thinking of building a super ad exchange that could seriously hurt Google and a bunch of other companies.
• Ad blocking is every publisher’s problem now
  The conventional wisdom around ad blocking was that it was a problem exclusively for sites covering topics like technology and video games, or those in European markets.
• Does Agency Pricing Hurt Reading Consumers?
  The publishing world is still rebounding from the effects of the DoJ suit against Apple and five of the then-Big Six publishers, and the effects of the judgement against the parties involved is still resolving itself.
• Buzzfeed Denies Deleting Critical Articles to Appease Advertisers
  Editor-in-chief Ben Smith apologises to staff for ‘acting without respect to our standards or process’ after critics say news site acted in commercial interests.
• 11 A/B Testing Mistakes and How to Avoid Making Them
  Poorly done A/B testing will not only yield inaccurate data on what your customers prefer, but it may actually cause you to lose customers.

Sun records drop in circulation of 10%, with Guardian reporting biggest fall among quality titles and a 10% average decline across all Sunday titles