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Web Video Fills Hole Left by TV in China

January 19, 2012

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Beijing—government restrictions are driving young Chinese to turn off their TVS and turn on their computers. Advertisers and Western studios are right there with them. China’s streaming- video sites once were derided by the global entertainment industry as homes of stolen movies and television shows. But many sites have cracked down on piracy and are… [Read more…]

A web-first politics site for NBC News: Vivian Schiller on the launch of NBCPolitics.com

December 14, 2011

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By Justin Ellis Email NBC News keeps its political reporting in lots of different places. There’s Chuck Todd on Twitter, in the evening with Brian Williams and the Nightly News Crew, online at MSNBC’s First Read, or your Sunday morning coffee date with David Gregory on Meet the Press. That diffusion is part of why… [Read more…]

Alpha female of The New York Times

December 11, 2011

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Jill Abramson is too busy to worry about her own appetite. She’s more concerned about other people’s appetites – specifically, her readers’ hunger for news. ANTHONY JENKINS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL It’s a concern that takes up all of her time now, just a couple of months into her new job as executive editor of The… [Read more…]

New York Times Expands Into Freemium Apps With ‘Election 2012’

December 10, 2011

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As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone news apps. The newspaper’s new “Election 2012” political news iPhone app is free to download, but most of its content is only available to subscribers. The app provides election… [Read more…]

Journal Register CEO John Paton: Too Early To Say Whether MediaNews Paywalls Stay Up

December 6, 2011

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Journal Register CEO John Paton has been a vocal opponent of using paywalls to increase digital revenue for newspapers, as have his advisory board members Jeff Jarvis, Emily Bell and Jay Rosen. But what happens now that he is also the CEO of MediaNews Group, which already has more than two dozen paywall experiments running,… [Read more…]

MediaNews Group’s ‘Digital-First’ Mondays Bring Some Paywalls Down

December 6, 2011

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How Pay-Per-Article Option Tripled Revenue for Subscription Site

November 7, 2011

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CHALLENGE Over 11 years, Alacra has built online technology and services to help hundreds of banks, management-consulting and law firms and other corporations worldwide find, package and use business information from commercial databases and websites on a subscription basis. Barry Graubart, VP Product Management, saw the content on the company’s databases and in the archive… [Read more…]

Paid subscriptions vs. free content: striking the right balance – Content strategy drives paywall revenue… not just marketing

November 7, 2011

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Paywalls are a touchy topic for any media brand that sells advertising, but many publishers are reconsidering paid content ideas because of the challenging advertising environment. Metered paywalls have demonstrated that freemium strategies, when properly implemented, can achieve the audience scale needed for advertising while monetizing the most loyal of visitors through subscriptions. Kevin McKean,… [Read more…]

Newspaper paywalls: Lessons learned

November 7, 2011

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News sites have launched a variety of different online paywall models this year, some with more success than others. There’s no one way that works for every local market, but a few best practices are emerging for any news publisher to consider before charging for digital content. In the last month, we’ve looked at how… [Read more…]

Time Warner Makes $1.4 Billion Endemol Bid

November 7, 2011

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Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made a takeover bid for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. The US media firm’s offer is thought to be worth about €1bn (£858m). “We have received an approach; it will now be put forward to Endemol’s lenders to consider,” said Charlie… [Read more…]

How Book Publishers’ Digital Revenues Stack Up

November 7, 2011

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With Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS), HarperCollins, Penguin and Harlequin all releasing earnings in the past week, it seems like a good time to compare publishers’ digital revenues. Here’s our chart comparing the most recent earnings from a variety of publishers. Not all publishers break out their digital revenues, but I hope more will start… [Read more…]

Less transformation please, more evolution

October 28, 2011

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“Transformation implies for me a complete change – out with old, in with new. As leaders, I don’t think it’s an appropriate image to paint for our colleagues,” he says. “We see the current business as still capable of significant growth, with multimedia growing alongside the business and not replacing it,” he says. “Many newspapers… [Read more…]