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…]
December 14, 2011
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…]
December 11, 2011
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…]
December 10, 2011
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…]
December 6, 2011
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…]
December 6, 2011
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November 21, 2011
According to Omniture data (click here for chart) MLB.com’s mobile viewer pageviews for just one sample evening in September rocketed far beyond PC-user pageviews. It’s just one more example of what many publishers we know are calling “hockey stick growth” on the mobile viewing front. Despite this industry-wide trend, roughly 30-60% of online subscription and… [Read more…]
November 21, 2011
Dan Burkhart of Recurly just posted a great chart showing why it’s dangerous for paywalled publishers to forecast revenues based on their first year’s retention rates especially if your content was originally free. Your biggest fans and long-term readers of your free content are not only more likely to convert to paying than any other… [Read more…]
November 7, 2011
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…]
November 7, 2011
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…]
November 7, 2011
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…]
November 7, 2011
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…]
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