For paywalled and other paid content sites, deliverability is an important determinant of success. There’s nothing worse than having a beautifully designed mobile site, only to discover the majority of viewers are accessing your site from an iPad or Kindle Fire. For that reason, a lot of the technorati are touting responsive web design as… [Read more…]
March 20, 2012
ew data from Nielsen may put a temporary smile on many paid content producers’ faces. It looks like American and European audiences are quite comfortable paying for content on their tablet — in fact, 62% of U.S. tablet owners have paid for downloaded music, 58% for books, and 51% for movies. What’s interesting, is that… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
No old-world icon is safe. Just in recent weeks, both Kodak and Sears have percolated back into the news, offering headline writers a dilemma borrowed from the classic Saturday Night Live Weekend Update line, “Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” How long have these companies been dying? Yes, it was a surprise sometime a long… [Read more…]
January 3, 2012
Top trends to watch in 2012 Posted by Emma Heald on January 2, 2012 at 3:29 PM 2011 was a big year for news in more ways than one. Reporters were amply tested in their coverage of big breaking news stories such as the death of Osama Bin Laden or Muammar Gaddafi, major disasters… [Read more…]
December 28, 2011
There’s an algorithm out there, we can be sure. It’s got all the components of business success for news-creating companies, each value carefully computed and relational to the others. Yet, approaching 2012, the algorithm hasn’t been found. We have but shreds of numbers, beacons of numerals that portend models, but can’t prove them out. 2011… [Read more…]
December 28, 2011
Mr. Crovitz says Press+ started the year with 20 clients for its service. It now has roughly 220 – Postmedia and Torstar among them – and for 2012 has already surpassed that, with 300 planned launches in the works. Traditionally, advertising was what held a newspaper’s business together, accounting for 70 to 80 per cent,… [Read more…]
December 28, 2011
Canada became everyone’s digital-media guinea pig in 2011. The Huffington Post launched its first international edition here, spring-boarding its global expansion. And Netflix used its growth in Canada as a model for taking its service across Latin America and into the United Kingdom. But perhaps most striking of all, when the most famous name in… [Read more…]
December 23, 2011
By Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl Dec 23, 2011 5:40 AM ET Of the seven years I’ve been writing about our namesake topic here at paidContent, 2011 is the hands-down winner when it comes people paying for digital content. The numbers aren’t all in yet and some of it will be hard to quantify given the… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
The Huffington Post Media Group y EL PAÍS unirán sus fuerzas para lanzar El Huffington Post, la versión en español de The Huffington Post, la popular web estadounidense de noticias y opinión creada en 2005 por Arianna Huffington y Keneth Lerer. Huffington, presidenta y directora de The Huffington Post Media Group, y Juan Luis Cebrián,… [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 13, 2011
Facebook has launched a new page for journalists to help them “find sources, interact with readers, and advance stories,” a post by the social media company has announced. The page, which has racked up more than 5,000 ‘likes’ since it was launched yesterday, also promises to “provide journalists with best practices for integrating the latest… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
According to digital measurement firm eMarketer, the time consumers spend on mobile devices has surpasses that of print media for the first time ever, following research in 2010 that pegged the two neck and neck at 50 percent each. Time spent on mobile devices is now an average of 65 minutes a day, compared to… [Read more…]
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