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New Reader Revenue report highlights 10 best practice case studies

2024-02-02. We continually report on how news publishers, both large and small, in countries worldwide are successfully developing and fine-tuning their reader revenue initiatives to build their subscriber base and reduce churn. Our latest report highlights 10 of the most interesting cases we have encountered in the past 12 months.

How Norway’s DN used gamification to gain 35,000 young, registered users

2024-02-01. Dagens Næringsliv (DN), part of the DN Media Group, is Norway’s largest business newspaper with a daily readership of 300,000+. Like many publishers, DN was struggling to attract more young readers aged 18 to 35, and specifically those who were interested in finance.

WAN-IFRA Unveils Innovate Local Programme to Drive Media Innovation and Sustainability.

2024-01-31. WAN-IFRA announces the launch of Innovate Local, the first global forum for local media. Through the Innovate Local programme, media professionals will be able to exchange actionable and scalable ideas with a focus on opportunities and problems unique to the business of local journalism. The initiative addresses small and midsized local media and local entities of bigger media groups.

New WAN-IFRA report: How to use audience needs to unlock digital transformation

2024-01-30. The report details how 12 European news publishers adopted a digital- and audiences-first approach that helped them embrace new ways of working, build stronger relationships with readers and transform newsroom operations.

Digital Media Awards South Asia 2023 Unveils Top Honours for Digital Media Excellence

2024-01-29. The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) announced the results for the seventh edition of Digital Media Awards South Asia. HT Labs, The Hindu, Prothom Alo, The Quint, and BBC News emerged as the DMA South Asia 2023 winners among more than 100 entries from news publishers across South Asia.

New World Press Trends report showcases publishers’ positive outlook amid uncertainty

2024-01-25. Against a backdrop of geopolitical instability, rapidly changing relationships with technology platforms and strategic questions raised by generative AI, the new WAN-IFRA study finds news publishers in a remarkably optimistic mood about the year ahead and their prospects further down the line.

Automation helps Norway’s Fosna-Folket convert users

2024-01-17. Norway’s Polaris Media has been highly tactical in deploying automated content in its newsrooms. One example is its Fosna-Folket title, which has used automation to leverage subscriptions.

Sales expertise, gender diversity key to digital media success, initiative finds

2024-01-11. Digital native companies with dedicated sales teams and solid gender diversity are more successful than those that do not, according to findings from a year-long multi-national research initiative by Project Oasis.

What’s next for printed newspapers? Insights from Mediahuis and FAZ

2024-01-10. Belgium-based Mediahuis and Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) share their print and digital strategies for the future.

The 5 factors driving Schibsted’s digital transformation

2023-12-22. We have written numerous times about how Schibsted in the Nordics serves as an ongoing reference in the industry for “digital transformation” done right. Of course digital transformation looks different from publisher to publisher, with different KPIs, different approaches, different successes. Here is what it looks like for Schibsted today.