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Consolidation in newspaper printing: Experts discuss the why and how

2023-12-11. At the beginning of the second day of the World Printers Forum in Frankfurt am Main, a panel discussion on the topic “Consolidation in newspaper printing” was held in German – especially for the DACH region.

New WAN-IFRA report: JP Politikens’ case for making distribution a viable revenue option

WAN-IFRA and its World Printers Forum just published a new report, examining how JP Politikens Media Group in Denmark uses its Dansk Avis Omdeling (DAO) subsidiary, the dominant distribution company in the country, to drive new revenue. The case study is a good reminder of how a publisher can look within their core business to possibly create new business.

WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards Middle East 2023 Winners Announced

2023-12-05. WAN-IFRA announced today the winners of the Digital Media Awards Middle East 2023. The annual competition stands as a beacon for digital trends, revenues, and technologies in the media landscape, drawing the top-level publishers, editors, and digital executives who are shaping the future of news media.

Japan’s Nikkei aims for greater subscriber engagement through new metrics

2023-11-29. By rethinking the data and metrics they use, practising customer segmentation and listening carefully to subscribers, as well as sharing learnings with the FT, Nikkei strives to stay ahead of the game in terms of digital subscriptions.

Konsolidierung im Zeitungsdruck: Expertenrunde diskutierte detailliert das Warum und Wie

2023-11-28. Zu Beginn des zweiten Veranstaltungstages (12. Oktober 2023) vom World Printers Forum in Frankfurt am Main fand – speziell für den DACH-Raum – eine Diskussionsrunde zum Thema „Konsolidierung im Zeitungsdruck“ in deutscher Sprache statt.

How The Guardian continues to drive print revenues through subscriptions

2023-11-24. The Guardian has maintained its subscription growth in print while also growing its digital revenues and audience, which now has 81 million unique monthly visitors globally. The Guardian’s publishing director Mylene Sylvestre explains how they have achieved this.

WAN-IFRA, Google News Initiative launch a reader revenue lab for Latin American media

2023-11-21. For four months, a total of 15 teams from Latin American news organisations will participate in a laboratory funded by the Google News initiative, with the aim of helping them optimise and enhance their reader revenue models.

‘The more you read, the less you churn,’ and other lessons from Norway’s Amedia

2023-11-16. Amedia publishes more than 80 regional newspapers across Norway, but for nearly four years now, digital has been their biggest subscription product.

DC Thomson: New focus on communities brings big gains in paying digital subscribers

2023-11-08. Four years ago, Scottish publisher DC Thomson had fewer than 1,000 paying digital-only subscribers. Today, they have more than 30,000. This is the story of how they did it.

Listen up: Podcasts becoming increasingly important for Politiken

2023-11-02. “We see that people who listen to our podcasts actually stay longer on the articles as well, so this is an area we want to focus more on,” says Amalie Kestler, Managing Editor-in-Chief of Politiken, Denmark’s largest newspaper.