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The Times’ Spotify offer gets ‘really positive’ reception

Customer response to the offer of Spotify Premium membership bundled with The Times and Sunday Times website/print subscriptions has been “really positive,” says Claire Gribben, head of Times+, the company’s loyalty program.

Individual codes score for the Sun

At Printing Summit 2014, Rob Hedges, Associate Managing Editor of The Sun (News UK) describes the newspaper’s digital strategy and how the new Sun+ digital offer was launched for mobile, tablet and online. He says print customers remain an essential part of the paper’s strategy.

Reader engagement at its finest

At the Printing Summit 2014 in Munich, Publisher Iwan Ittermann of Germany presents the concept behind his +3 Magazin, an unusual publication in the sense that it relies heavily on participatory journalism for its content.

What can newspapers learn from magazines?

Samir Husni, a professor at the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi, USA, is also known as “Mr. Magazine” (www.mrmagazine.com). At the Printing Summit 2014 in Munich, he gives the audience from the newspaper community a look over the fence into the magazine market – which is not too different from the newspaper market in many aspects.

Printing Summit 2014: Print is still powerful

Munich is the venue of this year’s WAN-IFRA Printing Summit. The international newspaper printing conference has attracted nearly 60 participants. During this two-day event, the speakers – from various European countries but also from the USA, from Brazil and Sri Lanka – will cover a variety of technical and business topics.

Dow Jones launches ‘WSJ. Custom Studios’ division to help create native advertising

Last week, The Wall Street Journal announced the launch of a new content strategy division called WSJ. Custom Studios, which is part of the company’s advertising department and will work with brands to create native advertising.

Blendle and the search for the iTunes of online media

A fresh Dutch start-up has managed to unite the Netherlands’ newspapers behind a single paywall, scheduled to launch in April. It hopes to become the iTunes of online media. But haven’t we been here before with Piano Media? We spoke to the co-founder Marten Blankesteijn to find out whether Blendle might be a model that could make an industry profitable again, and work internationally.

New weekly launched in Australia: The Saturday Paper

On 1 March the first edition of the new weekly The Saturday Paper hit the streets in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. It is a newspaper that is intended to be different from any other newspaper.

Guardian digital revenues rise as newspaper future ‘secured’

Digital revenues at The Guardian have risen from £55 million to £70 million.

Cyber security is no longer just an IT problem

Cyber attacks can hit everybody and every company that is doing business via the web. The attached article (see PDF in English and German) from Shai Arbel, CFO & COO of a company called Terrogence in Israel, is about cyber security.