With AdBlock Plus announcing just this week that it now has 100 million active installations (double what it claimed in January 2016), ad blocking is clearly an ongoing and growing threat for news publishers. To help publishers address this topic, WAN-IFRA has just released the industry’s most comprehensive report available on ad blocking and strategies for news publishers.
It may have taken Croatia’s leading media company, 24sata, a few failed attempts to succeed in video but the tenacity has paid off in a big way.
Though their direct contribution to RCS MediaGroup’s bottom line is modest, e-commerce activities indirectly boost the Italo-Spanish group’s revenues by strengthening reader loyalty and collecting a great deal of information about readers’ interests.
N. Ram is one of journalism’s big thinkers. In a lecture delivered in Chennai last week, the Chairman of Kasturi & Sons Ltd and Publisher of The Hindu group of newspapers said quality investigations could invigorate and revive trust in professional journalism.
In a face-off over the writing of a 400-word analysis piece, the Financial Times set up Employment Correspondent Sarah O’Connor to compete against a robot. The battle confirmed the FT’s take on robot journalism: It’s not the kind of journalism we produce. Senior Editor Sue Matthias tells us more.
At least 200 German newspapers feature artwork from Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei to mark World Press Freedom Day, last Monday.
“On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, we appeal for your support and endorsement in our latest campaign to prioritise the safety of journalists – an issue we know is of deep concern to you all.”
Uncertainty reigns today in digital news publishing and that was evident at Digital Media Europe in Vienna last week. But there was also some true moxy on display. With a little crowdsourcing, here are our takeaways from the event that drew 330 executives from 35 countries.
Liz Heron, Executive Editor at the Huffington Post, ran the journalism partnerships at Facebook for two years after a long career as a Digital Editor at the Washington Post, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. This experience makes her particularly well-placed to discuss the evolving relationship between platforms and publishers – and its consequences for journalism.
“I think that with the #12 app we have created an open dialogue on ‘quality’ that can increase the readers’ satisfaction. We are thinking about how we can do similar things on our other news platforms,” Michael Marti of Switzerland-based Tamedia told participants at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference in Vienna last week.
It’s tempting to chase low-cost video views – for example to republish a low-res YouTube clip of someone in Ireland transporting a sofa in an open truck during a storm. But all three presenters in our video panel at #DME16 had the same message: refocus on quality.
In a panel discussion about ad blocking at #DME16, three publishers with very strong brands – The New York Times, BILD, Verdens Gang – and advertising media giant GroupM shared some of their insights, strategies and results thus far. Here are some takeaways from that panel.