Publisher growth tactics for election season | WEBINAR
The ever-changing online landscape is generating a need for digital publishing businesses to become agile and adapt to shifting trends and needs. Digital marketing tools, digital publishing software, and mobile apps now help large teams scale the process of publishing editorial content, optimizing all of the content that is being pushed out and effectively engage and integrate with their users. Read about the latest digital publishing technology & tool information and applications below.
What’s Happening: Facebook is giving human-curated journalism another shot, after an infamous failure in the aftermath of charges of political bias. A team of about 10 people will be in charge of choosing high-quality articles that will appear at the top of the News Tab. Why it Matters: Following in the footsteps of Apple News […]
What’s Happening: Google has confirmed that it is making changes to its Chrome internet browser, closing a loophole that made it possible for websites to detect and intercept users who were privately browsing in incognito mode. Why it Matters: The Google Chrome change will take effect on July 30. For digital publishers who use metered […]
What’s Happening: The popularity of the app TikTok, which grew huge in China under the name Douyin, is making its way into Western culture — bringing in a new era in digital identity. The massive advertising budget behind TikTok, along with its organic growth, have both contributed to this expansion, which may make TikTok the […]
What’s Happening: One year after the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law, how has the impact of it and digital privacy affected news publishers? Why it Matters: Designed to update the privacy rights of internet users and ensure that organizations are transparent and responsible when handling customer’s personal information, GDPR went […]
What’s Happening: In March 2019, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) launched a new text-to-speech service to the public, as an improved version of its beta audio player released last October. The company shared some of its key lessons learned during the process. Digging Deeper: Google Wavenet is not enough for the Swiss German language NZZ used […]
What’s happening? Considering the pressure on digital-media business, and the need for diversification, a handful of companies– including Vox Media and New York Media— are proactively pitching their publishing tech to other media companies and publishers. Digging deeper: New York Media in collaboration with Po.et, is working to power blockchain-based development in its content-management system, […]
Mobile Posse, the technology innovator that turns telecom companies into mobile media leaders, today announced that United Press International (UPI) has leveraged Firstly Mobile, Mobile Posse’s next-gen content discovery platform distributed through wireless carriers and smartphone OEMs, to drive higher mobile user engagement. UPI, a leading provider of news and photos to millions of readers […]
Practical Photography – the UK’s biggest monthly photo magazine – has collaborated with DMA Media – experts in multi-channel, news and factual video production and distribution – to launch Photography Now. www.photographynow.tv is a dedicated video-on-demand channel for photography enthusiasts. The collaboration blends the editorial expertise and heritage of Bauer Media’s Practical Photography magazine […]
Imagine this scenario: you’re a hobbyist photographer who snaps a breathtaking photo of a sunset. You then upload it to one of Reddit’s many image-based subreddits. And then someone who runs a popular Twitter account decides to download your photo and then re-upload it to Twitter without including any attribution to you. It starts generating […]
What’s happening: The Dot’s founders, Barry Pace and Fred Rivett, started the company to address the deep disconnect between news providers and readers. Believing that the news was slowly dying, with most readers passively reading news stories from platforms like Facebook and Twitter, they set out to figure out what to do about it. They […]
What’s happening: The Swiss media group is launching a new experiment with a smart, personalised newsletter called “My NZZ.” Catering to its German-speaking audience, My NZZ automatically curates a list of articles that the reader missed during the week, personalised to each reader’s individual interests. Why it matters: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) publishes up to […]
Through the years, the tech industry has developed disruptive products and services that have forever changed the way we do everyday things. It is often that we find ourselves reading (and writing!) about the most innovative technologies of the year and how we can use them to benefit our businesses. However, 2018 might be remembered […]
What’s happening: Parse.ly Currents is a new free product for understanding news, information, and attention flows online, at a detailed and quantitative level. This information is openly and instantaneously available through a live dashboard. Why it matters: For the first time in history, deep concrete data about world news isn’t locked up in […]
What’s happening: BBC News ran a six-week experiment with the new Google AMP Stories format, announced last February, to determine whether the Instagram/Snapchat-like format would appeal to its global audience, and how difficult producing AMP Stories would be. Why it matters: BBC News is constantly trying to increase its reach in a world optimised for […]
When Rich Jaroslovsky was hired to work for the news curation app SmartNews a little over four years ago, his new bosses suggested a job title that he found curious: chief journalist. “I chuckled a little and explained that in the U.S. that’s not a common title,” he recalled in an interview (SmartNews got its […]
Verto Analytics May 2018’s report of the most popular mobile music and video apps in the United States reveals YouTube’s dominance in mobile reach. In response, we’ve seen Facebook take the fight to YouTube with Instagrams launch of IGTV. Why it matters: Here are a few reasons why YouTube is dominating to date. The percentage of […]
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