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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? 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 […]
By now you’re probably tired of hearing about Cambridge Analytica, but there is something you may be overlooking; Cambridge Analytica is bigger than Facebook. What matters isn’t just how Facebook adjusts its data privacy approach. Other businesses, including publishers, need to get serious about protecting their consumers’ data. Any business that operates online has a […]
Sociall is part of another series of social networking startups providing an alternative to the incumbent giants, Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat & YouTube. Sociall is described as a secure and private decentralized social network for all. Sociall encrypts all data and multimedia uploads and stores it securely all over the world, making it completely decentralized. Jade […]
Early uses of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have been noted since 2012, but its use has been on the rise particularly this past year through applications in immersive journalism. TechRepublic summarizes its potential when they say that VR will not only bring change to the media industry but also to the future adoption of technology. It […]
Vero, a fairly new social media app, has seen a sudden rise in new users, following the growth of dissatisfaction from existing social networking sites Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat and its approach in tackling digital addiction. Needless to say, Instagram’s, SnapChat’s, and Facebook’s latest round of updates didn’t sit well, and when this happens, users tend […]
Facebook is planning to experiment with a range of new creator tools and experiences, in a bid to lure content creators to its platform, competing directly against YouTube and Patreon. In November 2017, Facebook’s dedicated creator app for video and Facebook for Creators community products were introduced as part of the first step towards encouraging users […]
