What's New in Publishing

Comparing the economic health of national news outlets to their local counterparts almost feels like you’re comparing two entirely…

Mozilla’s Firefox browser has begun to encrypt domain names by default.

In developing eCommerce strategies, it makes strategic sense for publishers to identify propositions which build on their existing…

Data growth leads to higher programmatic investment, enabling automated buying

“Traffic to the top 100 sites globally reached 223B monthly visits in 2019,” according to Similarweb’s 2020 Digital Trends report.

Powerhouse business and tech publishers The Information and Bloomberg Media have come together to offer a joint subscription to both…

For many publishers, a key priority for the year ahead involves growing revenues from readers. This is nothing new. In recent years, the…

People who read 10 times a month are 50% less likely to churn, according to research by Twipe. The company, which specializes in products…

Not everyone is a fan of the Facebook News Feed algorithm.

It’s a well-trodden hype cycle in the media industry. Some new technology comes along and starts to take off, publishers rush to invest…

The total audience on Instagram has surpassed that on Facebook globally for the first time, according to a new report.

First Facebook offered to pay publishers “millions of dollars”. Now Google is following suit.

If you survey the field of publisher subscription models, you’ll basically find that the vast majority of media outlets utilize one of two…

Bonnier Corp., one of the largest special-interest publishing groups in America, is set to launch a line of Popular Science-branded STEM…

Within days of Google revealing — for the first time — how much revenue YouTube generates ($15 billion-a-year), it’s rolling out more ways…

The GNI Subscriptions Labs program will be expanded to Europe, building on the success of similar Labs in North America and Latin America…

AdAge’s Marketing Fact Pack 2020 projects that the US online ad spend will rise to about 60% of all advertising outlay by 2022. This is in…

‘All-you-can-read’ digital magazine app Readly has released its annual report into the trends, habits and insights of readers on its…

Days after The New York Times reported record subscriptions, News Corp announced that The Wall Street Journal has crossed the 2 million…

More and more publishers are putting up paywalls because ad revenues continue to reduce. According to a new report, “roughly 76% of…

Dotdash is an anomaly in the current business landscape where publishers facing dwindling ad revenues are increasingly looking at other…

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Food, travel and entertainment digital media site Thrillist is the latest publisher to move into travel packages as a way of diversifying…

A little over a year ago, I wrote about the popping of what I called the “VC-fueled media bubble.” For a period spanning from about 2012…