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The problem with ad blocker blocking Paid Members Public
Here’s a photo of my morning workstation: On the left, my iPad happily showing a news story about the presidential debates from last night – and the #kenbone hashtag [http://deadline.com/2016/10/ken-bone-emerges-as-winner-of-hillary-vs-donald-ii-1201833855/] in particular. On the right, my MacBook Pro showing the same story – except it’s
Newspapers' scale screw-up is no secret Paid Members Public
Digiday has published the confessions of a “senior publishing executive at a U.K newspaper” [http://digiday.com/publishers/confessions-newspaper-publishing-exec-weve-screwed-pursuing-scale-sake-scale/] . And it’s all “mea culpa”: > The digital media industry has completely screwed up by pursuing scale for the sake of scale. There’s been a relentless pursuit for
The FT's struggle are a harbinger of print's assassin: advertisers Paid Members Public
The Financial Times Discovers That a Paywall Is Not a Panacea [http://fortune.com/2016/04/22/financial-times-cuts/] The Financial Times is going through some financial hard times, and it’s down to print advertising, not the (successful) paywall. Matthew Ingram: > Lamont said in his memo to FT employees
Incisive Media decides to block the ad blockers Paid Members Public
Incisive Media plans on blocking ad-blockers in the New Year [http://digiday.com/publishers/incisive-media-become-second-u-k-publisher-ban-ad-blocker-users/] > The publisher, which has a mix of subscription-based and ad-funded magazines, is seeing 40 percent of its traffic affected by visitors with ad blockers enabled, across the titles with more technology-savvy audiences, with other
Content Blockers: a warning, not an apocalypse Paid Members Public
MG Seigler makes a good point about the content blocker panic [https://500ish.com/your-right-to-write-8ac06bedc945]: > Having downloaded and installed one myself (Peace), I can say with a good amount of certainty that the likelihood of “regular” users picking these apps up en masse is nearly nil. Not only is
iOS 9 - adbockers selling fast Paid Members Public
Uh-oh [http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/17/ios-9s-main-attraction-adblocking/]: > Less than 24 hours after the release of iOS 9, it’s interesting to see that adblockers are shooting to the top of the charts in the App Store worldwide. Content blockers, which allow users to block advertising, trackers and
Was Gigaom's revenue model really broken? Paid Members Public
Should we be taking a harder look at the potential ad revenue of the (defunct) Gigaom [http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2015/03/15/what-are-the-lessons-to-be-learned-from-the-fall-of-gigaom-what-does-it-tell-us-if-a-passionate-niche-audience-of-6-5m-cant-earn-people-a-web-living/] ? Rick Waghorn thinks so: > Maybe, just maybe, the fall of the Gigaom empire is the first tremor of a bigger earthquake; evidence that something is
Buying your way out of ad blocking Paid Members Public
Robert Cookson, for the Financial Times, reports that companies are paying their way out of ad-blocking [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/80a8ce54-a61d-11e4-9bd3-00144feab7de.html]: > Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Taboola have quietly paid the German start-up behind Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular software for blocking online advertising,
