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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
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,
Native advertising: good for publishers, terrible for brands? Paid Members Public
Copyranter on Buzzfeed’s flavour of native advertising [http://copyranter.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/buzzfeeds-native-advertising-is-nothing.html] : > In an interview with Wired last February, Peretti spouted [http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/02/features/buzzfeed] about how they “label everything really maniacally” (How does one label an
Allister Frost: Noble marketing through brain hacking? Paid Members Public
*Liveblog: open to error, inaccuracies and howling typos*** ** [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/09/allister-frost.jpg] Allister Frost, managing director, Wild Orange Media [http://www.wildorangemedia.com] Have we ever been to Go Ape [http://goape.co.uk]? He has. And he’s talking about