business models
From digital pounds to mobile pennies Paid Members Public
The mobile problem [http://adage.com/article/digital/publishers-stare-sh-t-mobile-moment/297017/]: > Last year, mobile constituted 60% of time spent on digital, up from 53% in 2013, according to ComScore. Yes, this mobile explosion is helping goose traffic at media sites. But they’re failing to monetize it quickly enough, resulting
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
If Medium is exploiting you - that's your problem Paid Members Public
Matthew Butterick [http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html]: > Among web-publishing tools, I see Medium as the equivalent of a frozen pizza: not as wholesome as a meal you could make yourself, but for those with out the time or motivation to cook, a potentially better option than just eating peanut
LeWeb: Surviving media evolution Paid Members Public
Panel * Ben Huh, Cheezburger * Michael J. Wolf, Activate * Frédéric Filloux, Groupe Les Echos * Host: Cedric Ingrand, Podcaster & resident geek at LCI/TF1 The revenue challenge [https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/Frederic-Filloux.jpg] Frédéric Filloux: This will be the first year in six years
When advertising goes native Paid Members Public
So, this happened while I was away: Yes, we need new sources of income in digital. But I’m deeply unconvinced that “native” advertising is the future. We’re essentially running a huge experiment to see if the old view – that compromising editorial values with paid content would erode the
The FT launches a Weekend web app Paid Members Public
One of the interesting things to surface in the work Neil [http://www.onlydeadfish.co.uk] & I did with the FT last summer was how different the readership for the paper is at the weekend. It looked like there might be an opportunity there. Well, it appears that the
The Press and Journal gets a metered paywall, via Piano Media Paid Members Public
News from the north: The Press and Journal is using Piano Media’s tech for a metered paywall [https://www.pianomedia.com/102/piano-media-secures-first-uk-client] – the first UK company to do so: > DC Thomson’s Head of Digital, Kirsten Morrison said, “After looking at the various paid content solution providers,
31-3.8 - Journalism will survive - but you might not recognise it Paid Members Public
The future of journalistic publication might not look very much like its past…
