tiktok Five great reads from the online content mines Plus some jobs, a tip, and Lagerfeld’s iPods. Yes, really. Adam Tinworth May 7, 2022 5 min read
audience strategy Why did some publishers gain traffic from the Facebook outage? Despite many publishers using Facebook to attract readers, some sites saw a boost from the extended outage last night. And some took a hit. Here's why. Adam Tinworth Oct 5, 2021 5 min read
facebook Single point of (Facebook) failure Facebook has wiped itself, WhatsApp and Instagram off the internet. And the longer they stay down, the more some publishers will be suffering… Adam Tinworth Oct 4, 2021 4 min read
Members only facebook Local news, for local people, by local creators (sponsored by Facebook) Facebook's local news investment, Greenwald's Yes, Minster moment and more news from the "new media" trenches. Adam Tinworth May 4, 2021 4 min read
Members only Morning Conference emails Morning Conference: turn those damn comments off (now that you can) Adam Tinworth Apr 6, 2021 2 min read
Paid members only Morning Conference emails Morning Conference: AI good, Facebook bad An LSE-led initiative attempts to get ahead of the curve, while we're all still paying the price of letting Facebook get out of hand Adam Tinworth Mar 24, 2021 2 min read
Paid members only business models Catch-up Digital Digest #1: revenue, vaccines and more Welcome to the 2021. Let's catch-up. Or try to, at least. Adam Tinworth Jan 5, 2021 4 min read
social networks Attack of the clones: all social networks are NOT becoming the same Yes, all social networks are developing the same feature set. No, that doesn’t mean they’re all becoming the same. Here’s why. Adam Tinworth Nov 30, 2020 3 min read
twitter Social & Digital coffee break: 3 stories in 3 sentences Because your time is precious, and I respect it, dammit. Adam Tinworth Nov 20, 2020 4 min read
facebook Social & Digital coffee break: escaping the Facebook shadow It’s not really a surprise that Facebook can’t be trusted — but are we really taking the steps we need to end our additions to it? This, and many other useful topics in today’s digest. Adam Tinworth Oct 29, 2020 7 min read
Members only niche Metamorphosis of the Journalist In today’s round-up of good internet reading, we learn to love the niche, look (again( at newsletters, and get attention hacking Adam Tinworth Oct 14, 2020 4 min read
comments The need for intelligent skepticism, proved through links Can you trust your commenters? Can you trust your transcription service? In the digital world, here be dragons… Adam Tinworth Oct 9, 2020 4 min read
facebook Facebook launches new Groups tools, and Google spends lobbying money on journalism Facebook does a good thing, and Google does something that merely looks nice. This is platform economy life. Adam Tinworth Oct 2, 2020 5 min read
YouTube “Hey, Guys”: the latest on YouTube, Facebook oversight and more YouTube is a huge source of news, Facebook gets a hostile oversight board. Just another Tuesday in the digital culture wars. Adam Tinworth Sep 29, 2020 3 min read
audio Get some audio in your engagement strategy Why audio is critical to your audience engagement thinking, why hashtags are back on Facebook, and more to spark your imagination this week… Adam Tinworth Sep 22, 2020 7 min read
Members only analytics On engagement metrics and Facebook malignancy Today's thesis: engagement metrics are unfairly maligned, but Facebook deserves every piece of criticism thrown at it. Adam Tinworth Sep 15, 2020 6 min read
Members only tiktok Weaning media off its social addiction Kicking the social media traffic fix, plus links on the tricks of pseudoscience and the future of media. Adam Tinworth Sep 8, 2020 4 min read
facebook Five Morning Links #2: Unleash the Zuckercopier Is this the Reels life? Or is it just Facebook fantasy? Adam Tinworth Aug 6, 2020 4 min read
facebook Facebook is an accelerator of our toxic times, not its cause Facebook has merely harnessed and amplified the networks already at work online. Blaming the symptom for the problem is no route to a solution. Adam Tinworth Jul 6, 2020 7 min read
Members only social media Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks. The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please? Adam Tinworth Jul 3, 2020 5 min read