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More useful reads from the audience engagement mines.
Google search goes mobile first - desktop database relegated
Google is going to make its forthcoming mobile search index its primary dataset [http://searchengineland.com/google-divide-index-giving-mobile-users-better-fresher-content-261037] : > Google is going to create a separate mobile index within months, one that will be the main or “primary” index that the search engine uses to respond to queries. A separate desktop
Facebook Instant Articles for all publishers, come April
Interesting news from the folks at Facebook – Instant Articles for all [http://media.fb.com/2016/02/17/opening-up-instant-articles/]: > We’re excited to announce that on April 12th at Facebook’s F8 conference, we will be opening up the Instant Articles program to all publishers—of any size, anywhere
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Welcome to a mobile-only world for journalism
Catalina Albeanu reporting on the National Readership Survey results [https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/nrs-most-of-national-audience-now-mobile-only-at-4-uk-newspapers/s2/a566249/] : > Some 56.9 per cent of Independent readers access the title only from their smartphones or tablets, followed by 53.2 per cent at the Daily Mirror, 51.5 per cent
Buzzfeed
Publishers missed mobile - and notifications are the next opportunity
Possibly the most depressing paragraph [https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/guardian-s-executive-editor-of-digital-mobile-has-snuck-up-on-us-/s2/a565489/] I’ve read in a long time: > Speaking on the panel at the launch of the report in London, the Guardian’s executive editor of digital Aron Pilhofer said “mobile has snuck up” on publishers
business models
From digital pounds to mobile pennies
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
Facebook's Instant Articles - an instant opportunity (with a price)
Facebook is offering publishers another Faustian bargain. Will they accept?
david carr
Beware Facebookers bearing gifts…
There’s a fascinating piece from David Carr on the New York Times website today, looking at the relationship between Facebook and news publishers [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/facebook-offers-life-raft-but-publishers-are-wary.html?referrer=&_r=1] . But it needs to be read with caution. Some parts of
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News is going mobile - but how?
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/mobile-mobile.jpg] Frédéric Filloux did a useful round-up of the current state of play of news on mobile devices [http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/07/06/mobile-facts-to-keep-in-mind-part-1/]. This is of particular note: > According to Flurry Analytics, apps now
adaptive design
Publishers' mobile blindspot
Henry Taylor [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/mobile-site-adoption-design-vibrant-media] : > With many publishers reporting that half their audience or more is now coming from mobile devices, it’s surprising, and slightly worrying, that almost half of “the most popular print media publications in the United Kingdom” – 45 percent – do not have
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A brand new, responsive OM&HB
The days when I switched my blog design every few months are very long gone, but here we are again with a new look OM&HB, only 20 months after the last one [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/08/one_man_his_blog_rebooted.html] . Here’s what
business models
The Financial Times is a majority digital and mobile business
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/Anish-Kapoor7-3574.html] Two notable things from the FT’s 2013 results [http://aboutus.ft.com/2014/02/28/67012/#axzz2ubXzXlYB]: > The FT’s total circulation grew 8% year-on-year to 652,000 across print and online, the highest paying readership in