news app

Engaged reading digest: members-only apps, and the funnel is back Members Public

The Guardian launches a member-only app, people are discovering funnels a decade late, and HuffPo is on the auction block.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
engaged reading digest

The stealth success of Apple News Members Public

I woke to unexpectedly happy news this morning – one of my (meagre) blog posts from last week had killed it on traffic: That’s a normal week’s worth of traffic on a single post. Not bad. And I was completely unaware until that point. Why? Because all the traffic

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
analytics

Compass News: the latest attempt to build a Netflix for news Members Public

There’s a new journalism aggregator in town, called Compass – and it’s attempting to be a Netflix for news [http://www.compassnews.co.uk/]. Isolde Walters spoke to Matilde Giglio about the subscription-based app [https://www.girlwithoutaniche.com/home/2017/3/13/w10i9y1x2vrkxbu17qgziqhg26ord7] : > It’s a bit like

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

Apple makes Apple News tools open to all Members Public

Some big news hitting about Apple News – the news reading app that ships with all iOS devices. The Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/15/apple-news-is-now-open-to-publishers-of-all-sizes/] : > Apple is getting really serious about the publishing business. The company announced Tuesday that it’s rolling out

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
ambient news

Why Apple created its News app Members Public

Apple’s Eddie Cue, speaking to CNN’s Brian Stelter: > “We’ve only created the apps that we think everyone uses every day… We really wanted to create a single app that all customers could go to, to read all their news — no matter what they are interested in,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
apple news

Apple's News app: no publishing from iPad Members Public

Oh, the irony. You can’t (currently) sign up for Apple’s new News Publisher [https://developer.apple.com/news-publisher/] (for the new News app [http://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-preview/#apps]) on the iPad it’ll be publishing to. More thoughts on News to come – once I’m done

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
apple