ad blockers
Incisive Media plans on blocking ad-blockers in the New Year [http://digiday.com/publishers/incisive-media-become-second-u-k-publisher-ban-ad-blocker-users/] > The publisher, which has a mix of subscription-based and ad-funded magazines, is seeing 40 percent of its traffic affected by visitors with ad blockers enabled, across the titles with more technology-savvy audiences, with other
branding
> Some reputable publishing sites have these trash content modules on the bottom. Makes pennies, destroys brands. pic.twitter.com/nFEm7mNA5P [https://t.co/nFEm7mNA5P] — Jason Hirschhorn (@JasonHirschhorn) December 12, 2015 [https://twitter.com/JasonHirschhorn/status/675768830484873216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] There are good and bad varieties of these “news
iPad
My predictions for the relationship between magazine publishers and iPads five years ago [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/02/the_obligatory_ipad_for_publishers_post.html] : > * Companies will seize on the magazine-like form factor and the “book replication” iBooks interface to build what are, in effect, straight replications
news aggregators
Is Apple News actually making an impact?
business models
I’m astonished by how many people are sharing this report as good news: > At an aggregated level, combining revenues from the newspaper, book, and magazine industries across more than 50 markets worldwide, we forecast that just 24% of revenue will come from digital in 2020, up from 14%
business models
Pando, occasional unapologetic copyright thieves [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/06/pando-copyright-abuse.html], have decided to erect a paywall [https://pando.com/2015/06/22/welcome-new-pando/]: > From today, the newest articles on Pando will be available to members first. Membership costs just $10 a month (or $100 a
publishing strategy
John Gruber commenting on re/Code’s acquisition by Vox Media [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/05/28/lefsetz-news]: > My take is that if you’re going to go indie, you need to stay lean and mean. You don’t have to stay as lean and mean as I
business models
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 is offering publishers another Faustian bargain. Will they accept?
content strategy
MG Siegler [http://parislemon.com/post/111101766802/can-snapchat-bend-content-to-its-will]: > True power is when media creates content explicitly for a network, rather than simply repackaging it. A useful insight. A lot of work has been done over the last decade on workflows and tech for pushing the same content through multiple
When you Google your site do you see something like this? Let’s make that a little clearer: If you don’t, you have a problem. As of 21st April 2015 (the day this post is being published), Google isn’t just highlighting mobile-friendly sites in search results – it’s
Here’s an interesting data point in the discussion of publishing content natively into social media. A magazine that is published on Instagram [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/instagrams-tmz.html]: > Angie explained to me that Instagram perfectly suited her vision for The Shade Room: image-centric and