Last month we announced our intention to start The Independent Publishers Alliance (IPA). We, the founders of the IPA, have spent much of our careers at independent publishers and it felt to us, at least, that independent publishers have largely been left to fend for...
Independent Publisher Alliance launches in UK, Subscription Economy grows by 435%, and more... Independent Publisher Alliance launches in UK. Larger UK publishers and media groups have long benefitted from strategic alliances—the Ozone Project being a perfect example. Not so for smaller and mid-tier publishers, who...
Newly launched, The Independent Publisher Alliance has been founded to give mid-size UK publishers a larger voice and to use its collective strength to educate, collaborate and support each other. The goal? To maximize our potential and to strengthen our joint bargaining power across all...
While the pandemic has been tough on most publishers, a “significant minority” have continued to do well, according to a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). The report looks into the financial impact of Covid-19 on independent newsrooms across...
After years of hyperbole and overinflation, 2019 was a year of course correction for publishers looking to move into audio and video, with the green shoots of success starting to show, says Chris Sutcliffe in this chapter from our Media Moments 2019 report. After the gold...
Entry for theWorld Media Awards 2020, the only awards to celebrate the collaboration between brands, agencies and media partners to create effective international content campaigns, is now open. Now in their fifth year, the independent World Media Awards (WMAs) are hosted by the World Media...
WAN-IFRA has released a new report, Unlocking Journalism Resilience: Adapting a Digital Business Model to Promote Press Freedom. It examines how news publishers in politically and financially challenging environments are trying to build resilient business models. Countries covered in the report include Kenya, South Africa,...
It’s difficult to track the true cost of ad fraud, with estimates varying from $5.8 billion to $23 billion in 2019. But no matter what the estimate, fraudsters are taking advantage of the programmatic ecosystem’s complexities to funnel ad dollars to fake websites that should be going to legitimate...
Google accused of 'stealing publisher traffic', why China is the world's largest contributor to new ad dollars, and more... How UK publishers are making media pay This week, we were out and about at two publisher events in London. Both events - the first hosted by...
French media companies have formed an alliance to collaborate on a common tech platform that will allow users to access their websites through a unified login system, reports Digiday. The yet unnamed alliance comprises 10 media companies across news publishing, radio, and broadcast. They include...
Will 2019 be the year when we see publishers fight back against the rise of the big four – Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA)? Even though, with the tech giants investing more in creating their own content in addition to aggregating content created by...
Founded in 2012 by CEO Stéphane Dugelay, mediarithmics is an end-to-end Data Marketing Platform (comprising DMP, DSP, CMP, marketing automation, and DCO technologies) – or more succinctly, a Universal Data Platform. Headquartered in Paris and operating across 16 European countries as well as the U.S.,...
Hot on the heels of the launch of the PUBLISH Protocol, TokenPost, a leading blockchain and cryptocurrency media outlet, has announced a new initiative to bring blockchain benefits to the media industry. The team has launched “PUBLISH Alliance” – a decentralized non-profit enterprise media consortium which...
Entry for the World Media Awards 2019 - the only awards that celebrate the effectiveness of cross platform, cross border, content-driven advertising - has opened, with the announcement of a brand new category. The new "Content Leadership & Innovation Award" will be awarded to the...
With the rapid evolution of technology and the consequent shift to digital, journalism has been forced to evolve and thus the reliable business structure that had worked so well before has been forced to change. Launched in May 2013, The Conversation UK was among the first...
An initiative in The Netherlands to develop an advanced, independent and cross-media audience measurement system incorporating the viewing, reading and listening of/to media and advertising across all platforms, represents a growing global trend among publishers who want to win back trust, both from audiences and...
The World Media Group* has unveiled the shortlist for its 2018 World Media Awards, revealing the world's best content-driven, cross-border advertising campaigns. The awards attracted interest from across the globe, with entries coming in from Austria, Botswana, Canada, Finland, Malta, the Netherlands, Israel, Pakistan and...