9 Takeaways from the Digital News Report 2018
Damian Radcliffe rounds up the key takeaways from the seventh Digital News Report Today sees the publication of the seventh Digital News Report from the Reuters…
‘Ethics don’t scale’: After Facebook debacle, new calls for a Digital Protection Agency
We’re in an era of breaches and violations and stolen identities. For the most part we’re dealing with global entities that own the means whereby…
Cambridge Analytica furore sparks renewed calls for Honest Ads Act
Shadow UK digital minister Liam Byrne, the Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, has sparked calls for a new UK version of the Honest Ads…
Viral publishers see sharp engagement drops on Facebook
WNIP reported last week how online publisher LittleThings had shut down after Facebook’s algorithm change cut its organic reach by 75 percent. But it’s not the…
Pinterest, Google, & Instagram big winners as Facebook share of visits falls 8% in 2017
Looking back on 2017, we saw a major tide shift in how sites receive their traffic. After years of strong growth by Social Networks, Search finally…
Unilever warns social media to clean up “toxic” content
Consumer goods giant Unilever, one of the world’s biggest online advertisers, has fired a warning shot across the bows of social media giants by threatening…
Premium editorial sites outperform social media for long-term memory encoding
A new study by Newsworks (the UK marketing body for national newspapers) and the Association for Online Publishing (AOP) has found that left brain memory…
