Andy Baker has over twenty years’ experience of building digital media businesses, including start-ups, turnarounds, and the buying and integration of acquisitions. He runs The Lawyer,…
The impact of the pandemic (on the media industry) may be smaller than expected, according to Tim Peterson, Senior Reporter, Digiday. Petersen talked with several…
In a world where consumers are accustomed to getting many digital goods for free—from apps to podcasts to instant facts online—convincing them to fork over…
The Financial Times marked 130 years in 2018, with a paying readership of more than 930,000, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions. It was also…
Many quality publishers are navigating the “valley of death” on their migration from an advertising-funded model to one more reliant on direct reader revenue. It’s…
Earlier this month, News UK announced a major subscription milestone with The Times and The Sunday Times reaching 500,000 subscribers at the end of June…
Adopting a membership orientation can be a simple and powerful way for media companies to reinvent their business models. In fact, membership can make them…
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…
AOP and Deloitte reveal UK publishers’ total digital revenue has increased 5.6% on a 12-month rolling basis to December 2017, largely driven by display advertising.…
It’s here. Yesterday Google launched Subscribe with Google – the simple way to subscribe to news publications and maintain access everywhere: websites, apps, even search results.…
With many magazines struggling to maintain cash-flow and build a solid business model an ability to develop sustainable income streams is crucial. Mary Hogarth investigates…
Publishers are racing to own the money-making machine that is the daily news podcast. The medium has become industrialized, in quite an exciting way. It’s shaping…
Funding for the news industry is going through an epochal change, the implications of which cannot be overstated. The move toward subscriptions will require measuring…
Without generating revenues directly from readers, journalism is doomed, write the editors of FIPP and Innovation Media Consulting’s Innovation World Report in their editors’ letter…
Publishers are pinning their hopes on paywalls as the primary means of supporting the journalism they produce. Last week the UK’s current affairs title The…
Trinity Mirror, one of the largest British newspaper, magazine and digital publishing groups, is to change its name to Reach after completing a deal to buy the Daily Express…