Twitter to launch…micropayments: The Media Roundup
Today’s roundup is brought to you by Esther Twitter will (apparently) let publishers charge per article starting in May If you were wise enough to switch…
“Generates thousands of pageviews”: Reddit comes into its own for publishers
A new partnership between Reddit and NewsWhip allows publishers to predict which topics might be trending in the coming days or even weeks. The platform…
Goodbye, BuzzFeed News: The Media Roundup
Today’s roundup is brought to you by Chris BuzzFeed News is ‘beginning the process’ of closing down This has felt grimly inevitable for a while…
Why publishers are putting their podcasts on YouTube: The Media Roundup
Today’s roundup is brought to you by Chris NPR quits Twitter after false label debacle There’s lots in here about Musk’s bizarre latest interview with the…
Google’s core update causes search volatility
The latest algorithm update led to more fluctuations in search positioning than previous updates Google’s March 2023 core update, rolled out over 13 days between…
What is the real value of Facebook to publishers?
News content links account for less than 3% of posts people see in their feeds A report commissioned by Meta about Facebook’s relationship with news…
Substack Notes feature lets users do Twitter stuff: The Media Roundup
Today’s roundup is brought to you by Peter Substack Notes feature lets users do Twitter stuff Techcrunch is reporting that Substack’s new short-form ‘Notes’ feed looks…
Google Trends, refreshed for 2023
Trends information is now updated every hour with links included to related news articles Google has given its Google Trends website a facelift. As well as a…
“Facebook is still the best channel”: Publisher survey on engaging Gen Z springs a few surprises
Arc XP and Digiday’s recently released joint report, the State of Publisher Audiences, shows that whilst Facebook is down, it is far from out when…
Snapchat competing with ‘insane’ revenue shares for creators: The Media Roundup
Today’s roundup is brought to you by Peter gal-dem to close after eight years In a statement shared on Friday, staff at the print and online…
How The Economist reached 2.7M subscribers using LinkedIn: The Media Roundup
Today’s roundup is brought to you by Esther “Legacy is a positive word for us”: How TIME thrives on its century-old reputation At the beginning of…
Google and Microsoft are embedding AI into workspace apps: Major productivity boost expected
Google and Microsoft are on a mission to remove the drudgery from computing, by bringing next-generation AI tools as add-ons to existing services. Recently, Microsoft announced an…
Platforms don’t owe publishers a living, but they do owe them compensation: Here’s why
An alternative opinion about why the tech giants should be compensating publishers, and which models would work for organisations of all sizes There’s been a…
3 search giants release next-gen AI tools: Visits on Bing rise 15.8%
Baidu’s stock fell 6.4% following the release; Google’s ranking algorithm may have a competitive edge The hype around generative AI seems to have lasted forever…
Publishers: New report benchmarks social media reach
There are 4.5 billion social media users worldwide, but publishers could be making more of the opportunity Social media usage is higher than ever, but…
Should we regulate social media platforms based on where they call home?
The current debate over TikTok has surfaced a number of arguments on both sides. However, if the UK is to strengthen regulation, it should not…
How SEO automation can save publishers time and money
SEO automation can save resources that could be better spent improving overall publishing strategies SEO can be a repetitive business, with the same tasks coming…
Analysis of the top 100 French websites that offer video content, and their ‘Core Web Vitals’
An analysis of the top 100 French websites that offer video content shows, like many countries, a haphazard performance in terms of Google’s Core Web…
“Glamorising the banality of life”: BeReal, the social media app you don’t know, but will soon
A huge hit with GenZ, the photo-sharing app BeReal is potentially the next big thing in social with 32M downloads in the States and 10M…
Meta is building a Twitter replacement
Codenamed P92, it’ll be a decentralized, text-based social network Meta is working on a decentralized social app, according to reports by Platformer and MoneyControl. “Twitter’s…
