Facebook changes reduced time spent on site by 50 million hours a day
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that the changes the company made to its service last year reduced time spent on the site by 50…
Apple breaks record for biggest ever company profit despite iPhone sales fall
Apple has posted the biggest quarterly profit of all time despite a fall in iPhone sales. The world’s biggest company posted profits of $20.1bn (£14bn) in the crucial…
The iPad lost years for Apple’s media partners
The iPhone maker took newspaper and magazine companies on a detour to a boondoggle. Apple Inc. is revamping its digital bookstore in another attempt to take on…
Buzzfeed founder says Facebook should pay for content on News Feed
Buzzfeed founder and chief executive Jonah Peretti has said Facebook is not sharing revenue from its News Feed, despite publishers providing a “large chunk” of…
Fraud in social media?
The New York Times did a major story on fraud in social media — specifically Twitter — last week. It was a very well done story. But here’s the…
Twitter is working on a Snapchat-style video sharing tool
Twitter is working on a new Snapchat-style feature that makes it easier to post videos on the social-media company’s app, according to people familiar with…
Rupert Murdoch tells Facebook to pay ‘trusted’ publishers
Rupert Murdoch is calling on Facebook to pay “trusted” publishers if it wants to carry their news stories and videos, much like a cable company…
Facebook News Feed changes are a case of ‘keep calm and carry on’
Changes to Facebook’s news feed are a case of “keep calm and carry on”, according to Trinity Mirror’s group digital director, as news organisations agree…
Snapchat rolls out publisher charm offensive
Publishers still reeling from the Facebook news feed-pocalypse might find comfort in Snapchat. The disappearing messages app is stepping up efforts to curry favor with publishers. On…
Facebook killing news is the best thing that happened to news
On January 12, Facebook announced that it would begin to de-prioritize news publishers and their stories in users’ News Feed over highly engaged-with content shared between friends…
Advertisers see merits of Facebook algorithm change
Last week, Facebook unveiled its biggest news feed algorithm change to date, favoring content from friends and family over posts from companies. But while publishers are…
Media winners and losers of Facebook’s feed purge
Publishers had plenty of warning the Great Facebook News Feed Purge was coming. That doesn’t make the news any less painful for many. Winners Giant publishers Facebook…
Facebook changes could help the media kick its algorithm addiction
Some are hopeful that Facebook’s changes, while painful, could convince publishers that shallow traffic from a social network is no replacement for real engagement with passionate audiences.…
How many people did that story reach? It depends who’s counting
As digital publishers bet big on video in search of advertising riches, many believe that a traditional method of media measurement isn’t keeping up. Publishers…
Facebook stops putting news in front of readers, what now?
For publishers who have come to rely on traffic from Facebook — which for some still drives the majority of their traffic; for many others,…
News publishers told to reduce reliance on Facebook amid steep drop in user engagement
News publishers will need to reduce their reliance on Facebook to survive, experts have warned, as figures show a dramatic drop in interactions with their…
No tracking, no revenue: Apple’s privacy feature costs ad companies millions
Internet advertising firms are losing hundreds of millions of dollars following the introduction of a new privacy feature from Apple that prevents users from being tracked…
What does Zuckerberg’s pledge of fixing Facebook’s issues really mean for news?
What if Facebook, struggling with the global “fake news” problem, just threw up its Like hands and de-prioritized news altogether? In the dawn of 2018,…
Facebook will ‘completely deprioritize publishers’
For the latest installment of our Confessions series, in which we exchange anonymity for candor, we spoke to an audience development head at a midsize digital…
Apple Podcast Analytics is finally live
Oh look, it finally happened! A little over a week before Christmas, no less. On December 14, 2017, Cupertino finally rolled out its long-awaited in-episode…
