Web ad spending seen passing newspapers in 2013 [BizJournals]

The Internet's share of global advertising revenue still trails
newspapers but that will change sometime in 2013, a new report
projects. ZenithOptimedia projects that newspaper ad revenue will
decline by about 6 percent to $88.8 billion between 2010 and 2013.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2011/12/05/web-ad-spending-seen-passi...

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Why the Economist prospers: intelligence, mobile, good branding and simple reader offers [TheMediaBriefing]

Magazine industry struggles. The Economist grows each year. Somehow,
those two trends have been with us for much of the last decade.
Further evidence arrived on Monday as Economist Group reported
operating profit 6 percent higher at £26. 2 million, for the first six
months of the financial year, and revenue up 4 percent to £164.

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-11-28/why-the-economist-prospers...

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Google launches data journalism awards with Global Editors Network [Journalism.co.uk]

Google will partner with the Global Editors Network to offer a new
data journalism contest aimed at both "established news organisations
and newcomers". Director of external relations for EMEA at Google
Peter Barron announced the awards at the first news summit held by the
Global Editors Network, which launched in March this year.

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/google-launches-data-journalism-awards-with-...

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[VIDEO] Former Reed Elsevier analyst on the science of media pricing [TheMediaBriefing]

Are you pricing your content intelligently? Or is your pricing model
lacking a scientific approach? Jimmy Gasteen is the CEO and founder of
Precursive, a new media business consultancy firm and previously a
pricing analyst at Reed Elsevier.

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-11-27/Former-Reed-Elsevier-analy...

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Search and aggregation to overtake B2B publishing sector revenue by 2014 [TheMediaBriefing]

Remember when people used to stand up at media industry conferences
and say “content is king”? Here’s some evidence to the contrary:
search is going to be worth more than news in information/professional
publishing in the next three years, according to analysts.

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-11-24/search-and-aggregation-to-...

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Publishers need advertisers to value their online readership [Guardian]

Newspaper publishers need to quickly solve a troublesome equation. As
carbon-based readership keeps dwindling, the growing legion of digital
readers is poorly accounted for. This benefits advertisers who pay
less for their presence. Putting aside websites audience measurement,
we'll focus instead on the currently ill-defined notion of digital
editions. A subject of importance since digital editions are poised to
play a key role in the future of online information.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/28/tablet-computer-digital-media

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Study: 88 percent use social media for PR, although marketers lead efforts [Ragan.com]

Booz & Co and Buddy Media’s recent study on the state of social media
and marketing offer some interesting insights into what companies are
doing now, and where they plan to invest in the future. For instance,
social media is primarily the domain of marketing. Less than half (48
percent) of companies have PR leading the social media efforts.

http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/43992.aspx

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Customer publishing sector grows with apps, digital editions… and print [TheMediaBriefing]

Customer publishing – or content marketing, as it’s now called by some
– is big news. Although it’s worth less overall than consumer
magazines in total, bringing in about £880 million a year, ten of the
top 20 ABC audited titles by circulation are customer published and
new research out this week from the customer publishing trade body APA
and analysts at Mintel shows that the sector can expect modest but
dependable growth for the next few years, as it transitions to online.

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-11-17/customer-publishing-sector...

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Marketing academic tells publishers: Brands are winning the social media war [TheMediaBriefing]

Content publishers are losing ground to consumer brands that are
connecting directly with people through social media. That’s the
diagnosis from digital consultants L2 and a clinical professor of
marketing at the NYU Stem School of Business, who had some harsh home
truths for publishers at the American Magazine Conference –
particularly on brands’ reluctance to embrace social media.

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-11-22/marketing-academic-tells-p...

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Media's Twitter use is mostly one-way, study says [SFGate]

Major news organizations are using Twitter to disseminate their
stories but still aren't tapping the full potential of the San
Francisco microblogging service to reach their audiences, according to
a study released today.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/13/BUUM1LTRP6.DTL

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What is Counterparties? [Reuters]

Counterparties is a curated snapshot of the best finance news and
commentary. It’s also an experiment: what would a news website look
like if it didn’t need to promote its own content, and just linked to
the best stories and posts, regardless of source? We believe that the
best way to get people to come back is to send them away: click on a
headline, go straight to another site, and see for yourself. And if
you click instead on the “All Sources” link, you’ll see a list of
everybody else who’s linking to that story.

http://counterparties.com/about/

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Newspapers’ Digital Apostle [NYTimes]

What began as a tidy little experiment has become perhaps the single
biggest bet in the whole newspaper business: The Journal Register and
MediaNews are now in 18 states, with over 800 print and digital
products, with revenue of over $1.4 billion and 10,000 employees. The
second-largest newspaper chain in America is now being run by someone
who thinks that print is, if not exactly dead, dying a lot faster than
anyone thought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/business/media/paton-prepares-his-newspaper...

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HSBC Develops Secret Plan For 'Own Version Of Facebook' [PRWeek]

PRWeek can reveal that Britain's biggest bank is planning to set up a
new online platform catering for customers' non-financial needs. One
industry source said: 'They want to set up their own version of
Facebook.' The project is in the early stages and HSBC is looking for
an agency to help establish the new proposition and to develop a
social media strategy. A full pitch process is expected to take place
next month.

http://www.prweek.com/news/bulletin/UKDaily/article/1103141

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Peter Kirwan’s Long View: The new wave of digital media CEOs taking over old media companies [TheMediaBriefing]

It’s safe to say that Johnston Press has never before witnessed the
likes of Ashley Highfield. But he's just the latest technology sector
leader to take over at an old media company. So what impact are the
dotcom generation having at traditional publishers?

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-11-07/peter-kirwans-long-view-th...

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ABC revamps online reporting tools, but do quantity over quality metrics problems remain? [TheMediaBriefing]

The ABC is attempting to revamp its online reporting techniques with a
new system which offers a more detailed breakdown of publishers’
stats. But do advertisers and media buyers actually want yet more
statistics that illustrate increased reach?

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-11-07/abc-revamps-online-reporti...

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Despite Apple spat, Financial Times digital subscriptions see 30% growth in the last year [TheNextWeb]

The Financial Times has had an interesting few months when it comes to
its digital strategy, but it appears to be paying off as the business
publication has announced 30% year-on-year growth in digital
subscriber numbers, taking it to a total of a quarter of a million.

http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/11/03/despite-apple-spat-financial-times-dig...

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Agencies Report Clients Still Increasing Focus on Digital [eMarketer]

There’s no longer any question that digital has a seat at the
advertising table, although the dollars spent there don’t yet compare
to the money spent on traditional media like television. According to
Q3 2011 research from media buying solutions provider STRATA, clients
are becoming just as focused on digital media as they are on spot TV.

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008663

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Ziff Davis Enterprise to abandon print next year [btobonline.com]

Stop the presses: Ziff Davis Enterprise plans to be the first major
b-to-b publisher to abandon print completely. The company, which
publishes Baseline, CIO Insight and eWeek, will go paperless in
January. The move is designed to eliminate paper, printing and postage
costs, but it is also part of a broad mobile and digital strategy that
the company is calling OmniDigital. Beginning in November, Ziff Davis
Enterprise will launch websites and native apps geared for a variety
of smartphones, such as the Android, BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows
Phone 7, as well as the iPad, Rim Playbook and Android-powered
tablets.

http://www.btobonline.com/article/20111025/MEDIABUSINESS09/310259996/ziff-dav...

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Facebook Co-Founder Aims to Bring Venture Capital Model to Media [Bloomberg]

The Knight Foundation, a sponsor of journalism-innovation projects,
named Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and digital experts from
Harvard and MIT to its board, where they’ll take a
venture-capital-like approach to media. In the Miami-based group’s
first-ever digital-related appointments, it also named Joichi Ito,
head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab and John
Palfrey, who runs Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and
is also an adviser at venture firm Highland Capital Partners.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-25/facebook-co-founder-aims-to-bring-ve...

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Apple may be getting ready to reinvent TV [LATimes]

Remarks by late co-founder Steve Jobs in a new biography have set off
a flurry of speculation that Apple will roll out a TV set that could
remake the industry.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-apple-20111026,0,4693065.story

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Apple Newsstand: can it crack the news market? [Guardian]

The sales/subscription platform is a useful first step – but
publishers must also create more imaginative tablet products.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/24/apple-newsstand

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Is Apple’s Newsstand the answer to our prayers? [Flipping Pages Blog]

It’s just over a week old, but publishers are already daring to dream
that Apple’s Newsstand can drag digital magazines out of the doldrums
and into the mainstream.

http://flippingpagesblog.com/2011/10/21/apple-newsstand-prayers/

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Apple’s Newsstand Is Already Booming For Some Magazine Publishers [paidContent]

Early indications are that Apple’s new iOS features for publishers
have had an immediate beneficial impact.

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-apples-newsstand-is-already-booming-for-...

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News outlets look to tablet computer users for revenue [LATimes]

More than half of owners read news on their devices, a survey shows,
though there's not much willingness to pay for content. But there may
be a way.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-tablet-20111025,0,2767513.story

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Rupert Murdoch thinks tablet devices will save newspapers – what if he’s right? [TheMediaBriefing]

When Rupert Murdoch declared in April 2010 that Apple’s iPad “may well
be the saving of the newspaper industry,” some commentators scoffed at
him. How could one device reverse the freight train of web publishing
and the irreversible structural shift of advertisers and readers away
from dead trees?

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-10-18/rupert-murdoch-thinks-tabl...?

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Newspaper websites post 20% increase in visitors [MarketWatch]

Newspaper websites posted a 20% in visitors among adults in September,
according to the latest data from comScore. The Newspaper Association
of America said Thursday that average daily visits rose 21% over the
same month in 2010, while unique visitors increased by 9%. Total pages
viewed were up by 10%, and total minutes spent at the sites rose by
11%.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/newspaper-websites-post-20-increase-in-visit...

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A Washington Post paywall? No time soon [Politico]

“For us, we believe at the moment it doesn’t make sense,” Post
Publisher Katharine Weymouth told POLITICO. “We are making a bet for
the long term. We want to be around as The Washington Post for a long
time and many generations to come, and at the moment, we think that
the best way to do that is to have a free website that is open to
everybody and attract as many people as we can to spend as much time
as they can with our journalism, and assume that that will bring them
back for more.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66429.html

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Times Company Reports a Profit [digital plays a big part] [NYTimes]

The New York Times Company continued to attract paying subscribers to
its flagship Web site in the third quarter, bolstering a new revenue
stream that has helped offset a decline in advertising revenue.

Print advertising revenue declined 10.4 percent over all.

The Times Company derived 28.6 percent of its advertising revenue from
digital business in the third quarter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/business/media/the-new-york-times-company-r...

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The New York Times Is Ready to Give You More Opinions [TheAtlanticWire]

Despite last week's ominous-sounding buyouts and in anticipation of
Thursday's announcement of third-quarter earnings, the New York Times
has announced that it's expanding its Opinion Pages online according
to a company press release, which will include a lot more from the
page's editor. "The Opinion Pages are a cornerstone of our offerings
to readers," said Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the Times's publisher.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/10/new-york-times-ready-give-you...

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Apple FYQ4 Call: Tablets Will Be Bigger Than PCs, Says Cook [Barron's]

As regards the iPad, when Cook was asked about the potential market
size of the “tablet market” by Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, he
remarked, “I still believe it will be larger than the PC market.”

"We thought, Gene, from the beginning of this, that it would be a huge
market, and it has been even greater than we thought and we’ve now
sold 40 million on a cumulative basis, and it’s pretty clear to me
that if you forecast out in time that the tablet market, I still
believe it will be larger than the PC market. That’s not a guidance
number. That’s just something that I very much believe."

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/10/18/apple-fyq4-call-cook-sees...

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Google insists newspapers not losing out to Internet [AFP]

Internet search engine Google insisted on Friday it was not stealing
business from the print media even if it has become an increasingly
important source of news on the Web. "We are not making money on the
back of newspapers," Stefan Tweraser, head of Google Germany, told a
media industry conference in Vienna.

http://news.yahoo.com/google-insists-newspapers-not-losing-internet-004831757...

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Huffington Post UK editor: ‘We’re not in competition with newspaper websites’ [TheMediaBriefing]

It might have one billion monthly page views but The Huffington Post
isn’t going after your traffic, it wants to work with you. At least
that’s the message from the editor of the blogging network’s UK
outpost Carla Busazi (formerly Bevan) who was speaking at the
News:Rewired conference in London last week. She has a few interesting
things to say and later in a Q&A session revealed that HuffPo UK
attracted 4.8 million unique users in August, its first full month.

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-10-10/huffington-post-uk-editor-...

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iPad Rules Tablet Web Traffic [PCWorld]

The Apple iPad is by far the most popular tablet device used to browse
the Web, according to the latest figures from comScore. Android
tablets are nowhere to be seen, as the research found iPads deliver
more than 97 percent of all U.S. tablet traffic, totaling a higher
share of Internet use than iPhones. The flurry of inexpensive Android
tablets released in the past few month led ABI Research in August to
report that Android media tablets collectively swallowed some 20
percent of the tablet market.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/241641/ipad_rules_tablet_web_traffic.html

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Gartner Special Report Examines How the iPad and Media Tablets Are Impacting the Future of Computing [Gartner]

"During the next five to 10 years, media tablets will instigate change
in computing form factors; modular designs will enable tablets to take
on new functions, becoming the cross-platform controller and brain for
hybrid consumer electronics and computers," said Angela McIntyre,
research director at Gartner.

"Tablets will be substitutes for several of the consumer electronics
consumers often carry with them. Thin-and-light mobile PCs with
tablet-like features will become mainstream, pushing out some bulkier
PC styles that have been the norm."

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1819014

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Gartner Says Worldwide Social Media Revenue on Pace to Total $10.3bn in 2011; $14.9bn in 2012 [Gartner]

Worldwide social media revenue is on track to reach $10.3 billion in
2011, a 41.4 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $7.3 billion,
according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide social media revenue is forecast
for consistent growth with 2012 revenue totaling $14.9 billion, and
the market is projected to reach $29.1 billion in 2015.

Advertising revenue is, and will remain, the largest contributor to
overall social media revenue.

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1820015

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TV and Film, From Condé Nast [NYTimes]

“We think this is going to be a big business for us,” said Robert A.
Sauerberg Jr., the publisher’s president. “We see a very broad
approach. This is not necessarily about doing magazine shows. Dawn’s
mission is to unleash our intellectual property, our talent, our ideas
and find the right way to connect with audiences.”

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/tv-and-film-from-conde-nast/

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Global Ad Revenues From Social Networks To Reach $5.4B In 2011; $10B In 2013 [TechCrunch]

Ad revenue from social networks worldwide is expected to reach $5.54
billion this year, according to eMarketer estimates, and will double
by 2013. eMarketer is taking into account a number of popular social
networks, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Half of this
year’s ad spend on social networks, $2.74 billion, is coming from the
US market.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/global-ad-revenues-from-social-networks-to-r...

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Murdoch's Tablet Newspaper Experiment Shows Some Promise [AdAge]

Can you build a general-news publication exclusively for tablets and
gain an audience of paying subscribers? That was Rupert Murdoch's
gamble seven months ago when he launched The Daily, the first (and
still only) "iPad newspaper." Today The Daily has 120,000 active
weekly readers, 80,000 of whom are actually paying for the app,
according to Publisher Greg Clayman. But The Daily still has a long
way to go before it proves anything about paid media or the tablet.

http://adage.com/article/digital/murdoch-s-tablet-newspaper-experiment-shows-...

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Will Twitter become profitable? Is it asking too much of even the world’s best technologists? [NYMag]

Twitter is building a machine to convert 140 characters on Barack
Obama, Ashton Kutcher, narcissism, the struggle for human freedom, and
Starbucks into cash—and quick, before its moment passes. Is this
asking too much of even the world’s best technologists?

http://nymag.com/news/media/twitter-2011-10/

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How Publishers Are Reacting to Facebook’s New Features [Folio]

Last week, Facebook rolled out several new features during its fourth
annual F8 Developer Conference that could change the way the magazine
industry interacts with the social media platform.

http://www.foliomag.com/2011/how-publishers-are-reacting-facebook-s-new-features

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Facebook will be the leading distributor of media by 2020, says former Bebo investor [NMA]

Facebook will be the leading distributor of media by the year 2020,
according to Dharmash Mistry, partner at former Bebo investor
Balderton Capital. Speaking at Red Bee Media’s Tomorrow Calling event
on the 27th in London, Dharmash said Facebook is a “twin power” to
Google in terms of traffic and is fast becoming a core online content
destination.

http://www.nma.co.uk/news/facebook-will-be-the-leading-distributor-of-media-b...

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IAB: Internet Advertising Reaches A Record $15B In First Half Of 2011; Up 23 Percent [TechCrunch]

The Internet Advertising Bureau just released its numbers of the first
half of 2011, and it looks like internet ad revenue reached record
highs during the time period. Internet ad revenues rose 23.2 percent —
to a record $14.9 billion — in the first half of 2011. The rate of
growth more than doubled year-over-year, as last year’s first-half ad
revenues were $12.1 billion (and represented an 11.3 percent increase
over 2009)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/iab-internet-advertising-reaches-a-record-15...

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Magazines Begin to Sell the Fashion They Review [NYTimes]

On Park & Bond, a new e-commerce site for designer men’s wear, Jim
Moore, the creative director for GQ, can be found describing a red
Calvin Klein turtleneck as “something that can take that gray flannel
suit and give it a little bon vivant.” The sweater, which costs $225,
is tagged as a GQ Pick, inside the GQ Store. In Esquire’s September
issue, David Granger, the magazine’s editor in chief, invites readers
to check out Cladmen.com, a site starting in October that will sell
items like a $228 pair of chukka boots from Cole Haan or a $795 suit
from Michael Kors, specifically selected by the magazine. Fashion
magazines are suddenly getting into the retailing business.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/media/magazines-begin-to-sell-the-...

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Magazine execs psyched over color Kindle [Crains New York]

Nobody knows how big it will be, what it will look like or how much it
will cost. But the mere rumors that Amazon.com will bring out a color
tablet this fall have gotten magazine publishers more excited than
they've been since—well, since Apple was preparing to launch the iPad
last year. It's no secret why anticipation is running high. Growing
sales of digital editions on the iPad and Barnes & Noble's Nook Color
have provided the one bright spot in an industry beset by shrinking
newsstand sales and a wobbly advertising market.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110925/MEDIA_ENTERTAINMENT/309259971

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WSJ Social, For a World Where Facebook Is the New Internet [Forbes]

Is Facebook a friend of news companies, or is it a rival? No matter
how much success publishers have piggybacking off its traffic, they
can’t escape the cruel math: The more of their time consumers spend on
Facebook and other social networking hubs, the less they have left
over for news sites. Now The Wall Street Journal has what it thinks is
an answer to this problem. Called WSJ Social, it filters Journal
content through the so-called social graph to yield a news product
that lives entirely within the walls of Facebook. It launches Tuesday.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/09/19/wsj-social-for-a-world-w...

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Embattled Yahoo prepares Livestand launch with magazine publishers [MediaWeek]

First announced in February this year, and chalked to launch by June,
Livestand is an HMTL 5 based product that hopes to attract publishers
of all sizes wanting to launch personalised media-rich content for
tablets and smart phones. Yahoo is hoping it will attract the
attention of magazine publishers in particular, with its
platform-agnostic solution to digitising content.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1093271/Yahoo-launch-game-changer-Livestand-m...

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Facebook to Offer Path to Media [NYTimes]

This week, according to numerous media and technology executives,
Facebook will unveil a media platform that will allow people to easily
share their favorite music, television shows and movies, effectively
making the basic profile page a primary entertainment hub. Facebook,
which has more than 750 million users, has not revealed its plans, but
the company is widely expected to announce the service at its F8
developers’ conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/business/media/facebook-is-expected-to-unve...

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Guardian launches new US homepage [Guardian]

Guardian News & Media has launched its newhomepage,
http://www.guardiannews.com, from its digital operation in New York.
Readers can switch between the UK and US versions of the Guardian
homepage by choosing from a dropdown menu at the top left-hand corner
of each edition's front page. Janine Gibson, editor of GNM's US
operation, said of Wednesday's launch: "It's just one page today, but
we hope that by presenting a targeted homepage, we'll be able to
better display the stories that are most relevant to our US readers."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/15/guardian-new-us-homepage

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Mashable Expanding Its Coverage [NYTimes]

Mashable, the popular Web site for information about technology and
social media, said Tuesday that it was expanding coverage to include
new sections for entertainment, United States news and world news, and
that it was hiring a veteran technology editor to oversee all
editorial content. Lance Ulanoff, 47, the former editor of pcmag.com
and senior vice president of content for Ziff Davis Web sites, will
run day to day coverage at Mashable.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/mashable-expanding-its-cover...

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Introducing Twitter Web Analytics [Twitter]

Today we’re announcing Twitter Web Analytics, a tool that helps
website owners understand how much traffic they receive from Twitter
and the effectiveness of Twitter integrations on their sites. Twitter
Web Analytics was driven by the acquisition of BackType, which we
announced in July. The product provides three key benefits: Understand
how much your website content is being shared across the Twitter
network; See the amount of traffic Twitter sends to your site; Measure
the effectiveness of your Tweet Button integration.

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-twitter-web-analytics

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FT launches advertiser-funded app for luxury title [Campaign]

The Financial Times has launched a free iPad app today (13 September)
for its How to Spend it luxury magazine. The app will offer consumers
daily postings and 60 back-editions of the lifestyle magazine. The app
is advertiser-funded and commercial opportunities for advertisers
include a brand hub where advertisers can showcase their brand and
products in detail.

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/1091060/ft-launches-advertiser-funded-app-...

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Flipboard sees magazine future in tablet computers [AFP/Yahoo]

"The tablet, and principally the iPad, is creating a totally new kind
of consumption experience," Flipboard chief executive Mike McCue said
during an on-stage chat at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San
Francisco. "All these things people have dreamed about are finally
happening. Technology is finally at a point were it is possible to
hold what feels like a magazine in your hand and thumb through it."

http://news.yahoo.com/flipboard-sees-magazine-future-tablet-computers-1906367...

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Social Media Report: Spending Time, Money and Going Mobile [nielsenwire]

Social media not only connects consumers with each other, but also
with just about every place they go and everything they watch and buy.
Nielsen’s new Social Media Report looks at trends and consumption
patterns across social media platforms in the U.S. and other major
markets, exploring the rising influence of social media on consumer
behavior.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/social-media-report-spendin...

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Report Details Rise of Social Media [NYTimes]

Nielsen, which has long provided such information about the
traditional media, is seeking to become a go-to source of data for new
media, too. To help bolster that, Nielsen is to release on Monday
morning a report of a kind it says it has not published before, a
big-picture look at social media.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/report-details-rise-of-socia...

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Huffington Post publishes its first e-book, with plans for more [Poynter]

The Huffington Post breaks into the e-book business today with “A
People’s History of the Great Recession,” based on reporter Arthur
Delaney’s blogging about economic hardship. With this, HuffPost joins
a surge of news organizations that are tapping into their staff
expertise and troves of published material for relatively quick and
inexpensive e-books.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/mobile-media/145231/huffington-p...

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Reuters Taps Percolate to Create News Aggregation Site That Doesn't Suck [AdAge]

At a time when the Business Insiders and Huffington Posts of the media
world are doing anything and everything to pump up page views for
advertising dollars, Reuters has created an aggregation site with
usability at the core. The financial news service has launched
Counterparties.com, a content-aggregation website that highlights 20
to 30 of the day's most compelling financial news and opinion stories
and links directly out to each one from the homepage. In that way it
is more Drudge Report than Huffington Post.

http://adage.com/article/digital/reuters-taps-percolate-news-aggregation-site...

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Facebook spawning network of ad partners [MercuryNews]

Facebook is relying on a fast-growing network of independent partners
to build an advertising sector that some say may ultimately rival the
network of companies that grew up in the past decade around Google's
search revolution.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18805737

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Conde Nast Brings iPad Presentation App to the Enterprise [Mashable]

Magazine publisher Conde Nast has launched an enterprise edition of
Idea Flight, its app for group presentations on the iPad, as well as
several notable upgrades to the original version.

http://mashable.com/2011/08/23/ideaflight-ipad-app/

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Five Years in, Twitter Seeks PR Help [AdAge]

Even social-media companies need a dose of good old-fashioned PR.
Twitter is on the hunt for an agency to help it through its next stage
of growth, Ad Age has learned. Twitter is currently in talks with a
mix of large and small PR firms with offices in New York, where the
company has just opened a new office on Madison Avenue, executives
familiar with the matter say.

http://adage.com/article/agency-news/twitter-seeks-public-relations-year-run/...

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Google May Pursue Acquisitions in Southeast Asia, Following LivingSocial [Bloomberg]

Google Inc. (GOOG) may pursue technology assets to expand in Southeast
Asia after Internet operators including Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700)
and LivingSocial acquired companies to add services and users in the
region. “We’ll continue to innovate ourselves, but where it makes
sense, we will look out for opportunities,” Julian Persaud, managing
director for Google in Southeast Asia, said in a video conference from
Bangkok today, without elaborating.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-24/google-may-acquire-internet-firms-in...

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Zite Going Corporate As CNN Takes Over [appadvice]

Zite for iPad, which arrived on the scene earlier this year, is being
acquired by CNN according to Tech Vibes. Launched in March by
Vancouver, Canada-based Worio, Zite is a free personalized news
service that keeps track of a user’s reading patterns. Then, an
algorithm formulates future news stories based on these patterns. The
end result is a constantly-changing news reader specifically geared
towards the individual user.

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/08/zite-going-corporate-as-cnn-takes-over

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Daily Dot Launches as Community Newspaper for the Web [Mashable]

An online newspaper billing itself as “the hometown newspaper of the
World Wide Web” made its debut Tuesday in a daring bid to prove that
there’s still more of the social web to cover. Under the direction of
former Valleywag editor Owen Thomas, The Daily Dot pledges to cover
the biggest online communities — think Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
Tumblr, Reddit and Etsy — in the style of a hometown newspaper.

http://mashable.com/2011/08/23/daily-dot/

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Report: As Tablets Market Grows, Paper Media Will Have Steep Decline [PCMag]

As print goes increasingly digital, many wonder if the growth of the
tablet and e-reader space mean the death of traditional paper media. A
new report from RISI, a company that monitors the paper industry, says
it doesn’t look good for print.
RISI predicts that combined tablet and e-reader sales will hit 195
million units by 2015.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391553,00.asp

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Magazines Flex Their Apps -- But Will They Make Any Money From Them? [TheWrap]

The revenue for iPad apps has yet to materialize. Neither Conde Nast,
nor Time nor Hearst has provided figures for what they're making off
their iPad apps. They have released subscription numbers, which, while
growing, remain miniscule.

http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/magazines-wrestle-best-app-strategy-30204

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Welcome to Google Town, Population Just Hit 20M [AllThingsD]

“Google doesn’t get social” was the theme of the past few years – a
technology business so algorithm-focused, it could not possibly
understand the mindset of the “social” consumer. Google+ now
challenges that basic premise and begs the question: is it possible
that one company that has been so superior at search, so relentless to
dominate video, so focused on performance advertising – can also be
good at social?

http://allthingsd.com/20110724/welcome-to-google-town-population-just-hit-20m/

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New York Times: far from dead and let's have a closer look at that paywall [NYMag]

A funny thing happened on the way to the graveyard. Though the New
York Times’ circulation dipped during the crash years, much of the
lost revenue was made up for by doubling the newsstand price, from $1
to $2—evidence, the paper insisted, that its premium audience
understood the value of a premium product. In March, after several
years of planning and tens of millions in investments, the Times
launched a digital-subscription plan—and the early signs were good.

http://nymag.com/news/media/new-york-times-2011-8/

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Flipboard and Condé Nast Partner in Brand Ads Deal on Social Reading App [AllThingsD]

In an important deal for social reading app Flipboard, it has
partnered with magazine giant Condé Nast to offer a slew of titles
with branded advertising from major marketers American Express and
Lexus. The pair will share in the specially designed program, which
will include the New Yorker, Wired and Bon Appetit. Additional
magazines will be added, the companies said.

http://allthingsd.com/20110724/flipboard-and-conde-nast-partner-in-brand-ads-...

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Two steps forward for transparency when it comes to readership of tablet media [AdWeek]

With the tablet market still in its infancy, media buyers have been
reluctant to put ad dollars toward an unproven platform that has
produced scant consumer data. One prominent buyer, MediaVest’s Robin
Steinberg, two months ago put out a call to major publishers to
provide readership detail about their tablet readers or risk forgoing
advertising dollars on those devices. Now, two big ones—Hearst
Magazines, publisher of titles like Cosmopolitan and Esquire, and
Bonnier Corp., which puts out enthusiast magazines like Popular
Science and Ski—agreed to supply MediaVest with data on audience,
demographic, and engagement for their tablet editions.

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/hearst-bonnier-agree-mediavest-demand-t...

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Condé Nast, Adobe Partner for Digital Metrics [MediaPost]

With tablet computers and digital magazines soaring in popularity,
magazine publishers and media tech firms are scrambling to figure out
how to measure digital circulation -- a key question as advertisers
explore the capabilities of the burgeoning digital space. To that end,
this week Condé Nast and Adobe unveiled a joint effort to define and
deliver a new set of audience metrics for publishers and advertisers.
It is being touted as (potentially) a new standard offering insights
into distribution of digital editions, levels of exposure within those
editions and audience engagement.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=154547

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Arianna And AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Address The National Press Club (VIDEO) [HuffPo]

Arianna and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong appeared at the National Press Club
on Friday to discuss journalism and where they see the business going
in the future. Among other insights, Armstrong explained that in the
current journalism landscape, "people aren't transparent about what
they believe in before they write things, and that's something that we
would like to see in the future is more transparency around
journalists and what they believe in before stories get written."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna-national-press-club_b_900418.html

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Facebook Is Getting Into the News Business [Forbes]

Facebook has a war on its hands, and Mark Zuckerberg knows it.
Practically overnight, Google+ has gone from a rumor to a thriving
community with over 10 million members. With some 700 million members
of its own, Facebook is thinking less and less about how to grow that
number and more about how to get current users to live more of their
lives within its virtual walls. One answer it has come up with: asking
a select number of news outlets to produce “Facebook editions” —
basically, app versions of themselves that can be read and consumed
right there on Facebook.

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/07/15/facebook-working-with-top-ne...

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LinkedIn Passes Myspace to Become No. 2 U.S. Social Network [Bloomberg]

LinkedIn Corp., a website focused on job seekers and recruiters,
surpassed Myspace to become the No. 2 social-networking service in the
U.S. last month, boosted by its initial public offering in May. The
company had 33.9 million visitors in June, up 63 percent from a year
earlier, while Myspace had 33.5 million, down 50 percent, according to
a Reston, Virginia-based ComScore Inc. (SCOR) report. Facebook Inc.
remained the largest social- networking site with 160.9 million U.S.
visitors, up 14 percent.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-08/linkedin-tops-myspace-to-become-seco...

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Economist: A special report on the news industry: The end of mass media

THERE IS A great historical irony at the heart of the current
transformation of news. The industry is being reshaped by
technology—but by undermining the mass media’s business models, that
technology is in many ways returning the industry to the more vibrant,
freewheeling and discursive ways of the pre-industrial era.

http://www.economist.com/node/18904158?story_id=18904158&CFID=167156143&CFTOK...

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What digital readers mean for business; getting more attention than print [Guardian]

Respondents declare spending 37 minutes a day on digital publications
as opposed to 22 minutes a day on print press. This number is
astonishingly high. It shows the switch to digital has occurred – at
least for readers of large national media. It also confirms the
segmentation of digital audiences.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2011/jul/04/digital-media

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Twitter finds its media home with Twitter for Newsrooms [TheNextWeb]

Twitter has been seen, by the savvy media, as a great source for
relaying and finding information. But now, Twitter itself has given us
even better guidance for using the service and its features in order
to help more stories reach more people. With a new site called Twitter
for Newsrooms, you’ll find a wealth of information from ways to verify
sources to the “accepted” standards for embedding Tweets into your
stories.

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/06/27/twitter-finds-its-media-home-with-tw...

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WPP boss Martin Sorrell hits out at Facebook and Google [CNN]

Martin Sorrell, boss of the multi-billion dollar WPP group of creative
agencies, talks of a new triangle of agencies, clients and
media/content owners. In effect a new structure to the creative
sector. So where does that leave the likes of Facebook and Google,
also represented here? Well, according to Sorrell, there is a place
for them but it's not where they pretend to be. WPP is Google's
biggest customer but he describes them as a “frenemy.”

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/23/sorrell-hits-out-at-facebook-and-goo...

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MailOnline closes gap on NYTimes.com [MediaWeek]

MailOnline has increased its global monthly unique visitors by 15.5%
over the past month but fell short of overtaking the New York Times as
the most viewed news site globally, according to ComScore.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1076525/MailOnline-closes-gap-NYT/

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Facebook launches new ad that emulates word of mouth [Telegraph]

Facebook has launched a new 'comment ad' which aims to emulate
word-of-mouth marketing at the same time as leveraging the social
network's scale. If users comment on information posted on brands'
Facebook pages, that interaction will then appear in the user's
newsfeed and a related advertisement, or "sponsored story" will appear
on their wall.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/85...

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Twitter plans bolder advertisements [FT]

Twitter is looking at introducing advertisements among the short
messages that users see in the most active part of the social
networking service, according to people with direct knowledge of its
plans. The move comes as Twitter looks at a wider range of options to
generate revenues from a service that has so far failed to make money
from its audience as effectively as rivals such as Facebook.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dcd35ed2-9dbc-11e0-b30c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1QCWQ...

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News International to enable PayPal payments for newspaper content [NMA]

News International is to introduce PayPal’s fast checkout system in a
move that could bring micropayments for online content from UK titles
a step closer. Readers will be able to use PayPal to pay for The Times
and Sunday Times websites and iPad editions instead of entering credit
or debit card details for each payment.

http://www.nma.co.uk/news/news-international-to-enable-paypal-payments-for-ne...

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U.S. Mobile Local Ad Revenues to Grow $404m in 2010 to $2.8b in 2015 [BIA/Kelsey]

BIA/Kelsey, adviser to companies in the local media space, today
released its five-year outlook for U.S. mobile local advertising.
According to the firm, total U.S. mobile ad spending will grow from
$790 million in 2010 to $4 billion in 2015. During the same period,
BIA/Kelsey projects the local portion of that total to increase from
$404 million to $2.8 billion. This makes locally targeted mobile ads
51 percent of overall U.S. mobile ad spending, growing to 70 percent
by 2015.

Consistent with other local media, BIA/Kelsey defines mobile local
advertising as that which targets users in specific locations or
contains location-specific calls to action.

Among the drivers of mobile ad revenue growth are smartphone
penetration, mobile Web usage and related increases in ad inventory.
BIA/Kelsey expects this to come about as large brand advertisers
evolve their campaign objectives to the capabilities of the mobile
device — most notably, location awareness. The firm also sees mobile
advertising moving down market to small and medium-sized businesses
through a combination of local sales and self-serve tools. Exploding
mobile usage, clearer ROI and a shorter purchase funnel will
accelerate this demand within display, search and SMS advertising
formats.

“Revenues will grow from not only ad volume, but also premiums placed
on location-targeted ads,” said Michael Boland, senior analyst and
program director of BIA/Kelsey’s Mobile Local Media practice. “These
premiums result from higher performance for locally targeted mobile
ads when compared with non-local ads, due to higher relevance,
immediacy and consumer buying intent, all of which are more prevalent
in mobile than many other print and digital media.”

http://www.biakelsey.com/Company/Press-Releases/110623-U.S.-Mobile-Local-Ad-R...$404-Million-in-2010-to-$2.8-Billion-in-2015.asp

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Assigning value to online content [Reuters]

A Los Angeles-based company is attempting to accomplish what online
publishers have been chasing for the past 15 years — namely, placing
value on a piece of content. http://www.jumptime.com, founded by a
group of former executives from the likes of MTV Networks and Yahoo,
this month is taking the wraps off a software service that affixes a
price tag to articles in real time. It also helps determine the future
value of those articles. Over the past four years, the company has
worked with leading publishers such as MSNBC and ESPN. “The value of
content is not understood,” said Michele DiLorenzo chief executive and
co-founder of JumpTime.

http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/06/21/assigning-value-to-online-content/

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Byliner, a new website for readers and writers [AFP]

Print magazines may be struggling but the founders of Byliner, a new
website, believe there is an audience and a business opportunity
online for long-form journalism. http://byliner.com, which launched in
beta, or test, mode on Tuesday, is building a social network for
readers and writers -- and a publishing business -- around magazine
articles. The website offers links to more than 32,000 magazine
stories from around 750 publications and nearly 3,000 writers,
including some of the best known names of the past 100 years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110622/lf_afp/usitmediaindustrymagazinesinterne...

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Huffington Post UK to launch on 6 July before going global [TheDrum]

Arianna Huffington today confirmed that her eponymous US news website
will launch in the UK on 6 July, as part of ambitious plans to be in a
dozen countries by the end of the year. Speaking in Cannes this
morning, the Huffington Post founder said the UK site would take the
same format of the US version, which mixes original news reporting
with legions of blogs. "We're launching in the UK on July 6,"
Huffington said.

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/06/21/22609-huffington-post-uk-to-launch-o...

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The Daily Mail Sets Sail: Fleet Street Fishwrap Takes America [NYObserver]

To hear Martin Clarke tell it, The Daily Mail accrued its online
readership in America nearly by accident. Lining a landing page with
paparazzi shots headlined with expressions of awe and outrage, making
the bikini a newsworthy event—that was not transatlantic outreach,
just British custom. “Originally we focused ruthlessly on our British
audience because that was the easiest to monetize,” said the publisher
and editor of the paper’s website, MailOnline, “but we found we’d
ended up with a big American audience without really trying.”

http://www.observer.com/2011/06/the-daily-mail-sets-sail-fleet-street-fishwra...

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For the First Time, a Self-Published Author Sells a Million Kindle eBooks [PCMag]

Amazon is marking a milestone for its self-publishing platform today.
John Locke has secured his status as the first independently published
author to sell more than a million Kindle e-books using Kindle Direct
Publishing. Locke is the eighth author to become a member of what
Amazon calls the "Kindle Million Club," joining other big-name authors
like Stieg Larson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Suzanne Collins,
Michael Connelly, Charlaine Harris, and Lee Child. Locke, however, is
in a bit of a different league, considering he's the first indie
author to join the group.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387302,00.asp

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AOL Considering Paid Content, International Acquisitions in Company Revamp [Bloomberg]

AOL Inc. (AOL) may introduce premium versions of its online content
and make international acquisitions as Chief Executive Officer Tim
Armstrong works to turn around the struggling Internet pioneer. The
New York-based owner of The Huffington Post news and commentary site
is “open in the future to strategies that will help create great
content and monetize it properly,” Armstrong said in an interview at
the Cannes Lions media conference today. That includes
subscription-based access to some of its content and partnerships with
traditional media companies, he said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-20/aol-considering-paid-content-interna...

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Facebook could rake in $2.19 billion in display-ad sales this year [USAToday]

If there are lingering doubts about Facebook's IPO prospects, its
fortunes in advertising should quell them. A new report says the
social-networking giant is poised to overtake Yahoo this year for top
spot in the U.S. online display-ad market. Facebook, which is likely
to go public in a mega-initial stock offering next year, could rake in
$2.19 billion in display-ad sales this year.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2011-06-20-facebook-ad-gains-ipo_n.htm

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Pulse news app raises $9 million in funding, passes 4 million downloads [LATimes]

Pulse, a popular news-reading app for Apple's iOS and Google's
Android, could end up being the Netflix of the news business if Akshay
Kothari can have his way. Kothari is one of two 24-year-old
co-founders -- along with fellow Stanford Institute of Design grad
Ankit Gupta -- of Alphonso Labs, the Palo Alto start-up that makes
Pulse, which is on a bit of a hit streak lately.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/06/pulse-raises-9-million-dol...

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Reddit experiences mighty growth: 1.2B page views per month [SocialBeat]

The last five months have been very good for community news sharing
site Reddit, which reported huge traffic growth on its official blog
today. From January to May 2011, the site has seen a 37 percent
increase in unique visitors (13.7 million to 18.8 million) and a 25
percent increase in page views (999 million to 1.228 billion),
according to Reddit General Manager Erik Martin, who added that the
average time a person stays on the site remained an impressive 15.5
minutes.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/15/reddit-traffic-growth/

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Emap to make weekly trade magazines monthly or online only [Telegraph]

Emap is poised to change trade magazines Nursing Times and Local
Government Chronicle from weekly to monthly publications or make them
online only - sounding the death-knell of the traditional format for
smaller magazines.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/me...

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As Magazines' Print Demos Drift Wrong Way, Publishers Anticipate Tablet Metrics [AdAge]

Some say magazines are rushing toward the iPad at the risk of
undermining their existing business, but here's one reason they might
be tempted to keep investing in tablets: For the majority of titles
over the past year, the demographics of their print readers are headed
the wrong way. Make no mistake, those demographics remain desirable
for advertisers.

http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/magazine-audiences-shrink-age-lose-househ...

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Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush to iPad Is 'Sheer Insanity and Insecurity and Fear' [AdAge]

Jann Wenner -- whose Wenner Media publishes Rolling Stone, Us Weekly
and Men's Journal -- [says] even the iPad may dismay the big
publishing powers, which hope tablets will deliver a better kind of
digital platform for magazines, one that means significant business in
a matter of years. He thinks it will be decades. "You're talking about
a generation at least, maybe two generations, before the shift is
decisive," he said.

http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/jann-wenner-magazines-tablet-migration-de...

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Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function, Study Finds [Wired]

A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad
apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed
to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy
limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with
perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a
less-functional iPad app.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/ipad-apps-form-over-function/

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Female Magazine Fans Flock to Nook Color [NYTimes]

Even as the iPad remains the favorite son of the magazine business,
publishers are discovering that the Barnes & Noble Nook Color is a
very promising younger daughter. The Nook Color has surprised
publishers of women’s magazines like O, The Oprah Magazine,
Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health by igniting strong sales that rival —
and in some cases surpass — sales on the iPad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/business/media/23nook.html?_r=1

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Bloomberg.com Gets a Makeover [WSJ]

Bloomberg LP has spent much of the past three years trying to make its
vast news operation more accessible and appealing to a consumer
audience, one piece at a time. Now it’s Bloomberg.com’s turn for a
makeover.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/05/25/bloomberg-com-gets-a-makeover/

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Free Speech on Twitter Faces Test [NYTimes]

What began as seamy gossip about an affair between a famous British
soccer player and a reality TV star has quickly become another test
over how far the rights to privacy and free speech extend online,
where social media operate in countries with vastly different laws.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/technology/23twitter.html?_r=1

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Foursquare, LivingSocial eye local ad dollars [Reuters]

because of the rise of social media and smartphones, companies like
LivingSocial and Foursquare can target consumers and drive them to
storefronts in ways that the Yellow Pages and websites from the past
boom like Microsoft's Sidewalk could not do. "I think we're in a
position to do something revolutionary for local advertising,"
Foursquare Chief Executive and Co-Founder Dennis Crowley said during
the Reuters Global Technology Summit

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/us-summit-localad-idUSTRE74J6E32011...

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Conde Nast's New Marketing-Services Division Aims at Non-Advertising Budgets [AdAge]

Conde Nast, the publisher of magazines such as Glamour and The New
Yorker, is trying to move further beyond its core business of ad-page
sales with a new marketing services division. The division, called
Conde Nast Ideactive, will marshal a lot of the same creative and
digital capabilities Conde already offers its advertisers, but with
particular emphasis on work that isn't tied to traditional ad buys or
ad budgets. Ideactive's services, for example, will include app
development, video, web design and social media.

http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/conde-nast-ideactive-unit-aims-advertisin...

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Gawker Sees Promise Of Sponsored Posts [OnlineMediaDaily]

Having succeeded with "sponsored posts," Gawker Media is now testing
"sponsored discussions," founder Nick Denton revealed during the Clio
Conference, Thursday in New York. Also at the conference, Thrillist
co-founder and CEO Ben Lerer said that Thrillist Rewards, in which New
York events are "curated" and discounted for Thrillist's young male
audience, "has worked so well" since its January launch that it will
now be expanded to other markets.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=150841

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In the U.S., Tablets are TV Buddies while eReaders Make Great Bedfellows [NielsenWire]

The Nielsen Company’s most recent research on mobile connected devices
sheds new light on how consumers are using their tablets, eReaders and
smartphones – and where they are using them, too.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=27702

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Next Issue Media Releases App Editions for 7 Mags, 1st Step Toward Print's Digital Storefront [AdAge]

Next Issue Media, a consortium of five major publishers, has released
app editions of seven magazines in the first visible step toward the
digital storefront for print that it was formed to deliver. Time Inc.,
Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith and News Corp. created the consortium in
late 2009 to try making the most of tablets on the way from Apple and
other manufacturers.

http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/issue-media-releases-magazine-apps-galaxy...

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For Journalists, a Call to Rethink Their Online Models [NYTimes]

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has surveyed the state of digital journalism, and
it has concluded that journalists must rethink their relationships —
and their audiences’ relationships — with advertisers. That does not
mean yielding editorial control to sponsors, but it might mean coming
up with alternatives to impression-based pricing, creating
higher-value content for the Web by tapping into page view data, and
helping to ensure that Web ads have value on their own.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/business/media/10adco.html?_r=1

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European Ventures Seek to Fill a Void in World News [NYTimes]

As news organizations around the world close down foreign bureaus,
journalists, entrepreneurs and even government bodies in Europe are
creating news ventures to try to fill the void. As a result, readers
seeking international news are increasingly spoiled for choice —
especially if they read English, the common second language of many
Europeans and the favored tongue for many of the new outlets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/business/media/09englishnews.html

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Now to Sell Advertisers on Tablets [NYTimes]

If you wanted to get your message in front of a reader of The New
Yorker, it would cost you $141,174 for a full-page ad in the
magazine’s glossy pages. What would it be worth to reach the same
reader if he or she were on an iPad? More, less or the same?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/business/media/09carr.html

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PCC seeks to regulate [UK] press Twitter feeds [Guardian]

Reporter and newspaper Twitter feeds are expected to brought under the
regulation of the Press Complaints Commission later this year, the
first time the body has sought to consolidate social media messages
under its remit. The PCC believes that some postings on Twitter are,
in effect part of a "newspaper's editorial product", writings that its
code of practice would otherwise cover if the same text appeared in
print or on a newspaper website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/06/pcc-press-twitter-feeds

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Mobile Social Media Usage up 80 Percent in the UK [comScore]

In the UK, mobile owners are turning to their devices to keep up to
date on their online social status with increasing frequency. Social
media usage on mobile phones has nearly doubled in the UK since a year
ago.

http://www.comscoredatamine.com/2011/05/mobile-social-media-usage-up-80-perce...

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Navigating News: Where people go, how they get there and what lures them away [Journalism.org]

Whatever the future of journalism much of it depends on understanding
the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the
behavior of what might be called the new news consumer. Despite the
unprecedented level of data about what news people consume online and
how they consume it, understanding these new metrics has often proven
elusive. The statistics are complicated, sometimes contradictory, and
often introduce new information whose meaning is not clear.

http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/navigating_news_online

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Social media advertising to quadruple [to $8.3bn a year by 2015] [BizJournals]

Social media advertising revenues, which totaled $2.1 billion in 2010,
will grow to $8.3 billion annually by 2015, according to
Chantilly-based media consulting company BIA/Kelsey. That represents a
compound annual growth rate of 31.6 percent.

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2011/05/02/social-media-advertisin...

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Twitter: We Now Have Over 200 Million Accounts (UPDATE) [HuffPo]

Twitter has released a slew of statistics in recent months, from how
many tweets are sent per day to the number of accounts created per
day. Here's another one that's been more elusive: the number of users
Twitter actually has. According to Twitter's Katie Stanton, vice
president of international strategy, the microblogging service now has
over 200 million accounts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/twitter-number-of-users_n_855177.html

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Is there a future for hyperlocal media? [memeburn]

Local is the new frontier. Local ads, deals, and services represent a
massive business opportunity for the Internet giants and media
companies. But local ads need local content and that local content
can’t be machine aggregated, it requires feet on the streets: selling
ads and collecting the news. And ‘Local’ is a tough nut to crack.

http://memeburn.com/2011/04/is-there-a-future-for-hyperlocal-media

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Hard economic lessons for news [BuzzMachine]

I’m working on a talk that I hope will become the canonical link to my
essential message about the business rules and realities of news. I
continue to be astonished at the economic naiveté I hear in
discussions of the business of news. Here is my answer, the basis of a
talk — to be delivered in tweets, in the model of John Paton — and a
lesson for my classes.

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/04/25/hard-economic-lessons-for-news/

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Filtering the Social Web to Present News Items [NYTimes]

News events as varied as the commercial jet landing in the Hudson
River and the uprisings in Egypt have demonstrated that people armed
with cellphones — not professional reporters — are often the first
source of breaking news, uploading Twitter posts, photos and video to
the Web. But the result can leave people drowning in too much
information. A Web start-up named Storify, which opens to the public
Monday, aims to help journalists and others collect and filter all
this information.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/technology/internet/25storify.html?_r=1

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The Half-life of a News Feed Post? About 80 Minutes, Study Says [AdAge]

How long does it take for a Facebook post to get stale? About 1 hour
and 20 minutes, according to a new study released by social analytics
firm Visibli. So for all those brands spending money to get a mention
in the News Feed, it's a very quick ride. Part of the takeaway,
Visibli CEO Saif Ajani said, is that marketers and brands can get some
comfort knowing that posts on Facebook are fresh for a longer period
of time than posts on Twitter, because everything on that microblog
happens so quickly and in real-time. "On Twitter, 95% of re-tweets
happen in an hour," he said.

http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-s-news-feed-a-limited-engagement-ad...

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Tweet This: [US] Agencies Get 28% of Revenue From Digital [AdAge]

Digital services accounted for an estimated $8.5 billion (28%) of the
$30.4 billion in 2010 U.S. revenue generated by the 900-plus
advertising and marketing-services agencies that Ad Age analyzed for
Agency Report 2011.

http://adage.com/article/agency-news/tweet-agencies-28-revenue-digital/227164/

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Dan Abrams’ Media Empire Unveils Its Seventh Site, The Mogul-Focused Mogulite [TechCrunch]

Mogulite, the seventh site in Dan Abrams’ Media Metwork goes live
today at 6am EST. In the same family as Mediaite, Geekosystem and The
Mary Sue, Mogulite will focus on chronicling the lives of moguls of
all stripes, ranging from Mark Cuban to Oprah Winfrey, Arianna
Huffington and more!

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/25/dan-abrams-media-empire-unveils-its-7th-site...

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NYTimes’ R&D Lab builds tool that explores the life stories take in the social space [niemanlab]

Some of the most exciting work taking place in The New York Times
building is being done on the 28th floor, in the paper’s Research and
Development Lab. The group serves essentially as a skunkworks project
for a news institution that stands to benefit, financially and
otherwise, from creative thinking; as Michael Zimbalist, the Times’
vice president of R&D, puts it, the team is “investigating the ideas
at the edges of today and thinking about how they’re going to impact
business decisions tomorrow.” For the past several months, the R&D Lab
has been working, quietly, on a time-based representation of how the
Times’ news content is being shared in Twitter’s social space.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/04/the-new-york-times-rd-lab-has-built-a-tool-t...

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Apple 2Q Profit Surges 95% On Record IPhone Sales [DowJones]

Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) fiscal second-quarter profit jumped 95% as the
company posted record iPhone sales, as well as strong sales of its
multimedia iPad device and Macintosh computers. A main driver of
growth for the quarter was the company's iPhone, which sold 18.7
million units, more than double a year ago.

http://www.smartmoney.com/news/ON/?story=ON-20110420-000611

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New York Times Pay Wall Gets Over 100,000 Takers in Early Weeks [AdAge]

More than 100,000 people have forked over credit card numbers to get
through the digital pay wall erected by The New York Times on March
28. Over 100,000 takers seems like a solid start for the new plan,
which many people called too expensive and confusing when it arrived
last month after a long development period.

http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/york-times-pay-wall-100-000-takers-early/...

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