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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