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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