The Weather Channel is no longer actively publishing videos to Facebook due to a lack of meaningful revenue and Facebook's tendency to routinely shift its priorities. The post ‘A fun adventure, not a business’: The Weather Channel stopped publishing video on Facebook appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fast Company and The Atlantic are among other smaller video publishers that are prioritizing YouTube. The post Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as safer bet than Facebook appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook published numbers for the first time detailing how much and what type of content it removes from the social network. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last month, Facebook published its internal community enforcement guidelines for the first time and today, the company has provided some numbers to show what that enforcement really looks like. In a new report that will be published quarterly, Facebo... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The California State Teachers Retirement System, which carries a huge amount of stock market clout as the state’s second largest public pension fund, recently had some very harsh words for Facebook, one of its largest investments. In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Financial Times, Aeisha... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook wants to own more of the shows it subsidizes for Facebook Watch, but publishers are not always willing to give those rights away. The post Publishers are wrestling with Facebook’s desire to own Facebook-funded Watch shows appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine has rampaged into the Weekly E-Book Ranking top spot for a 11th consecutive week, bringing its tally of number ones to 12 and edging closer to The Girl on the Train’s all-time record of 19. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple paid BuzzFeed to release a show first on Apple News, and the publisher was also able to make money through an ad-revenue split. The post Why BuzzFeed News premiered a show on Apple News before Facebook, YouTube, Twitter appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are figuring out what Facebook groups are useful for: shaping editorial strategy, generating leads, audience research and more. The post Publishers are finding (modest) success with Facebook groups appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Zuckerberg is over it. Yes, Facebook allowed the data of more than 80 million users to land in the hands of a partisan political consulting firm during an obscenely contentious presidential election, but that's all in the distant past. You know,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Back in January, Facebook announced that it would henceforth de-emphasize posts from brands and publishers in users’ news feeds in favor of ones from friends and family. Media organizations—which have long been dependent on Facebook for traffic, albeit more than a trifle embarassed by that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Regulators, publishers, and privacy watchdogs say moves by the tech giants may leave European internet users no better off. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mic isn’t alone in trying to survive the distributed media landscape, but other publishers have been further ahead in increasing traffic to their own sites. The post Mic faces an uncertain future in a post-Facebook world appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Helen Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz have held first and second place in the Weekly E-Book Ranking for five weeks straight. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Targeting a niche in the thriving audiobook market, Triangle Interactive has released an initial list of 1,000 English and Spanish-language children's ebooks from a variety of publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The millennial-aimed publisher has cut its editorial output by two-thirds and now measures videos and stories based on time spent rather than view counts. The post After years of chasing Facebook traffic, Mic goes for ‘deliberate distribution’ appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of traditionally published ebooks fell 10% in 2017, compared to 2016, according to figures released by PubTrack Digital, part of the NPD book group. The service tracks sales from roughly 450 publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among the most challenging issues for Facebook Inc. is its role as the policeman for the free expression of its 2 billion users. Now the social network is opening up about its decision-making over which posts it decides to take down — and why. On Tuesday the company for the first time published... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook faces lots of criticisms and questions, and while much of this is focused on privacy and security, there are also lots of queries about what is permitted on the platform. To help users to understand what's allowed and what's not, the company has published its Community Standards for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Company tells Australian regulator that news makes up just 5% of content shared, and downplays its collection and use of people’s data• Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noon Facebook has told the Australian competition regulator that news makes up just 5% of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]