Fine-Tune Your Mobile Strategy For 2012

Many newspapers are diving into the app business, releasing versions for iPhone and iPad, Android, Kindle and/or BlackBerry. Some publishers are taking a wait-and-see approach, while others want to get the product out the door as soon as possible. So ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boycott This: Why Tuning Out the Inauguration Is a Futile Gesture

Donald J. Trump today placed his normally-proportioned left hand on the inaugural Bible and, in front of a crowd of citizens gathered on the National Mall and a TV audience in the tens of millions, the real estate developer and reality show star was sworn in as the 45th President of the United... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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Why 2017 Will be the Tipping Point for Native Mobile Advertising

Three years ago, the great prophecy came true: consumers used the tiny computers in their pockets more than the computers sitting on their desks. Seeing this trend, and responding to the necessity of reduced screen space, discovery platforms like Facebook redesigned their experiences and... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher trend inception: Facebook Live meets commerce strategies

Brit + Co and Mindbodygreen are seeing early success in using Facebook Live to drive people to pay for how-to courses. Brit + Co’s recent Facebook Live with a handlettering expert drove 180 pre-registrations for its class -- four times the usual average. Meanwhile, Mindbodygreen has been hosting... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Livre acquires majority stake in mobile app company Brainbow

Hachette Livre has acquired a majority stake in a London-based mobile app company, Brainbow Ltd, the firm behind the brain-training app Peak. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette streamlines apps strategy

Hachette UK has "canned" many of its apps to focus on "fewer and better" following its acquisition of mobile app and games developer Neon Play in June, its chief executive Tim Hely Hutchinson has revealed at The FutureBook Conference 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Says Faster Mobile Ads Are Boosting Clickthrough Rates Up to 200 Percent

As tech giants continue their push to speed up load times for advertising and publishers across the mobile web, early numbers from one of them seem to show that faster ads really do work better. According to research released today by Google and Teads, the video tech company, mobile publishers... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC eyes vertical ads to boost mobile monetization

The BBC has joined the growing throng of publishers to embrace vertical video on its mobile apps. And it plans to monetize its international app with vertical video ads. The format, made popular due to Snapchat, is becoming a larger part of other publisher video plans including The Sun, Mail... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chicagoland Indies Mobilize Windy City Area's Literary Community

Two dozen Chicagoland independent bookstores are mobilizing the Windy City area's literary community by forming the Chicago Independent Bookstore Alliance, raising the visibility of Chicagoland's indies both in the region and on social media. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Is Introducing Native Video Ads for Mobile Publishers

If Google's research is correct, more than half of all smartphone users give up trying to load mobile websites if it takes longer than three seconds. Because of that, Google is moving forward with several beta offerings to help publishers and advertisers make their mobile formats more... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks Bestseller: Grisham's 'Whistler' Keeps Up Its Tune

John Grisham's latest, 'The Whistler,' stays at #1 on the iBooks bestseller list this week, followed by Michael Connelly's 'The Wrong Side of Goodbye.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Kik is using chatbots to monetize mobile messaging

Advertising is the heart of most Internet companies, digital publishers, and apps. In the absence of quality advertising, great journalism, music, film, games and culture will either disappear behind a paywall–thus making the Internet closed and, quite literally, unfree–or disappear completely.... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Publishers Must Go Mobile

Book purchases are increasingly done on mobile platforms, and most people who read ebooks prefer to do so on tablets or smart phones. There's a big opportunity for publishers here. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Papego: Bridging the Gap between Mobile and Print

Papego is an app currently drawing attention in Germany from readers, publishers, and booksellers because it allows a reader an easy way to keep reading digitally or in print. The post Papego: Bridging the Gap between Mobile and Print appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Forbes got readers to double the time spent per post on mobile

For most news publishers, their audiences increasingly prefer visiting them on mobile devices. Forbes faced this problem acutely, with half its audience coming to it on mobile devices. So it created card-like formats to replace text-based stories. The financial news publisher said its new... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quartz’s Jay Lauf: ‘Serving the reader first is central to our strategy’

Publishers around the world are trying to figure out how to benefit from social platforms and apps. In June, publishers from all over the world gathered at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Japan to discuss how they are growing internationally at scale. The post Quartz’s Jay Lauf: ‘Serving the... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Inside W Magazine’s glossy digital strategy

In the past year, W Magazine has grown its digital team from four to 16 people, with a focus on creating specific content not only for its website, but social platforms like Instagram and Facebook. With more than half of its website traffic coming through mobile, its publisher and chief revenue... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google's Attack on Mobile Interstitials Provokes That Familiar Mix of Applause and Fear

Google is popping off against one of the most annoying practices among digital publishers: interstitial messages that obscure the content consumers seek via mobile search.Deeming most interstitials "intrusive," the world's largest search engine said Tuesday that publishers displaying... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International Industry Notes: Beijing Book Fair, Japan’s Mobile Games, Scotland’s Indie Publishers

Zhejiang University Press has events at BIBF this week, as Japan's Toto Serkan looks at Japan's mobile gaming market, and Scotland's Society of Young Publishers weighs the industry's interest in new skills. The post International Industry Notes: Beijing Book Fair, Japan’s Mobile Games,... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Inside Fatherly’s very grown-up viral video strategy

Plenty of publishers are fretting about the time, posts and resources they are pouring into Facebook, especially Facebook video. But Fatherly, a millennial dad-focused website that's piled up more than 300 million video views this year, has had great success using its viral hits to convert... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How CNN juggles different mobile chat apps to cover the Olympics

With mobile messaging app use exploding, publishers are all trying to figure out how to share their content with those apps' users. CNN, after launching an automated chatbot app on Kik and Facebook Messenger, is giving users an interactive, on-the-ground look at big events like the Republican... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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