The rise of multiple platforms and screen sizes, along with the scary adoption of ad blocking, has publishers obsessing over user experience. Publishers including Mic, The Atlantic and Slate are hiring UX specialists while putting testing on steroids. Beyond ad blocking, the hope is that a premium reader experience will give them an edge in a crowded market. “If we want people to come back again and again, we have to have as polished and distinctive a design as we possibly can," Slate's David Stern said. The post How The Atlantic, Slate and others obsess about user experience appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
[ Digiday | 2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The amount of time adults in America stay connected with media is astronomical. Specifically, they spend 11 hours and 27 minutes per day plugged into some type of device, according to the Q1 Nielsen Total Audience report released today. And even though there are many streaming options for... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-07-01 10:00:11 UTC ]
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Following a “highly competitive” seven-way bidding war, Atlantic Books has acquired a prison diary by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Chris Atkins from his time at HMP Wandsworth. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-27 02:41:09 UTC ]
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Atlantic will publish Elisa Gabbert's essay collection, The Unreality of Memory, next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-18 12:15:00 UTC ]
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Peer-to-peer aid groups have become a lifeline for those who can’t cover small expenses. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2019-06-10 12:36:21 UTC ]
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Atlantic Books has pre-empted UK Commonwealth rights for The Cat and the City, the "disturbing, delightful" debut novel by Nick Bradley. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-31 03:16:40 UTC ]
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Go buy literally any other seltzer product instead. Remember a year or so ago when everyone was talking about La Croix sparkling water as if it was some amazing new beverage? What began as a Midwestern attempt at something the Northeast has long mastered was suddenly available in every bodega.... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-05-30 11:44:08 UTC ]
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Rachel Maddow, host of the Emmy Award–winning eponymous show on MSNBC, will host at a different venue, today’s breakfast. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Jenny Slate is an actress ('Parks and Recreation'), stand-up comedian (a season on 'SNL'), and author of the children’s book 'Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,' which is the basis for a series of videos and an upcoming movie. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook received 110,634 government requests for user data in the second half of 2018, up 7% from 103,815 in the first half of 2018, according to its latest Transparency Report, which was released Thursday. The social network said the uptick in the second half of last year was normal compared... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-05-23 23:00:44 UTC ]
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Facebook disabled more than 2 billion fake accounts on Facebook in the first quarter of 2019 alone, nearly the same amount of total monthly active users the company has, the company said Thursday in a report about how it is enforcing its platform rules. The company pulled almost 2.2 billion fake... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-05-23 20:09:09 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has scooped a “thrilling” work by accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy, telling the history of physics through its 12 foundational experiments. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-23 15:09:13 UTC ]
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Consumer Reports filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission after finding that 8 out of 31 test accounts lacked the ability to turn off facial recognition. Updated 5/20 7:30 p.m. PST with Facebook comment.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-05-20 18:15:48 UTC ]
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Atlantic Books has pre-empted a second novel by Scottish author Martin MacInnes, a "stunning literary investigation" about a software developer who suffers a head trauma. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher’s Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here's the previous edition. Cover stars: Chip and Joanna Gaines, who rose to fame through their hit HGTV... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new study finds that by 2050, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. Here’s how the company is designing user experiences to face the billions of dead users to come. By 2050, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. That’s a conservative estimate, according to a study... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Company says it has stopped using password verification feature that collected data Facebook has admitted to “unintentionally” uploading the address books of 1.5 million users without consent, and says it will delete the collected data and notify those affected.The discovery follows criticism of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors are being told to write under pseudonyms to present themselves as debut writers and feed the publishing industry’s “obsession” with new, marketable voices, Joanne Harris has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jericho Brown’s first book, “Please,” won the American Book Award. His second book, “The New Testament,” won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by multiple organizations. Advice from the poetic star would seem to be a prized commodity. Appropriately, while at... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Inc. user data is still showing up in places it shouldn’t. Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing servers. The discovery shows that a year after the... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-03 20:45:00 UTC ]
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Mark Zuckerberg also said he is weighing up paying publishers for use of their journalismFacebook could start employing editors to select “high-quality news” to show to users, in the social network’s latest attempt to lose its reputation as a source for disinformation.Mark Zuckerberg said he is... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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