How The New York Times finds new subscribers on Facebook

Facebook can drive a lot of traffic to publishers, but the knock is that a lot of it is fly-by traffic. The Times is using a startup, KeyWee, to find subscribers among the casual readers, though. KeyWee comes up with keywords for articles and then targets the articles to Facebook users who are likely to be interested in them, yielding a 150 percent ROI and showing there’s “still potential to find loyal subscribers” there, the Times’ Mat Yurow said. The post How The New York Times finds new subscribers on Facebook appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing industry is overwhelmingly white and female, US study finds

Survey of workforce at 34 book publishers and eight review journals in US reveals 79% of staff are white and 78% female – with UK numbers still unmonitoredMan Booker winner Marlon James: ‘Writers of colour pander to the white woman’A survey of American publishing has found that it is blindingly... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How The Times of London is driving digital subscriptions

The Times of London and Sunday Times have a combined 400,000 print-digital subscribers and harbor ambitious plans to grow that figure both domestically and abroad. It has launched its first "entry level" app overseas, with a price tag of £3 ($4.30) a month, compared to the usual monthly £26... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PUC plans a hearing on Charter's purchase of Time Warner Cable and Bright House

California Public Utilities Commission officials plan a public hearing on Charter Communications' proposed $67-billion acquisition of two cable companies, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, which serve Southern California. The PUC hearing is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Junipero... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Winter Institute 11: Report Finds $1 Billion Tax Gap Caused by Amazon

The American Booksellers Association and Civic Economics released a report on the devastating impact of online retailing on American communities in terms of lost state and local tax revenues. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is cutting prices in its brand-content matchmaking program

Facebook is lowering the price it costs advertisers to join Anthology, which matches brands and top publishers like Vice and Vox, which help create content for promotion in the news feed. Anthology had set the minimum advertising commitment at several million dollars, according to sources, but... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How brands and publishers are using Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger has 700 million monthly users, breaking out its humble beginnings as a messenger app. More brands will be experimenting with Messenger. For instance, Hyatt is using it for customer service. Disney has automated bots as forms of entertainment. Bild, the German publisher, is... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Snapchat Plans to Compete With Facebook for Advertisers' Dollars

In an alternate universe, Snapchat would have become a part of Facebook when the social network reportedly tried to buy the mobile app for $3 billion in 2013. Instead Snapchat has set its sights on recreating Facebook's success, and its employees have been discussing with people outside the... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Popular history writing remains a male preserve, publishing study finds

Slate survey of US titles published last year shows overwhelming bias towards male historians and subjects – with a similar picture emerging in the UKAmerican popular history is a “male preserve”, according to new research from the US online journal Slate, with three-quarters of works published... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harlequin Hopes to Find 'Binge' Readers with New E-Serial

Mimicking the model popularized by streaming television, Harlequin is releasing all eight parts of its new Tough Justice digital serial today. The hope is that readers will binge-read the series, as they binge-watch certain TV shows. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Out travel guides to cease publication

Time Out will no longer produce any Time Out Guide Books in 2016, the company has confirmed. After the story was first reported by The Telegraph,  spokesperson for the company said the decision had been taken “as part of the continued evolution of the business”. The guides' sales have been in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo balk at UK's Investigatory Powers Bill

The Investigatory Powers Bill may only be in draft form at the moment, but the UK government has already come in for criticism for its plans. Today, scores of pieces of written evidence, both for and against the proposals, have been published, including input from the Reform Government... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's LiveRail Exits the Ad Server Business

Facebook's publisher-facing ad-tech arm LiveRail is shutting down the ad server business that you might not have known it operated.Known best for being one of the top video ad exchanges when Facebook agreed to buy it in July 2014, LiveRail also offered a way to help publishers pick out which... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Facebook's Audience Network Looks Like a Billion-Dollar Advertising Machine

Facebook is pulling back the curtain just enough to tout how much money it's making for publishers. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company today said its mobile-focused Facebook Audience Network (FAN) had a $1 billion annual run rate during the fourth quarter for advertising spend, with "the... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Museum asks for help finding 1,000 first editions of Theodore Roethke debut

Theodore Roethke Home museum in Michigan asks owners of hand-numbered copies of Open House to get in touch, for ‘census’ to mark 75th anniversary of poetry collectionGuardian Witness: Do you own any first, signed or otherwise special book editions? Share your pictures and storiesA quest to find... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How PopSugar gets people to watch its Facebook videos for 30 seconds

In September, PopSugar adopted a Facebook video strategy that placed a greater emphasis on videos that drew viewers in with striking visuals and text within the first three seconds. The publisher boasts it has helped not only grow Facebook views -- more than 51 million in November -- but also... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook Against Free Basics' Critics

Is Free Basics an altruistic effort to connect the world to opportunities, or a neocolonial race to control and capitalize on new markets?Today, Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy opinion article in The Times Of India defending his attempt to connect millions of people to the Internet via a... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2015-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On the moon, China's Chang'e 3 Yutu rover finds a new type of basaltic rock

Sometimes fresh interplanetary discoveries can be made right next door. China’s Chang’e 3 rover has found evidence of a new type of basaltic rock in one of the dark basins on the moon. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, focus on a geologically young region of the moon’s... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Shipping Times to Canada Improve

Canadian booksellers, who reported last month that they were struggling with sluggish shipments from HarperCollins, say improvements have been made. Many, though, are hoping for quicker, more reliable service in 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book tech: Time to step up

"I’m calling for more women to start up and step up next year." Bec Evans, co-founder with Chris Smith of Write-Track and head of innovation with Emerald Group Publishing, noticed that while our FutureBook 2015 (and Author Day) programming was well-balanced in terms of men and women—s Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook’s scheme for speedy news stories has finally come to Android. With select publishers you’ll now see a lightning bolt icon in the top corner, which denotes that article is stored on Facebook’s servers and will load rapidly.This feature, as is often the case, first debuted on the... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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