Asked whether, back in 2006, he could have possibly envisioned that the tech review blog he co-founded, using rented office space above an Oregon furniture store, would one day grow into a profitable digital media enterprise spanning three offices on two coasts and attracting talent from the likes of Facebook and The New York Times Co., CEO Ian Bell responds first by laughing out loud. "Never." Fourteen years later, Digital Trends has done exactly that, drawing more than 30 million unique visitors to its site each month—an audience that balloons to more than 100 million when accounting for distributed content, video and social media—all without taking on outside funding or compromising on its core mantra, "Tech for the way you live," laid out from the beginning by Bell and his co-founder, CTO Dan Gaul, and permeating every aspect of the company's strategy from business to editorial. "We’ve always had a passion for the aesthetics of products and what they could actually help you achieve: connect you to other people, save time in your day, enhance your experiences in general," says Bell. "Everyone else was focused on specifications, stats, benchmarks, but they never really applied those to a better life experience. Hardware and specifications mean nothing if you aren’t able to enjoy a better experience." If the driving force behind the Digital Trends' evolution from blog to website to cross-platform operation is, as all of the staffers we spoke to asserted, strong,... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
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Video is the future and print is as good as dead, right? For most publishers video is a test track for new content. A place to take fresh content ideas for a spin and see how they handle. TEN took that process to its logical conclusion with Roadkill, a popular youtube series that has now spawned... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Property website Domain increases digital revenue by 37% and continues to prop up Fairfax’s overall profit as editorial restructure is announcedFairfax Media, publishers of the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, have returned a net profit of $27.4m for the first half of the financial year... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meanwhile, Evgeny Lebedev’s rival newspaper publishers must go on riding two horses galloping in opposite directions The switch from print to screen is well advanced. Plenty of newspapers in the US have made the move or are in the process of doing so by reducing the number of days in which they... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oren Teicher, CEO of American Booksellers Association, and three booksellers discuss how low-cost of technology has enhanced the indie bookselling business. The post How Independent Bookstores Are Thriving in the Digital Age appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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User experience is about empathy for the end user, Barbarian Group's Colin Nagy said on the Digiday Podcast. Many publishers miss that as they strive to churn pageviews and banner ad impressions. The result: navigating digital media is like walking on a sticky movie theater floor. The post... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The rise of digital media has introduced new job functions to the magazine world—and triggered the demise of others. The post Trending Now: New Roles in Magazine Media appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AIM Media Indiana, LLC announced today that is has acquired the print and online newspaper publishing assets and the commercial printing assets from Home News Enterprises, LLC (“HNE”) of Columbus, Indiana, according to John ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nobody knows what the future of the media industry will look like - we can only extrapolate from its current state and hope nothing too disruptive ruins our bets in the meantime. To help us make those bets, TheMediaBriefing recently hosted the ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New media outlet The Canary is seeking to provide a counterpoint to mainstream journalism by creating a publishing platform for writers that pays its staff from the bottom up. Kerry-anne Mendoza, editor-in-chief of The Canary, is cal ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The awards were presented tonight at the start of the annual get-together after the first day of the World Publishing Expo in Hamburg. Here is a look at the full list of this year's winners and what made their entries special and succ ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite a 45% increase in revenue from its Domain real estate advertising, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald was unable to offset print decline• News Corp sees strong growth in digital real estate services and book publishingFairfax Media has reported a 62.9% drop in full-year profit to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With unions cropping up in digital newsrooms across the media landscape, publishers have to be wondering if they should be worried. Could their staff be next? For those who have grown their businesses on the back of a ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A survey of Colorado independent bookstores reveals ebooks sales are tiny and offer just a pittance of profit — often just 50 cents a book. The post Ebooks Sold at Independent Bookstores Garner Pitiful Profits appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Today’s new breed of digital publishers is just not that into ad tech. Indeed, the much hyped cadre of venture-backed, Web-born, and millennially-inclined publishers — think Vox Media, Mic and Refinery29 &nd ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tech news blog Re/code has been acquired by online publishing company Vox Media, just 18 months after spinning off from its former parent, The Wall Street Journal. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Literacy Trust report also says girls continue to outpace boys in their enthusiasm for reading for pleasureGirls have more firmly embraced digital literacy and formats such as Facebook, email and text message, while boys are more comfortable with traditional printed media such as... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Commission has a grand plan to create a single market for digital content across all the member states of the EU, so it can be bought and sold without barriers such as the administrative burden of different VAT rates. The creation of that market will help entrepreneurial start-up... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B2B publisher 1105 Media has just sold its education technology events to LRP Publications, a media company targeting education administrators. Four events were included in the deal. The post 1105 Media Sells Its Education Tech Events to LRP Publications appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By Ron Matejko A fter speaking to numerous professionals within various segments of the publishing industry, there's a clear consensus about the key trend for digital magazines in 2015 and it can be summed up in... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Watch highlights from the opening panel session at the Changing Media Summit 2015 Speaking at the Guardian Changing Media Summit 2015, a panel of leaders from Hearst Magazines, the Financial Times, Guardian News & Media, Johnston Press and FremantleMedia, describe how their businesses are... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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