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 visitors into email subscribers, and even win on SEO topics once dominated by entrenched competitors. The post Inside Fatherly’s very grown-up viral video strategy appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
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Axel Springer's $343 million purchase of Business Insider set a new bar for digital publishing deals. Snark about BI's editorial content aside, the deal offers a few lessons for digital media: Size matters if you're going to be an advertising play. BI got big fast with clickable content that... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German publisher, Axel Springer, agrees to buy a controlling stake in the US news website Business Insider for $343m (£226m). Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Executives from Cengage and Udemy point to Latin America as a strong region for edtech growth and share their top tips for entering the market. The post Strategies for Entering the Latin American EdTech Market appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stars Wars was first to post a 360-degree video. Photo: Facebook Virtual reality is coming to Facebook news feeds. Today the company rolled out 360-degree videos brands and publishers can post to their pages. Desktop viewers just have to drag their mouse over a clip to change the angle, and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has added 360-degree videos to its news feed, an immersive feature the Menlo Park-based social media platform said will capitalize on a growing number of video publishers using the format. And to pique the interest of users, The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) and Lucasfilm have published... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook videos are about to get more interactive. The social network announced Wednesday it now supports 360-degree videos. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fusion is launching an initiative today with the hashtag #DearNextPresident, asking Americans—with a sharp focus on young, diverse groups—what issues they want President Barack Obama's successor to focus on. And contenders like Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Bernie Sanders... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German publishing giant Axel Springer is closing in on a deal to buy Business Insider, in a deal that would value the Web publisher at around $560 million. Sources familiar with the two companies think a transaction could close w ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When a brand uploads a new video to Facebook, 94 percent of views it generates in the following week happen on that video, says Visible Measures. The stat shows that while video is booming on Facebook, it’s still difficult for brands and publishers to get people to watch their entire library,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German publisher Axel Springer (SPRGn.DE) may want to increase its current 7 percent stake in U.S. news website Business Insider, German Manager Magazin reported on Thursday. Citing unnamed financial sources, the magazine said the publisher of ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you've ever watched a BuzzFeed video, chances are you've heard the music of Birocratic. In 2013, independent music producer Brandon Rowan discovered after a tremendous spike in traffic that his instrumental hip-hop songs had become the soundtrack to many of the digital publisher's viral... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agencies, for example, require more expensive people to work more often on smaller buys. Five full-time employees are needed to spend a $100 million national broadcast budget, one media agency executive said, while the same number would be needed for a $5 million programmatic buy. Those... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trinity Mirror's new digital strategy for its regional titles will see an increased focus on analytics and a drive to boost audience engagement, the publisher announced yesterday. Neil Benson, editorial director for regionals at Trinity Mi ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At a time when black people are disrupting presidential campaign speeches nationwide in an effort to be recognized as human beings, "Negroland," the new memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson, offers poignant insight into what it means to have been raised in the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Leverages 'engagement player' tech from Selectable Media deal. The post Fitness Magazine Launches Digital Video Channel SweatTV appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Think of video piracy, and talk of BitTorrent probably isn’t far away. While torrented movies and TV shows account for a large proportion of pirated material, it is far from being the end of the story. Even sites as seemingly innocuous as Facebook can be part of the problem. The social network... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is improving its technology to better identify videos uploaded to its site without the permission of copyright holders. The move comes amid an explosion in the amount of video viewed on Facebook, posted by regular users, publishers and advertisers alike. Alongside the uptick in video... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From user-made clips to content from big media properties, video is all over Facebook (and more people than ever are using the social network). Along with that trend comes the problem of piracy: plenty of video publishers are seeing their work dist... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Somalia is holding its first international literary festival in the capital Mogadishu. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sir Terry Pratchett fans react to the release of the authors final novel, almost six months after his death. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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