Rare, a conservative political website aimed at millennials, started two years ago as a social digital experiment by Atlanta-based Cox Media Group. But while millennials may be the most liberal age group, in less than a year, Rare's monthly traffic has soared to 9 million uniques in May, according to comScore, drawing from familiar digital publishing tricks: irreverent headlines, aggregation and aggressive social promotion. But to get there, it had to broaden its editorial mission beyond politics to frothy lifestyle content, recognizing that today's digital publishing realities meant it couldn't leave the cat videos behind. The post Rare wants to be the conservative BuzzFeed appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
[ Digiday | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rare, a conservative political website aimed at millennials, started two years ago as a social digital experiment by Atlanta-based Cox Media Group. But while millennials may be the most liberal age group, in less than a year, Rare's monthly traffic has soared to 9 million uniques in May,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Video views versus video engagement: Which is more valuable? BuzzFeed's publisher weighs in.Back in October, BuzzFeed reported that it had crossed five billion monthly content views—a number that encompassed not just BuzzFeed's site and apps, but also the swaths of content it publishes directly... Continue reading at Fast Company
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The brainchild of Shaul Olmert (the son of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert), PlayBuzz has grown to top 20 million monthly unique visitors in under a year, according to comScore. In November, defying Facebook’s crackdown on clickbait, the platform became the most-shared English-language... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an August profile, 'The Atlantic' dubbed Allie Beth Stuckey "the new Phyllis Schlafly," a reference to the late far-right firebrand who drove the Equal Rights Amendment to defeat. PW talked with Stuckey about her book, 'Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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If your kids are going back to school, you can help make sure they read more this year by grabbing them this Kindle Kids ereader that’s now on sale for $95 on Amazon, down from its $120 MSRP. While this isn’t the best price we’ve seen for this device, it is the best price drop it’s had... Continue reading at PC World
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Amid growing efforts to censor and ban LGBTQ+ books, one small bookstore in San Francisco is punching back. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. Police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security. Continue reading at The New York Times
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The acquisition of All Seasons Press follows Skyhorse’s December 28 blockbuster deal to acquire Regnery, one of America’s best-known publishers of conservative authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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An independent publishing company known for releasing books with opposing political viewpoints is buying Regnery, a well-known conservative press. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Nine members of the environmental group Children’s Book Creators for Conservation spent October 8–21 in the eastern South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, volunteering with the stewardship organization Wild Tomorrow. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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BuzzFeed is negotiating a sale of much of Complex Networks for under $140 million, less than half of what it paid to acquire it two years ago. Continue reading at The New York Times
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First edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone bought by UK book collector goes up for auction next weekIt is a book that has certainly lived up to its name: a rare edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone bought for 30p could fetch up to £5,000 at auction.The first novel... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Almost 60 years after the publication of Where The Wild Things Are (November 23 will mark the rumpus), the world is getting a new children’s book from the late Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins Publishers will be releasing Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Story with Mino the Magician, a count-along... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Their young audience made them the envy of the media’s old guard. But, ultimately, they couldn’t convert this into profitAfter Rupert Murdoch invested tens of millions of pounds in his digital publishing company in 2013, Shane Smith, boss of Vice Media, laughed at how much old media companies... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Now a co-founder of Semafor, formerly of Politico, BuzzFeed and the New York Times, the author expertly pulls readers inBen Smith is a willing passenger on the rollercoaster also known as the internet. He reported for Politico, was founding editor-in-chief at BuzzFeed News and did a stint as a... Continue reading at The Guardian
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BuzzFeed changed the way news was reported for the digital age. But it became a casualty of its lopsided relationship with FacebookThe announcement of the demise of BuzzFeed News last week felt unlike the cavalcade of media closures and layoffs of the past decade. In a sense, it represented the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-04-26 03:36:53 UTC ]
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The digital publisher grew fat off the back of Facebook’s fickle algorithm. Battered and bruised, it’s now going back to where it all began. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2023-04-24 11:00:00 UTC ]
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