Surprise: Yahoo’s homepage drives more traffic than Twitter

Finally, some good news for Yahoo: Its home page still sends a lot of traffic to publishers. Yahoo went from being the 16th-biggest referral source for publishers to the third after Google Search and Facebook, now that it's accounting for its dark traffic. The ranking comes from Chartbeat. A big portion of Yahoo's traffic had gone unattributed after it converted its site to https two years ago. The post Surprise: Yahoo’s homepage drives more traffic than Twitter appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2016-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic

Changes in technology like ad blocking, and the dominance of platforms like Facebook leave many publishers unsure of how they will make money. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Import Trends Driving the Chinese Academic Publishing Boom

Soft sciences and business/economic titles led imports to China between 2010 and 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What's Causing Vice's Huge Fluctuations in Web Traffic?

Ever since Vice decided to get into the cable TV game, the self-assured digital news and lifestyle publisher has been under the microscope. That came blaringly to the fore last month when Variety reported that Vice's web traffic plunged in February. But after free-falling 17.4 percent, from... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Medium and Twitter founder: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’

Ev Williams on feedback loops, giving a home to publishers, and finding critical mass Ev Williams is not a fan of the increasingly homogenised media he currently sees, with its emphasis on feeding the great, gaping maw of platforms like Twitter and Facebook too often producing what he describes... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Uh-oh, some publishers see a drop in Facebook traffic

Some social-centric publishers saw double-digit drops in their Facebook referral traffic last month, with some suspecting that this is the flip side of Facebook's pushing Instant Articles (and video) into people’s news feeds. Those initiatives are designed to keep people in Facebook's app, but... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Humphrys on Twitter, TV and why 'sitting down is the new smoking'

The Today presenter spurns social media, could live without television ‘except Mastermind’ but does read books on a iPad (albeit balanced on a lectern)It will come as no surprise to his millions of devoted listeners that the veteran BBC broadcaster John Humphrys despises Twitter, doesn’t do... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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JK Rowling posts letters of rejection on Twitter to help budding authors

Harry Potter writer shares publishers’ brush-offs for first Robert Galbraith novel in attempt to to inspire other authorsThe Harry Potter author JK Rowling has shared some withering rebuffs publishers sent to her alter ego Robert Galbraith, in an effort to comfort aspiring authors.Rowling posted... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coloring Books Drive Big Adult Trade Sales Gain

The adult coloring book boom helped push trade sales up 9.5% in November compared to the same period in 2014. Sales for trade paperbacks, the format of choice for coloring books, were up 31%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For France’s Libération, Facebook Instant Articles drives a 30 percent increase in time spent

French publisher Libération has gone all in on Facebook Instant Articles, publishing all 150 daily articles to the platform, according to Libération's head of digital, Xavier Grangier. Since January it has found time spent on articles has increased 33 percent to over four minutes, according to... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After dropping its paywall, The Sun focuses on rebuilding traffic

After three years behind a paywall, The Sun has had to flip its content strategy to win back the traffic and SEO history it's lost in the interim, to compete in the free-access world. That's meant bringing in more people experienced with digital publishing and creating a centralized team... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One injured, one dead in drive-by shooting in South L.A.

One man was killed and another was injured in a drive-by shooting early Saturday in South Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles police. See more of our top stories on Facebook >>  The two men were near 53rd Street and Denker Avenue when a vehicle approached and someone fired multiple... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harry Potter's female readers now driving the boom in 'grip lit'

Millennial women who grew up reading JK Rowling’s wizard series are driving sales in other genres as they reach their 20s and 30s, according to recent researchThe women switched on to books by Harry Potter are shaping the literary world, according to new research, boosting the market in... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter Will Send Moments Readers to AMP Pages Any Time It Can

Twitter will automatically take mobile users who click links in its Moments section to sped-up AMP pages every time it's possible, the company said Wednesday, lending momentum to the effort to improve the mobile web experience.Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP for short, deliver content at near... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Just Added Data to Help Brands See If They're Driving Offline Sales

Facebook Atlas, the social platform's ad server that extends far beyond its own site and apps, is getting a few noteworthy updates today.  The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company is announcing Offline Actions, which lets Atlas-using marketers upload their own point-of-sale data and view it... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Taplin’s Drive for a ‘Digital Renaissance’: DBW Keynote

Jonathan Taplin—producer of 'Mean Streets'—will lead Digital Book World's keynotes with a warning: publishing may be 'sleeping through a revolution.' The post Jonathan Taplin’s Drive for a ‘Digital Renaissance’: DBW Keynote appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital and Data Drive Growth in Fulfillment Services

Non-traditional products and services are key for fulfillment providers, publishing clients alike, according to the 2016 Fulfillment Services Bureau Survey. The post Digital and Data Drive Growth in Fulfillment Services appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yahoo is pulling back on its Outbrain/Taboola competitor

Content recommendation has become a big business, but it's showing signs of its limitations. Yahoo, facing an uncertain future as a company, shut down its 2-year-old Yahoo Recommends service to publishers. It follows the shuttering of IAC's nRelate as a standalone service to publishers. Two of... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Cursed Child': What to expect in surprise Harry Potter sequel

'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' comes out in book form on July 31, after debuting on the London stage on July 30. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Report: Twitter's algorithmic timeline may arrive next week

You’ve heard about it. You’ve read about it. You may have even Tweeted about it. But it looks as if Twitter’s non-chronological “algorithmic” timeline is almost here.According to a BuzzFeed report published Friday, the company plans to unveil its algorithmic timeline “as soon as next week.” An... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2016-02-07 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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