Time Inc’s new beauty site is an e-commerce and data play

Time Inc. has launched a personalized beauty service, Powder, serving up recommended products and articles to users for Time Inc. This means it can re-target Powder users across its beauty portfolio, including titles like Marie Claire, InStyle and Look. L'Oreal is the only brand partner on board at launch. Powder offers several new revenue streams for the publisher looking to safeguard against losses -- promoted products, native content, events, affiliate e-commerce and also selling beauty boxes. The post Time Inc’s new beauty site is an e-commerce and data play appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

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Children's books eight times as likely to feature animal main characters than BAME people

According to UK study, just 5% of children’s books have black, Asian or minority ethnic protagonists – a small improvement from 1% in 2017Two years after the stark revelation that only 1% of British children’s books featured a main character who was black, Asian or minority ethnic, the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-11-11 00:01:23 UTC ]
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Lucy Jago | 'It really mattered to me that I didn’t play fast and loose with the facts'

In 1615, a sensational public murder trail took place  in London. The victim, courtier and poet Sir Thomas Overbury, had died in 1613 while a prisoner in the Tower of London, but his death was only investigated two years later as wild rumours swirled around the court of James I. The whispers... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Biden time

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‘We seized on podcasts’: How Slate used audio as the foundation of its first-party data strategy

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The Gift of Time

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How the Literary World Reinvented the Book Festival in Real Time

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Retail site Bookshop makes £65k sales on UK launch day

New online retailer Bookshop.org secured sales of around £65,000 in its first day, making £16,000 for indies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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The Longest Book Series to Get You Through Winter 2020, AKA The Longest Time of All Our Lives

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