In the last year, plenty of media and content companies have started publishing ebooks for the first time. In a panel at the Publishers Launch conference at Book Expo America on Wednesday, several of them discussed what they’ve learned from ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
As publishers increasingly post their content directly to social networks, many media companies are losing control of the distribution of their own product. Still, some publishers say that the rise of these platforms as distribution channels -- from Facebook's Instant Articles to Snapchat's... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tribune Content Agency, a content “clearinghouse” for Tribune Publishing, has launched a new video-syndication network, which will offer its publishing partners more than 1,000 new videos per day from media companies like Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times. The network,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere has bought two novels by actress and television presenter Denise Welch. In her first deal for the list, deputy publisher for Sphere fiction Maddie West acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in two books from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown. Welch has starred in programmes including... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the latest land grab for consumers’ time on platforms, Kik is stepping up efforts to court brands and media companies. The messaging app popular with millennials hired ad vet Josh Jacobs to head a new division, Kik Services, with an eye to adding games and commerce services and expand... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is trying to usurp YouTube as the go-to destination for distributing and watching videos online, and a lot of brands, publishers and other content creators are trying to figure out which videos to put where.The social network has demonstrated an ability to drive more video views and in... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nailing mobile video is a major goal for marketers this year, as exemplified at this week's Digital Content NewFronts presentations. And as Snapchat and Facebook lure advertising dollars away from TV with new video options, smaller ad companies are following suit. A GIF showing the new video... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-04-28 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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The London Book Fair (LBF) will seek to pair publishers with other media companies at a Creative Industries Day. On Thursday 16th April at Olympia, LBF will host the day, which aims to boost partnerships and generate collaboration between publishers and other companies such as games... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gawker Media, which is battling heavily financed digital publishers like BuzzFeed and Vox for audiences and ad dollars, is working with brand-strategy agency Redscout, according to two people familiar with the matter. The relationship began last summer, one person said.Former Gawker employees... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After attracting more than 50m monthly readers on tablets and smartphones, US startup smashes down its walled garden and hopes partners will see the potentialFlipboard came to prominence as a news-reading app for tablets and smartphones, attracting more than 50 million monthly active readers by... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sony Pictures' studio chief made plans to meet Al Sharpton after the exposure of a racially tinged e-mail exchange, even as the company asked news outlets to stop publishing material from the hack that revealed that exchange and hired Rubenstein Communications to handle its broader PR... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has been courting content companies for years because it wants content companies to bring more of their content to Facebook. Here’s a new example: A set of tools that will make it easier for publishers to share their stuff ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New Republic magazine, which reached its 100th anniversary last month, is reducing its frequency to 10 issues a year from 20, moving its headquarters to New York from Washington, D.C., and replacing its editor. Gabriel Snyder will assume the role of editor of chief, succeeding Frank Foer.Mr.... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White of Page Two, a publishing services firm in Canada reflect on what they've learned in their first year in business. The post How Publishing Traditions Inform Innovation appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The social network has built a formidable group of former journalist and publishing execs to forge partnerships with media companies new and old. The post How Facebook is courting publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media companies say much of what the newspaper wrote about Julian Disney and the council was untrue Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google is buying a mDialog, a small player in the digital video ad space to add to the search giant's DoubleClick collection. Canada-based mDialog provides technology to major media companies such as broadcasters, who use it to serve ads against their shows wherever they run digitally—across... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Veteran publishing executive Jack Griffin will be CEO of Tribune Publishing, which is being spun off from Tribune Co. Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein will chair the board in a non-executive role.Veteran publishing executive Jack Griffin has been named chief executive of the new Tribune... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CodeMantra, the technology and service provider to publishers and other content companies, has been acquired by a Boston-based investment group. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The dividend figure, which is not final, appears in a document related to Tribune's purchase in December of a group of TV stations. In spinning off its publishing business, Tribune Co. will pick up a dividend that could be about $325 million from the new public company, which would consist of... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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