In the second quarter of the current financial year, Axel Springer’s operating results continued the growth trend of the first three months, thanks in large part to consistently strong growth in its digital activities.
While Amazon and Hachette’s contract battle drags on in the U.S., a similar fight is taking place in Germany between Amazon and book publisher Bonnier
The Week appears to be a traditional magazine. It’s full of words, pictures, thoughts and opinions printed on paper, that are accompanied by lots of lovely full-page advertising
The Week appears to be a traditional magazine. It’s full of words, pictures, thoughts and opinions printed on paper, that are accompanied by lots of lovely full-page advertising
The decision to allow digital editions of magazines to be included in the mix at the start of the year helped to avoid the double-digit blood baths of previous reports
As publishers continue to search for alternative revenue streams from the internet and digital products, the Audit Bureau of Circulations said on Thursday sales of the hundreds of paid-for weekly and monthly titles fell 4.4% compared with the previous six months. For the full story read The Guardian
Company magazine launched in 1978 is to cease print publication. Its owner, Hearst Magazines, is to turn it into a digital-only publication from October 2014
BuzzFeed, the news and entertainment website that has surged to success on the back of social media sharing, is getting a $50m shot in the arm from an Andreessen Horowitz investment that reportedly values the company at $850m.
About 62 per cent of Facebook’s ad revenue now comes from advertising on mobile devices
The editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Media Group says the newspaper has seen a large increase in traffic as a result of two strategies: focusing on Facebook more than Twitter, and devoting its resources to fewer stories
Consumers are more likely to share through hidden ‘dark social’ methods – such as forwarding web links or content – than via social media, IPC Media’s new Digital Conversations research has discovered
Consumers are more likely to share through hidden ‘dark social’ methods – such as forwarding web links or content – than via social media, IPC Media’s new Digital Conversations research has discovered
The online retail giant says it will be happy to stick with the 30 percent cut it already gets from Hachette ebook sales if the publisher agrees to slash its ebook pricing, a move which Amazon claims would be central to the future of reading.
News Corp is working on an app-based news service to blend original reporting with repurposed content from its many outlets, reports the Financial Times, which cites people familiar with the situation. It is said to be aimed at so-called millennials – people born between 1980 and 2000 who have never developed a newsprint habit. The […]
News Corp is working on an app-based news service to blend original reporting with repurposed content from its many outlets, reports the Financial Times, which cites people familiar with the situation. It is said to be aimed at so-called millennials – people born between 1980 and 2000 who have never developed a newsprint habit. The […]
The circulation of the Financial Times has reached an all-time high. It is 13% up year-on-year to more than 677,000 across print and online. And two-thirds of that total (455,000) are digital subscribers, which represents a digital audience increase over last year of 33%. The FT also has more than 290,000 corporate users. For the […]
TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought BookLamp
The benefits that come with leveraging cross-device identity for advertising are well known. Cross-device campaigns lead to better targeting, stronger campaign metrics, and higher return on ad spend for advertisers, plus better user experiences, higher engagement, and more value from users as they move across screens. But even with the knowledge of these benefits, many […]
Reed Elsevier has reported first-half results ahead of analysts’ expectations as it drives its business further into the digital sphere. Erik Engstrom, chief executive, said that for the full year, the company remained “confident that we will deliver another year of underlying revenue, profits and earnings growth” as all four of its business divisions increased […]
Two of Britain’s biggest and most venerable media groups, DMGT and Reed Elsevier, reported their latest financial performance on Thursday. Against a backdrop of media industry gloom, both met or beat investor expectations and delivered growth, but how?
