Posts Tagged "Digital disruption"

About 1,500 jobs under threat after collapse of vital contract with Daily Mail publisher DMG Media

IDG properties drew a record-breaking 194.9 million unique visitors for February 2016, propelling it to be the #1 technology publishing company in the world, according to comScore

Disrupters are innovating at a scale that most other companies can only dream of

Johnston Press steps back into newspapers as Q1 ad revenues fall 16% — double 2015’s decline

More than one in five British adults now say they use ad-blockers, according to the latest research from the IAB

When Apple said it was going to allow ad blocking on the iPhone version of its web browser last September, it escalated a conflict that had been building in the digital economy for years

Print will make up just 18 percent of the revenue mix by 2020 in the US, according a new survey by Connectiv

Stories about the reinvention of daily newspaper companies are often not what they seem. They tend to involve traditional media groups not so much investing in the future of news as placing their bets somewhere else entirely. Thus, the UK’s Daily Mail Group, and Hearst Corp, in the US, are investing more heavily in business media and entertainment. And even Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is now generating 35% of its profit and all its growth from digital property listings

In October last year Ascential chief executive Duncan Painter sent a shockwave through the printing industry after he was quoted in the Guardian as saying that all of the firm’s print titles would become digital only “over the next 12 to 18 months”.

published a piece by our contributor Kevin Anderson titled ‘The collapse of the attention economy’. Its central tenet is that an overabundance of content to which we all have access has led to an unsustainable environment in which scale is all and practically impossible to achieve.

For a long time, we’ve been creating too much content, so much so that I think that we’ve already reached Peak Content, the point at which this glut of things to read, watch and listen to becomes completely unsustainable. There hasn’t been enough ad revenue to sustain it for years and, with 2015 ending with a rush of acquisitions, consolidations and funding rounds with eye-watering valuations, 2016 will mark the beginning of a shake out.

Newspapers have become the least popular medium people use to keep up to date with news and current affairs, according to new research from Ofcom.

Atlantic Media has held talks with a number of potential buyers interested in digital media about a sale of or potential investment in Quartz, the publishing group’s business news site, according to people familiar with the matter

Roy Greenslade: Am I alone in having noticed the plunging Johnston Press share price? As I write, it stands at just 3.9p, having fallen from 17p less than two weeks ago. That’s a 77% slump

A decade-long implosion of magazine sales, led by weekly news mags, appears to be speeding up, with major name brands like Time suffering double-digit declines in just the last three months, according to the group that has charted the death of print.

Bauer Media is shutting FHM and Zoo magazines in a dramatic illustration of the collapsing lads’ mag sector, which reached its zenith in the 1990s

In 1995, Forbes, the business magazine, made a prediction: Elsevier, the largest publisher of scientific journals, would be “the internet’s first victim”

The Economist is ready to move beyond the impression and bet heavily on user attention-based selling as the future.

Apple’s News app has launched in the UK with a range of publisher partners including the BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, Sun and Sky News.The Apple News app, which aims to aggregate digital news media, has launched with 14 UK newspaper and magazine publishers.

City AM is launching a trial from Tuesday that will blur out text of stories on cityam.com for desktop users of Firefox browsers who are detected using ad blocking software