Big tech and the news media industry aren’t exactly on the best of terms. Google, Facebook and to a lesser extent Apple are regarded with suspicion at best. Against this backdrop Microsoft seems to be painting itself…

Only three years old but with over a billion downloads, Gen Z’s biggest platform is trying to woo publishers with new ways to make money. NBC, Group Nine, The BBC and ESPN have all been experimenting on…

As part of Google’s wider ‘pivot to privacy’, they announced this week that they want to remove third-party cookie support from Chrome within two years. Safari and Firefox have already rolled out tools for blocking them, but…

Hotpod is a fantastic news source on podcasting. Hotpod’s Nicholas Quah and Caroline Crampton shared their predictions for the coming year in this interesting piece. Here is a summary of the big ones: Apple vs Spotify The…

Nathalie Malinarich, editor for mobile and new formats at BBC News, shared her thoughts on the evolution of digital publishing in Nieman Lab’s excellent Predictions for Journalism 2020. She noted that news organizations are starting to get…

Here on the MobiLoud blog we’ve written quite a bit about comments sections and publisher communities. For example we interviewed Andrew Losowsky, head of The Coral Project about why you shouldn’t disable comments. So we’re always pretty…

Lionel Barber has spent 34 years at the FT, including 14 as editor. He’s now leaving the title after being awarded News Provider of the Year at the British Journalism Awards. Barber is really proud of what…

Emily Withrow, R&D Director at Quartz, writes on Nieman lab that: “This year, we retire the news article as the default unit of journalism. It had a good run, but it’s a relic of distribution, audience, and…

We’ve heard the phrase “peak newsletter” tossed around a bit lately. With so many publishers launching them on every topic imaginable, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the market is saturated along with all our inboxes. Jacob…

A few weeks ago I’ve had the opportunity to interview Ebone Bell, the founder and Editor in Chief of Tagg magazine, a media company dedicated to serving the LGBTQ women community covering culture, news and events. They…

Podcasts are clearly hot right now. As Jacob Donnely writes in A Media Operator: I believe our industry is smart enough not to do a huge “pivot to audio,” it seems that everyone is launching their own…

If you’re a publisher who uses Google News, you’re probably familiar with Producer and Publisher Center. Google has now launched a tool that combines these two, merging their features into a single tool that will improve both…

As reported in Search Engine Journal, Google has started grouping related news articles together in carousels using BERT and other machine learning tools. The carousels will appear in the “top stories” section at the top of the…

We’ve previously written about Buzzfeed’s recent expansion into ever more Ecommerce verticals, is this the future for the industry? Take a look at how their business has evolved over the last two years. As reported in Bloomberg,…

Wholesome Yum publishes content on easy, gluten-free, low card and ketogenic recipes using less than 10 ingredients. CEO and founder Maya Krampf gave an interesting interview in Whats New In Publishing, answering questions about how the brand…

Digiday research surveyed 136 media executives about the tactics and strategies they use to drive subscriptions, and which ones get the best results. Shareen Pathak from Digiday Reseach summed up the results: “For publishers looking to drive…

You may have heard people ask – is SEO dead? No. It will never be dead as long as people primarily navigate through the internet via search engines, which I can’t see ending any time soon. In…

A new Reuters News report – News Podcasts and the Opportunities for Publishers – shows that podcasting has become a truly global phenomenon more than 15 years after the term was first coined. Some key figures 36%…

As reported by 9to5Mac, Apple News is expanding with a new “Good Morning” daily newsletter. Publishers generally get good traffic from Apple News+, launched earlier this year, but many have been frustrated at the lack of meaningful…

Although Facebook usually takes most of the heat, Google and the publishing industry have had a rocky relationship. It seems like the platform has taken some measures to deescalate hostilities over the last year or so. Last…

Some welcome positive news for publishers focusing on reader revenue – quality news is very much still in demand. A recent report from WAN-IFRA showed a strong 208% growth in global digital news subscriptions over the last…

The relationship between major tech platforms and publishing brands seems to be entering a new moment. For the last couple of years publishers have slowly abandoned the hope that platforms would provide the massive scale that would…