As reported in Whats New in Publishing, Telegram has a lot going for it. Should publishers be on the platform? Lets find out. The messaging app takes privacy seriously, is growing steadily, and has a number of…
Microsoft’s AI Tools for Newsrooms
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…
TikTok Wants to Help Publishers to Make Money on Their Platform
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…
The Cookie Crumbles as Google Hammers the Final Nail into the Third-Party Data Coffin
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…
Spotify Is Becoming a Podcast Ad Network
As we’ve covered previously, Spotify are really the player in podcasting along with Apple. They’ve been pushing aggressively into the format throughout 2019, and have already started 2020 with a bang by announcing Streaming Ad Insertion for…
HotPod’s Big Predictions for 2020 Podcast Trends
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…
Publishers Should Go All in on Audience Loyalty for 2020
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…
9 Quick Tips for Growing Reader Revenue and Subscriptions
In 2019, we seemed to pass the tipping point of the pivot to direct audience revenue. The strategy has been validated, we now know that readers are willing to pay for top quality content, and that asking…
Crosscut Is Shutting down the Comments Section – but They Have a Plan to Engage Audiences "More Fully Transparently and Meaningfully"
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…
Did the Financial times Reinvent the Model Business Model for Journalism?
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…