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Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition

Getting started with online video: Experiences from the Slovak market

Predictions about how new technologies will develop in the future are like horoscopes. If you want to get it right, you need to be as general as possible and hope that no one will notice that the few details you did include you got wrong.…

//December 18 / 2014 //read more

Australian papers launch online exchange for print ads

Australian publishers have joined forces to launch a private exchange to buy print advertising …

//November 28 / 2014 //read more

Tomas Bella: Publishers must experiment and see readers as customers

Newspapers, which have been accompanying western civilization for the past 200 years, have never been in such deep crisis. There is only one possibility: for serious news not to vanish, readers …

//October 14 / 2014 //read more

News Media: Diversify or die

Frédéric Filloux of Monday Note says the era of news media based on a single product is over. Diversification is the only way: it’s no longer a question of whether to develop other revenue streams, it’s a question of deciding which ones…

//October 13 / 2014 //read more

The Guardian launches membership scheme to finance its ‘open’ digital development

The Guardian, the world’s third largest news site, has launched a membership scheme putting community and events at the heart of its plans to finance its paywall-free digital development.

//September 22 / 2014 //read more

Local media should connect people with information, not just report news

The old formula of a news outlet simply providing objective news is out-of-date.

//July 22 / 2014 //read more

Sustainable change starts at the top

Before media companies can shift their business strategies toward digital, they must first change the structure and culture underpinning their organisations, writes Dr Tilmann Knoll, head of management development at Germany’s Axel…

//May 27 / 2014 //read more

Native advertising: The first key steps

Unlike many developments in digital advertising, native advertising is easy to understand, inexpensive to do and easy to get started with. Though it’s too early to tell whether it will develop into a lasting revenue source for news…

//May 2 / 2014 //read more

Digital revenues: Looking for the third way

With global digital ad spend about to overtake print, news outlets all over the world are searching with renewed passion for complementary revenue lines. The main focus is now on ‘user generated revenues’, either traditional revenues based…

//April 15 / 2014 //read more

Live video won’t save the news business

The Washington Post is the latest major US publisher to get its fingers burned launching a live video channel, reports Politico. Despite spending millions of dollars launching ‘the ESPN of politics’ last July, the service has been cut back…

//March 6 / 2014 //read more