There’s so much coverage of the shutting down of the News of the World, including mine, but I’m not seeing anyone talking about the journalist at the heart of this story – but who comes out with his reputation and morals intact. Nick Davies has for four years kept this story alive, ignoring every threat [...]
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Update 19.25: The Guardian has now taken these ads off its RSS feed, after I posted this article earlier today. Guardian News & Media tells me: “We have blocked the specific urls in question and are working closely with Google to prevent any similar adverts from appearing in the future.” Original:I’m reluctant to post this [...]
December’s ABC figures show nothing, but nothing but newspaper sales decline. Only one national title, buoyed by advertising campaign spend, managed a positive growth rate in the last four weeks of 2010. Here is the headline data in case you haven’t seen it (taken from Press Gazette’s table) but seeing as no one else seems [...]
Friday, December 31, 2010
I can’t help feeling that Delicious is one of the many services that Yahoo forgot that it owned and couldn’t see a way for it to integrate with its ad-supported news’n’content’n’stuff model. But the semantically-tagged fat lady has yet to sing for the bookmarking service. Right now, we know Yahoo doesn’t want Delicious any more. [...]
Friday, December 24, 2010
It’s always nice to receive Christmas cards. Somewhat less nice to receive automated mailing list Christmas spam from companies you have nothing to do with. Even worse is when the message is so generic and faceless it makes you laugh into your eggnog until you can laugh no more. Ping, an email arrives (see right). The subject: [...]
Image via CrunchBase An article for TheMediaBriefing, on the parallels between the success of the newly public Betfair – and the criticism it attracts – and digital media companies like Google. Here’s an excerpt… Betfair revenue was up 13 percent to £341 million in 2009/10. The technology underpinning the system is second-to-none. The company claims [...]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Image via Wikipedia The headline on Marketing’s website reads: “Daily Mirror’s plans online paywall“. The Twittersphere alights with it-won’t-workisms. The article says: Executives at parent group Trinity Mirror are finalising which content to charge for on Mirror.co.uk and Sundaymirror.co.uk. Final details of the strategy are expected to be confirmed later this year. Daily Mirror columnists, [...]
The paywall debate has focused on how consumers might consume the news industry’s end product: news. “Will readers pay for news online?” “Will the industry survive this change?” “Won’t people just get it for free someplace else?” These are the news industry’s Frequently Asked Questions right now. Even people that don’t believe in Rupert Murd [...]
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Image via CrunchBase I’ve been saying for a long while that Demand Media‘s digital content model has potential to make it big. And now it’s filing for an IPO, claiming the company has stock worth up to $125 million. It’s clear that Demand’s growth is by far outstripping even its own predictions and the time [...]
Update 1/7/10: See Tom Whitwell’s comment below: he points out that of course there are adverts on thetimes.co.uk, “on every page” even. “We just don’t have dozens of flashing popup/popunder ads for Albanian bingo parlours,” he says. So I admit to exaggerating slightly by saying there are “no” adverts – but one or two display [...]
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