GigaOm: How Chartbeat wants to help save the media industry — Tech News and Analysis
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 11:31
"Online, every click and interaction can be tracked and charted and graphed over time, to create a picture of what is happening at any minute of the day. .,.. Chartbeat … has just launched a … service called Newsbeat to help provide that data….
WWD.com: E-commerce Luring Top Editorial Talent
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 16:39
More on trend of retailers becoming publishers: "A new kind of magazine has indeed arrived online and its bringing editors into the sales business. For the last year, fast-growing online retail companies like Gilt and Net-a-porter in the U.K. have…
AllThingsD: Fortune Keeps Apple Story Off Web, On iPad and Kindle
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 12:05
"In the past, Fortune would have published the Apple story online last Thursday, at the same time the magazine was showing up on newsstands and in mailboxes. Instead, the magazine teased the piece with a post from Fortune.com Apple blogger Philip …
FT.com: Websites blur line between telling and selling
Saturday, 30 April 2011, 13:05
David Gelles quotes Natalie Massenet of Net-a-Porter: “In the next five years, media companies are going to become retailers and retailers are going to become media companies,” said Ms Massenet, "It’s inevitable."
The Wall Blog: Facebook is not about brands getting fans it is about engaging with them
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 16:40
Pete Davis: "Can [brands] really create the engaging content that will have their followers believing that their brand in someway reflects their lifestyle choices – whether that be through association with fashion, culture, music or general inte…
psmith, journalist: Demand Media: The $114 million content machine that has nothing to do with news
Monday, 9 August 2010, 15:17
Patrick Smith: "As the debate continues as to how the media industry might sustain news and original journalism, I increasingly wonder if legacy print-based publishers should somehow use all the revenue tools and models available as online publishers and simply make enough money to cross-subsidise their journalism. So it’s less about 'making money from news', as 'making money from whatever works'. This is why Will Lewis and the Telegraph’s ill-fated Euston Project was such an exciting idea."
Steve Yelvington: Online separation? Newspapers have been there and done that
Sunday, 14 March 2010, 01:48
"There were many cases in which local newspapers set up internal online groups that operated independently. Several years ago, a Borrell report showed a strong correlation between that organizational form and revenue performance. But it's not as simple as that. Correlation is not causation. I would argue that the organizations that used that structure had an intent that was missing from most of the newspaper industry at that time. They simply intended for their Web operations to succeed. The rest of the industry didn't really give a rat, and it showed."
Econsultancy: Five killer tips for successful paid content businesses
Sunday, 10 January 2010, 14:06
A great post from Econsultancy. My favourite bit: "Great web techies will give you agility, a competitive advantage and an IP asset that is really important. Interestingly also, the best editorial people I’ve been able to recruit have been open to leaving their previous roles because of their frustrations with the tech infrastructure where they were. Great web content folk are massively attracted by great web techie folk."
Quill & Quire: Is Kindle the environmentally friendly option?
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 10:36
"A recent report from the Cleantech Group analyzed the environmental impact of traditional publishing as measured against e-book publishing, and declared the latter to be the clear winner on environmental grounds. Calling the publishing industry “one of the world’s most polluting sectors,” the Cleantech report asserted that a concerted move to e-book publishing could drastically reduce the negative impact the industry has on the environment."
Steve Yelvington: Please stop calling print the ‘core product’ (explained)
Saturday, 14 March 2009, 09:12
"Your core business is not print. … your core product isn't news … you need to stop thinking that advertising supports news and start thinking about how news (and other content) supports advertising."
Saturday, 29 March 2008, 11:30
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“Our focus is not page views,” [Rafat] Ali said. “Our focus has been laserlike on the C-level executives in the industry. That’s why we get triple-digit CPMs. That’s nearly unheard of in the industry.”
Thursday, 27 December 2007, 11:29
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Scott Karp: "Publishing 2.0, like most commercialized blogs, is essentially a trade publication … and just as my content has little relevance to Digg’s niche audience, so too does Digg’s audience have little value to Publishing 2.0."
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 08:50
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Unlike a traditional, centralised online publication, Glam is a distributed network of its own and independent sites.
Sunday, 21 October 2007, 21:36
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Techcrunch ‘brings in $240,000 per month in advertising — but Nick Denton says blog publishing companies are "still minuscule by the standards of traditional media. And none have weathered a downturn."
