TheMediaBriefing: FT.com’s Rob Grimshaw on mobile, customer data and multimedia journalism
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 11:27
"In the second part of our exclusive interview with FT.com head honcho Rob Grimshaw, we tackle some of the specifics behind the FT's digital strategy. That includes: how the site uses customer data, why mobile is so important and how the profits from those 189,000 paying customers are re-invested back into multimedia journalism."
allmediascotland: Subscriber Success for New News Website
Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:25
"A local news website has picked up 3000 subscribers in just a matter of months – and is making revenue despite having no online display advertising. … [Eastwoodmercury.co.uk] caters for the middle-class Glasgow suburbs of Newton Mearns, Clarkston and Giffnock and is the brainchild of Tom McConigley, editorial manager of Clyde and Forth Media."
paidContent:UK: FT.com Takes Free Articles Away From Unregistered Users, Except Via Search
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 08:52
"[The Financial Times is] now ensuring that no free articles are on offer to non-registered users. … While it’s closing stories off to directly-visiting users, with First-Click-Free it’s leaving the door ajar to search visitors, however. … FT.com is set to trial day and week payments via PayPal."
Gamesindustry.biz: Registration FAQ
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 08:26
"In January 2010 GamesIndustry.biz will require anybody wishing to read our content to register with the site. That includes news, int,ws and editorials, as well as our education and directory content … [We're] aiming to evolve from a leading industry news website into the biggest trade community in the videogames business. … [We] don't believe that unqualified traffic is of any benefit for a trade-focused website."
SteveOuting: Hey, news sites: Think like retailers!
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 07:54
Steve Outing is right: news sites have a lot to learn about email marketing from retailers…
paidContent: Star Tribune Tries Lower Price For Vikings Premium
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 19:39
Staci D. Kramer: "Day in, day out, we’re writing here about the ways news outlets are trying to get users to pay for content and registration is key in nearly every one. If it isn’t global, easy or transparent, the content had better be really good and the price better be right because the pool of people willing to complete the process—let along enter payment info—will get smaller and smaller along the way."
Roy Greenslade: Exclusive interview with Financial Times chief executive
Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 21:14
"Perhaps his most startling revelation is that the paper's digital income now accounts for 20% of all its revenues, up from 14% in 2007 … Sales of the British FT have dipped in recent months, down about 6% year on year … Meanwhile, subscriptions to FT.com went up by 18%. The paper now has 117,000 individual subscribers on annual deals. It has also sold 650 lucrative licences to corporate clients. … He revealed that the FT is also looking at the possibility of introducing micro-payments, but as an accompaniment for subscriptions, not their replacement."
Press Gazette: Profits down 40 per cent at FT Publishing
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 13:38
"The company said the first six months of the year saw an 18 per cent increase in paying online subscribers for the FT to more than 117,000 and while worldwide print circulation was six per cent lower than in the same period last year, retail and subscription circulation were broadly level."
Press Gazette: FT Group sees profits rise from subscriptions and digital
Monday, 2 March 2009, 09:56
"Digital revenues represented 67 per cent of FT Group revenues last year, up from 28 per cent in 2000. FT.com subscribers grew nine per cent to 109,609. Registered users increased more than five-fold from 150,000 to 966,000."
media-ocean: Studienergebnisse: Zeitungen Online 2008
Sunday, 25 January 2009, 16:30
Steffen Büffel and Sebastian Spang survey the features of German newspaper websites.
NMA: FT.com hires managing editor from print title
Friday, 16 January 2009, 16:43
"The Financial Times has hired Robert Shrimsley as managing editor of FT.com to help manage its the digital and print integration. … The appointment came as FT.com reached over 1m [registered] users."
Guido Fawkes: The Economics of Blog Comments
Monday, 22 December 2008, 18:36
"In the last four years 200,000 comments have been made, the signal to noise ratio and average quality of the comments has declined. That is an inevitable consequence of having among the tens of thousands of readers a number of moronic, window licking, certifiable loonies. … Things will be changing in the New Year, you will still be able to say what you like (within somewhat arbitrary inconsistent limits) without pre-moderation or registering. However there will be incentives for those who produce better quality commentary based on a new element of co-conspirator community rating. Good comments will be more prominently displayed, disliked comments will be less prominent."
The Bivings Report: The Use of the Internet by America’s Largest Newspapers (2008 Edition)
Saturday, 20 December 2008, 09:45
"Speaking generally, our study shows that newspapers are trying to improve their web programs and aggressively experimenting with a variety of new features. However, having actually reviewed all these newspaper websites it is hard not to be left with the impression that the sites are being improved incrementally on the margins."
Techcult: 5 Sickening Habits of Mainstream Websites
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 08:46
"Here are 5 habits from mainstream websites that make me sick: Breaking stories in many different pages to increase the number of impressions … Using splash pages with ads … Not linking to the sources or mentioned websites … Using pop-up ads … Requiring registration to access the content…"
