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Making free pay: seven lessons from media businesses that stopped charging

A wise man once said: “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product.” That’s what ...

By Robert Andrews  
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The X Factor ITV ad campaigns compared: a tale of missed chances?
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How have publishers responded to the demise of Google Reader?
By Robert Andrews  
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Ofcom report unveils stark realities of mobile TV consumption for operators
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YouTube’s TV battle depends on improved content and easier access
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What Apple’s indulgent ads say about life after Steve Jobs
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Microsoft’s Xbox One: Always on, always watching?
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Jam tomorrow for Xbox One’s TV dreams?
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Yahoo’s $1.1bn Tumblr gamble is a power bet on native advertising
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GameStick, a console on a stick, shrinks Ouya down to size
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Belgian media planning shared digital content passport
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Mail.ru kills its Twitter killer, wants a bigger slice of VK
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What does Yahoo want with Summly?
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What does Yahoo want with Summly?
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Last.fm revels in its scrobbles as radio bar is raised farther

The economics of personalised online radio seem as challenged as ever, with Pandora r...

By Robert Andrews  
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Sony puts animated .gif creation in more hands with mobile app
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If all its innovation is in the US, why is Google hiring so much in Europe?
By Robert Andrews  
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Free to FT subscribers, Nexus 7 will be a content Trojan Horse
By Robert Andrews  
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Europe wants to smash ‘barriers’ to digital health
By Robert Andrews  
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Spotify’s progress: challenging Rhapsody but freemium gap growing
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Spotify solves discovery by discovering music ain’t so social after all
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Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work?
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Tail wags dog – The Times subsidizes Nexus 7 to snag subscribers
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There’s life in iTunes yet – global expansion is good news for labels
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News Corp.’s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?
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FBI To Investigate News Corp. In Phone Hacking Allegations
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News Corp.’s divorce of convenience: publishing loses Hollywood’s embrace
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‘Game-changing’? A free future for Mirror, Record, other papers on iPad?
By Robert Andrews  
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Coming in 2013 – targeted TV ads

Just like with static display ads online, we have become used to seeing targeted vide...

By Robert Andrews  
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Search engines escape Russia’s internet blacklist
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Leveson tied in knots over online news regulation
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Leveson: Social media and blogs aren’t popular enough to carry proper news
By Robert Andrews  
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Content and commerce collide in Grazia‘s iPad edition
By Robert Andrews  
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ITN amplifies ‘citizen’ video journalism with TruthLoader
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Google mobilizes users in fight for robots’ core values
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Mail.ru playing hard ball with Google over Russian search?
By Robert Andrews  
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Future selling $1 million per month in tablet magazines
By Robert Andrews  
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FT Deutschland skips online-only, closes entirely
By Robert Andrews  
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Scoopshot is another UGC photo agency, but can it spot fakes?
By Robert Andrews  
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Three-way tie-up promises to re-invent local news
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Russia’s lackluster digital music market gets Opera tunes while iTunes waits
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Second-screen hopefuls hard-pressed to disrupt Hollywood ‘cabal’

You can’t move these days for new research indicating the rise of of “second-screener...

By Robert Andrews  
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Daily Mail‘s new Kindle app combines replica and interactive
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CODcasting could finally popularize gamer TV
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Most YouTube commissions won’t get a second season
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“We don’t innovate here” – Google’s curious UK tax rationale
By Robert Andrews  
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TV takes on tech’s roundabout with a triangle
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In China video wars, giants battle, upstart rides Android to homes
By Robert Andrews  
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Russian ‘social TV network’ Videomore expanding as JV like Hulu
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Crowdfunding helps non-starters and re-livers ride again
By Robert Andrews  
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Two years later, Virgin’s two-screen app takes TV wireless – via Ethernet
By Robert Andrews  
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Now China’s big online video beast has all of Hollywood
By Robert Andrews  
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Magine aims to be a cloud pay TV service without the box
By Robert Andrews  
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PRSS aims to be a low-cost iPad magazine factory in the cloud
By Robert Andrews  
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The Telegraph brings web meter, mobile subs to overseas readers

UK news publisher Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is the latest to try two vogeuish flavo...

By Robert Andrews  
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Domino’s aims to eat in to Netflix with its own VOD offering
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Google News wars are here again: Schmidt vs France on ‘news tax’
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ITV slowly rolling toward paid VOD launch
By Robert Andrews  
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The Future’s weekly and service-based for iPad mag publisher
By Robert Andrews  
Amazon Introduces New Tablet At News Conference In New York
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Lovefilm’s Kindle inclusion helps Amazon’s global content ambitions
By Robert Andrews  
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Updated: Homeless hawk codes, not content, as charity mag adds digital edition
By Robert Andrews  
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Movie streaming comes as part of UK’s pricey first 4G network
By Robert Andrews  
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Music service Rara faces challenge to turn free in to $0.99
By Robert Andrews  
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Google, Yahoo see contrasting fortunes in South Korea
By Robert Andrews  
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Google News faces mass newspaper boycott in Brazil
By Robert Andrews  
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Pearson sorry for downing 1.45 million teaching blogs
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Cloud trading markets could be ‘the Expedia of web services’
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What The Guardian really thinks about newsprint

Depending on whom you choose to believe this month, The Guardian will either cease it...

By Robert Andrews  
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VCs hope Europe’s cloud will produce a $1 billion exit
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No more daily deals, new digital newspaper focus for Trinity Mirror
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Newspapers go to Rio for growth and discovery
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Investors like New York Times‘ ‘paywall’ progress
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Guardian CEO says digital opportunity is “fantastic” but revenues are lagging
By Robert Andrews  
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US app ads help fund Chinese mobile ‘propaganda’
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Spotify seeking to be big in Japan
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Google must work harder to avoid European search charges
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Monetizing BitTorrent helps Australian newspaper keep down video costs
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BBC begins UltraViolet streaming access for DVDs
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Pearson wants developers to remix its Dickens, Dorling Kindersley
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YouTube adds more channels in original content expansion
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Can finger-biting Charlie profit from spin-off series?

It’s YouTube’s most viewed viral video of all time. But does virality equal longevity...

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Let’s get physical: in music, bits take on appearance of atoms
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Could TV’s ‘second screen’ be used for even more TV?
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Video portal LeTV going to Chinese living rooms through its own TVs
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UK will spend £50 million to digitise classic films
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Google rebooting content micropayments initiative under Wallet
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Virgin Media readying to launch belated second-screen intiative
By Robert Andrews  
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Lessons learned: The Independent to drop American digital charges
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YouTube goes legit in Turkey, bringing more sales and more censorship
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Sky to create 1,000 jobs
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BBC downsizing Red Button broadcast service to move multi-stream online
By Robert Andrews  
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Irish Times learns from its start-up incubator winner, finalists
By Robert Andrews  
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Yandex latest to build an empire off Google’s back
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Japanese music pirates face jail, big fines
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A tale of two Skys: ‘second screen’ split for News Corp in Europe

They may have the same name and the same largest shareholder – but the Sky pay-TV fir...

By Robert Andrews  
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Mail.ru launches own web browser to rival IE
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Murdoch’s Times unblocks search engines to seek new subscribers
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NBCU, Comcast buy in to Zeebox to take ‘second screen’ to prime time
By Robert Andrews  
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Newsprint joins the internet of things
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HuffPo goes to Italy, asks more of UK edition
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Megaupload arrest tactics deemed unlawful as Kim Dotcom vows to ride again
By Robert Andrews  
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Guardian’s chief investigator wants ISP tax to fund journalism
By Robert Andrews  
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Updated: Universal/EMI must sell crown jewels to protect iTunes challengers
By Robert Andrews  
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Official: Yellow pages may be worthless
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Android video mess calls BBC to replace Flash with… Flash
By Robert Andrews  
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TV sees itself in a ‘second screen’ primed for popularity
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New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
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Rdio, Vdio tag-team for Skype founders’ music, movie combo

Spotify may not be the only online music service to enter the internet video space, i...

By Robert Andrews  
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Apple can pick its moment to re-invent music again
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Spotify for TV – could it finally be true?
By Robert Andrews  
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‘EE’, UK’s first 4G network, caps T-Mobile and Orange, adds fibre broadband
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iTunes Store may launch in Russia, cheaper than U.S.
By Robert Andrews  
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China’s largest e-tailer agrees to stop movie pirates
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Finnish publisher Sanoma cutting and charging to adapt for future
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