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Investors like New York Times‘ ‘paywall’ progress

Some critics may observe “paywalls” don’t work — but try telling that to investors. ...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
PCUK/Harris Poll: Only Five Percent Of Readers Would Pay For Online News
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
The 10-Year View: UK Magazine Sales Hit Another Low
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: Google expands mobile mag products amid web threat
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
GameStick, a console on a stick, shrinks Ouya down to size
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Classifieds site Oodle carved up between three bidders
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Digital boom couldn’t stop 2012 entertainment slump in UK
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Belgian media planning shared digital content passport
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Targets missed, Nook sells stake to Pearson to secure book distribution
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Mail.ru kills its Twitter killer, wants a bigger slice of VK
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Christmas content: ebooks boom, iOS uplift
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
All-singing devices are eating up MP3 player sales
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators

Why France leads the IPTV world — but isn’t winning the race

The country that was long addicted to its aging Minitel national computer information...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
What does Yahoo want with Summly?
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Internet may soon beat TV as main source of national news
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Dailymotion nears ownership switch with kids subscription plan
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Last.fm revels in its scrobbles as radio bar is raised farther
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
The world’s best paid content market? China, research says
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Reed Midem acquires LeWeb tech conference
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Sony puts animated .gif creation in more hands with mobile app
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Trustpilot takes €10 million to help consumers rate etailers
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Free to FT subscribers, Nexus 7 will be a content Trojan Horse
By Robert Andrews  
If all its innovation is in the US, why is Google hiring so much in Europe?
Company strategy
If all its innovation is in the US, why is Google hiring so much in Europe?
By Robert Andrews  
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Analyst Views
Analysts: Apple may have better shot at Apple TV outside the US
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Europe wants to smash ‘barriers’ to digital health
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews

Interview: Spotify exec on royalties and keeping labels happy

Spotify boasts over 18 million songs for listeners to stream — helped, no doubt, by b...

By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: How News Corp’s Times will use cheap tablets to sell content
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Spotify solves discovery by discovering music ain’t so social after all
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Spotify’s progress: challenging Rhapsody but freemium gap growing
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work?
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Research: Pay TV customers will cut existing bills before cutting cords
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
There’s life in iTunes yet – global expansion is good news for labels
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Tail wags dog – The Times subsidizes Nexus 7 to snag subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
FBI To Investigate News Corp. In Phone Hacking Allegations
Company strategy
News Corp.’s divorce of convenience: publishing loses Hollywood’s embrace
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
News Corp.’s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
‘Game-changing’? A free future for Mirror, Record, other papers on iPad?
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Forecast: Internet ad spend will outstrip all print in 2015
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Search engines escape Russia’s internet blacklist
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Coming in 2013 – targeted TV ads

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

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Leveson: Social media and blogs aren’t popular enough to carry proper news
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Leveson tied in knots over online news regulation
By Robert Andrews  
Insights
Inquiry: ‘Reckless’ UK press needs new regulator
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Swipeable tablet ads see higher engagement, Google says
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Content and commerce collide in Grazia‘s iPad edition
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
ITN amplifies ‘citizen’ video journalism with TruthLoader
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google mobilizes users in fight for robots’ core values
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Guardian and BBC battle for traffic in the Big Apple
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Mail.ru playing hard ball with Google over Russian search?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
FT Deutschland skips online-only, closes entirely
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Future selling $1 million per month in tablet magazines
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Scoopshot is another UGC photo agency, but can it spot fakes?
By Robert Andrews  
Essays

New BBC boss should stick with Entwistle’s bold online plan

When George Entwistle gave his first speech to BBC staff after becoming director gene...

By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis
Mail Online’s 2013 resolution: money for video
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Where Europe’s subscribers are — and aren’t
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Ex Apple VP backs payment platform Cleeng to break U.S.
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Three-way tie-up promises to re-invent local news
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Russia’s lackluster digital music market gets Opera tunes while iTunes waits
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Despite single-market push, it’s English content more Europeans will pay for
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Open-source video’s Kaltura takes $25 million to go to Asia
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Research: Apple pulling ahead of Samsung in mobile advertising stakes
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Video: How to make digital content blow up
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Does a supermarket magazine really have more readers than The Sun?
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
‘Content is king’ again: why Bill Gates may be right after all
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
HuffPo is not for sale, except maybe at the right price
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

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  
Conference reports
Microsoft and Skype are dreaming up new ad formats
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
East vs West: Tumblr’s Karp on why New York is no ‘Valley Jr.’
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
After Flipboard and Tumblr, Chernin bets on YouTube video boom
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Le Kiosk raising €5.6 million to make bundled tablet mags social
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Universal Music Group nearing its digital tipping point
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Daily Mail‘s new Kindle app combines replica and interactive
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Death of a classified salesman: the struggle to ignite old ads in new media
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
CODcasting could finally popularize gamer TV
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
“We don’t innovate here” – Google’s curious UK tax rationale
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Most YouTube commissions won’t get a second season
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Russian ‘social TV network’ Videomore expanding as JV like Hulu
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
TV takes on tech’s roundabout with a triangle
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

In China video wars, giants battle, upstart rides Android to homes

When it comes to internet video, China’s giant online services operator Tencent seems...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Crowdfunding helps non-starters and re-livers ride again
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis
Five ways digital isn’t working for Trinity Mirror
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Two years later, Virgin’s two-screen app takes TV wireless – via Ethernet
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Buying another classified site, Axel Springer sees digital filling print gap
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Now China’s big online video beast has all of Hollywood
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Bing is slowly eating into Google’s massive UK search dominance
By Robert Andrews  
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Market analysis
Newspapers and streaming music: heavenly harmony or digital discord?
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Product makers must tell a good toy story to stay focused
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Magine aims to be a cloud pay TV service without the box
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Russia’s new web-blocking agency begins its work
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
PRSS aims to be a low-cost iPad magazine factory in the cloud
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Telegraph brings web meter, mobile subs to overseas readers
By Robert Andrews  
Analyst Views

As paid content booms, will ad opportunities shrink?

Marketers should start acting like content creators to get their messages across, bec...

By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Paywall provider Piano buys cookie-beater to build a better meter
By Robert Andrews  
Essays
The very long tail – how magazines could make their archives sing
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Domino’s aims to eat in to Netflix with its own VOD offering
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Google News wars are here again: Schmidt vs France on ‘news tax’
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
ITV slowly rolling toward paid VOD launch
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Local news super roll-up: UK publishing rivals may face future together
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
FT digital subs pass 300,000, growing readership and revenue
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Penguin Random House aims to attack digital, emerging ebooks markets
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Nordic news publisher Schibsted buying in to ebook service Riidr
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
German publishers want to buy Xing, dump online games
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Future’s weekly and service-based for iPad mag publisher
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Russians happy to pay for Mail.ru’s games and gifts
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Lovefilm’s Kindle inclusion helps Amazon’s global content ambitions

Amazon is slotting its global content line-up in to place by finally confirming its L...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Updated: Homeless hawk codes, not content, as charity mag adds digital edition
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Italian publishers’ online ad firm financed to develop new formats
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Yelp buys Europe’s Qype for $50 million to globalize its local reviews
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Movie streaming comes as part of UK’s pricey first 4G network
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Telcos’ digital services could earn little yet still be valuable
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Music service Rara faces challenge to turn free in to $0.99
By Robert Andrews  
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