Executive Views

CPG Brands Warming To Programmatic Ads: Xaxis’ Odhams

LONDON — One theory holds that super-targeted and automated online ads can most benef...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Mondelēz’s Bough Wants To Build Bigger, Better, Faster “Unicorns”
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
SourceKnowledge Charges Ads On Customer Acquisition
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Adobe Finds Tablets Racing Ahead For Retailers
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Targets missed, Nook sells stake to Pearson to secure book distribution
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
Domino’s aims to eat in to Netflix with its own VOD offering
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
No more daily deals, new digital newspaper focus for Trinity Mirror
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Mobile can be the ‘personalization lens’ for offline stores
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
HMV’s next digital idea: click-to-collect plastic music
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Code everlasting – how customers can sell their downloads
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Lagardère buying shopping site LeGuide.com for €98.2 million
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Confirmed: Pinterest taking $100m for e-commerce play
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Facebook’s Big Freemium Funnel Helps Spotify Et Al Find The Pay In Free

In the land of the freemium, how much free is enough to convince users to pay? In...

By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
Video: Slovakia’s Paid Content System Plans To Launch In Bigger Markets
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Slovenia’s Big Pay ‘Wall’ Has Made €26,000
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
More Papers Put Faith In Daily Deals And Tablet Payments As Profit Shrinks
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Telegraph Puts Mobile App In Subscription Bundle
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Germany Wants To Charge Search Engines To Use News Excerpts
By Robert Andrews  
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
Company strategy
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Yahoo’s Next Strategy: There’s Gold In That There E-Commerce
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google Aims To Convince Mobile Game Makers On In-App Payments
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Facebook TV Vote Slip-Up Earns Warning For Channel 5
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Can A Fashion Blogger Make It Pay? Frockwriter Is About To Find Out
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
FT Digital Subscriptions Surpass Print In U.S. As Sign-Ups Slow
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
News Corp’s Times Hikes Digital Fee To Milk iPad Riches
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis

Yahoo Has No Bearing On Alibaba.com Privatisation, E-commerce Site Says

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s main business unit aims to delist from the H...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
News Corp Sees Digital Payments Soften But Not Reverse UK Sales Decline
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Zeebox Searches For Money In TV’s Social Second Screen
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Slovakia’s News Pay Wall Gets A Little Higher
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Axel Springer Takes A Slice Of Airbnb In Exposure Deal
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google Set To Relaunch OnePass, Halting French Papers’ Kiosk
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
ITV Picks Its ‘Oyster Card’ For Online Programme Payments
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: ‘No Decision’ On Sun Paywall In Absence Of NOTW
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
UK’s Biggest Regional Newspaper Ending Web Fees
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Updated: ‘Mortified’ Google To Act On Those Who Poached Rival’s Clients
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Eight Slovenian Media To Start Charging For Some Online News
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
EU To Focus On Digital Content Policy In 2012
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators

Italy’s Paid Content Market Actually Seems Relatively Healthy

Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other ma...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Publishers’ Social Site aNobii Relaunches To Put The ‘Book’ In ‘Facebook’
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Lonely Planet’s Mobile Travel Startup Launches, With Content From Rivals
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Groupon’s Exaggerated Deals Will Be Probed By UK Government
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Slideshow: The Future Of Movies According To Blinkbox And Tesco
By Robert Andrews  
Tesco, Blinkbox Marry DVD, Online Movies Ahead Of Ultraviolet
Company strategy
Tesco, Blinkbox Marry DVD, Online Movies Ahead Of Ultraviolet
By Robert Andrews  
Mail Online Readers Say They Will Pay, But They Won’t Be Forced To
Company strategy
Mail Online Readers Say They Will Pay, But They Won’t Be Forced To
By Robert Andrews  
Updated: Newsstand’s Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
Company strategy
Updated: Newsstand’s Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
French Papers Buddy With Google For Kiosk Payments, Product Development
By Robert Andrews  
FT Digital Subscriptions Have Grown Through Apple Fall-Out
Company strategy
FT Digital Subscriptions Have Grown Through Apple Fall-Out
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Independent Launches Overseas Press+ Meter, Pricey iPad Edition
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
A Publisher Does E-Commerce: Future Launches The Making Spot
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Chart: Comparing The Two Timeses’ Subscriber Growth
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

The Economist Mistakenly Gave Away Free Digital Subscriptions

The Economist will next week revoke premium digital subscriptions from some users aft...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
News Corp’s Sun Settles On Ads Over Fees, Rejigs Sales Team
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Ericsson Enables In-App Android Payments Via Carrier Bills
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Sainsbury’s Supermarket Buying Media Vault To Launch Digital Content Retail
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Slovakia’s Paid Content System Funded For European Expansion
By Robert Andrews  
Europe Probes Banks For E-Payments Monopoly
Company strategy
Europe Probes Banks For E-Payments Monopoly
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Japan’s E-commerce Giant Rakuten Buying Play.com For £25 Million
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
@ pcAds: Hearst Wants Tablet Magazines To Adopt Movie, TV Pricing
By Robert Andrews  
M&A Round-Up: Zaypay, Wallaby, 49Games, JigoCity Get Snapped Up
M&A analysis
M&A Round-Up: Zaypay, Wallaby, 49Games, JigoCity Get Snapped Up
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Penthouse Owner Swaps New Stock For Asian Daily Deals Site
By Robert Andrews  
Alipay Buys Up More Of China’s Nascent Online Payments Market
Earnings analysis
Alipay Buys Up More Of China’s Nascent Online Payments Market
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Financial Times Apps Finally Pulled From iOS
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Scotland’s Herald-Times Website Will Charge On Metre
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis

Alibaba Profits Jump After Influx Of Foreign Buyers

The Chinese ecommerce site of whose owner Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) owns 40 percent is growi...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
The Onion Testing A Metered Paid Model
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
How Publishers Are Dealing With Apple’s In-App Subscription Policies
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Axel Springer Thanks iPad For 134,140 Daily Digital Customers
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Facebook Credits Will Fuel TV Reality Show Votes
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
World Of Warcraft Flips Freemium Tactic To Seek More Subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Daily Deals Globalization Race, As LivingSocial Buys In To More Countries
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
La Tribune Starts Charging For More Online Content
By Robert Andrews  
The Times Will Allow PayPal Payment
Company strategy
The Times Will Allow PayPal Payment
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Why Apple’s Subscription Terms Are A Lose-Lose-Lose
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Slovak Publishers Have Made €40k From New Paid Content System
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple Lets Subscription Providers Hike iOS Prices To Absorb Its 30 Percent
By Robert Andrews  
Australian Publishers Will Keep Most Web News Free
Insights
Australian Publishers Will Keep Most Web News Free
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

The FT Is Sticking It To Apple With A New Web-Based iPad App

With a few weeks to go before Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) starts taking a 30 percent cut of in...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Haymarket Will Charge For Its Marketing Industry News Sites
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Paid Content Host SubHub Pivots To Be A Drupal ‘App Store’
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
FT Still Negotiating With Apple On iPad Subscriptions
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
News Corp. Appears To Favour Softer Paid Model For Britain’s Biggest Paper
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Telegraph’s Digital Head: Open Mind On Web Fees
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Game Group Tries To Grow Digital Sales
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Times Gains New Subscribers With Groupon Discount
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Why Subscription May Not Be The Panacea In Entertainment
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
KupiVIP Takes Record Funding To Be Western Retailers’ Gateway To Russia
By Robert Andrews  
UK Government Will Press Ahead With Giving Away Paid Content To Libraries
Company strategy
UK Government Will Press Ahead With Giving Away Paid Content To Libraries
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Slovakia Is About To Introduce Wide-Ranging Paid Content
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Publishers Plan To Charge For New Content
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Goes Paid Online To Boost Circulation

The UK’s highest-circulation regional daily newspaper has introduced its pay-for webs...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
Mail Online Kicking Google OnePass’ Tyres
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Another Newspaper Jumps On The Groupon Bandwagon
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Retailers Are Finally Embracing Android, So How About Media Owners?
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Just-Eat Gobbles $48 Million Funding To Go Global
By Robert Andrews  
Papers Finally Start Aping Groupon
Company strategy
Papers Finally Start Aping Groupon
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
UK’s Mail Online Tinkering With Mobile Pricepoints
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Threatened Much? News-Subscription Vendor Tries To Stick It To Apple
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Digital Mag Vendor Exact Extends Its Own iPad Subs Option
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Publishers Do Promos, Part 2: Axel Springer Buying German Coupon Site
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
‘Freemium’ Goes Freer As Rhapsody Tries To Fend Off Peers
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Flipping The ‘Paid’ Web Switch

The UK’s best-selling regional daily newspaper will start requiring a bundled print-a...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Groupon Owns A Third Of European Deals Visits
By Robert Andrews  
Market analysis
How UK Newspaper Subscriptions Stack Up
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
BBCWW Seeking An Online Partner For Lonely Planet
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: Rdio CEO Says Subs Will Boom (But First, That Apple Problem)
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Spooked Publishers State Their Demands To Tablet Platforms
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up
By Robert Andrews  
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