Executive Views

No Nudes Is Good News, As Playboy Bares All For Upfronts

VAIL, CO — Playboy is gearing up to take its content roster to advertisers this comin...

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The Atlantic Embraces Social Distribution, Responsibly
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The Economist Tells Brand Stories To Dodge Ad Disruption, Paul Rossi explains
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Meredith Advertisers Can Measure Live, Real-World Results
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Hearst’s Ad Sale Approach: Diverse Models & Partners
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Conde Nast Finds A Fit For Films Beyond The Page
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Company strategy
Making free pay: seven lessons from media businesses that stopped charging
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Wibbitz Auto-Magically Turns News Stories In To Videos: CEO
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Mail Online Aims To Go Large With Rich, Native Video Ads
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Guardian’s Cordrey On News Readers’ Daily Rhythm
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Mail Online’s New US CEO Steinberg: “We are Going to Grow Massively”
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SMG Planning Content@Scale International Expansion
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Guardian Digital Gains Offsetting Print Decline
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Journalism Now Free From Tyranny Of Robots: Quartz’s Delaney

Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney professes to be “really optimistic about the fut...

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Quartz Looks Through ‘Glass’ At Future Of TV
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Guardian Uses ‘Attention Analytics’ To Amplify Content
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Buying Video Traffic Is Not A Four-Letter Word: Taboola’s Silberstein
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Time.com Sees A Fifth Of Video Views From Mobile Web
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Boston Globe To End Two-Site ‘Confusion’ With Metered Push
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Nigerian News Consumers Jump Straight To Mobile First
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Interviews
The Washington Post Plans ‘Video, Video, Video’ In 2014
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The Guardian Now More Popular In US Than UK
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Time Inc To Launch Mobile Video Content Channel
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NowThisNews Squeezes Short Video News, Ads In To Social Nets
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ABC News’ Vance: Video Comes Out To Play At Night On Tablets
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With Mobile Video Consumption Boom, ABC News Launches New App
By Robert Andrews  
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TouchCast Courts News Publishers With Desktop Video Suite

It’s four months since former TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld debuted TouchCast, an...

By Robert Andrews  
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Video News Syndicator NDN in Pact with Berkshire Hathaway Papers
By Robert Andrews  
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Video News Syndicator NDN in Pact with Berkshire Hathaway Papers
By Robert Andrews  
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NYT’s Prohaska: Programmatic And Conventional Ads Can Co-Exist
By Robert Andrews  
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Reuters Digitizing Its Long Tail To License To Marketers
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Company strategy
Belgian media planning shared digital content passport
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Market indicators
Internet may soon beat TV as main source of national news
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M&A analysis
Dailymotion nears ownership switch with kids subscription plan
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Tail wags dog – The Times subsidizes Nexus 7 to snag subscribers
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FBI To Investigate News Corp. In Phone Hacking Allegations
Company strategy
News Corp.’s divorce of convenience: publishing loses Hollywood’s embrace
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News Corp.’s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?
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‘Game-changing’? A free future for Mirror, Record, other papers on iPad?
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Leveson tied in knots over online news regulation
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Insights

Inquiry: ‘Reckless’ UK press needs new regulator

The UK government must legislate to establish a new press “self-regulation” body — in...

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Company strategy
Google mobilizes users in fight for robots’ core values
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Company strategy
Content and commerce collide in Grazia‘s iPad edition
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Company strategy
ITN amplifies ‘citizen’ video journalism with TruthLoader
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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
Future selling $1 million per month in tablet magazines
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Company strategy
FT Deutschland skips online-only, closes entirely
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Mail Online’s 2013 resolution: money for video
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Market indicators
Where Europe’s subscribers are — and aren’t
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Company strategy
Three-way tie-up promises to re-invent local news
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Conference reports
Video: How to make digital content blow up
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Market indicators
Does a supermarket magazine really have more readers than The Sun?
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Conference reports
HuffPo is not for sale, except maybe at the right price
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Funding analysis

Le Kiosk raising €5.6 million to make bundled tablet mags social

Earlier this summer, I wrote about Le Kiosk, a French start-up trying to bring an a l...

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Company strategy
Daily Mail‘s new Kindle app combines replica and interactive
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Earnings analysis
Five ways digital isn’t working for Trinity Mirror
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
PRSS aims to be a low-cost iPad magazine factory in the cloud
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The Telegraph brings web meter, mobile subs to overseas readers
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M&A analysis
Paywall provider Piano buys cookie-beater to build a better meter
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Essays
The very long tail – how magazines could make their archives sing
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Company strategy
Google News wars are here again: Schmidt vs France on ‘news tax’
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
FT digital subs pass 300,000, growing readership and revenue
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Company strategy
Updated: Homeless hawk codes, not content, as charity mag adds digital edition
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Funding analysis
Italian publishers’ online ad firm financed to develop new formats
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Google News faces mass newspaper boycott in Brazil
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What The Guardian really thinks about newsprint
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Industry moves

Guardian hires first digital strategy director to grow online business

Guardian News & Media has appointed its first ever digital strategy director to k...

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Company strategy
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
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Monetizing BitTorrent helps Australian newspaper keep down video costs
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Funding analysis
In Warner’s stable, Deezer has funds for costly global Spotify fight
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Industry moves
Pearson CEO Scardino out; what next for FT?
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Company strategy
Lessons learned: The Independent to drop American digital charges
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Earnings analysis
Future has made £5 million from iPad magazines in a year
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Murdoch’s Times unblocks search engines to seek new subscribers
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Earnings analysis
Sales growth outpacing audience growth at world’s biggest online newspaper
By Robert Andrews  
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Newsprint joins the internet of things
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Market indicators

Frustrated with poor mobile sales, publishers blame ad agencies

Publishers are seeing mobile audiences growing fast – but revenue is yet to catch up,...

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Company strategy
Guardian’s chief investigator wants ISP tax to fund journalism
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Industry moves
The Guardian has a new chief digital officer
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Company strategy
Apple can pick its moment to re-invent music again
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Market indicators
Web adds a fifth to UK newspaper readership, print still dominates
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Finnish publisher Sanoma cutting and charging to adapt for future
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Spotify gets a leg-up in Germany from Deutsche Telekom bundling
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Industry moves
Out of frying pan, HMV’s Fox picked to stoke Trinity Mirror’s fire
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Earnings analysis
Online outsourcing helps Johnston’s digital news show creep forward
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Digital magazines boom too little to grow overall sales
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Company strategy
Guardian sees 2.1% of iPad readers pay
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Two years after the tipping point, papers’ web readership is booming
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While publishers levy digital fees, Time Out goes free on London streets
By Robert Andrews  
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The end of convergence? Perhaps for News Corp

When News Corp bid to take over BSkyB, it heralded a tantalising vision – a future me...

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Company strategy
Forty-two Polish news sites push Piano’s ‘pay’ switch
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis
Guardian’s ‘digital-first’ means more losses, more lay-offs
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Young tablet owners more willing to pay for news
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Company strategy
Poland is paid news content’s next frontline
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M&A analysis
Centaur buying Econsultancy for up to £50 million
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Down-sizing Down Under, Fairfax Media cuts and charges to survive
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News Corp’s IGN games site going to Asia-Pacific
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iPad magazine bundler LeKiosk tries to crack UK, Italy
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Viva Hispania: HuffPo, Deezer, Yahoo court Latin dollars
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Conference reports
Meredith’s Schimel: Now moms are early tech adopters, too
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FT’s Grimshaw: Digital subs will soon beat print circulation
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M&A analysis
Sold for £87 million, but can MoneySavingExpert.com keep savers sweet?
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Company strategy

Wires become books, paid becomes free for Queen’s Jubilee

Some UK publishers are trying their hands at new digital experiences to milk the sixt...

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Market indicators
Murdoch’s Times could soon be read mostly digitally
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Company strategy
Spotify rival WiMP has global ambitions, too – now it needs cash
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Interviews
Interview: 5 Questions for Future CEO Mark Wood
By Robert Andrews  
IPO analysis
People’s Daily Online shares suspended after excessive trading
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Web journey complete, FT switching off iOS app
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Market indicators
Digital reading beginning to take Chinese mindshare
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