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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Executive Views
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
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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Market indicators
Christmas content: ebooks boom, iOS uplift
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M&A analysis
Dailymotion nears ownership switch with kids subscription plan
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Market indicators
Internet may soon beat TV as main source of national news
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Company strategy
Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work?
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Company strategy
Tail wags dog – The Times subsidizes Nexus 7 to snag subscribers
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Company strategy
News Corp.’s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

News Corp.’s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?

Here endeth chapter one of Rupert Murdoch’s tablet epiphany — News Corporation will s...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
‘Game-changing’? A free future for Mirror, Record, other papers on iPad?
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Leveson tied in knots over online news regulation
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Insights
Inquiry: ‘Reckless’ UK press needs new regulator
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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
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Company strategy
FT Deutschland skips online-only, closes entirely
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Company strategy
Future selling $1 million per month in tablet magazines
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Mail Online’s 2013 resolution: money for video
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Company strategy
Three-way tie-up promises to re-invent local news
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Market indicators
Where Europe’s subscribers are — and aren’t
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Market indicators

Does a supermarket magazine really have more readers than The Sun?

Just when “branded content” is gaining heightened prominence, custom magazine publish...

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Conference reports
Video: How to make digital content blow up
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Conference reports
HuffPo is not for sale, except maybe at the right price
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Le Kiosk raising €5.6 million to make bundled tablet mags social
By Robert Andrews  
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  
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Company strategy
PRSS aims to be a low-cost iPad magazine factory in the cloud
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Company strategy
The Telegraph brings web meter, mobile subs to overseas readers
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Paywall provider Piano buys cookie-beater to build a better meter
By Robert Andrews  
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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’
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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  
Funding analysis

Nordic news publisher Schibsted buying in to ebook service Riidr

Why would a newspaper publisher want to own a book distributor? Same reason it wants ...

By Robert Andrews  
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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Company strategy
Google News faces mass newspaper boycott in Brazil
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Company strategy
What The Guardian really thinks about newsprint
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Industry moves
Guardian hires first digital strategy director to grow online business
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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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Pearson wants developers to remix its Dickens, Dorling Kindersley
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Funding analysis
In Warner’s stable, Deezer has funds for costly global Spotify fight
By Robert Andrews  
Industry moves

Pearson CEO Scardino out; what next for FT?

Her company made £2 billion ($3.1 billion) in digital content revenue last year. Now ...

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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
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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
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Earnings analysis
Sales growth outpacing audience growth at world’s biggest online newspaper
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Guardian’s chief investigator wants ISP tax to fund journalism
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Market indicators
Frustrated with poor mobile sales, publishers blame ad agencies
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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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Web adds a fifth to UK newspaper readership, print still dominates
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Research: Kids reading fewer websites, more ebooks
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Company strategy
Finnish publisher Sanoma cutting and charging to adapt for future
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis

Tesco fills the e-books piece of its digital puzzle by buying Mobcast

In the fascinating emerging digital content battle between some of the UK’s biggest r...

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Industry moves
Out of frying pan, HMV’s Fox picked to stoke Trinity Mirror’s fire
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Spotify gets a leg-up in Germany from Deutsche Telekom bundling
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Nook’s UK odyssey starts at John Lewis, ink only
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Earnings analysis
Online outsourcing helps Johnston’s digital news show creep forward
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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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Company strategy
While publishers levy digital fees, Time Out goes free on London streets
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Company strategy
The end of convergence? Perhaps for News Corp
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Forty-two Polish news sites push Piano’s ‘pay’ switch
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Earnings analysis
Guardian’s ‘digital-first’ means more losses, more lay-offs
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Company strategy
Kobo’s big in Japan already, now heads to Italy
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Market indicators

Young tablet owners more willing to pay for news

Paying for online news is still a minority sport – but participation may be growing t...

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Company strategy
Rakuten putting Pinterest, Kobo to work in Japan
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Company strategy
Europe sues to continue taxing digital content higher than physical
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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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Company strategy
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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