Executive Views

Disney Apps’ Reboot Improves Kids’ Engagement

SAN FRANCISCO — The Disney/ABC Television Group says it has increased kids’ engagemen...

By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Group M’s Xaxis Goes Large With TV-Synced Two-Screen Ads
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Analyst Views
Mobile Is Killing Consoles’ TV Dreams: Author Lovell
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Executive Views
Tablets Aren’t Mobiles: Collective CEO Apprendi
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Xaxis’ UK Chief: Advertisers Spend Channel-by-Channel, Not Multiscreen
By Robert Andrews  
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Executive Views
YuMe’s Lyonette: For Video Ads, “Size Doesn’t Matter”
By Robert Andrews  
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Executive Views
ABC News’ Vance: Video Comes Out To Play At Night On Tablets
By Robert Andrews  
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Executive Views
Research: IPG Zeroes In On Tablet Video Users
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Executive Views
Research: Tablet Video Apps Capture Viewers Better Than TV
By Robert Andrews  
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Executive Views
Adobe Finds Tablets Racing Ahead For Retailers
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: Google expands mobile mag products amid web threat
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Tail wags dog – The Times subsidizes Nexus 7 to snag subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
News Corp.’s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators

Swipeable tablet ads see higher engagement, Google says

Everyone knows now that touchscreen tablet devices are seeing great engagement from u...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Content and commerce collide in Grazia‘s iPad edition
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Future selling $1 million per month in tablet magazines
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
‘Content is king’ again: why Bill Gates may be right after all
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Le Kiosk raising €5.6 million to make bundled tablet mags social
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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Company strategy
Two years later, Virgin’s two-screen app takes TV wireless – via Ethernet
By Robert Andrews  
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Analyst Views
As paid content booms, will ad opportunities shrink?
By Robert Andrews  
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Essays
The very long tail – how magazines could make their archives sing
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Lovefilm’s Kindle inclusion helps Amazon’s global content ambitions
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Mobile boom means big challenges for Vevo’s global roll-out
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Could TV’s ‘second screen’ be used for even more TV?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Virgin Media readying to launch belated second-screen intiative
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis

Future has made £5 million from iPad magazines in a year

Magazine publisher Future hinted it will upgrade its digital strategy at scale later ...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
NBCU, Comcast buy in to Zeebox to take ‘second screen’ to prime time
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Russia may get its own national flavor of Android
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Research: Consumers now more excited about iPad than iPhone
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Three billion flips later, Flipboard turns to video
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Company strategy
YouTube finally enables skippable mobile ads
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Research: TV’s second screen is for talking, not browsing
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Digital magazines boom too little to grow overall sales
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Sky TV’s new iPad remote control is a blank slate, literally
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
BBC’s ‘multi-platform Games’ reveals new appetite for live video, mobile browsing
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Forget ‘social media Olympics’, these are the mobile games
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
NBC: Nearly half of Olympics streams are from mobile, tablet
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Olympics streaming forecast: TV will rule, mobile outlook cloudy
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis

Network Ten takes a stake in Zeebox Down Under

The promising social TV app startup Zeebox, which is due for U.S. launch this su...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Cable networks blocking BBC’s U.S. iPlayer aims
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: BBC’s Olympics will deliver an ‘online legacy’
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: 5 Questions for Future CEO Mark Wood
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Producers, advertisers begin tapping TV’s second screen for fun and profit
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple barred from using ‘4G’ in marketing for the iPad in UK
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Flipboard is ‘head-on competitor’ on Economist’s road to all-digital
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Amazon Frustrates With ‘Suspension’ Of Kindle Newspaper Additions
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Video: Print’s Not Dead, It’s Getting High In The Sky
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
For Connected TV, The New Last Mile Is Dining Room To Living Room
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Virgin’s TiVo Slow-Mo: An iPad App, Two Years Later
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Revenge Of The Replicas – 70 UK Papers Hit iOS In One Go
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Company strategy
Flipboard Goes French And More Magazine-Like
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production

Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effect...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Magazine Publishers Running Ahead Of Auditors With UK Digital Editions
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Two Become One: How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Zeebox Searches For Money In TV’s Social Second Screen
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Future’s Newsstand Transformation: 75,000 New Subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Tablets Are Prime-Time Media Devices
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Economist Tries A Flipboard-Like Election App All In HTML
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go?
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Research: One In 40 In UK Got The Gift Of E-Reader This ‘Kindle Christmas’
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Slide Deck: The Economist Sees The Rebirth Of Lean-Back Media
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Economist Claims Over A Million Monthly Mobile Readers
By Robert Andrews  
Corrected: Nook, Zinio Tie iPad For Magazine Publisher Take-Up
Company strategy
Corrected: Nook, Zinio Tie iPad For Magazine Publisher Take-Up
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Infographic: Financial Times’ New Mobile Audience

Consumption off the desktop is creating new audiences for The Financial Times before ...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Updated: Newsstand’s Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: Zinio CEO Not Threatened By Apple’s Own Newsstand
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Metro Hails Newsstand For Strong Downloads, High Engagement
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Guardian Counts 145,880 Free iPad Downloads, But Will Readers Pay For It?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Economist Bows To Apple Terms As iOS 5 Breaks Its App
By Robert Andrews  
Apple’s Newsstand Is Already Booming For Some Magazine Publishers
Company strategy
Apple’s Newsstand Is Already Booming For Some Magazine Publishers
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Company strategy
Virgin’s iPad Mag Project Reboots On Newsstand Under New Ownership
By Robert Andrews  
Interview: Future Publishing’s Tablet Chief Embracing iPad’s Newsstand
Interviews
Interview: Future Publishing’s Tablet Chief Embracing iPad’s Newsstand
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Publishers Mull iOS 5’s Promise And Problems
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Guardian’s iPad Newspaper Edition Will Cost £9.99 Per Month
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
New $60 Aakash Promises To Kick-Start Indian Tablet Market
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Even iPad 1 Will Beat Android Tablets Until Prices Fall To Kindle Levels
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Tablet Boom Coming To India, For As Little As $35?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Netflix’s Red Pill, Lovefilm’s Blue: DVDs Dowsing Amazon’s Fire?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Updated: Amazon Stock Watch: B&N Plummets, Apple Unmoved On Kindle Launch
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