That day we thought would never come is here. Search Engine Watch is reporting that Google has encrypted all search queries thus cutting off all keyword data. Thom Craver writes,
The last time I read MAD magazine was as a young teenager. The thing I loved the most, besides Spy vs Spy (the Wikipedia link is included for you young
It looks like "native advertising" has caught the eye of the Federal Trade Commission, again. Paid Content reports,"On Monday, the FTC announced that it will hold a workshop on December
Ad Age is reporting that Hearst Magazines are holding magazine "upfront" meetings with hundreds of media buyers and ad agencies. Michael Sebastian reports," The Hearst upfront, scheduled for Oct. 15
A few years ago we were wondering what magazines would do in the digital age. We expected subscription websites to grow in popularity, but we weren’t sure what prices would
Ad Age has a new report on the relationship of editorial staff and advertisers. Michael Sebastian reports, "Many publishers embracing sponsored content defend the integrity of their ad/edit walls by
As you may have noticed, Mequoda is a firm believer in the power of email newsletters as a marketing channel – so much so that a Mequoda subscription website is
Back to the basics, that's what Jeff Bezos has in store for The Washington Post. Speaking by phone Bezo told The Post,"We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve
Popular Science, founded in 1872 and now owned by mega-publisher Bonnier Corp., is the fifth-oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. But as old as it is, its focus
Website redesigns and facelifts have become a digital publishing trend for the summer. Here are a few highlighted redesigns.
Capital New York has all the details on the New York Post's
According to AdAge, Game Informer accounts for one third of all digital magazine subscriptions. Michael Sebastian reports, "The 22-year-old magazine, which previews and reviews videogames, has a digital replica circulation
How recycling, repurposing, and repackaging content can create alignment in your marketing efforts
The number of steps required to create an effective audience development plan often confuses people new to organic
Audience Development had a report earlier this month on how Harvard Business Review increased prices and increased their circulation at the same time. Michael Rondon reports, "HBR has seen total
When it comes to showing off a perfectly executed subscription website, they don’t come any more perfect than CeramicArtsDaily.org. Along with all our other Mequoda top operators, they’re golden in
The latest PPA figures are out. So how did digital magazines fare? The Guardian has all the details. Ami Sedghi writes, "At first glance some of the figures look very
The Guardian has a full report on how the luxury titles at Conde' Nast have been performing. Josh Halliday reports,"Thumping in at 430 pages, the September issue of Vogue is
The periodical website archetype is often associated with newspaper brands and other news periodicals that include trade papers like Computerworld and Variety.
Periodical subscription websites may also be called news sites,
The NFL has a creative ad campaign in store for female magazine readers. AdAge reports that the NFL will be running a 16-page insert called "The Savvy Girl's Guide to
Even though Jeff Bezos' purchase this week knocked them out of the spotlight, a relatively unknown company, IBT, publisher of IBTimes.com bought Newsweek. What nobody is failing to mention in
Back on April 1 Don wrote a post entitled Saving TIME Magazine: or, the Future of All of Us. Don’s vision of the future, even for faltering weekly news magazines,
The New York Times has a new report on magazine subscription and newsstand sales. Christine Haughney writing for The Times reports, "Magazines continued to struggle with sales of subscriptions and
Mequoda’s 2013 Tablet Study has been making the rounds in the industry, especially because it surprised a lot of pundits. Why? First, because we’re the first researchers to ask respondents
In one of the most interesting paywall experiments we've ever seen, there's a new article on what The Sun is up to.
"The company is launching a new digital subscription package
The New York Times has started experimenting with its placement of comments, reports Journalism.co.uk.
Marc Lavallee, a deputy editor of interactive news at the New York Times said, "the comments were
Publishers are taking a great deal of time and research to get multiplatform publishing right. FOLIO Magazine took the pulse of a couple publishers to see what steps publishers like
The Wall Street Journal has started to produce new first-person interactive videos, reports Journalism.co.uk. The first interactive video to be released details the "changes to the US healthcare system under
The New York Times is reporting that Jet Magazine will be receiving a print and website redesign. This will be the first print redesign for Jet in 62 years. "The
All this hype about native ads gave us a chuckle in yesterday's weekly Mequoda editorial meeting. In case everybody's forgotten, native ads aren't new, a fad, or even advertising's hottest
iPad-only magazine blows up the envelope gorgeously
It’s not often that someone defies conventional wisdom so profoundly and still makes a success of it.
But that’s what TRVL magazine has achieved.
TRVL is
Digital publishing news for Monday, July 15, 2013
Even though print magazine launches are down, AllRecipes.com has stepped up to the plate and decided to come out with one of their
The newsletter subscription website model is simple, clean and editorially-focused
Newsletter publishers, particularly those on the B-to-B side but also those with consumer titles in the finance and health fields, were
Barnes & Noble is in a tight spot with their Nook Book reader. Motley Fool dissects their latest quarterly results, saying "in the company’s most recent results, sales from Barnes
iPad publishing for the rest of us. Thats what the Netherlands-based company Prss hopes to achieve with their new platform. Prss hopes to be faster than other publishing platforms and
Contextual ads are getting easier and easier for tablet editions. According to Neiman Journalism Lab, "Three-year-old ShopAdvisor is creating a next generation of editorial/advertising links in a number of Time
Next Issue, basically a Netflix for magazines subscriptions, now has over 100 titles. For $14.99 a month people get access to about 93 different publications and growing quickly. Bloomberg Businessweek,
New print on demand opportunities are were presented to magazine publishers at Retail Marketplace 2013 according to IPDA Publishing & Retail news. Ingram Content Group (ICG) presented options to help
What do you when your website already publishes every word that appears in your premium print and digital publications for free? Um, well, uh … if you’re The Atlantic, you
Possibly inspired by social media and user-generated content, there's an emerging trend in publishing and that's co-created magazine content. PBS reports that "global media publisher Bonner Group is experimenting with
According to Pew Internet & American Life Project's May survey, tablet ownership is on the rise and looks like a trend that's going to continue. In the month of May,
According to PwC, as reported by Subscription Site Central, “The US newspaper industry is expected to decline by 2.5% over the next five years, while the music and consumer magazine
Debate rages in magazine land about the future of the industry, and especially the role that digital magazine publishing will play in that future. But at least at Active Interest
The Atlantic Weekly debuts on Friday and will feature content from the print magazine and website on a weekly basis. Individual weekly copies will go for $1.99 on Apple Newsstand and
It was just a couple weeks ago that Matt Cutts announced Penguin 2.0 and made content publishers fear for their long-tail lives, as he often does, usually without so much
In a recent article over on Magazine.org by Mary Berner, she states that Becky Lang is dead wrong about the future of magazines with a multitude of statistics that say
At Mequoda, we do a lot of work with clients who are starting from scratch with online publishing and subscription website marketing. They get the full benefit of the Mequoda
