Google has announced that it will drop author photos from search results, Moz.com reports.
"This one hits particularly hard, as I'm known as the guy who optimized his Google author photo.
Publishers are more often using digital watermarks to drive mobile engagement, a recent study by Digimarc found. Folio: has reprinted an fascinating infographic designed by Digimarc and based on its
The current state of content-recommendation platforms is spotty, at best, and publishers are gearing up to solve quality-control problems while generating revenue.
Data released this month by Sharethrough shows that 29% of spending on mobile is for sponsored editorial content via native, in-feed ads, and engagement is up to 2.2%, eMarketer reports.
Auto publishers are among the most adept at using audience data to draw advertisers, in part because of the uniqueness of their vertical, Digiday reports.
For the first time in its history, The New Yorker will feature a single advertiser "buying out" an entire issue. Financial giant HSBC will sponsor this week's magazine, including print,
Lauren Pedersen, president of global marketing for Cxense, wrote recently in a column for Digiday that publishers are ceding too much control of their audience data to third parties.
Publishers like women's lifestyle site PureWow, which boasts more than 4 million monthly readers, are finding ways to monetize Pinterest traffic by creating ad units customized to brands, Digiday reports.
Sports Illustrated is one of the many Time Inc. brands playing catch-up when it comes to digital, particularly mobile. But today marks the launch of its new interface, which will
Nutrition Action will present its Secrets of the Healthy Cook webinar on Thursday, June 26, at 2pm. But unlike most webinars, this one is meant for consumers, as opposed to
Almost 40% of business executives worldwide pay for digital news, and nearly half of them make their choices based on brand reputation, according to a study conducted by Quartz.
Digiday recently profiled four digital startups that are deftly navigating the occasionally dangerous waters of publishing: Skift, The Information, The Daily Dot, and Mic.
Solidifying its status as a publisher to be reckoned with, Ev William's long-form portal Medium has relaunched Matter, a digital magazine focusing on "in-depth journalism about the ideas that are
Publishers' sales teams are facing challenges when it comes to the tech side of programmatic advertising. In response, the Economist Group has joined The New York Times, The Washington Post,
DailyWorth, a publisher focused on finance news and advice for women, is taking the Forbes approach to content.
The newsletter started by Amanda Steinberg in 2009 and now 850,000 subscribers strong
The digital success of Business Insider is due largely to the bold vision of its co-founder and editor, The Guardian reports in a profile of Henry Blodget.
Yahoo has launched its new digital magazine covering the film industry, appropriately titled Yahoo Movies, and has stepped up its native advertising and content marketing efforts, TheDrum.com reports.
Condé Nast continues to up its video production and strengthen its broadcast presence, most recently through a "first-look" deal with Fox, MediaPost reports.
Condé Nast, Wenner Media, and Hearst Magazines lead the pack in participating in Samsung and Adobe's Papergarden, a new digital marketplace set to debut on the Galaxy Tab S at
Time Inc.'s bid to play catch-up in the digital realm will include its first streaming channel on Roku. The MyRecipes channel will feature 250 videos in 12 categories, according to
Online ad spending was up 19% to 11.6 billion in the first quarter of 2014 based on data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PwC US, MediaPost reports.
MediaPost has launched its RTB 500, a Standard & Poor-style index of up-to-the-minute media prices. The composite will aim to track the rates of ad buys at 500 publishers, The
The site will publish upward of 90 pieces per day, according to Poynter. Meanwhile, sister brand Money will publish 20 to 30. Taken together, the magazines have hired more than
A recent Folio: survey of attending publishers at its Growth Summit later this month shows that they believe digital revenue will quickly and significantly close the gap between it and
According to a recent study from MediaPost, 50% of publishers' ad deals account for 10% of their revenue. "Automated guaranteed" advertising can help close that productivity gap.
With its split from Time Warner official as of last Friday, Time Inc. now faces an uncertain future as the largest magazine publisher on the planet, with 95 brands to
In the wake of the Media Rating Council's lift of its advisory on viewable impressions, the metric can now be used in buys by agencies and brands. Admonster recently
Business executives report getting 56% of their industry-specific news from email newsletters, while 61% of them get their news via mobile, according to a survey administered by Quartz.
University of Virginia professor and publishing consultant Jane Friedman recently took exception with a statement from Samir "Mr. Magazine" Husni in which he said digital magazines with no print progenitor
Digiday recently introduced us to some publishers who are tearing down that wall, as it were, in an effort to build better native advertising. Mental Floss, Dennis Interactive, and Say
PricewaterhouseCoopers released a study recently that projects digital ad revenue will increase 22.4% to $3.9 billion this year and hit $7.6 billion by 2018, Ad Age reports.
Two recent hires at Playboy Enterprises Inc. herald a renewed commitment to its digital properties, as Matthew Mastrangelo joins the publisher as its first Chief Revenue Office and Cory Jones
The Alliance for Audited Media merged with digital audit firm IMServices Group, which focuses on ad technology issues like viewability, illegitimate clicks, and traffic fraud, according to Folio:.
Digiday recently interviewed Juliette Cezzar and Sue Apefelbaum – authors of the new book Designing the Editorial Experience: A Primer for Print, Web, and Mobile – to discuss the state
ublishers – particularly of the legacy variety – are passing up a big opportunity when they neglect their archives. This is a reality that Mequoda members have grasped for quite
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Condé Nast Traveler has released its new app, the Gold List, which condenses the magazine's longstanding feature of recognizing exemplary hotels, restaurants, and services into
The MIT Technology Review's new "Insider" subscription plan, which the journal debuted last week, offers three tiers of annualized content access, Folio: reports.
While WhatsApp has yet to catch on with many publishers, Digiday is reporting that its social sharing possibilities could soon capture their imagination.
