AudienceDevelopment.com is reporting that Hearst is teaming up with AwesomenessTV to create a new YouTube channel for Seventeen. Arti Patel writes, “The Hearst Corporation is teaming with AwesomenessTV to co-launch a new freestanding YouTube channel as part of a joint venture meant to target teen girls through a multichannel network.
Category: Multiplatform Publishing Strategy
Multiplatform Publishing Strategy posts focus on how publishers successfully distribute and monetize their content across multiple platforms, including memberships, events, clubs and sponsorships.
The advertising community in New York City saw a preview of Hearst Magazine endeavors for 2014.
This article from MinOnline shares highlights from the Hearst announcement, including this piece of news from Esquire:
There’s a clear connection between print and digital these days. Altercations in print design can lead to more website traffic, as we see in this example of DiscoverMagazine.com. Steve Smith writes, “DiscoverMagazine.com enjoyed a nice traffic increase during an August that saw most sites decline, per min’s exclusive digital boxscores.
The Guardian is reporting that The Financial Times is consolidating to a single global print edition in the first half of 2014. Roy Greenslade writes, “The Financial Times is to institute path-breaking changes to the production of its printed newspaper that appear to be the penultimate step towards becoming a digital-only publication.
The Internet is a buzz with a new Apple event at the end of this month. John Paczkowski from AllThingsD writes, “People familiar with Apple’s plans tell AllThingsD that the company will hold its next invitation-only event on Tuesday, October 22.
The New York Times is reporting that Meredith will be creating five new video web series in 2014. They’ll debut under a new division called Meredith Originals. Stuart Elliot writes, “Each Web series will run for 12 or 24 episodes, based on sponsorship levels, and will be distributed through the Meredith Digital Network of sites.”
Established in 2006 to honor individuals and organizations who advance the art and science of digital publishing, the Mequoda Digital Publishing Hall of Fame now includes nine members.
Audience Development is reporting that publishers have partnered with AOL on a new subscription service. Michael Rondon writes, “The service, Gathr, packages subscriptions to a variety of products and services at a discount. Offerings—there are currently 24 separate options—range from Pandora to Redbox to Norton AntiVirus software,
The National Journal is moving its website to a more responsive design and ditching its app. AdWeek’s Lucia Moses writes, “For National Journal, its iPhone app is relatively new (introduced in April as a subscriber benefit) and hasn’t been a significant source of revenue. Meanwhile, its Web traffic from mobile devices has doubled over the
Capital New York is reporting that Business Insider will be investing in longer format articles. Business Insider founder and editor-in-chief Henry Blodget told Capital New York they plan on investing “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in long form content. Joe Pompeo writes, “A chunk of that money will go toward hiring an editor whose job
For 125 years National Geographic has been showing us all the foreign places of the world and inspiring adventure for generations. International Business Times has a brief look back at National Geographic’s illustrious history.
Each year, as the Mequoda team gets together with our Gold Members at our annual Mequoda Gold Member Summit, there’s a bit of magic in the air, it feels like a family reunion. And like a family, we get together to share with each other all of the great things we’ve made happen over the
FishBowl NY is reporting that Lloyd’s List, the worlds oldest newspaper will stop it’s print edition and go all digital on December 20th. Lloyd’s List has been publishing since 1734. Chris O’Shea writes, “The paper’s editor, Richard Meade, explained that Lloyd’s List was going all-digital because a survey of its readers revealed that less than
Popular Science took the necessary steps to clean up their online community. They’ve permanently disabled comments, all in the name of science. Suzanne LaBarre, online content director for Popular Science writes
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, “Encrypted Google searches don’t pass the keyword data through to websites, thereby eliminating the ability to track users by their keyword searches. The biggest impact
Ad Week is reporting that The Washington Post has launched a new visual news project called Topicly. Lucia Moses writes, “Topicly provides a visual presentation of the day’s biggest topics. When you click on one of the topics, which are arranged checkerboard-fashion, you’re taken to a collection of all the content produced by the paper
Publishers have been creating apps but recently they’ve turned it up a notch and that’s why apps are this week’s digital publishing trend.
Wine Enthusiast has launched a new app called the Tasting Guide which is available on the Apple App store and will be available on Google Play in September 25th.
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 4 about native advertising and the “blurring of digital ads with digital content.
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 at Hearst Tower, is meant to drum up advertiser interest in the stories and packages, in print and in digital media, that editors are planning
This week, as we pack our bags for Boston and get ready to mingle with publishing professionals at the Mequoda Intensive, we decided to take some time out to share our top posts. The content marketing strategy posts below feature our most popular tips on business strategy, SEO, marketing, copywriting, PR and hiring. They have
Native advertisements have become very popular with all kind of publishers. Below is a quick look at this recent digital publishing trend.
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 be associated with digital subscriptions or which ancillary products would develop.
The New York Times is reporting that People is changing its subscription model. Christine Haughney reports,”On Monday, the magazine is introducing four new subscription packages. It is trying to attract younger, tech-savvy celebrity fans with a $10 annual subscription to its new CelebFood and CelebWatch apps.
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 creating in-house teams apart from their newsrooms to produce content on behalf of advertisers. But a handful of publishers — such as Mashable and Mental
Mequoda has worked with many publishers over the past 10 years. If I were to describe the “average” Mequoda client, it would be a small to medium, independent publisher with one or more titles in narrow consumer or enthusiast niches. Yes, we have worked with huge multinational publishers as well as single-title startups. And, we
Publishers have been experimenting with their paywalls all summer. See why paywall experimentation is a digital publishing trend. Esquire has been up performing all kinds of paywall experiments this summer. FOLIO reports that in July they put “one of its magazine features behind a paywall.
Does this work on TV or the web? That is the question Bloomberg TV producers are asking themselves now. Digiday has a full report on how this digital first strategy is paying off for Bloomberg. Josh Sternberg writes,”Bloomberg has production teams in New York, London and Asia, which together create an eye-popping 200 pieces of
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 stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient,” he said. “If you replace ‘customer’
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 new website redesign. Interim Post editor Jesse Angelo talks about the redesign,”The new website will be a vastly improved experience for our readers – responsive
The National Journal is reporting that the U.S. Postal Service may increase postage rates next week as much as 10%. Billy House writes, “Postal rate increases are capped at inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. That would mean an allowable increase of about 2 percent for late January 2014 implementation.
Video and film have become a hot digital publishing trend this summer.
The New York Times is reporting that Time is dipping it’s toe into the documentary film industry. Christine Haughney reports, “ Time has decided to venture into documentary films and recently started a new unit called Red Border Films, named after the magazine’s red
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 of nearly 3 million, making it the top circulating digital edition, the Alliance for Audited Media said.
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 circulation jump close to 10 percent in the last 18 months, up to 260,315, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. Both paid subscriptions and
We’ve been working with Mag+ a bunch lately, so their new partnership with Appboy is pretty exciting. According to Kara Udziela, PR manager for Mag+, “the partnership enables Mag+ clients to create rich user profiles of their readers, segment them into different cohorts and then send automated, multi-channel messages that increase reader engagement and facilitate
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 promising. Monthly title, BBC History, has recorded an astonishing 693% rise in digital circulation on the year and fashion bible, Vogue, has seen theirs jump
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 largest since the financial crash of 2008. More significantly, it carries more advertising than any edition in the past five years, with 272 pages
Non-traditional partnerships have really become a hot digital publishing trend in the last month. These sort of retail-food-publishing partnerships are one of the hottest new digital publishing trends. Oh, and electronic cigarettes, Playboy covered those too.
Campaign Magazine has the details on a new study released by Conde Nast comparing the dwell times between print and digital content.
Another savvy publishing partnership to report. USA Today reports that InStyle Magazine and Nine West are collaborating on a new shoe line. According to Olivia Barker, “The flippable fashion fixture is going off the page and offline, collaborating with Nine West on a collection of pumps, flats and booties priced from $79 to $149.
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 Football” in Marie Claire’s September issue. Michael Sebastian reporting for AdAge says, “The NFL is working with seven other women’s magazines, including Vogue, Cosmopolitan and
The New Yorker just boasted a milestone of 10.7 million unique visitors to their website from across the globe. Meanwhile, their circulation is up 17.7% year-over-year to 1.05 million.
Editor Nicholas Thompson says that the jump in traffic has to do with their new emphasis on breaking stories and web-only stories. He also claims they’ve been
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 their news reports is that when they Tweeted about the acquisition, they only got one re-tweet and it was from someone else at IBT. So,
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 newsstand copies in the first half of 2013, but they made inroads in selling digital editions, according to data released on Tuesday.” Women’s magazines and
The Washington Post Company has agreed to sell its namesake newspaper and affiliated publications to Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com for 250 million in cash. Bezos will be the sole owner of The Washington Post and it will go back to being a privately held company once the deal goes through.
Newsweek was sold over the weekend to IBT Media, reports Capital New York. “IAC/InterActive reached a deal to sell Newsweek, which has been publishing since January as a digital-only version of the old magazine, to the owners of the International Business Times.” IBT Media has stated that Newsweek will remain a digital-only publication.
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 today that turns their online website into a Paywall, where you have to take out a membership to read their articles. What is very exciting,
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 elevated from below the line, placed alongside the story in a similar style to how New York Times’ much-discussed Snowfall presentation uses pull quotes and
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 Rodale are taking to make the shift to multiplatform publishing easier.
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 Affordable Care Act”. Author Sarah Marshall reports, “told from a first-person perspective with a headcam providing a point-of-view (POV) shot, the video allows users