Is gamification the next step in digital magazine design? The medium is certainly calling for it.
Design – its theory and execution – has always been important for publications, and now
Dedicating resources to an online magazine archive is a best practice for multiplatform publishers that we highly recommend, and a big key to success in the Mequoda Method.
Our favorite part
Digital media publishers and executives move at a pace months ahead of others in many professions.
Whether it's on a practical level with editorial calendars planned months in advance or with
Publishing events continue to establish an industry foothold, as best practices are refined and perfected
Upward of 60% of our Mequoda Members have integrated publishing events into their multiplatform strategy. One
Discover how ConsumerReports.org and Lynda.com are utilizing the reference subscription website model
A reference subscription website archetype allows paid subscribers continued access to a library of content that is updated constantly
If you take a close look at the most visited sites on the Internet, you'll see an interesting phenomenon. They all seem to use the same four colors.
It's true. Many
Each subscription website business model we write about has a distinct combination of characteristics
When Mequoda writes about subscription website business models, we always include a chart that outlines eight different
If there's one thing all digital magazine executives can agree on, it's that there are never enough publisher revenue opportunities.
Settling on just one is out of the question, and even
One main advantage of multi-platform publishing is recycling content into videos.
Think about it: what entices a website viewer more than a video sample of exclusive, paid-for conferences? These events are
What copywriters don’t want you to know about writing the best email subject lines
Be a thief.
If you need to write professional email subject lines that deliver high open rates, one
Breakthroughs in digital magazine pricing and contrast pricing yield startling results
A few years ago, we were still huge fans of universal pricing for digital, print and website subscriptions.
We still like
Publishing on LinkedIn is a practice we believe in: As a social networking service aimed at professionals, what better way to share content with digital magazine executives and digital marketers?
Digital magazine readership – or audience, for our purposes – keeps climbing. Even as publishers grapple with ad viewability, mobile content strategy, and other challenges, they can take comfort in
Big data is a big term, but there's not a lot behind the concept itself, and no need to complicate it – collect the information that consumers provide and use
These digital only magazines have disappeared from existence, but we’ll take this opportunity to learn from their mistakes
There's a basketball game between print and digital, and we're rooting for digital.
Yesterday, we relayed MediaPost's news about the Movable Ink study finding that mobile email marketing has eclipsed desktop open rates, which is great news for multiplatform publishers who have Email
Portals are seen most often because not only are they a profitable model on their own, they’re also intended to build and feed an audience for affiliated premium subscription websites.
A magazine or newsletter subscription site paired with a portal subscription website leads to publishing success
If you've been reading this blog long enough, you're quite familiar with the Mequoda Method
Since the future of your articles in SEO-land is now so dependent on social media, it's more important than ever to enable your readers with easy-to-use like and share buttons.
The digital publishing business gets more and more interesting by the week. Time Inc. digital investments and innovations have been relentless; recent personnel changes from Ogden to Bloomberg Businessweek have
The good, the bad, and the ugly (but mostly good) wrapped up in a semi-formal LinkedIn ads review
Advertising your business on social media, particularly one like LinkedIn, is a tricky
Bryan Welch's successor, Bill Uhler, aims for more publishing events and ecommerce content strategy; plus, an industry update halfway through the year
Publishing events comprise a big piece of the puzzle
Our Mequoda Best Practices list continues to evolve. Last year certainly proved that standards – and even what is technologically possible – can change almost overnight.
Here’s a look at our
Multi-platform production doesn't have to be a mystery. Here are three examples of musically-inclined niche publishers who use digital platforms to expand their reach.
Efficiency is key to successful publishing. There
The classroom website is one of 10 website business models that Mequoda currently supports. There are six premium (paid) archetypes, including the classroom model, and four affinity (free) archetypes.
Magazine audience is the most valuable commodity publishers can acquire. All revenue efforts hinge on it. For legacy media, going about this acquisition was a fairly straightforward task, historically speaking.
The power of traditional media companies is diluted these days, as legacy publishers struggle to keep up with the proliferation of content across the World Wide Web. Print is an
Even Sesame Street is pulling together more dynamic digital magazine apps than most legacy publishers
The magazine industry used to be a tank of big fish in big pools. Only the
The upsides and downsides to the tablet statistics floating around
Tablets have no doubt shaped the future of reading. From digital magazines to eBooks, publishers have embraced the technology almost as
Content marketing is more than advertorials, but they're certainly a big part.
When you think of content marketing, you probably think of blogging. Blogging is certainly a big part of content
Digital magazine design is evolving nearly as fast as digital magazines themselves, because digital magazine design plays a huge part in defining digital magazines. Publishers continually implement new features to
Designing a good website isn't easy.
Many interconnecting elements have to be correctly executed to achieve profitability. Even when your website is created, how can you know if it wouldn't benefit
Nobody ever learns how to write a Facebook post, they just do it. Now you can do it better than everybody else.
Working in the B2B realm, Facebook isn't exactly our
As MediaShift puts it, "what advertisers want from B2B media is solid leads on potential customers for their products and services."
Not so long ago, web and digital magazines were considered
App-less in Seattle: the next frontier of multi-platform mobile development doesn't involve apps
Appearing erudite and august themselves, the August 3 cover of Time magazine features Presidents George W. Bush and
With the explosive success of Serial and Slate's Panoply, podcast publishing has emerged as a viable – and, more to the point, profitable – option for digital magazines. Audio content
Over the past few years, publishers have been wringing their hands over the failure of digital advertising to come to their rescue as print advertising revenues continued to evaporate. You
More and more, metered content is becoming de rigueur for digital magazines looking to generate higher revenues with higher quality product. As big believers in smart subscription strategies, we love
Recycling is associated with cutting costs, but is cutting costs a surefire sign of downward sales? Not when it comes to publishing and the smart publishers who have succeeded their
If we had to pick two words to describe the Mequoda Method, the first would be "multi-platform," which, as Don wrote recently, is the new normal for digital magazines years
We've covered a lot of ground during the past couple of weeks as we roll out stats from our 2015 Digital Magazine Market Study. But have we covered too much
That's the question we asked 3,642 U.S adults with Internet access earlier this year, looking to learn more about consumption of digital magazines – and, more to the point, the
Have you ever spent time poking around on your iPad, just to see how customers feel about the digital magazines they buy and subscribe to? We make this a habit
Given that we’ve already revised our thinking since I started regularly reviewing digital magazines back in March, I concede that anything we name as a Best Practice in digital magazines
Tablet, print, or web? The data shows that magazine consumers are split on their magazine format preference. The web edition showed a tiny edge over print and tablet editions, but
Readable text, scrollable text, links to websites, embedded video, back issue archive, vertical swipe, copy and paste capability, content bookmarking, relevant advertising, general advertising, and companion print magazine. Which functions
Throughout the week, we've released stats from our 2015 Digital Magazine Market Study. One stat covered print readership, and the other covered readership of digital magazines. But they center on
The primary stat we set out to understand in this study was what percent of U.S. adults with Internet access reported reading a digital magazine issue in the last 30
