We’ve been writing about the pricing of website and digital and print magazine subscriptions a lot lately, which has lead us to dig up some intriguing themes. Of course, the
We're starting the week off with a healthy dose of digital publishing news from both sides of the Atlantic: mergers & acquisitions, platform considerations, and personnel moves. We monitor industry
Ask any publisher about the industry's top trends, and it's likely the majority of their responses will start with the letter "M." Multiplatform, mobile, and metrics, to name a few.
Online magazine publishers are focusing on tightening up their apps and archives in the evolving effort to bolster digital product. In the midst of all of this activity, Talking New
In the digital magazine business, today's trendiest practices could be taboo tomorrow, and vice-versa. That's why it's so important to build a durable core product that's solid enough to withstand
The growth of digital video is palpable for many digital publishers. Video can be a desirable addition to content offerings, as digital video is being consumed on a variety of
Major publishers have an opportunity to supply other businesses with services. This is a great way to develop a new revenue stream and Forbes is the latest publisher to offer
Whether you call it content marketing, native advertising or sponsored content, media companies are utilizing unobtrusive advertising to their benefits.
As mobile advertising continues to boom, some data is popping up on the effectiveness of interstitial ads — the units you may have seen taking over your entire screen from
The internet hosts a variety of internet ads, from standard banners to video banners and rich media. Since there is a variety, it’s best to get an idea of which
Setting up a Facebook page for any business is done by a majority of businesses since it costs nothing and it can be used for a variety of interactions within
Twitter continues to make moves that will help the company fair better as a publicly-traded entity. The social platform has toyed with a variety of enhancements, including its “Buy” button,
Bauer Media U.S. has created a new division that focuses intently on digital publishing assets, reports MedaPost.
The new division, being called Bauer Xcel Media, is headed by present Christian
The New York Times has brought a variety of options to its digital offerings, including smartphone and tablet apps, plus apps like NYT Now and NYT Opinion.
Now, New York
If your website doesn't attract at least 5x more free visitors than paid subscribers - your publication is probably in trouble
Marketing expert Seth Godin recently spoke at the HOW magazine
Condé Nast's latest in a long line of recent deals includes the sale of Women's Wear Daily, as Penske Media has acquired Fairchild Fashion Media for $100 million. The New
The Mequoda Pyramid supports the notion that products have a natural hierarchy
Publishers implementing a vertically integrated strategy use outside media to acquire new customers, leveraging “free media” first. They use content
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
March 14, 2014 - BOSTON — A complete, painstakingly documented handbook on audience development for Internet publishers has just been released. The 260-page handbook, Organic Audience Development Strategy: 68 Audience
The audience development story of consistently great content, loyal fans and a Facebook algorithm change that appreciates all the above
Over the past few months, several of our clients have seen
“So what exactly does Mequoda Group do for a living?” people ask us.
I have been involved in Internet marketing and publishing since 1995, when I was running an agency called
If you’ve ever contemplated attending one of our Subscription Website Publishing Intensives, but the time – and budget – just haven’t been right, I have a new way for you
One of Mequoda’s primary reasons for being is to help legacy publishers cross the digital divide.
And when it comes to Farm Progress, we’re talking serious legacy publishing – a
When the Internet burst on the scene and magazine publishers decided to get on the bandwagon, a lot of people simply shoveled their content up to the Web and called
Recruitment Advisor has posted a fun article about the audience development campaign that's underway for the newspaper at the San Quentin correctional facility.
Yahoo made some big announcements at CES that you might be interested in. David Pouge debuted the new digital magazine Yahoo Tech. Variety's Marc Graser writes, "His new digital magazine
The digital landscape gives publishers the opportunity to provide a variety of content on different devices. This versatility is expanding the idea of what a digital magazine can be.
Panna, for
Search is the most fundamental element of content marketing. If you thought social media was the silver bullet, you were wrong. It's at least a bronze bullet, but social media
Wouldn’t it be great if you could edit your tweets after they’ve been published? Fortunately, this may become a reality as Twitter works on a new editing feature, which would
While many publishers are taking most of their content online, Meredith is doing the opposite. Ad Week is reporting that Meredith has launched Allrecipes magazine. Lucia Moses writes, "With ad
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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 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
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
Digital publishing news for July 1, 2013
Salon Media Group saw increased revenue Q1 due to a nice boost in Web traffic reports Folio: "Salon is up 21 percent in net
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
National Geographic has merged all their content in a attempt to “increase publication frequency.” The move was sparked by the fact that Nat Geo has created stories across all platforms
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
With all the talk about tablets and digital magazines these days, it’s tempting to think of the desktop or laptop, and the website you worked so hard to establish back
I'm a big fan of planning.
And I believe that your website is a reflection of your entire business and business model.
A visitor to your website should quickly be able to
