The Gen Z Marketing Blowback
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To Generation Z, the kids who are now from age 5 to 19, digital technology is as ordinary as electricity is to the rest of us. First-day-of-school selfies are a thing, and kids consider technology to be their “virtual playground,”...
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Are Robots Eating Your Advertising Lunch?
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If you are using digital advertising as part of your overall market, you may be throwing away up to half of your budget thanks to robots hard at work on the web. According to Susan Krashinsky of the Globe and...
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Why Regional Publishing Is Thriving Down East
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As we noted last month, regional interest magazines are hot these days. In fact, of the 93 new titles launches so far this year, regional titles were the top category, according to Erik Sass in Media News Daily. And it’s...
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Is Print Really Killing Publishers?
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If you read this blog regularly, you know we are big fans (usually) of Dead Tree Edition. The author consistently gives an insider’s perspective on the publishing industry that tends to cut through the clutter with an acerbic and insightful...
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The Politics of Direct Mail
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[responsive][/responsive] So Al Gore helped make Blackberrying a “thing” and Obama is often considered our first “digitally grass roots” president, but when it comes to getting out the vote, campaign managers are still banking on direct mail. “Campaigns, party committees...
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This Revolution Will Not Be Tabletized
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The year is 2010, and Apple launches the iPad. The publishing industry, still reeling from the economic downturn, scrambles to engage a digital audience and looks to magazine apps as “the next big thing,” revolutionizing the way magazines are read....
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Wearable Tech and the Future of Content
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As brands of all stripes become content publishing companies, they’ve adapted to the changing tech landscape by using responsive design for smartphones, micro blogging content for social feeds, tablet versions of their magazines and a host of other considerations. What’s...
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John Oliver on Sponsored Content: Hilarious
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Never one to pull punches, funny Brit John Oliver takes on native ads and sponsored content in a recent video diatribe. Oliver is merciless on Time Inc.’s CEO Joseph Ripp and his position on the topic, who posits that “as...
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Marco Arment on App Rot: It’s Not Pretty Out There
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Marco Arment knows a thing or two about good app design. As the creator of Instapaper and the original publisher of The Magazine, he’s often cited as someone that “gets it right.” So when Arment talks about App Rot in...
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5 Essential Tools Make Your Online Journalism Shine
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In the “appegeddon” of apps being released each month for journalists and content creators, it can be hard to keep up and pick the right products, said Ezra Eeman of Journalism Tools during a UK conference in July. Eeman encouraged...
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