Are Print Clips More Valuable Than Digital?
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[responsive][/responsive]As more companies embrace a multi-channel marketing approach, should digital coverage be considered as valuable as print? After all, space is space, right? Not really, according to many marketing pros quoted in this piece by Apple Lam in Marketing Interactive....
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Stats Show Digital Marketers are “Getting Mugged”
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Billions – yes, that’s billions with a “b” – of dollars are going to waste on digital ads due to fraudulent web traffic, reports D.B. Hebbard in Talking New Media. He cites a new study by White Ops (an ad...
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Ad Wars: The Latest Salvo in the Search for Meaningful Circulation Figures
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[responsive][/responsive]The magazine industry -- and in particular that portion of the industry looking to leverage the influence of digital readership – just got a stern warning shot across the bow. “MediaVest, an influential media-buying agency with clients including Coca-Cola, has...
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On Magazines and Bananas – We Know What They Are
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[responsive][/responsive]In order to consciously consume, one must be able to readily identify what one is consuming. If a grocery shopper wants a bunch of bananas, he looks for them in the produce department, in their typical yellow jackets. This works...
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Monetizing the Archives of America’s Oldest Magazine Brands
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[responsive][/responsive]Publishers are becoming increasingly savvy in understanding the value of their archival content. Michael Rondon of Folio: gives a good overview of a few titles that are leveraging the past in their current business models. “As the oldest continuously published...
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Why Legacy Brands Need to Leverage Those Algorithms
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[responsive][/responsive]The number of readers that access news via individual brand sites is dropping, according to Davide Ruggiero in Talking New Media. In other words, fewer people are coming to the news site to discover the news, but are discovering the...
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You Don’t Own Your Kindle Books
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[responsive][/responsive]Lynn Jordet Nygaard learned the hard way that the e-books she purchased through Amazon are, in the strict legal sense, not really hers. Nygaard’s case was documented in 2012, and covered by Joe Johnson of NBC News. The article was...
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Leaked from Google: Print Publishers Are More Credible
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[responsive][/responsive]It looks like Google has a crush on traditional print publishers, according to an article by D. Eadward Tree in Publishing Executive. The article refers to an internal Google doc that was leaked this spring. According to Tree, “[the report]...
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HTML5 Solving the Cross Platform Gap?
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If you publish content digital, you’re no doubt aware HTML5, the newest iteration of web reader to offers cross-platform readability. Jake Sebastian, guest blogger in Talking New Media, gives his pros and cons of developing content for an HTML5 platform....
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The Problem with Digital Advertising: It’s Cheap
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[responsive][/responsive]Publishers were right to be alarmed when digital advertising first came onto the scene. The publisher already viewed advertising as powerful, engaging — and expensive. Advertisers expected huge value from their ad budgets, and they got it from the quality...
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