Google to Close Incognito Loophole; Publishers Scrambling to Protect Paywalls
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Paywall strategies are becoming more popular and effective, as publishers figure out how to monetize their content without relying so heavily on digital ad revenue. Good on them. Now though, they face a big challenge. Google is about to close...
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Ads, Paywalls or FreeWall – What Makes Sense for Media Brands?
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Engage with this one ad, and we’ll let you view the rest of the article ad-free. That’s the crux of “freewall” technology, a middle ground between intrusive online ads and a content paywall. Some big names in media and publishing...
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Evening Screen Time May Be Triggering Your Sweet Tooth
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Want to slim down? We all know the drill. Avoid carbs. Watch your fat intake. Stay away from processed sugar/flour/what have you. Now maybe we need to add “unplug in the evenings” to the list. According Vanessa Chalmers in the...
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Can Firefox Disrupt the Duopoly with their Ad-free Internet?
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This is kind of a big deal. Firefox, the open-source browser from the folks at Mozilla who say “the online advertising system is broken,” is proposing an ad-free internet. “Users are now being invited to a free trial of the...
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Apple News+ Gets a Big Minus from Publishers
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It was five years ago when both Facebook and Apple decided to become de facto news publishers, FB with Instant Articles and Apple with Apple News. It wasn’t long before publishers started ditching Instant Articles in large numbers as engagement...
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Unstoppable, Perhaps, but the Internet Does Appear to Be Cooling
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At a global penetration of more than 50%, new user growth online remains harder to find. This is just one of the findings in Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2019 report. Image source: Bondcap.com Smartphone unit shipments have declined 4%, and...
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A Little Kung Fu Fighting for Your Free Font Friday
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It’s Friday. We can’t help getting alliterative and busting out these great Friday Fonts. This week, we bring you Kung, a martial arts-inspired brush style font that will give your designs some movement and punch!  Find it free on FGD....
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Kids, Screen Time and Their Brains … What One Pediatrician Learned
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“It’s not how long we’re using screens that really matters; it’s how we’re using them and what’s happening in our brains in response.”That’s the conclusion Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Child’s...
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Your Phone Addiction is Killing You
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Our digitally-connected lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on our health. According to an article in Magazine Media, our collective phone addiction is changing how our brains work and creating harmful stress hormones. (Note: the original article linked above is...
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The Digital Cookie Continues to Crumble in Browser Land
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Apple Safari … Mozilla Firefox … Google Chrome … fans and foes of each have long debated their general merits. Yet today, as consumers are increasingly turned off by intrusive data tracking by the online ad industry, one difference stands...
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