Socially Awkward: Publishing in the Age of Facebook and Twitter
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Third time’s the…charm? Facebook is once again admitting to metric errors, this time in mobile search and live video user reactions. “A discrepancy was identified for counting the use of like and share buttons, as well as the counts when...
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U.S. Publishing and the Nice, Healthy 2015 Bounce
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IPA data shows that the U.S. publishing market still ranks as the world’s largest market by a wide margin, and revenue was up close to 10% in 2015.  By far the world’s largest publishing marketing, the United States, saw a...
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You Gotta Hand it to Facebook
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Anyone who remembers AOL in the ‘90s is having an eerie sense of déjà vu with Facebook’s Instant Articles. Is it a case of fool me twice? It’s like the ’90s all over again; and not in a good way...
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The New Church and State in the Digital Age
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The lines may have blurred, but the consumer still doesn’t want to be misled. This direction is where a brand’s integrity matters.As journalism brands develop multi-channel revenue streams and non-journalism brands become publishers, the wall between editorial and finance is nearly...
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Change Management: A Lost Art in This Business?
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Lessons learned from the “old days” of print publishing on how to quit whining and handle change. Are publishers limiting their revenue potential because they are simply bad at handling change? D. B. Hebbard thinks maybe. “During a conversation with...
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The Audience-First Movement in Publishing
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Forget “digital first” or “print first.” It’s not about you or your platform; it’s about your audience.  For the better part of the last decade, it seemed like technology was in the driver’s seat in the publishing industry. Any technological...
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Publishing as Contact Sport
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The industry is alive and kicking; we just have to learn a few new dance steps says one insider who’s making it happen. To the industry as a whole, the recent MagNet figures look bad: Overall sales are down by...
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What it’s Really Like for Publishers Using Facebook’s Instant Articles
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At look at how the social platform publishing app is working from the folks using it most. Since spring of last year, a limited number of publishers have been allowed and encouraged to post their content directly onto Facebook using...
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Something Old, Something New…
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An interesting peek at one designer’s magazine shelf makes us ponder timing in the grand scheme of things. “Last year, a friend turned me on to Nest, an interior design magazine publishers from the late 90s to the early 00s....
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Money Matters: Where Publishers See it Coming and Going This Year
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Publishing industry executives share their thoughts on where they’ll invest this year, and where they expect to see gains.At the end of last year, the folks at Publishing Executive surveyed their readership to see where they plan to invest, and...
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