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January 15, 2022

New report: Media Moments 2021

What's New in Publishing is pleased to launch its annual report Media Moments 2021, sponsored by Sovrn and written by the Media Voices team. This comprehensive report covers trends in...

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May 13, 2025

Why The Economist is making its podcasts and newsletters more personal

The Economist has unparalleled expertise and an incredible reputation. What it doesn’t necessarily have is a personal relationship between its journalists and audiences – the foundation of...

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May 6, 2025

How publishers are using apps to deepen engagement and improve retention

For some publishers, apps are quickly becoming one of the most effective tools in a product portfolio for enhancing their relationships with core readers and...

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May 2, 2025

Flashes & Flames merger with Media Voices: Plans for new media information services and events

The media industry information services Flashes & Flames and Media Voices are coming together in a plan to expand content and events for industry executives and entrepreneurs on both...

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April 29, 2025

5 trends from this year’s Publisher Podcast and Newsletter Shortlists

One of my favourite parts of the job of Awards Director each year is reading through the hundreds of entries we get to the Publisher Podcast and Newsletter Awards....

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April 24, 2025

Media Briefs: Bridged Media’s Maanas Mediratta on why ROI is increasingly important in AI

For publishers, the conversation around AI has moved on from how to incorporate it into the business. Now, 'Fear of missing out' has been replaced by 'Fear of not being able to...

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April 23, 2025

Shortlist announcement for the Publisher Newsletter Awards 2025

Media Voices are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the third year of the Publisher Newsletter Awards. From hundreds of entries, this shortlist of 150+ represents the very best in publisher...

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April 17, 2025

What makes membership models successful for publishers? Tips from Memberful

This feature has been written in partnership with Memberful. Hear more in our interview with Jen Matichuk, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Memberful, discussing how membership programmes can...

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April 17, 2025

Building recurring revenue and audience connections: in conversation with Memberful’s Jen Matichuk

In this bonus episode of The Publisher Podcast, sponsored by Memberful, we hear from Jen Matichuk, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Memberful.

Jen spoke about how membership is a powerful way...

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April 15, 2025

Newsletter bundles and Live Q&As: How Bloomberg’s product portfolio is evolving with audience needs

Last month, we reported on how Bloomberg Media has focused on an audience-first publishing strategy since the end of 2022. In this second article from our interview with Bloomberg Media’s Global...

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April 8, 2025

Shortlist announcement for the Publisher Podcast Awards 2025

Media Voices are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the sixth year of the Publisher Podcast Awards. From hundreds of entries, this shortlist of 120+ represents the very best in publisher...

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April 8, 2025

The power of community: How Black Ballad has redefined membership and engagement

At the 2024 Publisher Newsletter Summit, Tobi Oredein, co-founder of Black Ballad, shared key insights on how building direct audience relationships, harnessing data, and using smart monetisation...

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April 1, 2025

Immediate Media: rethinking the publishing process to maximise ROI

Alex White, Group Managing Director for Immediate Media’s Knowledge portfolio, says the central challenge for any modern media business is to maximise the ROI on every piece of content they...

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March 31, 2025

Immediate Media’s Alex White on giving staff the space to innovate

On this week’s episode of The Publisher podcast we hear from Alex White, Group Managing Director for Immediate Media’s Knowledge portfolio which includes...

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March 25, 2025

Tips for a successful podcast launch from Deutsche Welle’s Don’t Drink The Milk

No matter how passionate you are about your podcast topic, it means nothing if you don’t solve the problem of promoting it. With Don’t Drink The Milk, the DW team have found numerous ways...

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March 24, 2025

Deutsche Welle’s Sam Baker on solving the problem of podcast promotion

In this episode of The Publisher Podcast we hear from Sam Baker, Senior Producer of Deutsche Welle's award-winning podcast Don't Drink The Milk. She takes us through the appeal of documentary and...

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March 18, 2025

Meeting users where they are: inside Bloomberg Media’s approach to product innovation

Bloomberg Media went all-in on an audience-first publishing strategy at the end of 2022, dropping programmatic advertising and committing to actively listening to its audiences. A little over two...

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March 17, 2025

Bloomberg’s Marissa Zanetti-Crume on strategy for audience-first news products

On this week’s episode of The Publisher Podcast we hear from Marissa Zanetti-Crume,  Bloomberg Media’s Global Head of Product. Marissa talks about how her...

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March 14, 2025

How to write an award-winning entry

This is a write-up of a Publisher Masterclass we held about how to write an award-winning entry to the Publisher Podcast and Newsletter Awards. The advice here is just for Media Voices' awards...

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March 11, 2025

Why human-first audio is pivotal to Zetland’s subscription success

Danish news start-up Zetland’s ‘user needs’ approach led them to identify the importance of audio early on. CEO Tav Klitgaard describes how audio has gone from being a test to one of the...

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March 10, 2025

Zetland’s Tav Klitgaard on designing news products that younger people will pay for

This week on The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we're joined by Tav Klitgaard, Group CEO of Zetland Media. As well as news publication Zetland, the Danish company also has a book publishing...

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March 4, 2025

How dismantling silos gave Metro’s newsletter team room to experiment

Metro.co.uk’s Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton explains how the freesheet’s newsletters went from free-for-all to a structured, sophisticated newsletter production...

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March 3, 2025

Metro’s Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton on the future of publishers’ newsletters

In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, Metro.co.uk's Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton takes us through... everything newsletter.

From how the Metro's redesign allowed the...

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February 25, 2025

Why Discord has become a key tool to build the Women’s Running magazine community

Messaging platform Discord has grown to be a core community-building tool at Women's Running. Senior Editor Esther Newman explains how it has helped the publication centre women and learn...

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February 24, 2025

Women’s Running’s Esther Newman on serving a range of audience needs

On this week’s episode of The Publisher Podcast we hear from Esther Newman, Senior Editor and Podcast Host at Women’s Running. Esther explains that a recent exercise to create a persona for...

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February 18, 2025

How Reach plc hit 100 million followers across its social channels

The UK’s largest regional publisher has hit a major milestone in its social strategy – but its Engagement Director Dan Russell explains that the ‘big number’ is far from the end of...

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February 17, 2025

Reach Plc’s Dan Russell on achieving 4 million referrals from WhatsApp

On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast we hear from Dan Russell, Reach Plc's Engagement Director (for short). Reach Plc achieved its best ever month for traffic in January, based in no...

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February 11, 2025

How a focus on events has driven B2B publication Press Gazette to triple-digit revenue growth

Journalism industry news site Press Gazette has seen recent expansion of its events and an overhaul of its newsletter and other digital products. Chief Commercial Officer Richard Jamieson outlines...

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February 10, 2025

Press Gazette’s Richard Jamieson on monetising a 60-year-old B2B brand

This week on The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we're joined by Press Gazette's Chief Commercial Officer Richard Jamieson. He takes us for a behind-the-scenes look at how the industry...

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February 6, 2025

Live content’s role in the fight to engage, attract and retain readers

This feature has been written in partnership with SaaS solutions provider Norkon. Hear more in our Media Briefs episode with Norkon CEO, Eirik Næsje, and VP of Sales, Birger Søiland,...

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February 6, 2025

Media Briefs: Norkon’s Eirik Næsje and Birger Søiland on the power of live

Live content is a crucial tool for publishers for attracting and retaining readers, especially younger audiences used to finding real-time information from social media. Publishers have an...

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  • Why The Economist is making its podcasts and newsletters more personal
  • How publishers are using apps to deepen engagement and improve retention
  • Flashes & Flames merger with Media Voices: Plans for new media information services and events
  • 5 trends from this year’s Publisher Podcast and Newsletter Shortlists
  • Media Briefs: Bridged Media’s Maanas Mediratta on why ROI is increasingly important in AI
  • Shortlist announcement for the Publisher Newsletter Awards 2025
  • What makes membership models successful for publishers? Tips from Memberful
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