This week, Den of Geek's UK Editor Rosie Fletcher talks to us about the mainstreaming of geek culture, finding an angle for entertainment stories everyone is covering, and how to maintain a...
Facebook doubles Watch numbers in six months with 140 million daily viewers
…but only a third of publisher-funded shows are being renewed. We take a look at the latest update from Facebook Watch.
Facebook has released updated viewing figures for...
Thinking inside the box: A look at news, niche, and inspired subscription strategies
For the foreseeable future, publishers are pinning their hopes on digital subscription, on reigniting the direct relationship they initially lost in the initial pile into digital publishing. A...
“Our incentives are very much aligned”: Google’s Head of News Ecosystems on why their relationship with publishers is misunderstood
Google has come under frequent fire from the publishing industry over the past few years, whether that’s for unfair algorithm changes, not doing enough to stop ad blocking, and most frequently,...
Media Voices on micropayments
Micropayments is a topic that provokes strong responses across the industry, from those with long-held beliefs that it will go some way to saving journalism, to the sceptics who don't believe the...
Transcript: Madhav Chinnappa, Head of News Ecosystem Development, Google
Interviewer: Chris Sutcliffe
Chris: So, Director of News Ecosystem Development. You must be the only one in the world with that job...
Google’s Head of News Ecosystem Development Madhav Chinnappa on supporting journalism
On this week's episode of Media Voices, Google's Head of News Ecosystem Development Madhav Chinnappa takes us through his views on the often-fraught relationship between publishers and platforms,...
Facebook rolls out subscription tools, but is it enough to tempt publishers back?
The new tools promise long-awaited support for subscription-focused publishers, but is it too little too late?
Facebook have announced that they are expanding support for...
Transcript: Paul Rayner, Digital Director at the Chelsea Magazine Company
Interviewer: Peter Houston
So who are the Chelsea Magazine Company, and what do you publish?
The Chelsea Magazine Company is one of...
NYT’s Mark Thompson: ‘We’re faster, but we’re still too slow and too cautious’
In a standing-room only session at the World News Media Congress in Glasgow, Mark Thompson, president and CEO of The New York Times company, sat down with Tina Stiegler,...
Chelsea Magazine Company digital director Paul Rayner on profitable operating models
This week, we hear from veteran of the magazine industry Paul Rayner about his career trajectory from Dennis to LadBible to the Chelsea Magazine Company, from launching magazines to franchise...
“300% increase in new digital subscribers”: WIRED’s Nicholas Thompson on lessons from a year behind a paywall
2018 was unquestionably the year of the paywall. Well-known publications from Vanity Fair to the New Statesman decided that paywalls were the best way for them to build relationships with their...
Conversations transcript: Modelling subscription success
In this special Conversations episode of Media Voices, Chris Sutcliffe (CS) is joined by Michael Silberman (MS), SVP of Strategy at Piano, and Katie Vanneck Smith (KVS), co-founder of slow...
Tortoise’s Katie Vanneck Smith talks subscription success with Piano’s Michael Silberman
Direct reader revenue is back on top of publishers’ priorities, as re-igniting the relationship with an audience is seen as the single best guarantee of a sustainable media business model....
Transcript: Nicholas Thompson, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED
Interviewer: Esther Kezia Thorpe
WIRED has traditionally been labelled as a tech magazine, but there's a real mix of business, culture, politics,...
WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson on lessons from a year behind a paywall
On this week's episode of Media Voices, WIRED's Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson talks about the brand's positioning as a tech magazine in a digital world, the impact of two huge Facebook...
How QR codes are helping reinvent print magazines in South Africa
While there are a growing number of publishers dipping into ecommerce online, print magazines have largely remained static in their approach to shopping. But one publisher has taken the idea of...
Transcript: Julia Raphaely, CEO, Associated Media Publishing
Interviewer: Chris Sutcliffe
Why do you believe print is back as a viable medium for publishers?
Well, I think for many years, let's...
CEO of Associated Media Publishing Julia Raphaely on the mission of magazines
This week Julia Raphaely, CEO of Associated Media Publishing, takes us through how magazines can act as storefronts, the differences between the SA and UK magazine markets, why people are...