Venture Capital (VC) funding has helped to launch some of the most successful media brands of our time. But, as newsletter-based media business 1440 demonstrates, there are still benefits...
Product strategies: what publishers should be prioritising in 2025
There has never been a more fragmented or complex landscape for publishers to navigate when it comes to prioritising and investing in product strategies. Methods of...
Some end-of-season reflections
Here’s how the first few months of our pivot from general media coverage to a more specialised publisher product focus has gone.
Over the summer, we announced that...
The Top Media Newsletters
We at Media Voices get a LOT of media newsletters between us to keep on top of everything that's going on.
Here are our recommendations of the top media and publishing newsletters to sign up...
From portfolio- to vertical-oriented: the new strategic alignment behind Dow Jones’ brands
Dow Jones is more than simply the index that bears its name. Its stable of publications – including the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and many more – are vital for those...
The risks and rewards of going solo: Will Hayward’s relaunched Welsh political newsletter takes off
Author and journalist Will Hayward was one of a group of experimental paid Substack newsletters launched by regional publisher Reach plc last year. But in September, he decided to take the plunge...
How declared data can supercharge your first-party data strategy
This feature has been written in partnership with our season sponsor BlueConic. Hear more in our Media Briefs episode with Patrick Crane, Director of the Core Sales Team at BlueConic,...
Total Politics’ recipe for product success: teamwork, responsiveness, quality
Total Politics Group is a – surprise! – politics-oriented specialist publisher. With brands including The House, Politics Home, The Parliament, and more under its belt, it has long been a...
How Saveur magazine is rebuilding a ‘couture’ print presence for superfans
After four years away from print, much-loved food and travel title Saveur is returning to readers’ coffee tables with bi-annual issues. EIC Kat Craddock describes them as ‘the...
3 lessons on creating and selling B2B podcasts from Farmers Weekly
Smaller numbers of listeners shouldn’t be an insurmountable challenge for B2B publishers. By focusing on the quality and engagement of that audience, and working with existing sponsors on...
Why the Toronto Star sees micropayments as a key part of subscriber acquisition
The Toronto Star’s Chief Revenue Officer Brandon Grosvenor says that they are very much in the infancy of their micropayments experiment - or as he calls it, microsubscriptions....
How The Knowledge is experimenting with newsletters without alienating its audience
The Knowledge is a daily digest newsletter founded in 2021. Since then, its readership has grown to over "140,000 happy readers", who appreciate its format and content. But it took a while...
7 lessons from a year of paywalled podcasts at The Economist
One year ago, The Economist took a leap of faith and moved all their podcasts (bar one) behind a paywall. It’s paid off, with the publisher saying they have retained 80% of listeners....
How German-language newsletter start-up Morningcrunch built an audience of 50,000 young professionals in just 12 months
If you were planning a daily news publication to target younger audiences, your starting point might be TikTok or WhatsApp. But after just 12 months, 50,000 young professionals in Germany...
How start-up local newspaper The Baltimore Banner uses an app as a statement of intent
The Baltimore Banner launched in June 2022, with a mission to fill a gap in local news reporting in Maryland. Funded by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the non-profit...
Why a robust, publishing-focused CMS should be the backbone of your digital publishing strategy
This feature has been written in partnership with Purple. Hear more in our Media Briefs episode with senior digital consultant John Rahim, discussing how a reliable content management...
Why a solutions-focused community magazine launched a podcast that creates individual connections
Greater Govanhill magazine set out with a mission to help solve the problems of a Glasgow neighbourhood. Its starting point was to listen to the concerns of its residents, but with its...
Why the Evening Standard put the podcast at the heart of its sustainable travel campaign
The conversation around podcast revenue can, too often, focus on just the podcast itself. But podcasts can be a powerful tool as part of - or even at the heart of - a wider commercial campaign....
What can we learn from award-winning newsletters?
Joanna Cummings rounds up the advice and words of wisdom shared by some of our Publisher Newsletter Award-winners at our recent Publisher Newsletter Summit.
Newsletters have...
Honesty is the only policy: why we need to tell the world magazines have changed
Media Voices co-founder Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries: how to make print magazines work in the digital world, a companion newsletter to print...
Passion plays: The biggest lesson magazine makers can learn from music makers
Media Voices co-founder Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries: how to make print magazines work in the digital world, a companion newsletter to print...
The Tortured Analogy Department
Media Voices co-founder Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries: how to make print magazines work in the digital world, a companion newsletter to print...
Introducing BlueConic as our relaunch sponsor
Following our decision to reposition as a weekly publication profiling the people and products that are powering publishing's future, we at Media Voices are delighted to be able to welcome...
Why print won’t lie down and die
Media Voices co-founder Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries, a companion newsletter to print magazine The Grub Street Journal. Each edition shares...
Lessons from the creator economy: allowing talent to operate like creators
The Addition's Charlotte Henry looks at some examples of creators who have been lured back to publications, and how publishers can reap the rewards of allowing their talented staff to lead...
Introducing the winners of The Publisher Newsletter Awards 2024
Media Voices are delighted to reveal the winners of 2024's Publisher Newsletter Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Tuesday 23rd July at The Union Regents,...
5 podcast and newsletter lessons from leading publishers, with journalism.co.uk
Newsletters and podcasts have a lot in common. As well as being low-cost, they can be intimate and personal; perfect for building lasting relationships with readers and...
Introducing The Publisher Portfolio: the next phase of Media Voices
TLDR: Media Voices is repositioning as a weekly publication profiling the people and products that are powering publishing’s future.
2024 has...
6 tips for media leaders on implementing AI
Whether you see AI as friend or foe to the media industry, there are numerous ways automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence tools can be used by publishers to improve the...
What this year’s Publisher Podcast Awards finalists show about podcasting in 2024
In the five years we’ve been running the Publisher Podcast Awards, a great deal has changed in the industry. Publishers have become a great deal more confident at...