Media Voices is proud to announce the launch of the Media Podcast Awards, dedicated to celebrating the best podcasts produced by media and publishing organisations.
The awards are aimed...
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...
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...
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,...
“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...
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...
How do publishers maintain their brand value in a world of distributed content? Highlights from our 100th episode
So the Media Voices Podcast made it to 100 episodes. More than that, we managed to record our centenary show live in London with four fantastic guests and a real live audience!
Some shows would...
In a crowded streaming market, content alone will not ensure survival
Despite the ongoing success of the larger streaming services, growing consumer dissatisfaction with the total cost of subscriptions and a soft cap on the amount people can afford to pay means...
How The New York Times’ free student subscriptions strategy will pay off
Can offering 3 million free student subscriptions pay off for the New York Times? Chris Sutcliffe runs through the pros and cons of the bold strategy for Digital Content Next, from cultivating a...
Is the Netflix-NME partnership the future of ‘special issues’?
NME’s surprise return to print, helped by a cheque from Netflix, is a demonstration of just how well it has managed to sustain its online presence. But is this a future that other ex-print...
How PinkNews went from side hustle to LGBTQ+ social phenomenon
You don’t have to search hard to find a reason to cheer PinkNews’ success. Its campaigning journalism, born out of the campaign for marriage equality, has demonstrably helped LGBTQ+ people in...
Media Moments 2018: A report from What’s New in Publishing and Media Voices
We're really pleased to announce that we've launched our first report for What's New in Publishing! Media Moments 2018 explores seven key areas which have influenced the media and publishing...
How Women’s Health is defying circulation decline in women’s magazines
The women's magazine ABCs are rarely a pleasant read for magazine aficionados. But one magazine stands out from the rest as having shown consistent circulation growth, as well as managing to...
‘We only succeed if publishers succeed’: How Flipboard is growing a platform that works for publishers
It was with some surprise that I read about the figures a few weeks ago revealing that Flipboard had taken fourth place, behind Google, Facebook and Twitter, for referral traffic to publishers,...
How publishers are navigating the perilous path to diversification
Chris Sutcliffe looks at how and why publishers are working so hard to diversify their revenue streams, for Digital Content Next.
Many quality publishers are navigating the...
Lessons in reducing churn from some of the world’s biggest publishers
Chris Sutcliffe explores strategies global publishers are employing to reduce churn in his latest piece for What's New in Publishing.
The era of untrammelled growth in digital...