Media Voices are proud to reveal the shortlist for the second year of the Publisher Newsletter Awards. More than 100 newsletters have made the cut across 16 categories, from global news...
Why the podcast industry cannot abandon its search for a new, diverse galaxy of stars
Our industry is overdue for its next breakout star – so why are there none on the horizon?
Podcasts live or die on the ability of their hosts to keep audiences...
Smartico’s Christian Scherbel on reframing digital advertising for SMBs and publishers
This feature has been written in partnership with Smartico. Hear more in the Media Briefs episode with its CEO Christian Scherbel, discussing why small- and medium-sized businesses joining...
Podcasts and newsletters: 5 similarities and 1 huge difference
Podcasts and newsletters share the same low cost of entry; all it takes is a phone or a computer and you’re in the game. But that’s just the beginning. Both formats offer publishers...
Lessons from the creator economy: how creators are avoiding VC funding pitfalls
Creators are looking to diversify their revenue streams and, just as media companies do, occasionally seek the aid of VC funding to do so. But with VC funding comes a variety of pitfalls,...
First sessions and workshops revealed for the Publisher Podcast and Newsletter Summits
Are you a publisher with newsletters or podcasts? Then you absolutely must have Wednesday June 12th in your diary.
We're assembling some of the industry's leading publishers...
“The risk of losing people in the newsletter world has declined:” What happened to The Atlantic’s newsletters for subscribers scheme
The pandemic years saw a number of high-profile journalists leave publications to launch their own newsletters. Although lockdowns were credited as a driving...
Where will the leaders and readers of the future come from?
Magazine publishing might not be for the fainthearted, and the idea of selling it as a career demands a headshift. But we need to accentuate the positives if we’re going to attract young...
Lessons from the creator economy: Sophia Smith Galer on thinking outside the media box
Award-winning freelance reporter, author and creator Sophia Smith Galer makes her own content, writes books and successfully collaborates with existing media institutions. Here, she tells...
Shortlist announcement for the Publisher Podcast Awards 2024
Media Voices are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the fifth year of the Publisher Podcast Awards. From hundreds of entries, this shortlist of 140 represents the very best in publisher...
How The Telegraph is harnessing newsletters for community development and retention
“If people become a subscriber to The Telegraph after clicking on a link in a newsletter, they’re 50% more likely to still be a subscriber a year later,” Head of Newsletters Maire Boneheim...
5 years of pain ahead for the industry: Why publishing needs to go old-school to survive AI threats
“What’s your competitive advantage as a publishing business? It’s not the ability to churn out more articles than anybody else,” says Ian Betteridge, as he reckons publishers have...
Digital’s hidden carbon footprint
Print gets a bad rap, but digital media is no angel when it comes to the climate crisis. Magazine publishers need to consider the environmental impact of all that they do, writes Peter...
Bridged Media’s Maanas Mediratta on opening up access to AI for publishers
This feature has been written in partnership with Bridged Media. Hear more in the Media Briefs episode with Bridged Media CEO Maanas Mediratta, discussing why making AI tools more...
Lessons from the creator economy: Owning your work is crucial
The Addition’s Charlotte Henry is writing a monthly column for Media Voices focused on what business lessons publishers can learn from creators. This edition, she looks at some of the...
By pretending to be underdogs against Google and Meta, national news organisations do smaller publishers dirty
Big Tech companies like Google wield vast amounts of power in their respective fields. But by casting themselves as underdogs against monolithic but amorphous ‘Big Tech’, news...
Pitchfork was a corporate failure. There is still a future for independent publications with attitude
Pitchfork wrote the book on having an opinion. The site’s absorption into the mainstream lifestyle title GQ says more about Condé Nast’s focus on the bottom line than it does about...
What does ‘good’ local news look like?
As part of our recent Futureproofing local news podcast series, supported by the Google News Initiative, we asked a number of experts what they thought good local news should, or could...
Lessons from the creator economy: Journalist, creator or both?
The Addition’s Charlotte Henry will be writing a monthly column for Media Voices focused on what business lessons publishers can learn from creators. In this introductory column, she...
FlatPlan’s Kieran Delaney on how Apple News can support publisher data strategies
This feature has been written in partnership with Apple News specialists FlatPlan. Hear more in our Media Briefs episode with FlatPlan CEO Kieran Delaney, discussing how publishers can use the...
Media Moments 2023
We're delighted to release the 2023 edition of Media Moments, our annual report taking a look at key events which have shaped the media and publishing industry this year.
From...
The Publisher Podcast Awards 2024 are now open for entries!
The Publisher Podcast Summit will also be returning preceding the Awards, alongside the first ever Publisher Newsletter Summit.
2024's Publisher Podcast Awards, run by the...
A year of culture wars demonstrates the public’s trust cannot be taken for granted
2023 has seen a number of ongoing trends around the public’s trust in media run their course – but individual incidents at the BBC, Fox and more demonstrate the scale of the risk for...
Is diversity, equity and inclusion at risk of becoming just another ‘trend’?
While the industry is seeing some progress in terms of gender pay gaps and representation, commitment to DEI in some quarters is waning, with too little focus on systemic change. Joanna...
The local news revival gathers pace, but there are bumps along the road for even the brightest sparks
In a growing number of spots, local news isn’t just surviving: it’s thriving. But the picture isn’t so pretty for legacy publishers. Esther Kezia Thorpe rounds up the last 12 months...
Podcast strategy bifurcates as media companies explore new ways to make podcasts pay
2023 has seen podcast strategies diverge like never before. Some major publishers have put the majority of their podcasts behind paywalls while others have cut back to the shows that perform best....
As the paid reader base grows more slowly, reducing churn is the focus for publishers going into 2024
Few publishers expected subscriptions would magically solve all of their revenue woes, but any that did will be increasingly disappointed as acquisition and retention challenges grow in a maturing...
Publishers blink as Meta cuts off money and traffic
The already-strained relationship publishers had with the tech giants soured further in 2023 as attempts to force payments in Canada saw Meta block news from its platforms completely....
Newsletter portfolios shrinking as publishers look to consolidate reader engagement
The social media traffic collapse has made newsletters more important than ever to publishers looking for real reader relationships, but less is looking like more in the fight for engagement....
Inflation increases pressure on newsprint, but magazine publishers are still finding niches
Economic turmoil has accelerated the print decline in mass market and regional newspapers, but magazine publishers are eyeing shorter runs and reduced frequency as an opportunity to cash in on...