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May 20, 2025

The Publisher Summits preview day 1: session highlights across newsletters and print

We're just three weeks away from The Publisher Summits, bringing together four product verticals over two days. 

From the challenges of referral traffic to the unreliable...

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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 Now, 'Fear of missing out' has been replaced by 'Fear of not being able to...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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 4, 2025

Introducing memberships to Hearst’s iconic magazine portfolio: “There’s no one-size-fits-all,” says Katie Vanneck Smith

Hearst UK CEO Katie Vanneck Smith talks about communicating membership benefits, putting brands at the heart of the proposition and the importance of publishing teams in making magazine...

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February 3, 2025

Hearst’s Katie Vanneck Smith on making magazine memberships successful

This week on The Publisher Podcast we speak to Katie Vanneck Smith, CEO at Hearst UK. Katie's career spans The Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph, as well as co-founding Tortoise. In...

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January 30, 2025

The Publisher Podcast January 2025 wrap-up: Consumers back journalism, billionaire media bros show true colours, and Schrödinger’s app (TikTok)

In this bonus episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, Chris Sutcliffe, Esther Thorpe and Peter Houston take a look at what's happened in the world of media in January. A bonus monthly...

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January 28, 2025

56 million views in 2 years: How Which? crafts a TikTok strategy to appeal to consumers

Which?'s Hannah Ballantyne discusses how they approached launching on TikTok, the content that resonates with audiences there, and the value to the publication of having a presence on the...

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January 21, 2025

When should you take – or not take – VC funding for a new media business? The slow-growth philosophy of 1440

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...

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January 20, 2025

1440’s Tim Huelskamp on finding white space for a newsletter-based media business

This week on The Publisher Podcast we hear from Tim Huelskamp, CEO and co-founder of 1440, a daily curated newsletter that now reaches over 4 million daily readers. He tells us about finding white...

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January 14, 2025

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...

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  • The Publisher Summits preview day 1: session highlights across newsletters and print
  • 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
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