Music’s new wave of unlimited-access services is now supported by most labels, who dearly hope that new subscription payments will make up f… Read more »
The European Commission reckons it could unlock €110 ($147.99/£93.27) billion a year in new digital business by harmonising rules for the… Read more »
UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a bold new news website this spring, will start trialling its delayed “Pay Player” this M… Read more »
Fashion blogging has grown from a few wannabe writers looking from outside in at the industry to an influential new media category that desi… Read more »
UBM CEO David Levin tells paidContent the business publisher is done with off-loading content businesses for now and is about to see online… Read more »
Financial Times CEO John Ridding rejects dinner-party chatter that the publisher may be sold to Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters.
Instead, he i… Read more »
The debate over whether artists get enough money from streaming played out in public last week when EMI and Spotify executives failed to win… Read more »
With Facebook’s advertising fortunes taking off, one cog in that machine has become an M&A target. Social marketing platform operator Buddy… Read more »
Pearson’s digital revenue grew 18 percent to £2 ($3.17) billion (a third of the total) through 2011, as its book publisher Penguin’s e-book… Read more »
The Financial Times is still signing up new digital subscribers, but at the slowest rate since iPad lit up its business model in mid-2010. Read more »
One of the nascent social TV space’s most interesting new second-screen software services will this week court mainstream users with a natio… Read more »
UK online property listings leader Rightmove saw profit improve by a quarter in 2011.
Now it forecasts a tipping point, saying newspapers a… Read more »
It’s not just in western markets that content sales are moving rapidly from physical to digital. One of Russia’s largest electronics retaile… Read more »
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more »
With Rupert Murdoch in London to launch the Sunday Sun whilst grasping News International’s crisis for a second time, News Corp is doubling… Read more »
Two business information publishers are reporting improving fortunes after pushing their print media portfolio toward digital subscription o… Read more »
In music, celestial jukeboxes like Spotify replace vinyl and CDs with unlimited back-catalogue access. Could magazine publishers grant their… Read more »
If Pinterest is attracting heat for copying publishers’ content, perhaps it’s only fair that publishers give the same treatment to the buddi… Read more »
Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the… Read more »
Online ad spend in Russia grew 56 percent through 2011, surpassing print media to become the country’s second-largest advertising medium. Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), whose own finance website trails rivals’, has signed a commercial deal to get real-time stock price data from London St… Read more »
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s main business unit aims to delist from the Hong Kong stock market – but says the move is unrelated… Read more »
Magazine publishers who publish digital editions have found those editions hit 1.7 percent of circulation in the UK – but auditing criteria… Read more »
In a reversal of today’s content publishing model, print magazines pretty soon could start looking a lot like their app equivalents. Read more »
What price do online newspapers put on their head? The amounts publishers charge advertisers indicates their bullishness about their busines… Read more »
Some of the latest hirings and exits in brief from the world of digital media business… Read more »
More than a year and a half after News Corp.’s flagship UK “quality” papers introduced new paid digital outlets, their effect is becoming cl… Read more »
YouTube’s fortunes in the emerging internet TV space may be hampered because it cannot yet help partners monetize their content on the new p… Read more »
Shareholders in big Chinese online game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment (NSDQ: SNDA) have voted in favour of a proposal by which… Read more »
The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) and Meltwater put their own contrasting spins on Tuesday’s setting by the UK’s Copyright Tribunal of th… Read more »
In its ruling setting copying fees for news monitor clients who receive newspaper websites’ online story clippings, the UK’s Copyright Tribu… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) could soon be forced to withdraw production from China not by ethical concerns but by a legal dispute, if a claimant to t… Read more »
Yellow Pages publisher Yell Group must fight off not only the decline of its traditional print directories business but also now that of its… Read more »
One of the more popular instant messaging mobile apps is taking a $10 (£6.32) million investment from a Russian investor. Read more »
The seven-year-old personalised web content dashboard service Netvibes has confirmed it has been acquired by 3D and CAD software maker Dassa… Read more »
Smartphone sales have overtaken PC, iPhone app spend is rising and Android is beset by fragmentation problems, this visual stat compendium b… Read more »
While the UK’s media ethics furore ended up closing the News Of The World last year, how did News Corp.’s next-best-selling UK newspaper far… Read more »
After quickly gaining a warm reception and a rapid post-launch investment from BSkyB, the social TV app startup co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer… Read more »
Recent roll-outs to new countries of download and streaming services helped Michael Bublé’s Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) offset physical… Read more »
Virgin Media thinks its new-ish TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set top box is a game changer. But, whilst the new box – with a big PVR drive, capability… Read more »
