Future’s Newsstand Transformation: 75,000 New Subscribers
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UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a month of debuting 65 of its titles on iTunes’ Newsstand… Read more »
As Internet Explorer Wanes, MSN Tries iPad Route For Its Content
MSN UK wants to be a self-contained content brand, and it’s not afraid to use Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rivals’ devices to do it. Read more »
Netflix’s UK Moneyball Scores Yonks-Old Fremantle Fare
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The latest addition to Netflix’s UK and Ireland content lineup is 115 hours of archive FremantleMedia Enterprises comedy and drama. Read more »
7digital Intros Streaming Web Player
As its co-owner HMV (LSE: HMV) struggles to manage a fall in physical sales, digital music retailer 7digital is borrowing a trick from new m… Read more »
Bestsellers: Android’s Paid Market Is Alive, But Skews To Techie Tweaks
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Media operators go on grumbling about their prospects for payment on the world’s most-used smartphone platform.
But a glance at Android’s a… Read more »
WPPs Digital Spending Spree Comes Ashore In Turkey
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The world’s largest advertising agency has been announcing almost an acquisition a day in the digital and emerging markets fields. Read more »
Digital Opportunity And Creativity In China’s Year Of The Dragon
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Monday marks China’s new year. The dragon, whose year it is this year, is the only mythical creature in the calendar but, as Europe’s digita… Read more »
Digital Music Growth Re-Accelerated In 2011 Thanks To New Services
The six-year slowdown in digital music’s commercial growth rate ended in 2011, when digital trade revenue grew eight percent to $5.2 billion… Read more »
Tablets Are Prime-Time Media Devices
Tablet web use spikes after work and before sleep, another piece of research shows… Read more »
Nokia Lumia’s TV Deal Broke UK Advertising Rules
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One of the biggest components in Nokia’s expensive campaign for its latest flagship handset broke UK media rules by mixing its sponsorships… Read more »
Europe Says It Won’t Adopt ‘Bad’ Digital Policy Like SOPA
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Don’t expect the European Commission to introduce its own version of America’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Read more »
Music And Movie Studios Take A Slice Of HMV To Save Disc Sales
Struggling UK entertainment retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is giving equity worth 2.5 percent to its key suppliers – music and movie studios – to a… Read more »
Research: Professionals With iPads Are Deserting Printed Media
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Stark new research statistics suggest digital replacement of analogue content is now very high amongst tablet owners. Read more »
Google’s German Engine Is Slowing
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Google’s Q4 UK revenue rose 21 percent from the previous year to $1 billion, though German revenue growth slowed during the quarter, the sea… Read more »
Interview: News Int. Hacking Scandal Has Spurred Innovation
News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media… Read more »
News Corp Settles Hack Claims On Basis Execs Lied And Destroyed Evidence
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News Corp could be laden with a multi-million pound UK compensation bill after agreeing to settle claims on the basis its executives tried t… Read more »
Pearson Made $3 Billion From Digital Content Last Year
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says it is putting cash made from selling its older businesses toward buying new ones in digital and emerging markets. Read more »
Interview: 'No Decision' On Sun Paywall In Absence Of NOTW
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News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’… Read more »
UK's Biggest Regional Newspaper Ending Web Fees
The UK’s largest regional newspaper title, the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star, is ending the premium online payment tier it introduced i… Read more »
Industry Moves: Wiggin, Qriously, Shine 360°, Guardian; Digitas
Here are some of the latest executive-level hirings and departures from the world of digital media business… Read more »
The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News
News International’s The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends. Read more »
YouTube Fails To Convince Ad Regulator The Web Safeguards Kids Like TV Does
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Two contrary advertising watchdog rulings against the same movie company highlight how video advertising to children is handled differently… Read more »
WPP's Kantar Buying China's CIC For Social Media Market Research
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The world’s biggest advertising firm is making yet another acquisition at the intersection of its two targeted growth areas – digital and em… Read more »
X Factor Maker FremantleMedia Has Beefed Up UK Digital Operations
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production compani… Read more »
Manchester City Has Got A New Head Of Digital
TV and online exec Russell Stopford is the new head of digital for one of the world’s richest soccer clubs, Manchester City. Read more »
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight
In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon’s Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the… Read more »
Russia's Mail.ru Launches Its Own Twitter After China's Microblog Explosion
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Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta… Read more »
Illegal Books Available For Free On Google's Android Market
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Dozens of commercial book collections, including the entire Harry Potter series, have been downloaded for free from Google’s official Androi… Read more »
TV Piracy Links Site Host Faces Extradition To U.S.
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An English student who set up a website comprising links to illegally-hosted TV shows and movies must be extradited to the U.S. to face char… Read more »
Updated: 'Mortified' Google To Act On Those Who Poached Rival's Clients
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has “apologised unreservedly” after its Kenyan outfit poached customers from a rival business directory by systematicall… Read more »
The Sun Newspaper Going Premium In Mobile App For £4.99 A Month
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The UK’s highest-circulating newspaper may not yet be going ahead with web fees but it has introduced a subscription smartphone app, priced… Read more »
Cit-J Wire Demotix Adds Advertising, Giving 80 Percent To Contributors
Demotix, the user journalism and photography upload service that is part-owned by Corbis, is adding an incremental new revenue stream. Read more »
Hollywood Lambasts Sky Movies Ruling, But Open Access Gains Favour
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Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But s… Read more »
Scandinavian News Publisher Schibsted Set To Buy Music Streamer Aspiro
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Scandinavian news publisher Schibsted is set to buy Aspiro, a white label digital music streaming service for 340 million Swedish krona ($49… Read more »
Readability Makes Premium Features Free, Fee Now Just Donation
Readability, a service which lets readers of web page articles focus only on the core text, is upgrading its free tier to match its one-year… Read more »
Industry Moves: Condé Ups UK Deputy, Microsoft, Boxwood
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Here are some of the latest executive hirings and exits from the world of digital media business… Read more »
China's State Media Plan IPOs For Their Online Operations
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Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s… Read more »
The Economist Tries A Flipboard-Like Election App All In HTML
The Economist has given HTML web apps another shot in the arm by packaging its U.S. presidential election material in to a new Flipboard-lik… Read more »
Game Group Issues Warning After Poorer Christmas Game Sales
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The UK’s leading video game retailer again finds itself looking forward to another console upgrade cycle, after Christmas sales came in 12.9… Read more »
Piracy Much Higher Than Freeloaders Confess To, Ofcom Told
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Illegal downloading of copyrighted content is up to twice as prevalent as perpetrators admit, according to research that will inform how Ofc… Read more »
