Traditional media brands are cranking out video content in the hopes of persuading marketers to shift ad budgets from TV to online offerings. But can companies like Conde Nast and the Wall Street journal deliver the necessary quality and audience size? Read more »
All-you-can-read digital magazine app Next Issue Media is expanding from iPad to Windows 8. The company partnered with Microsoft and hopes that users will want to read digital magazines across their devices. Read more »
For years Reddit has been used by journalists as a source of stories and ideas — but most outlets have preferred to keep their addiction quiet. Now, thanks in large part to President Obama, it doesn’t have to be their dirty little secret any more. Read more at GigaOM »
Digital-replica magazines doubled their share of the North American market in the last year, while printed titles shed a tenth of newsstand sales. But lectronic editions remain just a sliver of an industry that, when it comes to subscriptions, is holding up fine. Read more »
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
Next Issue Media’s tablet magazines are finally available for the iPad, three months after the platform launched on Android 3.0. Users can read popular magazines like People, Vogue and the New Yorker for a flat monthly fee. So is the cost worth it? Read more »
As much as things change, one goal remains the same: the creation and evolution of sustainable business models that will support quality media, entertainment and information across platforms — and paidContent 2012 is all about meeting that goal. Read more »
“Content” is an industry that is going through a renaissance.Despite the current challenges and there are opportunities. All these threats and opportunities will be part of the discourse at paidContent 2012, which will be held on May 23, 2012, at the TimesCenter in New York City. Read more at GigaOM »
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media goes live with its long-delayed digital newsstand. Users will be able to read popular magazines for a flat fee — if they have a tablet running Android 3.0 or later. For now, iPad and Kindle Fire users need not apply. Read more »
Hearst is following Conde Nast’s lead and will start releasing metrics on its paid iPad editions, the company announced today. Separately, t… Read more »
Months after it began testing a program that provided select advertisers with information about the readers of tablet editions, Condé Nast… Read more »
Atlantic Media continues its push to remake its properties with a digital-first business model with the hiring of Jessica Perry as Digital V… 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 »
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 »
Polar Mobile — the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustr… Read more »
Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications — a… Read more »
Here are some of the latest executive hirings and exits from the world of digital media business… Read more »
This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from… Read more »
Condé Nast cooking site Epicurious is selling Random House digital cookbooks that users can import into their “digital recipe boxes.” Howev… Read more »
A strange libel lawsuit that reads like a pulp version of the The Da Vinci Code just became a bit stranger — the controversial art world fi… Read more »
In fashion, they say, what goes around comes around. Now designers, fashionistas and historians — as well as advertisers and the simply cur… Read more »
Consumer Reports, which named the iPad the top tablet earlier this year, is now adding subscriptions and free access for print subscribers t… Read more »
On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, ano… Read more »
News of the latest hirings and exits in the digital media business in brief… Read more »
Condé Nast is relaunching its online image archives store in partnership with online prints and posters retailer Art.com as tries to find a… Read more »
Although ad sales people at major publishers sometimes like to deride real-time bidding as a “race to the bottom,” fearing that the auction-… Read more »
The battle of the tablet newsstands continues: Condé Nast is making all 18 of its magazines available for Nook Tablet and Nook Color. Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week th… Read more »
Condé Nast is finally allowing UK print subscribers to its magazines to access the same magazines inside corresponding iPad apps, by inputt… Read more »
Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher… Read more »
Condé Nast is get into producing TV, film and digital programing with the introduction of a new entertainment division and has brought in T… Read more »
– Condé Nast International is adding Malcolm Simms as its first chief technology officer, reporting to chairman Jonathan Newhouse and “lat… Read more »
As publishers have made use of Twitter and Facebook to drive traffic back to their branded, Condé Nast’s Social Sidekick tool is meant to g… Read more »
Bit by bit, we are starting to get a better idea of what Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to do to reassert itself in the mobile phone market in the… Read more »
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The value of 2D barcodes by print magazines looking to connect with reader’s mobile phone activity is getting a big test of with Glamour’s l… Read more »
Condé Nast has managed to attract 242,000 digital edition customers within a six-week period after introducing subscriptions on Apple’s App… Read more »
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