Industry Moves: A&N Mobile, Future TechRadar, Johnston Press, Accel
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more »
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
photo: Liberty: Natalie Tracy (Flickr) / Grabs: paidContent
Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) – but, in reality, the tw… Read more »
Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT r… Read more »
The New York Times vs. Mail Online: Who’s Got The Better Business Model?
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The championship of the online newspaper world changed hands the other day.
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) (as measured by comScore (NSDQ:… Read more »
Euromoney Subscriptions Growing Through Euro Economy Turmoil
Euro money (the currency) may be going through a rough patch, but Euromoney (the publisher) is in rude health. Read more »
Mail Online Introduces Indian Site
The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India. Read more »
Mail Group Selling Teletext In Management Buy-Out
DMGT’s A&N Media is selling a majority stake of Teletext, the once-influential UK TV text service which was unable to profitably move in to… Read more »
Metro Hails Newsstand For Strong Downloads, High Engagement
photo: Robert Andrews
UK free commuter newspaper Metro’s new iPad Newsstand edition has proved almost as popular within two weeks of launch as its predecessor had… Read more »
A&N Merging Its Property Sites With Zoopla To Beat Rightmove
Mail Online operator A&N Media is pulling a bold and unexpected move that has finally placed it ahead of market-leading Rightmove. Read more »
‘Be Your Own Boss’: Northcliffe Turns LocalPeople Sites In To ‘Franchises’
photo: Localpeople.co.uk
UK regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media was only paying its LocalPeople community publishers £4,800. ($7418.03) Now it wants thos… Read more »
‘Daily Mail’ Jumps The Gun On Knox Verdict With Embarrassing Results
photo: Credit: Malcom Coles
The internet makes it possible to broadcast breaking news at a pace unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. Unfortunately, that includes the… Read more »
Industry Moves: Mail Online, MySpace’s New Marketer, Massive
Some latest executive comings and goings from digital companies that begin with “M”… Read more »
Pot Calling Kettle Black? Mail Rumbled Over Unauthorised Photo Use
An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its… Read more »
Daily Mail Proxy Site IstyOsty Goes Down After Cease And Desist Order
The Daily Mail is more than happy for people to share links to articles from its site — it’s an important part of it maintaining its positi… Read more »
UK Newspaper Sites See A Summer Slump
Beating NYTimes.com may have to wait. Mail Online lost 13 percent of its monthly audience in June, down to 67.1 million unique browsers. Read more »
Mail Online Revenue Growing Slower Than Audience
Mail Online and Metro.co.uk are making 51 percent more revenue than last year. That’s the difference parent DMGT disclosed Tuesday morning. Read more »
Hacking Digest: Sun Editor Sacked; Miskiw Speaks; Lawyer Victims; Sunday
James Murdoch’s testimony on phone hacking is getting called into question by those who were closest to the situation at the time: that coul… Read more »
Aegis Media Takes Mobile Leap With $11 Million Investment In TigerSpike
Aegis Media, the media buying and marketing division of Aegis Group, is beefing up its mobile assets and activity: it is taking an undisclos… Read more »
Daily Mail Uses Online Coupons To Seek Print Loyalty
Associated Newspapers says “hundreds of thousands” of people have redeemed discount vouchers from Mail Online by collecting codes from Daily… Read more »
The Daily’s Launch Exec Picton Joins Mail Online
photo: UK AOP
Former Sun Online editor Pete Picton, who we revealed in September was called up to help launch News Corp.’s The Daily in New York, has now… Read more »
In Brief: Antique Books, Tesco Digital, Culture Fund & More
A round-up of today’s news bits…
– iPad antique books: The British Library has released an iPad app including 1,000+ 19th Century books,… Read more »
Daily Mail’s Digital Revenue Up 50 Percent From Last Year
Digital revenue from Mail Online and Metro.co.uk rose to £8 million in the six months to April 3 – up 50 percent from a year earlier. Read more »
Euromoney’s Subs And Ads Are Up But Could Fall Back
Business publisher Euromoney says it will plough more money in to technology and digital products this year, after finding its digital busin… Read more »
Here’s Why America Is Vital To UK Newspapers
Efforts by titles like Guardian.co.uk and Mail Online to gain U.S. audiences are not just hubristic attempts at conquering, Beatles-style, A… Read more »
Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy
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To the competition between NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) and HuffingtonPost.com, add two British challengers… Read more »
A&N Fancies Free Amongst Paid Mobile Line-Up
DMGT’s A&N Media is feeling its way through paid and free strategies in mobile media.
After adding a free, ad-supported option to its subsc… Read more »
Mail On iPad Next Week As A&N Seeks Balance In Digital Subs
A&N Media aims to grow digital to a quarter of its revenue by 2016, by adding a range of new subscription options and tilting away from adve… Read more »
Subscription And Ad Rates Slowing At Euromoney
“As expected, subscriptions, advertising and sponsorship revenues have all continued to grow at slower rates than those achieved in the firs… Read more »
Mail Online Kicking Google OnePass’ Tyres
Associated Newspapers is due to test out Google’s OnePass system for accessing and paying for content, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has confirmed. Read more »
Interview: Northcliffe’s New Boss Plans ‘Radical’ Shake-Up
As Steve Auckland settles into his new office on the third floor of Derry Street on Monday to start his first day heading up Northcliffe Med… Read more »
Industry Moves: Northcliffe MD; Trinity Mirror, eYeka, RadiumOne, Openreach
– Northcliffe: The regional publisher’s MD Michael Pelosi is retiring, his role taken by Metro MD Steve Auckland, who is succeeded by A&N M… Read more »
UK’s Mail Online Tinkering With Mobile Pricepoints
News pricing structures are clearly still being figured out on mobile, just as much as they are on websites.
Mail Online, the UK’s most-vis… Read more »
Updated: Online And Job Ads Bounce Nationally, Sink Locally For DMGT
Associated Newspapers’ online revenue for the three months to January 2 was 73 percent higher than in the same period a year earlier, DMGT s… Read more »
Print’s Not Dead: DMGT’s Building A New Press Plant
DMGT’s consumer division, which publishes the Daily Mail, joins the likes of Guardian News & Media in investing in a new print plant. Here’s… Read more »
‘Radio Times’ Becomes EPG In 3.8 Million Freeview Homes
BBC Worldwide’s Radio Times magazine is taking over the branding of Teletext Extra, a TV interface that’s used on Freeview sets in 3.8 milli… Read more »
Free Metro Can’t Stop Making Money
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Metro is far and away Britain’s most successful national newspaper. Over the past year, its distribution has increased along with its geogra… Read more »
Running The Numbers: Mobile Newspaper Subscriptions
The Guardian’s new subscription iPhone app, which we reported on last week, has arrived in iTunes Store, joining its counterpart Mail Online… Read more »
