UK Government Will Press Ahead With Giving Away Paid Content To Libraries
The UK government still aims to press ahead with plans that would allow Britain’s main libraries to harvest and make freely available materi… Read more »
Study: NYT Visits Off As Much As 15 Percent A Day Since Paywall Debut
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In what is the first close-look at traffic to the New York Times’ website since the debut of its paywall late last month, analytics firm Exp… Read more »
Why Google’s Opponents Are OK With The ITA Merger
The reaction to news of the Google-ITA approval has an odd twist: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and some of its fiercest competitors are both crowing… Read more »
Slovakia Is About To Introduce Wide-Ranging Paid Content
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Nine of Slovakia’s main media operators are about to introduce a shared “paywall” service.
Its three national broadsheet newspapers, a tabl… Read more »
Expedia Will Spin Off TripAdvisor As A Public Company
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Expedia will spin off its TripAdvisor unit as a publicly trading company, a move which will establish the business as the dominant, independ… Read more »
Publishers Plan To Charge For New Content
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According to the Association of Online Publishers’ annual census of 35 of its members: “63 percent of publishers are quite or very likely to… Read more »
New NYTimes.com Promo Borrows From Print Marketing: 50 Percent Off
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In a new promo that went to some NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) registered users today, the New York Times is offering 26 weeks of digital access f… Read more »
UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Goes Paid Online To Boost Circulation
The UK’s highest-circulation regional daily newspaper has introduced its pay-for website, which we previewed last month. Read more »
Sprint Also Working On Mobile Payments, Hopes To Launch This Year
Momentum around mobile payments continues to build as Sprint (NYSE: S) signaled its intention to jump into the race to build systems around… Read more »
The Mobile-Payments Business Is Heating Up
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) mentioned that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) could team up with MasterCard and Citigroup to pu… Read more »
The Tulsa World Will Try A Paywall (Again)
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Four days after the New York Times rolled out its metered paywall system, the Tulsa World, a 93,558-circulation daily in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is… Read more »
Google’s Android Ready For In-App Purchases
After much discussion earlier this year Google’s in-app billing system for Android applications is out in the wild, with several major publi… Read more »
Microsoft Reportedly Considering Wireless Payments For Windows Phone 7
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Maybe this phone-as-wallet thing really is finally ready to take off. Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is set to jump on t… Read more »
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
Frequently besmirched since it started charging online eight month ago, News International has, as it promised it would, issued a second set… Read more »
Ex-Googlers Launch ‘NYT For A Nickel’ As Publicity Stunt; NYT Not Amused
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Calvin Young and his partner Noah Ready-Campbell (pictured at left) left Google (NSDQ: GOOG) two months ago to start Minno, a company dedica… Read more »
EBay Buying GSI Commerce For $2.4 Billion
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EBay is acquiring GSI Commerce as a way to bolster its own interactive marketing and e-commerce services in a deal valued at $2.4 billion. T… Read more »
Price Tag For Journalism Online Could Go As High As $45 Million
RR Donnelley execs aren’t talking — neither are Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, at least about deal details — but paidContent has learned… Read more »
UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’
The Times is planning some changes to its paid digital model that could lead to more nuanced additions to its current hard in-or-out system. 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 »
Europeans Will Pay For Content–Why Are There So Few Compelling Options?
I’m often asked to name companies with a successful paid digital content strategy.
It’s harder than it should be to answer that question, e… Read more »
BIA/Kelsey: Local Online Ad Revenues Will Double By 2015
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Local online advertising is still considered a largely untapped market, but BIA/Kelsey expects that to change over the four years. The resea… Read more »
Another Newspaper Jumps On The Groupon Bandwagon
Australasian news publisher Fairfax Media is launching Treat Me in New Zealand, saying: “Treat Me will harness the retro coolness of voucher… Read more »
Retailers Are Finally Embracing Android, So How About Media Owners?
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Are brands finally beginning to execute a mobile app plan that’s not simply an iPhone plan? Read more »
How The NYT’s Paywall Compares To Those Of Other Big Papers
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When the New York Times puts up its paywall later this month, it will be the fifth newspaper among the top 50 by circulation in the U.S. to… Read more »
RIM, Carriers Battling Over Mobile Payment Strategies
Stalled negotiations over how best to implement the promising NFC (near-field communications) wireless payment technology in Research in Mot… Read more »
How Much Revenue Can The New York Times Paywall Generate?
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So how much money will the New York Times generate with its new digital subscriptions? The company has said that about 15 percent of monthly… Read more »
How NYT Subscribers Can Get Print Plus Digital For Less Than Digital Alone
An apparent (and likely very purposeful) loophole in the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) paywall plans: At least two of the newspaper’s home deli… Read more »
eMarketer: E-Commerce Expected To Grow Double Digits Through 2012
Like advertising, e-commerce sales recovered nicely in 2010, fueling greater hopes on the part of publishers for an additional revenue strea… Read more »
MTV’s Latest ‘Return To Music Roots’ Project Released: The Hive
As the “music portion” of SXSW kicks off today — discovering new sounds was the original impetus behind the mostly tech-centric Austin, Tx.… Read more »
Just-Eat Gobbles $48 Million Funding To Go Global
Just-Eat, the local online takeaway menu aggregator and order facilitator, has taken on a $48 million second venture funding round to fund i… Read more »
Apple And PayPal Hit With Lawsuit Over Patent For ‘One-Click’
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Amazon’s patent on its “one-click” checkout system first made headlines over a decade ago, and became a notorious “Exhibit A” for those who… Read more »
Survey: Mobile News Readers Show Some Willingness To Pay
Some positive news for newspapers hoping to build digital subscription streams: A national phone survey shows that 30 percent of mobile news… Read more »
Papers Finally Start Aping Groupon
Back in December, I wrote how news publishers, who used to own advertiser relationships, had blown another online advertising opportunity by… Read more »
After E-Commerce Experiments, Hearst Looks More Seriously At Shopping
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In addition to apps and tablets, Hearst Magazines President David Carey provided some general outlines of the company’s e-commerce strategy… Read more »
Resurgent StumbleUpon Raises $17 Million
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StumbleUpon, the content recommendation service that eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) purchased for $75 million in 2007 and then sold back to its founders… 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 »
Facebook Fears Hammer Netflix Stock
It wasn’t that long ago that Jim Cramer was suggesting that Facebook could actually help Netflix’s stock. But this morning, news of a deal b… Read more »
Advertisers Benefit From The Times’ Reader Fees, News International Claims
News International is claiming that advertisers have benefited from “significant lifts in user engagement and brand recall” due to charging… Read more »
Discovery Jumps Into The Content Licensing Business
Want some footage of sharks or loggers? Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is entering the content licensing business. A new site the ca… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-07-11
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» Condé Nast’s Glamour is creating an original reality series produced exclusively for the iPad that incorporates e-commerce. No… Read more »
