@ pC2011: Paywalls And Their Discontents
As the NYTimes.com prepares to launch its metered pay model any day now, the topic of paywalls is something every media organization is expl… Read more »
Sir Martin Sorrell: Apple iPad Won’t Save Us
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We didn’t need Sir Martin Sorrell telling us that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad will not be the savior of the beleaguered publishing industry,… Read more »
Digital Growth Fuelled FT, Pearson Profit In 2010
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Pearson’s digital revenue grew 24 percent to £1.6 ($2.57) billion through 2010, including…
– FT paid digital subs:Â +50 percent to 20… Read more »
Apple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up
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The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” – many are confused exactly how th… Read more »
Updated: Apple’s Subs Rules Could Suck $1 Million From Financial Times
The Financial Times is on-record as saying its iPad app generated a tenth of its (85,892) new cross-platform digital subscriptions last year… Read more »
The FT Goes To Rio: Another Digital Spin-Off
The Financial Times is launching yet another digital-only subscription spin-off that’s not branded “FT”.
Brazil Confidential is a “premium… Read more »
Lionel Barber: The FT’s Five-Point Plan For Exploiting The Brand
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Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber covered a wide swath of ground in the nearly 5,000 words of his Hugh Cudlipp Lecture. Much is what you… Read more »
From Information To Intelligence: Emap’s Evolution
Emap CEO David Gilbertson describes his mantra for business-to-business publishers, in the Financial Times…
“The way I’d describe [the sh… Read more »
Social News Site Ongo Combines Aggregation And Paywalls
After months of operating in stealth, social news site Ongo, which received $12 million in funding from the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE… Read more »
FT’s Paid Digital Subs Up 71 Percent In A Year
The Financial Times released its own audience figures…
“206,892 paying digital subscribers … up 71% year on year.”
Daily print circulat… Read more »
Interview: FT’s Experimental ‘Startup’ Tilts At Emerging Markets
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If you spun off a dozen staff from your news publication to re-think the future of niche business news online, what would it look like? In T… Read more »
Steve Jobs: FT’s Person Of The Year, iPad Was Key Turning Point
photo: Illustration: FT.com
Steve Jobs may have been beaten to the punch by Mark Zuckerberg at Time, but at the Financial Times, the CEO of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today got… Read more »
Bad Robot? Android Is Limiting Publishers’ Payment Prospects
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Publishers are increasingly confident about the prospects for tablet editions in the post-print area. But, when it comes to actually monetis… Read more »
Video: Clash Of ‘Paywall’ Ideologies In Webby Debate
Whether digital news should be free or chargeable; it’s now like sport – you’re apparently either for or against; red vs blue. That’s the un… Read more »
FT Gives Its Staff A $480 Bonus To Buy An iPad; CEO’s Memo
The Financial Times says it will give a £300 or $480 rebate to its 1,800 staff against the purchase of an iPad or other tablet.
Newspaper… Read more »
Our Digital Entertainment Digest 11.09.10
Here’s our take on some of the latest news at the intersection of technology and entertainment:
» OK Go: Brace yourself, YouTube. On… Read more »
Mobile Bits: HTC’s Brand; Verizon iPhone; T-Mobile Tab; FT & Amazon Apps
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– HTC’s ad campaign pays off: Another story about how HTC has created a brand out of a no-name white-label smartphone maker. The more inter… Read more »
PayPal Expands Mobile Payments; Pushes Into The Sale Of Digital Goods
photo: PayPal's dev conference
Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer co… Read more »
Pearson Digital: FT Passes 180,000 Digital Subs; Penguin Offsets Print Drop
Digital subscriptions are up more than 50 percent for the Financial Times so far this year, passing the 180,000 mark. The numbers are includ… Read more »
On Mobile & iPad: Sun’s Celebs Sub, Times Unifying Price, FT In Chinese
The Sun has released an iPhone and Android app for its Bizarre-branded entertainment coverage. Costing £1.19 for 30 days and, thereafter, “… Read more »
Financial Times’ iPad App Brings In £1 Million
The Financial Times’ new iPad app has generated more than £1 ($1.59) million in advertising revenue since it was launched in May, according… Read more »
FT’s Tilt Is A Pure-Play Digital News Site About Emerging Markets
The Financial Times is creating a separate, spin-off website covering emerging global markets.
We first reported about FT Tilt in July, whe… Read more »
The FT Has Bought A New Video Studio
The Financial Times has made what it’s calling a “major investment” in a new online video studio at its Southwark Bridge HQ.
FT.com had alr… Read more »
FT Launching Seventh Niche Paid Site To Reduce Advertising Reliance
The Financial Times is increasingly launching specialist spin-off sites targeted at niche audiences of financial professionals.
The latest… Read more »
One For The Time Capsule?: FT Big-Ups The Print Network
The FT had already clicked “undo” on one Pearson (NYSE: PSO) exec’s recent assertion the paper will scale down its print distribution in the… Read more »
Industry Moves: Channel 4, IPC Media, FT Blog
– Channel 4: Future Media & Technology is being split. Richard Davidson-Houston’s (pictured) new Online team moves to the Creative Division… Read more »
Industry Moves: TheBusinessDesk.com, FT Alphaville Deputy Ed., C4 Online
– FT Alphaville: Tokyo-based reporter Tracy Alloway is becoming deputy editor of the Financial Times’ live analysis community and blog, wor… Read more »
FT Doubles H1 Profit, 250k iPad Downloads
Financial Times Group’s half-year profit more than doubled from £14 million to £30 million, even though profit grew only nine percent.
Pa… Read more »
FT Planning Off-Shoot Digital Finance News Site
Something’s brewing at fttilt.com. Over the weekend, Pearson (NYSE: PSO) folk tweeted the URL to invite applications for what will be a new… Read more »
Industry Moves: Rubicon Paris, Edelman Digital, IPC Social, FT Brussels
– Project Rubicon: On its seemingly neverending hiring spree, the ad network optimiser is adding former DrivePM/Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) adve… Read more »
FT: Actually, We’re Not Planning To Stop Printing
Yesterday, an executive from Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO) told us the news publisher was preparing to start “sunsetting” its p… Read more »
Stop The Presses: ‘Sunset’ For Print In Five Years, FT Sees
For years, even many of us in the online realm had countered digital prophesies of “the death of print” with cautious reservation.
But now… Read more »
Industry Moves: IGN UK MD, GMG Board, FT Comment
– IGN UK MD: IGN and GameSpy publisher IGN Entertainment is hiring Electronic Arts’ head of digital game distribution Ian Chambers as its U… Read more »
Video Demo: FT’s iPad App, Free For Now
We got a first look at the Financial Times’ forthcoming iPad app back in April. Now the paper’s released a video demonstrating the app Read more »
Industry Moves: ESPN’s Gleeson, AskJeeves Europe, Financial Times
– AskJeeves: The search engine has added Google’s northern and central European marketing analyst Francine Rump as its European operations… Read more »
Debt-Laden Private Buyouts Are Back – Pearson Sells IDC For $3.4 Billion
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said back in January it wanted to sell Interactive Data Corporation, its financial market data analytics provider. And n… Read more »
Pearson Q1 Sales Up Seven Percent On Group-Wide Growth
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Q1 revenues are up seven percent on last year to £1.08 billion ($1.65 billion) at Marjorie Scardino’s Pearson (NYSE: PSO), in line with the… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: FT Video, Magnetise, Smartclip Multi, Hulu Dead?
– FT video: The paper has redesigned its video section, now powered by Brightcove, offering targeted video ads, and even working on iPads.… Read more »
Industry Moves: ESPN EMEA, TradeDoubler, FT Weekend
– ESPN: A blow for the sportscaster’s European ambitions – Lynne Frank, who, as EMEA MD, oversaw the acquisitions of Soccernet, Cricinfo an… Read more »
Pearson’s Secret Startups: ‘We Can’t Be Right First Time’
When we first showed a video of Penguin Books’ iPad concepts last month, observers got pretty excited about the possibilities. Now, we are t… Read more »
