First Look: FT’s iPad App Is Just Around The Corner
We got a sneak peak at the Financial Times’ forthcoming iPad app during a digital briefing by parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO). It looks, well, a… Read more »
Targeted Advertising: WSJ Courting FT Readers For iPad Switch
Now this is what I call targeted advertising. The Wall Street Journal is so keen on its new iPad app, it’s advertising it to online readers… Read more »
FT Deal With Foursquare Lets Users ‘Unlock’ Paywall
The Financial Times’ metered online paywall system is considered one of the more successful models, but a new partnership with location-base… Read more »
Is The Financial Times The Perfect Digital Model?
Last year, amid the greatest recession in the history of the financial system, the Financial Times turned a profit. How it did so in the wak… Read more »
Paywalls A Big Hit On Far-Off Future Planets
The Financial Times is sometimes more intelligent in its analysis than it is quick in its breaking news. But it’s not passing up on the latt… Read more »
Up Is Down: FT Free On iPad, Guardian Monthly Mobile Charge?
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Suddenly, everything is new again. Underlining uncertainty and lack of consensus regarding mobile-device monetisation strategy, two newspape… Read more »
FT.com Takes Free Articles Away From Unregistered Users, Except Via Search
Now the Financial Times is getting really bullish about its web access model. In another tweak, it’s now ensuring that no free articles are… Read more »
Financial Times Shuts Semantic Search Service Newssift
A year ago, the FT launched “a next generation search tool for business professionals”. Powered by Endeca, it was called Newssift and aimed… Read more »
Video @ paidContent 2010: How To Make Money From Digital News
The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business– so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob G… Read more »
Beet.tv Roundtable: FT.com’s Stephen Pinches May Take Video Behind Paywall
On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at… Read more »
Industry Moves: GMTV, Pearson, Mergermarket, Independent
– GMTV: Clive Crouch is leaving his position as chief operating officer of the broadcaster. The news comes as GMTV’s owner, ITV (LSE: ITV),… Read more »
Videos: NYT’s Sulzberger, FT’s Ridding On Growing Through Subscription
With NYTimes.com now set to follow FT.com with a metered paid web model, both companies’ bosses gave presentations and sat together on a pan… Read more »
FT Will Use PayPal For Daily, Weekly Payments
The Financial Times first started talking about a web “pay-per-view” model back in August. Last month, it confirmed a “day pass” will be add… Read more »
Actually, The FT Is Still Exposed To The Advertising Downturn
Even before the economy turned bad, the FT was working hard to amp up its subscription funding and reduce its reliance on advertising.
But… Read more »
Industry Moves Round-Up: Kevin Anderson, EMI Turnaround, T-Mobile CMO, FT’s MGA Ed, Archant Board
– Kevin Anderson: Guardian.co.uk’s blogs editor, who has been working on pre-election online planning lately and previous worked on the BBC… Read more »
Google Tightens FT.com’s Free-Article Loophole
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) fell under the spotlight in November, when the debate over news sites’ value to search engines swirled up in to rumour o… Read more »
FT Buying Subscription Bankers’ Info Publisher Medley
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The Financial Times loves high-end subscription info so much, it’s buying another such publisher. Medley Global Advisors (MGA) of New York,… Read more »
FT Takes More Digital Control: Brings E-Clippings Under Its Own License
The Financial Times took another step today in bringing more of its digital content directly under its control. The newspaper said it will b… Read more »
FT To Launch Day Pass For Online And Mobile This Year
More refining on paywalls, from one of the first to introduce them. The Financial Times is gearing up to launch a “day pass” to access its c… Read more »
FT ‘Exceeded 2009 Targets’, As Owner Pearson Raises Forecast
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says its Financial Times Group “ended the year ahead of our expectations” in a preliminary statement ahead of its 2009 e… Read more »
New York Times Leaning Toward ‘FT’ Metered Model; Announcement Finally On Way?
After more than a year of discussions and months of delays, the New York Times finally may be on the verge of announcing — not of implement… Read more »
Ups And Downs As FT Mulls Print/Online
By Peter Preston: The crucial question is this: is the FT different or essentially the same?
When its increasingly cheery CEO, John Ridding… Read more »
Financial Times Content/Charging Revs To Overtake Print Ad Revs This Year
Cover price rises, a growing online subscriber base and corporate clients will help the Financial Times’s content revenues overtake print ad… Read more »
‘Because We’re Worth It’: FT.com Going Even More Premium
The Financial Times website sought to show off its long-time paid content credentials as Murdoch made his volte face this summer – effective… Read more »
FT Posts 120-Year Print Archive, For Subscribers’ Eyes Only
By Chris Tryhorn: The Financial Times has made its complete archive available online to subscribers interested in finding out how the paper… Read more »
FT.com Lets A Prisoner Blog, But Just For Kicks
If you hadn’t known that Martin Lukes was a fictional character in Lucy Kellaway’s Financial Times column, you’d have thought the paper was… Read more »
Earnings: FT Group Paid Subs Drive Slim Revenue Growth
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FT Group’s paid content strategy is steering the business back into revenue growth, as it announces a three percent sales lift for the first… Read more »
FT Targets Luxury Advertisers With HowToSpendIt.com Spin-Off
If anyone can charge for content, perhaps it’s How To Spend It, the monthly magazine for high earners that comes inside the FT Weekend editi… Read more »
Interview: FT Alphaville Editor Going Global Outside The Pay Wall
No newspaper is more keen on readers paying for content than the Financial Times. But one of the fastest-growing and most innovative parts o… Read more »
Financial Times Strikes Bloomberg TV Deal For Lex Columnists
By Katie Allen: The Financial Times Lex commentary team is hoping to raise its profile and revenues thanks to a deal with business news broa… Read more »
Print Round-Up: FT.com Launches Lexicon; Emap Inform Memo; HeraldScotland.com Goes Live
– FT Lexicon: FT.com has launched a glossary of financial terms, Lexicon.ft.com. Like Forbes Digital’s Investopedia, Lexicon offers 10,000… Read more »
Industry Moves: FT.com Will Run Alphaville From New York
The Financial Times plans to “substantially ramp up coverage of Wall Street” via its Alphaville blog, according to Gorkana. Alphaville’s edi… Read more »
FT.com Profiling IP Numbers To Drive Corporate Subs
FT.com’s subscription sales team is now mining the site’s traffic logs to target companies whose staff visit its free stories most often. Pr… Read more »
FT Buying MandateWire Pension Data Service
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The Financial Times is doing a fourth acquisition in the digital subscription data space, buying London-based MandateWire, which supplies in… Read more »
FT.com Considering iTunes-Style Micro-Payments Model
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FT.com executives are considering introducing a pay-as-you-read model loosely based on Apple’s iTunes to increase its digital revenues furth… Read more »
FT Bosses Launch PR Offensive For Paid-Content Model
Not content with its position as the only UK newspaper to successfully monetise its online content to at least some of its audience, executi… Read more »
Earnings: FT Profits Hit By Ad Downturn, Online Subs Up
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Free and paid subscriptions are still growing, but not by enough to keep Financial Times profits in the same direction. FT Publishing’s Janu… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Dopplr, ShopStyle.co.uk, FT.com iPhone Apps
A rash of new iPhone apps…
– Dopplr: The business travel social net has taken its Social Atlas to the iPhone, price free, putting it up… Read more »
FT Editor Expects ‘Almost All’ Papers To Charge Online In 2010
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Does the FT’s editor know something we don’t? The obvious answer is “of course he does – lots”; but Lionel Barber is also more optimistic th… Read more »
FT’s iPhone App Targets Bloomberg With 10 Free Articles Per Month
As expected, since it told us in January, The Financial Times has unveiled its iPhone app on Apple’s mobile store. Whilst the app is free, i… Read more »
