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Content no longer demands to be free. It wants a fee — but how much of one? Consumer pricing is not a core competence of many media companies. For decades, media pricing was on automatic. Newspapers picked a quarter or fifty cents, and then ...
The 100-product-a-year model is a much-needed growth model. We can see how it fits nicely with all-access subscriptions, and together we have two interconnected Lego blocks of a new sustainable news model. We have two essential parts of a ...
Why do it? Why trade in the sleepiness of California's capital city (Sacramento is McClatchy's headquarters) for the bright lights of Broadway, a long walk from AP's NYC offices?
Number one on list may be McClatchy fatigue. Pruitt and his CFO, ...
For now, let’s boil it down the how to 5 P’s:
People: As in customers. Few newspapers — probably a dozen or fewer in the U.S. — know their combined print and digital audiences as a single audience. It takes a lot of technology moving to get a ...
What percent of print ad loss is made up by digital ad gain? This is the crossover metric driving much of John Paton’s Digital First Media/Journal Register Company strategy. With print advertising down now more than 50 percent in 10 years in the ...
“Everyone wants us to fast-forward to the end of the movie,” Webster notes. He has a sensible point. Given how each Patch rumor — two sites consolidated here, freelance budgets cut back there — is treated as forensic evidence, Webster is in ...
Commercial conversation, especially targeted commercial conversation, is the Internet’s next generation of advertising. The first generation of impression-based web ads has been a low-clicking disaster. These new ads — some better executed than ...
All we can say with certainty: we’re witnessing the death and life of California news. Who will own the biggest news media? Who will manage the biggest news media? How much of a life in print will be left for newspapers as they go digital? And, ...
Takeaways:
It's 12% of the the New York Times overall circulation revenue for the year. That puts the annual circulation number in positive territory -- up 3% for the year, and a lively 8% for the fourth quarter -- reversing the 2010 ...
Consider how much revenue each of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon earned from outside the U.S in the first three quarters of 2011:
Google: 54 percent
Apple: 54 percent
Facebook: 38 percent
Amazon: 46 percent
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