April 26, 2024
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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
Read MoreToday, in 2012, those questions are more pressing in our age of news deluge. We’re confronted at every turn, at every finger gesture, with more to read or view or listen to. It’s not just the web: It’s also the smartphone and especially the tablet, birthing new aggregator products — Google ...
Read MoreWe can point to three major phenomena that profoundly changed the news landscape this year. Each offers up its own half-formed metrics for that magic formula in process, and each has dramatically changed the possibilities of news, each largely positive: 1) The transcendant transformative age ...
Read MoreWith the launch of Livestand, we see the beginning of Aggregator Wars 2.0, to be fought on a tablet near you. Livestand pushes the question: How are we going to receive news and features via the tablet, through individual apps (paid or free) or through an aggregator? And how are publishers ...
Read MoreThe Piano experience isn’t about a little-heard-from place east of Vienna. It’s about scarcity. Bella says that Piano will launch in another neighboring country next month. He notes that there are 10 to 15 European countries with small populations and a smaller number of media outlets, an early ...
Read MoreConsider emerging tablet news disruption. For 18 months, the tablet and smartphone news environment has been single-brand-oriented. Early top-drawer brand winners include: The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the BBC, NPR, the Financial ...
Read MoreAmerican intends to go from one of the oldest (our backs testify) fleets in the industry to the newest. What else might this remind us of? Who's got the oldest platform in the business. Think Johannes Gutenberg. Think 1450. Yes, the printing press.
Read MoreFar more important for Apple to maintain the iPad as the best, most complete way to do our digital reading. Readers don't care about the tiffs between Apple and publishers; we all just want everything in one orderly place (nothing hursts like an incomplete Newsstand). Yes, Apple will go some ...
Read MoreInevitably, many consumers will buy subscriptions through Apple. That’s a good thing - and a lead list for newspaper companies. Let Apple sign up new subscribers, happily providing the 30% commission. Even if the publisher doesn't get much customer data (about 50% are withholding it, given the ...
Read MoreIt sounds like a dream come true: cut costs and maintain control of the business. The risk: What will the FT -- which won't be selling digital subscriptions through Apple's stores -- miss out on? What about the lead generation Apple's 200 million registered (with credit cards on file) users can ...
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